Anthropology's critical examination of its own founding conception of the human—as a being
that, by its own nature, transcends nature—inevitably entailed a parallel critique of the …

News journalism is in the midst of radical transformation brought about by the spread of
digital information and communication technology and the rise of neoliberalism. What does it …

This article argues that the most lively contemporary legacy of the 1980s Writing Culture
critiques now lie outside, or beyond, conventional texts but, rather, in the forms that are …

Anthropologists conducting fieldwork in distinctive sites populated by 'epistemic
communities', such as public institutions, activist collectives, artistic spaces and laboratories …

In the wake of the disasters of March 2011, financial regulators and financial-risk
management experts in Japan expressed little hope that much could be done nor did they …

Nicht erst die im Zuge der Ökonomisierung und „Bolognaisierung “der deutschen
Universitäten geäußerten Zusammenlegungsdrohungen haben die Frage nach der Spezifik …

Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen
essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present …

This article explores the connection between digital media practices and digital (self-)
understandings in western news journalism today. I describe how German and US online …

Focusing upon the act of transcription, this article argues for a need to push sensory
ethnography further into the realm of analysis, with a greater attention to the question of how …

Anthropological knowledge sprawls, incorporating a dazzling variety of thematics, theoretics,
and arguments. What varies less is that this knowledge is always in transit. Anthropologists …