Peveri undertook about a decade of visits to southern Ethiopia between 2004 and 2015, and upon which she basis the book The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia – An Ethnographic Journey into Beauty and Hunger (2020). This book is published by the University of Arizona Press. In these notes I share a couple of sociological insights […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Anthropology #Culture #Ethiopia #Sociology
Cited 165,000 times (as of today), this 1962 book on the history and sociology of science has been immensely influential. Thomas Kuhn argues that we don’t progress on a step-by-step process (a slow accumulation model to understanding change) but rather paradigm shifts change entire ways of thinking, working and doing (in understanding change, similar to […]
Tags: #History #Paradigm #Philosophy #Science #Sociology #The Structure of Scientific Revolution #Thomas Kuhn
The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews (UK) is advertising 2 PhD scholarships (4 years, full time, 100% UK/EU fee waiver with maintenance stipend of approx. £14,296/year (equivalent to a RCUK stipend) and conference/research expenses) to participate in an ERC-funded research project on the ethics of oil. The start date is […]
Funding is available for one student to undertake a two-year MA in Sociology or Public Issues in Anthropology (with the option of the collaborative International Development Studies program) and to undertake research on a topic related to young farmers in one or more of the four countries (Canada, China, India and Indonesia) under the aegis […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Farming #International development #Sociology #Youth
10 Fully Funded PhD Programmes 2017 at Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies Funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments, the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies will admit up to ten new students to its next doctoral programme, which begins on *1 October 2017*. The formal prerequisite for application […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Ethnography #Islam #Muslim Culture #Sociology
The Global Religion Research Initiative (GRRI) of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society (CSRS) at the University of Notre Dame (IN, USA) invites applications for one or two (1-2), two-year sociological postdoctoral residential research fellowships in the study of global religion, starting academic year 2017-2018 (2-3 additional fellowships will be advertised and […]
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in the field of the sociology of markets, particularly for projects on the role of the future in economic action. The successful applicant will be part of the Sociology of Markets research group headed by Prof. Jens Beckert. Applicants are […]
Tags: #Economy #Markets #Max Planck Institute #Post-doc #Sociology