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It is official! The winter is over, the new year started (for those who celebrate Nowrouz/Newruz). We wish you a wonderful spring! Our digest of this month, and we will have a new guest reading list this week! Also, one last chance to submit an abstract for our NET sponsored panel on “Anthropologies, Futures, and…

We are sponsoring a panel at the The Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society 29-30 August 2019, in Helsinki on the topic of “Anthropologies, Futures and Prediction,” with Felix Ringel as discussant. In addition to the usual panel format, as described below, we will have an additional session in which panelists are invited to…

Dear NET members, Here is this month’s digest with readings that we hope catch your interest! This time, we have more news! For this year’s NET event, we will be convening a (partly unconventional) panel on the topic of “Anthropologies, Futures and Prediction” at the Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society (in Helsinki, Finland…

The NET wishes a happy 2019 to everybody! We need hope and our best imagination in the face of continuous inequality, violence, exclusion… and increasing political irresponsibility. /Articles The sadly late Roy Wagner’s piece about the “self‐transformative and tactical character of the reciprocity of perspectives and its effects on language”. Participation and the way anthropologist…

Time is flying, we are already at NET Digest no. 3 and looking forward to a cosy Christmas-month! So, here are some hints for those of you curious for new thoughts to lighten up rainy days. /Monographs and Articles Striving for decolonization of the curriculum, this is a relevant collective volume edited by Andrew Sanchez:…

We hope you survived Halloween. If so, might want to get to know some monsters at https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1584-time-of-monsters?fbclid=IwAR2jR7jnm158YsBXlTIRv0YB5PZ5LXybEvDqJtJ2uVE4K-krBw7SWVPEtQ4 Otherwise, here you go with this month’s inspirational readings! / Monographs and Articles: Precarity, Precariousness, and Vulnerability, Annual Review of Anthropology, Oct 2018:  https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102116-041644?fbclid=IwAR25KW_EwVR_zpiDlde7YrTvv954Rq3DQ5n82RHX929f_m639k6hWTOqlAc&journalCode=anthro#article-denial Stuart McLean’s fantastic book, imagining an anthropology that assumes a different genealogy, one merging…

For our first monthly digest, we are happy to share with you some recent readings, job offers and other food for thought we thought might find your interest. And we challange you: Participate!

Dear NET members, This is to inform you that the next Network for Ethnographic Theory meeting will be held at EASA 2018, in Stockholm. The meeting will take place on Wednesday 15th August, 17:00-18:45pm, in room SÖ-E413. The agenda of the meeting has two main points: 1) To address recent developments and accusations revolving around…

Dear NET members, We are happy to bring you another version of our ethnographic theory digest. Before that, we are even happier to announce that NET will be partaking in this year’s EASA 2018 in Stockholm with a panel on the theme of Xenophilia. We urge our members to have a look and share the…

Dear NET members and ethnographic theory aficionados, We are happy to report that the NET-organised workshop “Fakery, Insincerity and the Anthropology of Humbuggery” has successfully taken place in Capri, Italy, on 7-10 September. The workshop comprised of sixteen thought-provoking papers focusing on themes such as fakery, deception, lying, conspiracy theory, deceit and bullshit. Over the…