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Why reading novels benefits ethnographic writing

These days I mostly spend writing. On the precious moments that I manage to liberate myself from my laptop, I devour novels. Below some reflections on how reading fiction helps me improve my own anthropological writing (...and means to distract myself).

Marlous van den Akker • 14-04-2014

Digitalisation

Function Creep

After last years revelations of the NSA spying activities, hackers often despair over the lack of public interest in online privacy. An anthropological focus on the specific context of such activism may help explain this.

Dorien Zandbergen • 07-04-2014

Diversity · Digitalisation

What’s on your anthropological blog roll?

Where do you turn if you want to get an anthropological take on current issues? Of course, you turn to this blog! But what other blogs should be on your anthropological blog roll? Here are some of my personal favorites...

Henrike Florusbosch • 02-04-2014

Digitalisation

Carthage: The image of a lost city

An exhibition always poses problems of representation. In the case of the lost city of Carthage: stereotypes and a lack of information. By its upcoming exhibition the National Museum of Antiquities seeks to shed new light on the Tunisian Unesco site.

Pieter ter Keurs • 12-03-2014

Diversity · Digitalisation

Dompas: Apartheid in Utrecht?

There is an app that shows you the shortest way to downtown Utrecht, called the Dompas. It is embarrassing that the developers of this app haven’t ‘googled’ this term, and so missed its dirty history in apartheid policy.

Jan Jansen • 10-03-2014

Digitalisation

New Moroccan cinema reflects diversity in society

Until March 19th, EYE shows the work of contemporary Moroccan film makers. They present non-exotic and diverse images of their own society; fictitious stories that contain cutting-edge social analyses.

Janine Prins • 05-03-2014

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Why reading novels benefits ethnographic writing

Function Creep

What’s on your anthropological blog roll?

Carthage: The image of a lost city

Dompas: Apartheid in Utrecht?

New Moroccan cinema reflects diversity in society