18. Dez 2024 / News, People

George Paul Meiu's book "Queer Objects to the Rescue" is finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Prize of the African Studies Association, USA

The ASA’s Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize recognizes the best book on East African studies published in the previous calendar year. Established in 2012, the award is named in honor of Prof. Bethwell A. Ogot, a leading Kenyan historian, public…

04. Dez 2024 / News, People

Alena Marx gewinnt Sportpreis

Der Sportpreis 2024 geht an Alena Marx, Kanutin, Kajakfahrerin und Studentin in Sport, Bewegung und Gesundheit sowie Ethnologie.

18. Nov 2024 / News, Forschung, People

Emplacing Arrivals: The Infrastructural Accommodation of Migratory Difference in Urban West Africa

New publication by Michael Stasik

06. Nov 2024 / News

Out now: Podcast on Erotics

With Anima Adjepong

11. Sep 2024 / Events

Out now: Program of the Colloquium "Anthropological Crossroads"

The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural, political, and economic trends. Recent ethnographies of late…

11. Sep 2024 / People

Commodification of Ethnic Sexuality and Social Belonging - George Paul Meiu on Political Representation and the Role of Objects

Podcast with George Paul Meiu

09. Aug 2024 / Forschung

In the Thunderstorm of War

New project in collaboration with Olena Sobolieva, University of Basel

04. Jul 2024 / News

Bericht: Prophétique (on est déjà né.es) von Nadia Beugré (Kaserne Basel, 21.11.2023)

Betrag von Studierenden im Newsletter der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien

26. Jun 2024 / Forschung

Burden of chronic pain among adult pastoralists in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional household survey New article by Piet van Eeuwijk and colleagues

New article by Piet van Eeuwijk and colleagues

17. Jun 2024 / Forschung

Contemporary Ethnographic Aesthetics: The TikTok Turn

New article by Lesley Nicole Braun and Anna Vollmer Mateus

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