New post on the boasblog, “Waterworlding” by Franz Krause: An Anthropology of the Hydrosocial Anthropocene. Towards a Decolonial Perspective on Global Water Crises: boasblogs.org/waterworldin...

Save the date: We are celebrating the 10th anniversary of boasblogs and our more than 500 authors on October 16, 2026, at the ICI Berlin with a one-day conference incl. a keynote by Shalini Randeria and an evening reception. We look forward to seeing many of you there: boasblogs.org/events/10-yr...

New on Co-Producing Knowledge – Navigating Divergences in Academic-Practitioner Collaboration. Insights from Research on Human Trafficking in Cameroon by Jonathan Ngeh & Michaela Pelican: boasblogs.org/coproducingk...

We are pleased to announce the launch of the DCNtR debate #4 entitled "Museum Charges: Curating Spiritual Presences", edited by Valentina Gamberi. Please check out the first two contributions, more will follow every Thursday: boasblogs.org/dcntr-debate...

We are thrilled to announce the new boasblog Waterworlding, edited by Ina Dietzsch and Sabine Eggmann as part of the work of the Marburg Water Lab. It starts with two contributions by Ina Dietzsch and Felizitas Juen/Georg Rißler/Anja Sieber Egger/Gisela Unterweger: boasblogs.org/waterworlding/

Neuer Beitrag auf dem boasblog U/C A – Commoning Knowledge von Saskia Köbschall & Moritz Strickert: Zwischen Sichtbarkeit und Verantwortung. Ethnologische Perspektiven auf ORCID: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...

No. 5 of our boasblogs papers series has been published: Imperial Lives. Biographic Approaches as Decolonial Practice, edited by Anne Haeming. boasblogs.org/dcntr/imperi...

New on Co-Producing Knowledge – "Co-Work. Reflections on the Search for Research Practices with Returned Ghanaians" by Melina Götze boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on Co-Producing Knowledge – "‚Choose Your Name‘: Naming, Consent, and the Ethics of Storytelling" by Saleh Seid Adem boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on Co-Producing Knowledge – Composite Collaborations: "Stories from a Digital Team Ethnography" by Cihan El Mentawi & Simone Pfeifer boasblogs.org/de/coproduci... #DGSKA2025

New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Some Joys and Sorrows of Co-Producing Knowledge with Ethnographic Collections" by Gertrud Boden boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "’How Can your Research Benefit our Community?’: How a Multilingual Research Dissemination Booklet Emerged" by Julia Brekl boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Writing (Un)comfortably: Collaborating and Co-Producing Knowledge in Times of Crisis and Distance" by Cathrine Bublatzky boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "The Intimate Relations of Creating Knowledge Together" by Alestine Andre & Franz Krause boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Restitution and Reparation: A Collaborative Blueprint for Justice" by Valence Valerian Meriki Silayo boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "Whose Health? Recruiting Vietnamese Nursing Trainees into a German Healthcare Sector in Crisis" by Edda Willamowski boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Un/Commoning Migration: "Do We Still Need Migration Studies as We Share a Common Planet? Towards Decolonising Migration Research Through New Vernaculars and Theories" by Friedemann Yi-Neumann, Karim Zafer & Souleymane Diallo boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Re/Commoning Cultural Heritage: "Practices of (Re)Commoning at the Industrial Heritage Site Cerro Rico and Mining Tourism in Potosí, Bolivia" by Lars-Michael Schacht boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "Reframing Syphilis in an Extreme Climate Event: Tensions Between Epidemiological Surveillance and Primary Care" by Eduardo Zanella, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "‘Training Citizens for Universal Health?’ An Ethnographic Account of a Public Health School in the Lao People‘s Democratic Republic" by Amelie Katczynski, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Commoning Knowledge: "Vom ‚Nachleben‘ der Daten. Digitale ethnografische Forschungsdaten archivieren – und dann?" by Sabine Imeri & Michaela Rizzolli, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

Check out the proposals for the handbook project discussed in today's panel “Accompanied Research” at: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...

Boasblogs • Un/Commoning Anthropology

This boasblog accompanies the 2025 conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology entitled “Un/Commoning Anthropology”, which will take place in Cologne from Sept...

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New on U/C A – Plenary Session III Un/Commoning Anthropology: "Digital (Un)Commoning as Ethnographic Praxis" by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – More-than-human Un/Commoning: "The Relational Paths Of Water: Wayuu Women Positioning Collective Relationships Around Water In La Guajira, Colombia" by Astrid Ulloa Cubillos, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "The Price to Pay for a Racialized Labor Market is Health: Depletion and Restless Bodies among EU-2 Migrant Workers" by A. Valentina Moraru, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Un/Commoning Foodways: "Urban Super Food vs. Rural Staple Food. (Re)discovering Ragi in Bangalore and South Karnataka" by Jasmin Lasslop, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

Boasblogs • Urban Super Food vs. Rural Staple Food

Einleitung Im Jahr 2023 setzte der G20-Gipfel in Neu-Delhi ein bemerkenswertes Signal. Anstelle des üblichen, fleischlastigen Menüs entschied sich Premierminister Narendra Modi für ein rein vegetarisc...

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New on U/C A – Commoning Museum and University: "Dialogues of Display and Dissertation. Reflections on a Doctorate in the Museum" by Katharina Nowak, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Commoning Museum and University: "Ethnologische Museen als Orte affekthistorischer Forschung" von Carl Deußen, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – More-than-Human Un/Commoning: "Uncommoning conservation?" by Liana Chua, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

Boasblogs • Uncommoning conservation?

In our research on orangutan conservation, my colleagues and I have often noted a fundamental tension—an uncommonality, if you will—that arises at the interface between conservation interventions and ...

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New on U/C A – Radical Futures: "The Futures of Deliberative Democracy. Citizens’ Assemblies as Technocratic Population Management" by Jannik Schritt, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

Boasblogs • The Futures of Deliberative Democracy

Introduction[1] Citizens’ assemblies, planning cells, consensus conferences etc.: Over the past decade these “deliberative mini-publics” have been promoted as the fix for the so-called “crisis of demo...

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