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Category: Film

Winner of the 2009 Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize: Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, 'Je ne suis pas moi-même' explores the world of African antiquities and the contradictions in a European art market hungry for new tribal objects. Where do the African masks come from? What journey do they make before their unveiling in fancy galleries or art collections in Europe? Who determines their value? © Alba Mora & Anna Sanmarti (film distributed by the RAI)Ethnographic film, and visual anthropology more generally, have a well-established position within the discipline’s mainstream. The RAI acts as contact point in the UK for information, networking and advice in visual anthropology, organises film screenings and lectures, and provides a base for international visitors. In addition it supplies a service based on the acquisition, hiring out and sale of ethnographic films, videos and DVDs for educational and academic purposes. The RAI’s ethnographic film library is one of the world’s largest and most important. New titles are added on a continuing basis to both the sales and the archive reference holdings. All films submitted for inclusion are screened by the specialist Film Committee, guaranteeing a standard of excellence unparalleled elsewhere. Growing numbers of film company researchers and broadcasters now consult the RAI film materials. RAI Film Festival is held biennially.

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  • Google Analytics Sep 2021 – Jan 2023

    Cookie-script since Sep 2021

    Cookie script installed 2021-09-22 – so stats are taken from that point, as it will affect users that they can opt out of GA cookies.

    It also affects how many users are counted as New users – as the cookiescript reloads upon accepting cookies – something to look at? I have set it to reload because the cookie decision does not seem to be acted upon unless reload.

    SENDY Campaigns

    The campaigns in Sendy are mostly tracked in GA, apart from the odd campaign where the field for Query string is empty – seems to happen for EASA general News mostly so this process should be reviewed.

    Campaigns are tracked for longer in Google, hence higher numbers. IE. EASA2022 Online access email campaign (sent July 2022) still gets 10 hits in Jan 2023 – this is not tracked by Sendy.

    Idea: If this email campaign “EASA2022 Online access“ l is still being visited in Jan 2022 because people are looking for Online access to conference abstracts, then we could make these easier accessible over the website?

    RECOMMENDATION: Review how sendy emails are sent as query string sometimes missing

    Recommendation: give query string / campaign title / web page same words as difficult to identify sendy campaign in GA otherwise.

    RECOMMENDATION: always feature the last conference somewhere prominent with the links to the programme and a one-line explanation of what they kind find, how to find it?

    BROWSERS AND DEVICES

    24% are viewing on mobile – less that other sites.
    AM: 7% HDCA 23%, RAI 43%, , DSA 29%, EASST 22%.

    Comparing number of users of EASA to other sites

    Compare EASA 0921-0122 / Current Members: 2478 / Website users: 459,016
    Compare EASST: 0921-0122 / Current Members: 843 / Website users: 94,861
    DSA / Current Members: 928 / Website users: 120,938
    RAI / Current Members: 2016 / Website users: 32,102
    IAI / Website users: 18,430
    HDCA: Website users: 109,715
    AM Website users: 62,098

     

    POPULAR PAGES EXCLUDING CONFERENCE PAGES

    /publications/policy/why_en LANDING/EXIT PAGE front page
    /conferences/ LANDING/EXIT PAGE menu link
    /membership/ LANDING/EXIT PAGE tool menu
    /networks/ menu link
    /journal/ front page
    /about/ menu link
    /publications/
    /easa/membershipform.php5
    /networks/anthromob/
    /networks/media/eseminars
    /networks/app_anth/
    /directory
    /networks/agenet/

    RECOMMENDATION:

    • Now: Check the 3 most popular pages for errors etc, outdated content, layout etc
    • Memb and Conf must be direct links in menu/on page. https://easaonline.org/membership/ https://easaonline.org/conferences/
    • Check acquisition for memb and conf – what drives traffic to these two pages, as in “what are people looking for?” Could it be accessible on the home page?
    • Why anthropology Matters needs at least one featured image and should continue to be featured one home page
    • “Why Anthro … “ popular not only because of external links but also because it is prominent on the desktop home page?
    • We need to ask EASA what other resources they want to feature like this.
      https://easaonline.org//publications/policy/why_en
    • Join EASA should be button on home page
    • Networks homepages with (photos / logos) easily clickable, recognisable on second click, also at the bottom of home page. Or all pages? Or just network pages?

    PROMINENCE VS POPULARITY – CASE STUDY

    A note about statements and letters: prominence vs popularity.
    Comparing these two:
    1. https://easaonline.org//publications/policy/why_en
    2. https://easaonline.org/outputs/support/ababrazil.shtml

    1. 360 hits in the last `18 days.
    2. 34 hits.

    Both have max prominence on the home page. Something to consider.

    Orgs like EASA and IUAES place a lot of importance on these political statements. I would suggest from looking at the stats, that placing the statements prominently on the home page may not have intended impact. How can these statements be disseminated in a more effective way? Direct posting in Social Media? Again,. What is the goal. Image? Impact? It would be useful for us to know more about the intention.

    NEWS PAGES – DO GET TRAFFIC on other sites?

    I recommend not to publish content on a page “News” Blog” “Insights” but only publish news on the home page. If a site is well structured, then all these news items will belong under one of the main categories / 1st level menu links and can be retrieved there when no longer news.

    Out of the similar websites we run: Sief, RAI, EASST, HDCA, CESS, only 2 have News pages:
    https://www.devstud.org.uk/news-insights/ less than 1% of traffic, no 21 in page ranking popularity
    https://hd-ca.org/news ca 35% of traffic, no 31 in page ranking.

    GOAL AND FOCUS

    What does EASA want to achieve with their website? Increased membership? More impact? Sell anthropology? Look modern and interesting? What content do they want to drive traffic to, and why?

    WHICH SEARCH TERMS and RESULTS BRINGS TRAFFIC?

    Most searches which bring users to the site are to do with the latest conference:
    EAS2022, Easa belfast, EASA conference etc EASA’s latest conference is first hit on search terms “EASA 2022” and “EASA Belfast”.

    RECOMMENDATION: Make latest conference with links to programme a direct link permanent link in menu and/or homepage above fold.

    Google searches which drive traffic

    (these stats are short term as I have just set them up):
    ugo fabietti
    anthropology of social media
    easa conference
    collaborative research anthropology
    anthropology and social media
    antart
    easa temple
    amce

     

     

  • Discussion on Navigation Labels

    Terms for navigation based on Google Analytics, predictability, brevity and specificity. Explaining why some terms are not useful or descriptive.

    “Publications”

    Using generic term Publications (denoting print publications, or at least publications with issn/isbn) as 1st level for second level SA/AS, Book series, Reports and Newsletter. Publications is descriptive and predictable, it is where users expect to find content such as Journal and Books.

    “EASA Conference”

    Given that conferences have such a huge and specific interest, “EASA Conference” should be separate in the menu. Events is a very different term and we think users are familiar with the distinction between the organisation’s Conferences and other Events – non-org, org network, org webinars.

    Even if it makes the label longer, giving the full label “EASA Conference” makes it very clear for users and SEO what is is about and shows the difference between this label and “Events”.

    “Letters and Statements”

    If EASA wants to highlight the material published by the Execs, we recommend:


    A. to have a section on the home page called “News from Execs” or similar, which will bring in posts from other categories that fall under publications, ie reports, policy, letters and editorial. In this way, the structure remains tidy but the content is pulled out and highlighted. It will also bring in news content about Execs, such as the election results.

    B. Have a menu item “Letters and Statements”

    C. Both.

    Rejected navigation labels

    • Social Anthropology / EASA book series

    This label is too long for the mobile screen, and would make the menu too wide on a desktop. We suggest to move this to under navigation label Publications, as seen above. When there is a new title book series or a new issue of the journal this can feature in the news widget on the home page, as well on Book series and Journal pages.

    • Executive

    We recommend against “Executive” as a menu term and also against this grouping of About content and output content. “Executive” does not describe what the section is about.  Newsletter editorials belong in the newsletter. Also, at the moment all the info about execs reside predictably under “About”, if we move it to a new place “Executive”. we are going against convention and therefore users will not find content where they expect to find it. It is not useful to contain both output content (editorials, statements, letters, policy) which users expect to find elsewhere and information about Execs, which users expect to find under “About”. We could have a section on the home page called “News from Execs” or similar, which will bring in posts from other categories that fall under publications, ie reports, policy, letters and editorial. In this way, the structure remains tidy but the content is pulled out and highlighted. It will also bring in news content about Execs, such as the election results.

    • Blog/News Feed

    Few website now use “Blog or News” in the nav menu – but rather feature news on the home page. This makes the home page appear dynamic, and drives traffic to the news items. NomadIT currently only maintain 2 website with News pages – stats show that these pages are ranked low in hits and get less than 1% of the traffic. So our recommendation is to not take up space in the menu with “News” and not hide content on a News page.

  • Events calendar

    How events can be displayed in calendar format, based on date or category, with photos of venue. Integrated wtih other calendars or Eventbrite.

    Events can be published using the Events calendar Plugin

    . The Free version does not have a short widget (to display events based on dates, category (ie network) or type (ie virtual).

    For example. network events  could benefit from being published and displayed by category, ie “AnthroMob Events” and then auto listed on the Network’s home page.

    Events calendar $99/year. Contains advanced widgets, additional views, custom fields (ie for Network events, EASA conferences, webinars) recurring events. 

    Events calendar integrations
    Eventsbrite  $89/year (auto-posting of events to website, sell tickets website. Some networks use Eventbrite (ie Precanthro)  – and for these we can integrate Events Calendar with Eventbrite,  and even sell tickets from the auto-posting of events.
    Virtual Events  $69/year Host meeting and events from Zoom, Webex, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams meetings, stream from Facebook Live and YouTube, and display meeting links on your calendar.
    Events Tickets $89/ Sell Tickets and Manage Registration on WordPress. Allows for only showing live streams to people who have rsvp’s or paid – integration with Virtual Events.
    Event Aggregator : $89/ fill your calendar with events from Meetup, Eventbrite, iCal, Google Calendar, and more.

  • Sitemap Current Site

    This page contains a list of all the existing web pages on EASA site Each list item is linked to the page on the live site.

    In root folder

    About

Resources

Agm2017

Book series

DOIs

Journal

Publications

Membership

Obituaries

Conferences

Networks

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Newsletter

  • Shows

    Shows

    It’s all about the voice. What it means to activate and enjoy your voice – freeing up patterns it can weave in script, speech or sound. How we transform, express and align ourselves with the greater story of Life.

    I’m fortunate to have a voice that helps provide food and shelter for my offspring, so whether it’s training, performance or therapy you’re after, that’s where the money goes.

    Aged 23, I was diagnosed with a large brain tumour – a young musician who’d moved to London. Singing, writing and performing helped me through my parents’ divorce in childhood, and my brain injury as an adult (see ‘Brains On Toast’ Theatre show and ‘The Brain Tumour Song’ ). I got into Audiobook narration just in time for lockdown, when it became tricky to do sound healing face to face.

    Wellbeing

     

    “The medicine of the future will be music and sound” – Edgar Cayce

    In a society beset by perceptions of lack and self-doubt we stand a better chance of happiness by creating it for ourselves. 

    Song Therapy is a way of using the universal language of music to bring balance to the whole person. Anthems to lift us up and inspire us, potent whether or not we wrote the songs ourselves; always on our internal radio even when the batteries die on our media players.

    Rewrite the script of a favourite tune with a message that resolves a traumatic issue and that message makes new pathways in the brain, changing our patterns of behaviour. 

    Tackling this in a session together is much like changing the words of a pop song to amuse your mates. Same skill, different application. Taking charge of our direction when life brings stormy weather, instead of being blown off course by it.

    SONG THERAPY

    It’s been said that songs are ‘Time Machines’. They have a way of transporting us to moments in our past; they can give us hope for the future.

    • Fergus Ryan

    Site by Eli Bugler

  • Music

    Music

    Song Therapy

    It’s been said that songs are ‘Time Machines’. They have a way of transporting us to moments in our past; they can give us hope for the future.
    More

    Song Therapy

    Healing through sound is the medicine of the future. Rewrite the script of a favourite tune with a message that resolves a traumatic issue and that message makes new pathways in the brain, changing our patterns of behaviour. Tackling this in a session together is much like changing the words of a pop song to amuse your mates. Same skill, different application; we’re taking charge of our direction in the face of life’s stormy weather instead of being blown off course by it.

    In a society beset by perceptions of lack and self-doubt we stand a better chance of happiness by creating it for ourselves. Song Therapy is a way of using the universal language of music to bring balance to the body, feelings, mindset and soul. Anthems to lift us up and inspire us, potent whether or not we wrote the songs ourselves; always on our internal radio even when the batteries die on our media players.

    Each session is tailored to the individuals’ tastes. See below for some examples:

    Existing songs

    Preparation:
    1 or more songs from the supplied lists (no extra charge); beginner or non-beginner.
    Up to 3 songs not on the lists @ £15/song (discount £40 for 3 songs)
    Suggestion: start with one song, build from there.

    Session:
    Example 1: Explore experiences around the song to access the therapeutic material/ problem area. Reflect together on the lyrics, the messages they reinforce – adjust them to fix the problem. Try it, check that it’s working.

    Example 2:
    Review:
    Notes, practice, development

    Writing a new song

    Preparation:
    If possible, suggest a subject for lyrics and/or the kind of sound world in which the song exists – e.g. lyrics could come from a conversation, quote, idea, image etc; sound world could be a style of music, a group of instruments or just a certain noise.

    Begin with material then improvise song/sound
    Type 3: Begin with sound, instrument or voice (or combine these)

    A painting of flowers. A photo of an elderly man. An old bicycle bell. Rustling leaves. Electrical hum. A puppy barking. A baby laughing. Voices in the wind. (breaking wind – ha!)
    A moment of trauma.
    A moment of beauty.

    Session:
    Build the song together. Improvisation, structure and tools. Thinking outside the box.
    Mood and intention. Attunement and crafting.

    “I was chatting with another Dad at a kids’ party, and he asked me what I did for a living. I said I was a musician and I work with Sound Therapy and get people to write songs. He said ‘Oh, I couldn’t do that, I’m not creative.’ I asked what he did; he told me he worked for an estate agents as a builder. His job was to go into a building, look at what needed fixing, plan the repairs and carry them out. I said that the process was basically similar to writing a song for healing trauma of whatever kind. You go in, look at the problem, find out what’s wrong and invent solutions – that’s a creative act, and it uses the same skills, like architecture, improvisation and a method suitable for the task. The parts of the brain that are being used are the same in much of the process, and you’re improving your methods all the time. He saw my point.”

    Therapeutic Song Writing

    We start by gently kicking around a few ideas – maybe a tune you whistled, a few words from somewhere, an object, a memory; whatever’s relevant to the issue. I support with music in a big or small way, so no previous experience required. All is confidential and respecting boundaries around trauma support.

    We aim for a point where the ‘therapy’ aspect is replaced by ‘just making music’. The whole idea of being ‘broken’ falls away from the frame, as it’s no longer relevant – the song reframes the experience of trauma. The person has enough access of their own creativity so that wellbeing is just something that goes hand in hand with the music-making. That’s a skill you can keep.

    This may happen really quickly or may take time.
    It might even happen in one session; or be glimpsed, and then that window gradually widened over a few sessions depending on the individual and the process our collaboration.

  • EASA Structure

    Suggested navigation labels and structuring of content. Emphasis on specific content rather than generic terms. Using data from Google Analytics (GA) and best practice for User Experience (UX).

    Original brief

    In the Website design brief  this navigation structure was suggested:

    • About
    • Networks
    • Social Anthropology / EASA book series
    • Events
    • Executive
    • Blog/News Feed.

    In addition, it was pointed out that the current site has a restructuring of publications and webinars into the nav label “Outputs“, and that this may be incorporated in the new design. 

    Proposed navigation

    Main menu:

    • About 6
    • EASA Conference 2
    • Networks 5
    • Directory of Members 12
    • Publications 7
    • Events
    • Policy and Letters

    Tool menu:

    • Join 3
    • Login
    • Search
    •  

    (GA page ranking)

    Principles for navigation menus

    While it may be helpful for an organisation or a designer to create navigation labels based on formats (ie Videos) or generic terms (ie Outputs), this is not helpful for users or search engines.  In our recommendations we have followed these principles:

    1. Navigation labels should be as specific and descriptive as possible. users visiting our websites are usually looking for something specific, such as a conference paper, a report, how to join etc

    2. Generic terms are not useful for SEO. No one is searching for “news” or “services,” so these labels don’t help your rankings. 

    3. The navigation bar is a key place to indicate relevance to search engines.

    4. The nav menu should be short, max 6-7 items.

    The first 3 principles collide with the last. Keeping it short but at the same time including everything, means we have to be somewhat generic. 

    Popular pages on the current site

    In this suggestions we have used and in-depth analysis of EASA’s Google Analytics account from Sep 2021 to date. This date range was chosen because of changes to GDPR cookie declaration which make it necessary for users to actively opt in to being tracked by Google Analytics. 

    The purpose of the analytics review was to determine how people use the site and therefore how we can make it easier for them to find what they are looking for on the new site.

    Most popular: upcoming or latest EASA Conference

    The latest conference, or future conference if upcoming soon, is by far the most popular section on our website. the traffic is driven by direct hits, by Google searches, by email campaigns and by  NomadIT conferences.

    A majority of users come to the site because they are looking for info on the individual conference.

    Other pages

    Excluding latest/future conference and EASA Home, these are the most popular pages:

    1. /publications/policy/why_en
    2. /conferences/
    3. /membership/
    4. /journal/
    5. /networks/
    6. /about/
    7. /publications/
    8. /membership/pay_euros
    9. /networks/anthromob/
    10. /networks/media/eseminars
    11. /networks/app_anth/
    12. /directory
    13. /networks/agenet/

    The Mega Menu

    Informed by the statistics above, and taking into account the principles for user friendly navigation, we recommend the use of a mega menu, where the users clicks on one of the nav labels to open a submenu which shows the content of the section.

    • Adding popular terms EASA conference and Directory of Members (“Directory” is too vague)
    • Rejecting generic terms “Executive” “News” “Outputs” (see Discussion on Navigation labels)
    • Using the page ranking from Google Analytics to decide the order of items
    • Using generic terms  for the other labels, but being specific on the second level, when the user clicks to expand (see further down)

    Mega menu showing suggested navigation labels

    about

    easa conference

    networks

    directory of members

    publications

    events

    policy and letters

    Tool Menu

    The Membership page and membership form are frequently visited, so we recommend a join button in the tool menu on every page, along with Log in and Search.

    Mega menu expanded for each link

    Below follows a suggestion of how each first level navigation menu item can be expanded in the mega menu.

    1. About

    Original brief stated: static page(s) with information taken from current site

    Suggestion: The current menu is tidy but we suggest to favor the current committee and honorary members, last AGM and last election rather than list everything down to elections and AGMs over 10 years ago in the menu.  Clicking on the name of a current member will take the user to this member’s profile.

    about

    easa conference

    networks

    directory of members

    publications

    events

    policy and letters

    EASA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2023-2024

    • Hege Høyer Leivestad (University of Oslo)
    • Roger Sansi Roca (University of Barcelona)
    • Dominic Bryan (Queen’s University)
    • Cecilia Paradiso (Aix-Marseille Université)
    • Andreas Streinzer (University St. Gallen)
    • Jonas Tinius (Saarland University)
      Jolynna Sinanan (University of Manchester)
    • Giovanna Guslini (Formerly of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research)
    • Peter Schweitzer (University of Vienna)
    • EASA EXECS from 1997-2021

    Honorary Members

    • About Honorary Membership
    • Present Honorary Members
    • Johannes Fabian
    • Jean-Claude Galey
    • Ulf Hannerz
    • Kirsten Hastrup
    • Shahram Khosravi
    • Adam Kuper
    • João de Pina-Cabral
    • Verena Stolcke
    • Marilyn Strathern

     

    • Late Honorary Members

    EASA AGM

    • 2022 AGM

    1. Welcome
    2. Minutes of previous AGM held in Lisboa (online)
    3. Annual Reports and Accounts: President, Secretary, Treasurer,  Journal, Book editor, Networks, Media, communication and membership, Precanthro
    Lobbying, Emerging issues, Ethics & Integrity Committee,
    4. Any other business/ requests by members
    5. Announcements: EASA2024

    • Previous AGMs

    Goals and Activities

    Founding members

    History

    Constitution

    Elections

    2. EASA conference

    about

    easa conference

    networks

    directory of members

    publications

    events

    policy and letters

    Latest conference: EASA2022

    EASA2022 logo

    • Home
    • Programme
    • Theme
    • Film
    • etc

    Future Conference EASA2024

    Previous EASA conferences

    EASA2020: 16th EASA biennial conference
    New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe Lisbon, Virtual

    EASA2018 EASA2018 15th EASA Biennial Conference
    Staying, Moving, Settling Stockholm, Sweden

    EASA2016 EASA2016 14th EASA Biennial Conference Anthropological legacies and human futures Milan, Italy

    EASA2010 EASA2014 13th EASA Biennial Conference Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution – innovation and continuity in an interconnected world Tallinn, Estonia

    EASA2012 12th EASA Biennial Conference
    Uncertainty and disquiet Nanterre, France

    EASA2010 EASA2010 11th EASA Biennial Conference
    Crisis and imagination
    Maynooth, Ireland

     

     

    10th
    EASA2008, 10th EASA Conference
    Experiencisng Diversity and Mutuality
    Ljubljana, Slovenia

    9th
    EASA2006, 9th EASA Conference
    Europe and the World
    Bristol, UK

    EASA2004, 8th EASA Conference
    Face-to-Face: Connecting Distance and Proximity
    Vienna, Austria

    EASA2002, 7th EASA Conference
    Engaging the World: Theoretical, Methodological and Political Challenges for a 21st Century Anthropology
    Copenhagen, Denmark

    6th
    EASA2000, 6th EASA Conference
    Crossing Categorical Boundaries: Religion as Politics | Politics as Religion
    Krakow, Poland

     

     

    5th
    EASA1998, 5th EASA Conference
    The Politics of Anthropology: Conditions for Thought and Practice
    Frankfurt, Germany

    4th
    EASA1996, 4th EASA Conference
    Culture and Economy: Conflicting Interests, Divided Loyalties
    Barcelona, Spain

    3rd
    EASA1994, 3rd EASA Conference
    Perspectives on Moralities, Knowledge and Power
    Oslo, Norway

    2nd
    EASA1992, 2nd EASA Conference
    Social Anthropology in a Changing World
    Prague, Czech Republic

    1st
    EASA1990, 1st EASA Conference
    Anthropology and Europe
    Coimbra , Portugal

    3. Networks

    about

    easa conference

    networks

    directory of members

    publications

    events

    policy and letters

    Africanist
    Age and Generations Network (AGENET)
    Anthropology and the Arts (AntArt)
    Anthropology and Mobility (AnthroMob)
    Anthropology and Social Movements
    Anthropology of Children and Youth
    Anthropology of Crime and Criminalisation (AnthroCrime)
    Anthropology of Confinement
    Anthropology of Economy (AOE)
    Anthropology of Fascisms (ANTHROFA)
    Anthropology of Food
    Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality (NAGS)
    Anthropology of History (NAoH)
    Anthropology of Humanitarianism (AHN)
    Anthropology of Labour
    Anthropology of Law, Rights and Governance (LawNet)

    Anthropology of Mining
    Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity (ARE)
    Anthropology of Tax (TAX)
    Anthropology of Religion
    Anthropology of Security (ASN)
    Anthropologies of the State (Anthrostate)
    Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (AMCE)
    Applied Anthropology
    Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation #Colleex
    Contemporary ‘Spiritual’ Practices (CSP)
    Disaster and Crisis Anthropology Network (Dican)
    Energy Anthropology Network (EAN)
    Environment and anthropology network (Enviroant)
    Europeanist (EuroNet)
    European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA)

    European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA)
    Future Anthropologies Network (FAN)
    History of Anthropology Network (HOAN)
    Humans and Other Living Beings (HOLB)
    Linguistic Anthropology (ELAN)
    Media Anthropology
    Medical Anthropology (MAE)
    Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS)
    Mediterraneanist (MedNet)
    Multimodal Ethnography Network (MULTIMODAL)
    Muslim Worlds Network (MWN)
    Network for Contemporary Anthropological Theory (NCAT)
    Peace and conflict studies in anthropology (PACSA)
    Pilgrimage Studies Network (PILNET)
    Sacral Healing and Communication
    Teaching Anthropology (TAN)
    Urban Anthropology (UrbAn)
    Visual Anthropology (VANEASA)

    Join a network

    Networks funding

    Create a new network

    Network rules

    Networks liaison

    4. Directory of Members

    Contains: link to to Directory

    5. Publications

    about

    easa conference

    networks

    directory of members

    publications

    events

    policy and letters

    Mega menu showing suggested navigation labels for Publications, option A

    EASA Book series

    • About the series
    • Latest titles
    • Editors
    • Discount

    Newsletter

    • No 82 November 2022
    • No 81 July 2022
    • No 80 Winter 2022
    • No 70 October 2022
    • No XX Month YYYY
    • No XX Month YYYY
    • No XX Month YYYY
    • No XX Month YYYY

    Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale

    • Online First
    • Volume: 30 (2022)
    • Volume: 29 (2021)
    • Volume: 28 (2020)

    Reports

    The anthropological career in Europe: a summary of findings and recommendations

    Mega menu showing suggested navigation labels for Publications, option B  (more specific and content oriented)

    about

    easa conference

    networks

    directory of members

    publications

    events

    policy and letters

    EASA Book series

    • About the series
    • Latest titles:
    Tošić, Jelena and Streinzer, Andreas (ed.) 2022. Ethnographies Of Deservingness: Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality
    Delgado Rosa, Frederico and Vermeulen, Han F. (ed) 2022. Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922

    Balkenhol, Markus 2021. Tracing Slavery: The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands.
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