A fictive birthday with real debts In Cape Town, the members of Zolani Club get together to celebrate the birthday of one of their members. The birthday is not real, but the debts are. Erik Bähre • January 22, 2014
May you lose weight, stop drinking, and pay off your debts! Or should I say - Happy New Year!? New Year’s greetings for those celebrating it and some musings about the genre of New Year’s resolutions: what do they tell us about the future and the present? Zane Kripe • January 20, 2014
Filming autism Various visual anthropologists work in healthcare. Why is that? I found out when I started following my brother with a camera, the moment he was diagnosed with autism at age 42. Janine Prins • December 20, 2013
Real Smart Cities are not user-friendly The European debate on Smart Cities should focus less on “user-friendliness” and more on open access and engaging citizens in the complex political issues involved in the creation of technologies and cities. Dorien Zandbergen • December 18, 2013
Notes on Utopia: An Exhibition 'Utopia, Visions of a New World' is the current exhibition in De Lankenhal Museum. An Utopia is often defined as an ideal that comes to break with the past to move towards the future. What’s new then about this particular Utopia in exhibit? Andrea Cerda-Pereira • December 16, 2013
Nelson Mandela and the politics of mourning Nelson Mandela has died at the respectable age of 95. But his political life is far from over: he will become a powerful ancestor. Erik Bähre • December 09, 2013 • 1 comment
Carrying a talisman: a valid fieldwork method Some fieldwork encounters radically change our perspective. However, it often seems that such encounters depend more on a dose of good luck than on careful planning. My research as well took a radically different turn after one such lucky rendezvous. Marlous van den Akker • December 02, 2013
14.8% Before the millenium the Netherlands had one of the lowest percentages of female full professors in the world. What has changed since then and what does it tell us about gender equality in academia? Henrike Florusbosch • November 27, 2013 • 3 comments
Anthropology Rocks – On the Fair Use of YouTube (and Jimi Hendrix) YouTube’s copyright policy refers to “fair use” of the material available at their website. But are we, academics, allowed to use material retrieved from YouTube for the documentation and teaching of Africa’s intangible heritage? Jan Jansen • November 19, 2013
