Thirty years of this book. Reminded today that it’s circa 700 rupees from Bloomsbury India if you like that sort of thing (real life copies I mean):

The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity…

Dear readers and followers you may have noticed that in the last years, activity on this blog has become less, while the content of what has been posted has become more focused. In this text we just w…

“Die Filmsprache, die Schnitte, die Kameraführung, die Farben, die Musik. Wer den Film auf die Handlung reduziert, übersieht wesentliche Dimensionen” – Ein Gespräch von Christine Lötscher mit der Kult…

From ‘Melbourne Journal of Politics’ 1986 originally, reprinted in The Postcolonial Critic, ed Sarah Harasym 1990

This text is well worth your time… (I have, for this blogsnip, retitled it from a phrase in one of the early paragraphs, apologies, but some of this is excellent, and all of it is, well, dedica…

https://www.dukeupress.edu/screening-social-justice

Kenzell Huggins: Screening Social Justice in many ways continues the important work in the ethnography of independent film that you started …

„Stille“ Tätigkeiten wie Lesen oder Lernen sind in der gegenwärtigen Populärkultur zunehmend von Musik begleitet, von kuratierten Playlists. Im Rahmen des GdG-Musiksommers fragt sich Christine Lötsche…

The anthropological project, tired and exhausted after years searching for ‘methodological absolution’, remains mired in a spiral of self-doubt and self-indulgent ‘crisis’. Anthropological teachi…

Sandhya Fuchs in conversation about her 2025 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology winner, Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes … More

Note to self.

A debate could be had as to whether the imputation of a local slave trading regime is imposed or copied from outside. No less than the Philippines’ national hero José Rizal had annot…