by Sayantika Chakraborty (University of Florida) Sundarbans or “beautiful forest” is the world’s largest mangrove forest, spanning across the borders of Bangladesh and India, known for its brackish water, diverse wildlife, especially the magnificent Royal Bengal tigers. Sundarbans is also known for its unique but fragile landscape, ravaged by the Read more…
By Markos Panayiotou (LMU München) In the spring of 2025, I approached the Centinela bus station in Tena, the capital of the Napo Province in Ecuador, when a peculiar incident caught my attention. As a woman stepped off the bus, she was immediately surrounded by a shouting crowd of people. “What’s happening, are they Read more…
Por Valeska Díaz Soto (LMU München) Por mi interés en la danza, lo político y lo performativo, llevaba ya varios años siguiendo el trabajo de Tiziano Cruz, artista interdisciplinario oriundo de Jujuy, en el noroeste de Argentina, o como él mismo se define, “de la periferia de la periferia”. A pesar del Read more…
By Christopher Klapperich (LMU München) Turning Towards Trees Native trees are trending on social media in the Philippines. In various Facebook groups, so-called native tree enthusiasts are sharing information about and photos of Philippine tree species. Some show the trees they recently planted, others upload pictures of blooming trees in their neighborhood that they would love to grow, but cannot identify. This interest in native plants and trees is a rather recent phenomenon in the Philippines. While native trees have rarely been planted for Read more…
Por Eveline Dürr y Sophia Siegel (LMU München) Imágenes de la frontera “El drama en la frontera de México con EE.UU.” (Araya, 2025), “Trump administration adds militarized zone in California along southern US border” (AP, 2025), “Die Geschichte einer letzten Umarmung” (Schlack und Pasquet, 2017) —son algunos de los ejemplos Read more…
By Sarah Mund & Meret Haack (LMU München) As part of the conference of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA) on “Un/Commoning Anthropology“, held at the University of Cologne from 29 September to 2 October 2025, the Planetary Healing Research Group hosted a panel on “Commoning as a Read more…
By Meret Haack (LMU München) Approaching polyphonic[1] transformation(s) My research topic – transformation – seemed foggy even to me until I met Mariana Cruz[2]. We had coffee in a busy mall in Santiago on a Tuesday morning in April 2025. After some casual conversation, I explained the topic of my preliminary doctoral Read more…
By Wolfgang Kapfhammer (LMU München) “Nobody works out of love!” (Ezequiel) „Ninguem trabalha por amor!“ a somewhat frustrated Ezequiel[1] snapped, as we – Ulrike Prinz, an anthropologist and journalist and I – sat amidst the ruins of a place that once has been the flagship of an Indigenous enterprise which commercializes forest products of the Sateré-Mawé, an Indigenous Read more…
By Markos Panayiotou (LMU München) This year’s biennial conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America took place at the University of Helsinki from 4th to 6th of August 2025. The conference was hosted not only by anthropologists of lowland South America but also by local Sámi scholars involved in the Indigenous studies program Read more…
By Valeska Díaz Soto, Meret Haack & Markos Panayiotou (LMU München) Kick-off Symposium of the Planetary Healing Research Project On June 5th, 2025, the international symposium “Healing in the Damage: New Perspectives on Human-Environment Entanglements“ took place at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München. The event, organized by the Planetary Healing Research Group led by Professor Eveline Dürr, launched a debate about potential Read more…