Article Review: Begona Aretxaga 1995

Article Review: Begona Aretxaga 1995

Review and summary of the article: ‘Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland’ By Begona Aretxaga 1995.      Aretxaga describes the Di...

Film Analysis: Kitchen Stories 2003

Film Analysis: Kitchen Stories 2003

The film ‘Kitchen Stories’ (by Bent Hamer) brings the story of the development of a friendship during a research in the domestic sphere in the 1950s. A Swedish Research Institu...

Transsexuals are not women?


Transsexuals are not women?


Processes of inclusion and exclusion of transsexuals
 by gender based social movements. The transgender movement developed after a series of violent events against transsexual/tr...

In the News: World Press Photo 2011

In the News: World Press Photo 2011

This beautiful picture, taken by Samuel Aranda from Spain, won the World Press Photo Contest of 2011. The picture was taken in Yemen during the ‘Arabic spring’. A veil...


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My name is Malou Koldenhof and I am studying Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. On this site I post my papers, book reviews, thoughts, pictures and anything that I find interesting.


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Transsexuals are not women?

Transsexuals are not women?


Processes of inclusion and exclusion of transsexuals
 by gender based social movements. The transgender movement developed after a series of violent events against transsexual/tr...

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Recycling and Different Ways of Using Objects
Recycling and Different Ways of Using Objects

It has always fascinated me how one particular object can be used for purposes which it was not designed for. It also interests me how objects can be recycled. In a world in which ...

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Visibly Muslim by Emma Tarlo 2010
Visibly Muslim by Emma Tarlo 2010

Ethnography Review: ‘Visibly Muslim’ by Emma Tarlo. Berg Publishers: Oxford. 2010 Wearing a hijab or not wearing a hijab, being a Muslim or not being a Muslim, being British or...

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Film Analysis: Kitchen Stories 2003

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Article Review: Begona Aretxaga 1995
Article Review: Begona Aretxaga 1995

Review and summary of the article: ‘Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland’ By Begona Aretxaga 1995.      Aretxaga describes the Di...

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