Hans Steinmüller
@steinmuller.bsky.social
Peasant Anthropologist @ LSE | China, Wa, Argentina | co-editor Social Analysis
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The latest OPEN ACCESS special issue of Social Analysis has been published! View the TOC and more for "Experiments in Moral Order: Doing and Undoing Authority": bit.ly/4sFoO21
Guest Edited by Anick Vollebergh and @naomivanstapele.bsky.social
Guest Edited by Anick Vollebergh and @naomivanstapele.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The latest OPEN ACCESS special issue of Social Analysis has been published! View the TOC and more for "Experiments in Moral Order: Doing and Undoing Authority": bit.ly/4sFoO21
Guest Edited by Anick Vollebergh and @naomivanstapele.bsky.social
Guest Edited by Anick Vollebergh and @naomivanstapele.bsky.social
Panel Discussion on Rosemary Firth's Letters, and the book Love, Loyalty, and Deceit. With Loulou Brown, Hugh Firth, Janet Carsten and Jonathan Spencer, 6th Feb 5pm, at LSE. Full description here www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology..., Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/rosemary-f...
January 16, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Panel Discussion on Rosemary Firth's Letters, and the book Love, Loyalty, and Deceit. With Loulou Brown, Hugh Firth, Janet Carsten and Jonathan Spencer, 6th Feb 5pm, at LSE. Full description here www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology..., Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/rosemary-f...
New Special Issue out with @socialanalysis.bsky.social : Experiments in Moral Order, or Un-doing authority, guested edited by Anick Vollebergh and Naomi van Stapele, with contributions by Mohamed, Van der Veer, Hird-Younger, Kloos, and Jauregui. www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:55 AM
New Special Issue out with @socialanalysis.bsky.social : Experiments in Moral Order, or Un-doing authority, guested edited by Anick Vollebergh and Naomi van Stapele, with contributions by Mohamed, Van der Veer, Hird-Younger, Kloos, and Jauregui. www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
RIP Quemil Yambay 🙏 youtu.be/a_9UQ7YukWg?...
Mokõi Guyra´i - Quemil Yambay
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January 14, 2026 at 8:55 PM
RIP Quemil Yambay 🙏 youtu.be/a_9UQ7YukWg?...
China as Context - a volume on Anthropology, post-globalisation and the neglect of China. Now open access! www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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January 12, 2026 at 3:56 PM
China as Context - a volume on Anthropology, post-globalisation and the neglect of China. Now open access! www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
China as Context: Anthropology, post-globalisation and the neglect of China - ed. Wu Di, Andrea Pia and Ed Pulford, and with contributions by Alessandro Rippa, Qiu Yu, Caroline Humphrey, Tan Tongxue, Jennifer Hubert, Uradyn Bulag and Zhang Yang. Open Access: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
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January 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
China as Context: Anthropology, post-globalisation and the neglect of China - ed. Wu Di, Andrea Pia and Ed Pulford, and with contributions by Alessandro Rippa, Qiu Yu, Caroline Humphrey, Tan Tongxue, Jennifer Hubert, Uradyn Bulag and Zhang Yang. Open Access: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
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A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.
Context Widows
or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
artificialbureaucracy.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.
wow: algorithmic pricing means you'll be priced individually, at every instance, depending on your shopping behaviour. I wonder if that's happening in my supermarket too?
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
wow: algorithmic pricing means you'll be priced individually, at every instance, depending on your shopping behaviour. I wonder if that's happening in my supermarket too?
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our Tuesday quote:
"For anthropology, time is not one but many." Written by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov. Found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/time
"For anthropology, time is not one but many." Written by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov. Found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/time
Time
Time, from an anthropological perspective, is culturally specific and inseparable from our understanding of the world and our place in it. Anthropology charts how and to what extent time is…
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December 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
our Tuesday quote:
"For anthropology, time is not one but many." Written by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov. Found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/time
"For anthropology, time is not one but many." Written by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov. Found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/time
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Now available as our new podcast episode: M. Krause's talk on "Model Cases" in global science.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Now available as our new podcast episode: M. Krause's talk on "Model Cases" in global science.
blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks...
blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks...
RIP Keith Hart, 1943-2025🙏
RIP Keith Hart
"I never got over that primal scene of moving between Manchester and Cambridge. They seemed to be two completely different civilizations...
"I never got over that primal scene of moving between Manchester and Cambridge. They seemed to be two completely different civilizations...
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
RIP Keith Hart, 1943-2025🙏
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Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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The DFG Emmy Noether Research Group ,Situated Care: Subjectivity, Knowledge, and Labor' is looking for 3 Doctoral Students (m/f/d) for an ethnographic study of peer support work across the German speaking countries.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The DFG Emmy Noether Research Group ,Situated Care: Subjectivity, Knowledge, and Labor' is looking for 3 Doctoral Students (m/f/d) for an ethnographic study of peer support work across the German speaking countries.
recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/52...
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I'm giving a lecture, next year 5th March www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology...
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm giving a lecture, next year 5th March www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology...
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Sorry you've been a victim of fake news.
I said this morning to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social that the Green Party had passed 123,000 members.
A couple of hours later it's out of date. @greenparty.org.uk have 126,000! 🎉🚀
Join.greenparty.org.uk
I said this morning to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social that the Green Party had passed 123,000 members.
A couple of hours later it's out of date. @greenparty.org.uk have 126,000! 🎉🚀
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
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October 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Call for Special Issues at the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, deadline is 24th November 2025 www.berghahnjournals.com/fileasset/Ca...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Call for Special Issues at the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, deadline is 24th November 2025 www.berghahnjournals.com/fileasset/Ca...
Vacancy: Faculty position in Anthropology (Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor) at HKUST apply.interfolio.com/174839
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September 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Vacancy: Faculty position in Anthropology (Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor) at HKUST apply.interfolio.com/174839
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We're hiring! WSU anthropology is looking to hire a TT Asst Prof in cultural anthropology, with a health, well-being, or human-environment interactions. This is a great dept with friendly folks! CV and cover letter due by 11/2 wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
Assistant Professor
Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: November 2, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY - A...
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September 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
We're hiring! WSU anthropology is looking to hire a TT Asst Prof in cultural anthropology, with a health, well-being, or human-environment interactions. This is a great dept with friendly folks! CV and cover letter due by 11/2 wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
Check out this special issue on indigenous writing in Latin America, on how Wayana, Quechua, Aymara, Yanomami, Mapuche and Maya intellectuals write, edit, print, and publish: Autonomy and Collaboration, edited by Patrick O'Hare and Natalia Buitron anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19354940...
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology | Wiley Online Library
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September 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Check out this special issue on indigenous writing in Latin America, on how Wayana, Quechua, Aymara, Yanomami, Mapuche and Maya intellectuals write, edit, print, and publish: Autonomy and Collaboration, edited by Patrick O'Hare and Natalia Buitron anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19354940...
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Man kann sich das alles nicht ausdenken. Hannah Arendt hätte sich mit Händen und Füßen dagegen gewehrt, in diesen "Ruhmestempel" der "großen Deutschen", der einzig der nationalen Selbstvergewisserung und Überhöhung dient, aufgenommen zu werden. Kleines Zitat von ihr: "Der Souveränitätsbegriff 1/
September 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Man kann sich das alles nicht ausdenken. Hannah Arendt hätte sich mit Händen und Füßen dagegen gewehrt, in diesen "Ruhmestempel" der "großen Deutschen", der einzig der nationalen Selbstvergewisserung und Überhöhung dient, aufgenommen zu werden. Kleines Zitat von ihr: "Der Souveränitätsbegriff 1/
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We are happy to share with you the latest issue of Social Analysis, featuring Rollason on Black Boxes, Elbek on the Danish Welfare Police, Viveiros de Castro on Levi-Strauss, Candea on Form, Lockwood and Robbins on African Values.
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September 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We are happy to share with you the latest issue of Social Analysis, featuring Rollason on Black Boxes, Elbek on the Danish Welfare Police, Viveiros de Castro on Levi-Strauss, Candea on Form, Lockwood and Robbins on African Values.
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
New Issue of Social Analysis online and in print: Rollason on Black Boxes, Elbenk on the Danish Welfare Police, Candea on Form, Lockwood and Robbins on African Values www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... @socialanalysis.bsky.social
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September 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
New Issue of Social Analysis online and in print: Rollason on Black Boxes, Elbenk on the Danish Welfare Police, Candea on Form, Lockwood and Robbins on African Values www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... @socialanalysis.bsky.social
don't look away www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘We pray a visa comes before death’: Gaza’s injured children left in limbo
Mariam, Nasser and Ahmed were evacuated from the warzone but are now stranded in an Egyptian hospital that cannot treat their life-threatening injuries after Trump’s sudden ban on Palestinians enterin...
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September 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Trump Not Welcome March, today in central London stoptrump.org.uk/protest/
Trump Not Welcome | 17 September 2025
Stop Trump Coalition
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September 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Trump Not Welcome March, today in central London stoptrump.org.uk/protest/