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2024 COUNCIL FOR MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY AWARDS
We’re delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Council for Museum Anthropology aw…
Das Vergessen und die Nichtanerkennung von rassistischer Gewalt prägen migrantisches Leben in Deutschland bis heute. Umso wichtiger ist das Potenzial künstlerischer Praxis als alternativer Erinnerungs…
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Comentario para la gente del OACU en relación con la teoría de las “etapas” del urbanismo en Barcelona y la restauración maragallista, a ra…
Celebrating SAFN’s Fiftieth Anniversary this Year!AAA Annual Meeting 2024 Tampa, Florida
SAFN + C&A Joint ReceptionFriday, November 22 | 7:30 – 9:30
Tampa Convention Center…
Susan Greenhalgh
Harvard University
The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as a main c…
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie e.V. schreibt zum vierten Mal ihren Dissertationspreis aus. Dieser Preis soll der besonderen Anerkennung herausragender wissenschaftlicher…
In Vorbereitung der nächsten DGSKA-Tagung „Un/commoning Anthropology“ organisiert die DGSKA in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Global South Studies eine Reihe von „Commoning Dialogues“ (Webinar/ggf. hybrid), j…
Our colleague Peter Finke will launch a new project on the production, processing and trade of food in Kazakhstan. The project offers a really generous 4 full years of funding, including an entire yea…
Japan SPOTLIGHT, November/December 2024 Issue (#158)
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The silence around the salience of race in development and humanitarianism (see White 2002, Kothari 2006) has lately been interrupted by an increased attention to white saviourism, especially in socia…
Natürlich hätten wir sie gern an der Macht gesehen: Eine Frau mit mixed-race-Hintergrund, eine Überraschungskandidatin, die über Freude und Ironie Punkte macht. Die möglicherweise viele Ehefrauen wege…
How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Dr Clara Holzinger (University of Vienna) about her PhD research investigating how employment officers deal with the day-to-day communication challenges arising when clients have low levels of German language proficiency.
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Für viele von uns, die täglich mehrere Stunden am Computer verbringen, sind die Tastenkombinationen STRG+C und STRG+V unverzichtbare Werkzeuge des digitalen Alltags. Doch in Schweden wurde diese allt…
In an effort to address toxic polarization in the U.S., an anthropologist of the “Trumpiverse” explains MAGA supporters’ thinking in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
This article was originally p…
In Vorbereitung der nächsten DGSKA-Tagung „Un/commoning Anthropology“ organisiert die DGSKA in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Global South Studies eine Reihe von „Commoning Dialogues“ (Webinar/ggf. hybrid), j…
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Jiarui Sun:. Throughout the book you have emphasized that New Life, the psychospiritual self-development program you studied, did not “have an…
As moose populations multiply in the Southern Rocky Mountains, decision-makers are questioning whether the animals are endemic or invaders. Archaeology can offer answers—and potential solutions.
✽Alo…
To A. and O., for better or for worse. The story I want to tell might seem to be about […]
The post Meet the smugglers. Decolonising the mind, questioning the border appeared first on All…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of our November edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals.
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آنچه «فوکو» را در عصر حاضر، در مقام اندیشمندِ پسامدرن (مدرنیتۀ متأخر و انتقادی) مهم، و روش اندیشهاش را آموزنده و به یادماندنی میسازد، پیجوییهایش از «ابزار»هاست: ابزارهایی تحلیلی و ادراکی، جهت رمز…
بخش بیستوپنجم/ امریکا: بومیان شمال امریکا (Americas: Native North America)/ دیوید ریچس/ برگردان: مهران کُندری
بومیان امریکای شمالی، جوامع گوناگونی را شامل میشوند که خود را با گوناگونی بسیار م…
در مورد کاوشگران دورههای قدیمتر مثلا پیش از تاریخ، آنان اطلاعات و شناختی از کاربرد و اهمیت سوژه زیر دستشان هم ندارند. برای مثال یک گروه اشیاء شبیه قرقره اما سفالی در تپه بلوچ بدست میآمد که من به عن…
۱ . در مواجهه با خودکشی مسئلۀ دشواری پیشاروی ماست. زیرا کاری است که برخلاف کلیت قریببهاتفاق رویدادهای زندگی، از اصل بقا پیروی نمیکند. نوعی شیرجهزدن در کامِ بلعندۀ مرگ است و بدینترتیب، همچون پدیده…
لزوم تبیین جدیدی از مفهوم گفتوگو
بدین ترتیب علوم اجتماعی بهطور عام و انسانشناسی بهطور خاص به سوی تبیین مفهوم «تفاوت» (difference)، «دیگر بودگی» (alterity) از یک طرف و «پیچیدگی» (complexity) و «تق…
محمد شمخانی
پرویز تناولی را همچنین میتوان بنیانگذار مجسمهسازی مدرن در ایران نامید و برای اثبات آن به پیش از او مراجعه کرد و همهچیز را همانجا دید و دریافت. کاری که این هنرمند در زمان خودش انجام دا…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we are taking a closer look at Chapter 0…
باربارا هالمن[۱]، برگردان: آذر جوادزاده
سالهاست در پایتخت اتریش، باغ بامهای[۲] سبز در بالای ساختمانها شکوفا شدهاند و در روزهای گرم مانند جزیرههای خنک به کاهش انتشار کربن کمک میکنند.
در منطقه ۳ ش…
Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everyth…
By hosting the UN’s global Climate Change conference COP29 in Baku (11-22 November 2024), Azerbaijan presents itself as a climate-responsible oil state and new political ally and donor for Small Islan…
As I became acquainted with social studies of science and technology, particularly through anthropological research, I realized it opened new doors for me, offering fresh perspectives and new …
Hey everyone! In this episode of This Anthro Life, I’m thrilled to sit down with Dr. Anne-Laure Le Cunff, neuroscientist, founder of Nest Labs, and author of Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a …
By Santiago Camara –
Anthropologists are frequently told that “everything is data”, even the lack of data can be used to create an argument or come to conclusions. Blockages in fieldwork can…
Bilde laget av The FulkrumI siste utgave av Salongen skriver jeg om både liv og tenkning: Hvordan er liv mer enn individuelt, og hvordan kan tanken være fri, i den forstand at den ikke er styrt …
Critical scholars recognize humanitarianism as a racializing project rooted in colonial and imperial relations, in which classifications of aid workers as ‘international’, ‘expat’, ‘national’ and ‘loc…
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Interview by Bonnie Urciuoli
Bonnie Urciuoli: What arguments in your book seem relevant right after Trump’s victor…
In the latest edition of Ethnographic Marginalia, we talk with Roxani Krystalli about her new book Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question(Oxford UP, 2024). Roxani describes the dilemmas she faced in her research on encounters between those recognized as victims of the Colombian conflict and the state agencies that attend them. She also explains what makes this a feminist book—not because of a focus on gender, but a feminist sensibility that questions categories like politics and victimhood and how they influence each other. Finally, she ends by describing the books that inspired her and telling us about her new project focused on love.
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Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Peter Lockwood In 2022, Lesedi Developers, a land-selling company in Kenya … More
As a brand new book on The Rise and Fall of the Department for International Development hits virtual & physical bookshelves these days, my colleague Pascal Corbé of CorbeComs shares some interest…
Das Soziologiemagazin arbeitet seit Jahren an dem Ziel, studentische Artikel zu diversen Themen in einem peer-reviewten Verfahren zu publizieren und damit der wissenschaftlichen wie gesellschaftlichen…
The one thing I am urgently trying to write is a text on the need for time (I don’t have time to write it, so there’s the problem). Nevertheless, I keep getting things that need to be…
Marine Weather Warnings, via NOAA, https://marinenavigation.noaa.gov/weather-warnings.htmlUnburying the lede: This post is about efforts to sever the financial, and therefore mutual aid, links pr…
Crystal Wilkinson*‘s Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts* illuminates the lives and culinary culture of Black Appalachians over five generations through a blend of family recipes, memoir and regiona…
La foto es de Aleix CortésComentario para Dario Lovaglio, doctorando, enviado en septiembre de 2019SOBRE LA REFORMA DEL NORESTE DE BARCELONAManuel DelgadoLo que
te pido es que veas que la re…
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This was meant to be a podcast about making podcasts.
But in the end, this podcast is really just a conversation between two people who used to be close friends. It rambles a…
At the heart of Buenos Aires lies the lovely Calle Florida. The experience of walking through this street that is exclusively dedicated to pedestrians was anything but lovely though since in the one k…
“How open are my political structures to refugee women?” This question, posed by Bethi and Doris from Women in Exile & Friends (WiE), a self-organized group of refugee women*, prompted us, as gr…
The decades out-of-date genetics taught in most U.S. schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. A biological anthropologist calls for change.
✽On a lengthy bus ride in the early …
I början av oktober genomförs en omfattande fältexpedition till Karleby. Expeditionen är ett samarbete mellan Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland (SLS), Karleby stad, Klustret för kulturvetenskap s…
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript Interviewer 0:00[On Screen Image: NAPA Logo] Welcome to sNAPAshots: conversati…
Written by Colin Greer & Eric Laursen Editor’s note: This is the second of three articles on the role of …
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters
of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring
2024.
This week we are taking a closer look at Chapter 02 – H…
Welcome to the second part of our second round of “In the Journals” for September. Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals.
Culture…
Message to a friend on publishing ‘requests’/offers:
Increasingly colleagues who publish an article in any good journal soon get an unsolicited email from some generic named (unhea…
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Comentari per Pau Carratalà, enviat el setembre de 2019INTERCONNECTIVITAT HUMANA I ACCIÓ COL·LECTIVAManuel DelgadoEntemc, pel que m’escrius d’en Durkh…
Common sense tells us that play and work are opposing categories. However, in our society we often encounter situations where the boundaries between these two categories become difficult to distinguis…
In this colloquium session, Dennis Zuev and Madlen Kobi will provide insights into a recently published Special Issue for the journal Visual Studies. This special issue provides insights into the ways…
Elina Choi and Joshua Babcock
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AI anxieties are widespread today. But how new are these concerns?
Generative AI technologies have come on the scene relatively re…
SAPIENS’ 2024 poet-in-residence conjures the voices of those imprisoned in archives.
✽when the writing is done
reference room locked
index cards slotted
library doors bolted
when the wide tables are
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From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, William T. Taylor explores how momentous events in the story of humans and horses helped create the world we live in today. Tracing the horse’s origins and spread from the western Eurasian steppes to the invention of horse-drawn transportation and the explosive shift to mounted riding, Taylor offers a revolutionary new account of how horses altered the course of human history.
Drawing on Indigenous perspectives, ancient DNA, and new research from Mongolia to the Great Plains and beyond, Taylor guides readers through the major discoveries that have placed the horse at the origins of globalization, trade, biological exchange, and social inequality. Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History(U California Press, 2024) transforms our understanding of both horses and humanity’s ancient past and asks us to consider what our relationship with horses means for the future of humanity and the world around us.
Sarah Newman is an archaeologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her research explores long-term human-environmental interactions, including questions of waste and reuse, processes of landscape transformation, and relationships between humans and other animals.
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Die Debatte um die Erinnerung an den Kolonialismus in Hamburg ist kontrovers und andauernd. Bislang gibt es jedoch keinen öffentlichen Gedenkort für diese Geschichte, obwohl der Hamburger Hafen die Dr…
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a un comentario de Pedro G…
Today, we’re excited to bring you something a little different. Recently, we’ve been sharing a lot of episodes and shorts inspired by the work I’ve been doing alongside my colleague, Phil Searles, for…
فیلم «از ایمانات دست مشوی»، کارگردان Alexander Aja، محصول آمریکا ۲۰۲۴
- سطح نخست: از منظر جغرافیا: در این سطح، فیلم، از جغرافیای جنگل چونان، شخصیت اصلیاش بهرهای تماموکمال میبرد. شاخههای درهمتنید…
واکاوی نوعِ هستی سوژه در اندیشۀ فیلسوفان، به عنوان نخستین گام برای تفکر دربارۀ انسان، از اهمیت بسیاری در فلسفه برخوردار است. دیوید هیوم به عنوان یکی از فیلسوفان پیشرو در تجربهگرایی، منِ جوهری و ثابت …
«سانتورها» یا «قنطورسها» [Centaure] از مشهورترین موجودات افسانهای در اساطیر یونانی به شمار میروند. آنها موجوداتی دو ساحتی، نیمه انسان و نیمه اسب هستند، که بدن و چهار پای اسب مانند و بالاتنه و سر ا…
I denne språkpraten skal me sjå nærare på kva setningsledd er, og kva som er samanhengen mellom setningsledd og bruk av komma.
Av Ragnhild Lie Anderson, førsteamanuensis i nordisk fagdidaktikk ved…
Future Skill: StabilitätsfähigkeitUm es gleich vorweg zu nehmen: Mit Stabilitätsfähigkeit ist nicht gemeint, dafür zu sorgen, dass alles so bleibt wie es ist, oder gar wieder so wird, wie …
Co-authored by my friend from the village, Felix Mangombe, our new article has just been published in the journal People and Nature after quite full on period of analysis, writing, and peer r…
An anthropologist who works with deaf communities in the Arabic-speaking Middle East argues that ending Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine is a matter of disability justice.
✽On March …
After China officially “decriminalized” same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity term that refers to nonheterosexual and gender nonconforming identities in the People’s Republic of China, has improved. However, for all the positive change, there are few opportunities for political and civil rights advocacy under Xi Jinping’s authoritarian rule.
Words Like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China(Temple UP, 2023) explores the nonconfrontational strategies the tongzhi movement uses in contemporary China. Caterina Fugazzola analyzes tongzhi organizers’ conceptualizations of, and approaches to, social change, explaining how they avoid the backlash that meets Western tactics, such as protests, confrontation, and language about individual freedoms. In contrast, the groups’ intentional use of community and family-oriented narratives, discourses, and understandings of sexual identity are more effective, especially in situations where direct political engagement is not possible.
Providing on-the-ground stories that examine the social, cultural, and political constraints and opportunities, Words like Water emphasizes the value of discursive flexibility that allows activists to adapt to changing social and political conditions.
Caterina Fugazzola is Assistant Senior Instructional Professor of Global Studies at the University of Chicago.
Qing Shen is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
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A passage from the novel Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor reads:
La Matosa was slowly dotted once more with shacks and shanties raised on the bones of those who’d been crushed under the hillside; …
In 1867, Marx wrote about of Mary Anne Walkley, overworked to death for a society dress – according to the London Chronicle. Now, instead of ruffle of lace, we have the hustle of haste, but in …
Vor der Feldforschung hatte ich mir ja schon das Lehrbuch für die Fleischer_innen gekauft. Damit verstehe ich aber noch nicht ausreichend, was die Verkäufer_innen lernen. Also habe ich das a…
Vor der Feldforschung hatte ich mir ja schon das Lehrbuch für die Fleischer_innen gekauft. Damit verstehe ich aber noch nicht ausreichend, was die Verkäufer_innen lernen. Also habe ich das a…
Pünktlich zum Erscheinen der aktuellen Jahresausgabe der Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft durften wir das Team hinter der ZjR interviewen:
Die Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenscha…
The novel is a historical and autobiographically filtered indulgence, yet the making of worlds can sweep you away for a day or a week.
Right to choose, needless war, death penalty… the same thi…
“Generar imaginarios de posibilidad dando valor a prácticas poco narradas en donde lo cotidiano interrumpe las dinámicas violentas: encuentros; escucha; acogida; un abrazo; un compartir.”Andrea Garc…
Who runs Britain? In Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite(Harvard UP, 2024), Aaron Reeves, and Sam Friedman, both Professors of Sociology at the London School of Economics, tell the story of the UK’s ruling class. The book blends a huge range of qualitative and quantitative data, and uses innovative sociological methods, to offer a historically informed understanding of how those at the top of society preserve their status and privileges. Examining inequalities of race and gender, as well as social class, alongside the enduring impact of Britain’s imperial past, Born to Rule is essential reading for anyone interested in Britain’s past, present and future.
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Rechtsextreme Kommunikation dominiert derzeit die Öffentlichkeit. Dieser Artikel erklärt, wie ein revisionistischer Podcaster der Neuen Rechten Anfang September für einen Moment zum populärsten Histor…
This walk’s published title is Historic Workingclass Migrations to London: Irish, Italian, African, Jewish, with the tag working-class standing in for a range of precarious situations. When poor…
The proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, along California’s Central Coast, would be the first of its kind in the U.S. to be nominated by Native peoples.
✽When the soul of a deceased m…
In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global infrastructure production today is focused squarely on Asia.Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia (U Hawaii Press, 2022) investigates the deeper implications of that pivot to the East. Written by leading international infrastructure experts, it demonstrates how new roads, airports, pipelines, and cables are changing Asian economies, societies, and geopolitics—from the Bosporus to Beijing, and from Indonesia to the Arctic. Ten tightly interwoven case studies powerfully illustrate infrastructure’s leading role in three global paradigm shifts: climate change, digitalization, and China’s emergence as a superpower.
Combining social science methods with mapping techniques from the design professions, Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia establishes a dialogue between academic research on infrastructure and the professional insights of those responsible for infrastructure’s planning, production, and operation. By applying that mixed method to transport, energy, telecommunication, and resource extraction projects across Asia, the book synthesizes research on infrastructure from six academic fields, while making those insights accessible to a wider audience of students, professionals, and the general public.
Max Hirsh is managing director of the Airport City Academy and a research fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a PhD in urban planning from Harvard and is the author of Airport Urbanism: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia. Max’s research investigates the relationship between air travel and urban form.
Till Mostowlansky is a Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute and the Principal Investigator of the Swiss National Science Foundation funded project “Quiet Aid: Service and Salvation in the Balkans-to-Bengal-Complex”. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics.
Yadong Li is a PhD student in anthropology at Tulane University. His research interests lie at the intersection of the anthropology of state, the anthropology of time, hope studies, and post-structuralist philosophy. More details about his scholarship and research interests can be found here.
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Writing a “popular” book about global development and humanitarian topics, a book that appeals to an interested general readership without immediately turning away experts, is rather difficult. They o…
Read Time:17 Minute, 59 Second Durante el siglo XIX, Europa asistió al surgimiento del nacionalismo como consecuencia de la difusión de…
Geoengineering at the Arctic CircleI first heard about Solar Radiation Modification (SRM)—a form of geoengineering meant to address climate change through planetary cooling—during the 2023 Arctic Cir…
Alles Mögliche gilt heutzutage als „interessant“. Doch diese Popularität des Interessebegriffs wurde erst möglich durch einen Auffassungswandel, der einstige funktionale, moralische und auch deutlich …
By the house where I lived as a child and up until my early teens, there was a tea tree forest under a canopy of huge stringy bark and ghost gum eucalyptus. One of these large trees was hit by lig…
The ARHE Awards Committee is thrilled to announce the 2024 Policy Brief winner. The Committee was extremely impressed with the quality of submissions and examples of the power of anthropology t…
I love the idea of being content with the world around me, but that’s not the reality. Furthermore, my lens is broad enough that my own well being isn’t enough. Here are a few reflections on a piece e…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Mareike Winchell Jesús Valdivia planned to get his cows high. This, … More
”Första intrycken: Vänligt, mysigt, likt Lund på flera sätt, ganska dyrt och mycket dödsmetall.” Så skrev jag till en kompis i Sverige om Åbo, för någon vecka sedan. Detta efter att jag nyligen påbörj…
A seminar in the Japanese – Finnish researcher exchange programme funded by ArCSII, Human movement between the Arctic and East Asia due to tourism and business is increasing. Food, especially fi…
Isolated during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, I started to follow on Twitter (the social media platform now called X) a few scientists who were dedicating part of their time to sharing info…
Lived nearby the ruins as a kid in the 1960s, about 7 old chimney stacks, some of which provided my dad with bricks for his fireplace, while we collected frogs and tadpoles from some container amo…
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Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834
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What do folklore, folklife, folk music, folk medicine, folk belief, and folk horror have in common? Apparently, something, although just what is open to debate. It all hinges, of course, on that …
This international workshop explored Indigenous economies in their disctinction from and connection to wider political-economic forces and developments.
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Years later, the city was curated by someone enamoured of De Chirico and retro TV like Sesame Street – brought to you by the alphabet. Not alphabet city like lower New York as it was in the …
circa 1995.
From the look of Daniel I knew that he had been away too long. -Maaaate, how are…
His cutting off grunt and wave of shaky hand confirmed it. Daniel worked on a remote cro…
NightCafe prompt “Sweden cuts development aid”While the announcements of cuts that large INGOs like International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Save The Children International (SCI) have recently made re…
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript Interviewer 0:00[Onscreen NAPA Logo] Welcome to sNAPAshots conversations with …
Written by Keith Hart The classical liberal revolutions were sustained by three ideas: that freedomand economic progress require increased movement …
In seiner Poetik und Poesie umkreist der Schwede Gustav Sjöberg die Idee einer Naturphilologie. Mit Rückgriff auf die italienische Renaissance und die klassischen Avantgarden nimmt er eine sehr eigenw…
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I have memories of my grandfather telling stories in his kitchen in the seventies. I was 14, he tried to explain that if Cornflakes gave you a third of your daily requirements – riboflavin a…
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The romanticism of those who would escape to a world without Skynet is Skynet’s greatest weapon. A scuzzy-screen fantasy for foot-soldier anarcho-neo-cons who are fully trained and computer …
I am so incredibly pleased to announce that Outward Spirals: A Guide to Shaligram Stones is now available for pre-order!
This book is the culmination of my ethnographic work with Shaligrams and Shali…
وقتی در میانۀ دهه هفتاد از مسیری که شوق پژوهش در موسیقی اقوام ایرانی برای فراهم آورد، به رشتۀ مردمشناسی علاقمند شدم، گمان میکردم این رشته صرفاً به موضوع فرهنگهای اتنیک اختصاص دارد. این گمان چندان ه…
یادداشتی دربارۀ جدیدترین توهین به زندهیاد مهسا امینی از زبان یک «استاد دانشگاه»
همه به یاد داریم که دو سال پیش، قربانی شدن یک دختر جوان کُرد، مهسا امینی، نه فقط جان ارزشمند جوانی در آستانه شکوفایی را…
مینا طلایی[۱]
پیر بوردیو، نظریهپرداز اجتماعی فرانسوی، به سال ۱۹۹۲ کتاب Les Règles de l’Art را که بعدها با عنوان قواعد هنر (The Rules of Art) [به انگلیسی] ترجمه شد، به نگارش درآورد. ماحصل فعالیتهای …
هنریک شوئِنفلت[۱]، برگردان: آذر جوادزاده
بخش ساختمانهای پر مصرف ِ انرژی به تنهایی ۳۹ درصد از انتشار کربن جهانی را تشکیل میدهد. با توجه به این موضوع، یک تحول اساسی تنها گزینهای است که این بخش میتو…
بخش بیستویکم/ سن (age)/ برناردو برناردی/ برگردان: پروین سوادیان
بهطورکلی سن، مانند جنس، در موقعیت انسانی بنیادین است، و هرچند در فرهنگهای مختلف، دارای معانی ضمنی متفاوتی است، اساساً بهعنوان سنجها…
Discover what sets the Michigan Wolverines apart in college football. In this episode of This Anthro Life, host Adam Gamwell explores the innovative cultural strategies implemented by head coach Jim H…
Der Vorstand der DGSKA hat einen Appell an die Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestages zur geplanten Resolution zum Schutz jüdischen Lebens in Deutschland mitunterzeichnet.
In dem Appell, den zahlreich…
Jon Kay is Director of Traditional Arts Indiana, an Associate Professor of Folklore, and Interim Executive Director of Arts and Humanities, all at Indiana University Bloomington. In this exchange, I …
In Revolution and Democracy in Tunisia, Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh present an interdisciplinary analysis of Tunisia’s rich history of protest, arguing that popular resistance has long shaped t…
Kva skjer når ein let lærarstudentar bryne seg på grammatikkoppgåver berre med utgangspunkt i sin eigen språklege intuisjon? Vi undersøkte!
Av Brita Ramsevik Riksem, førsteamanuensis i norskdidakt…
Die Zwischentagung der AG Museum der DGKSA findet am 22./23. September 2024 in Hildesheim statt.
Der Themenkomplex Nachwuchs für ethnologische Museen bzw. Ausbildungssituation in der universitären Eth…
Tyanif Rico Rodríguez, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, CALAS at Bielefeld University.
Adriana Ressiore C., PhD Candidate at the Wageningen School of Soci…
An anthropologist reports on the impediments to labor organizing—and why it’s still worth trying.
✽In the notoriously anti-union U.S. South, a Volkswagen plant unionized. After months of striking, un…
Since 2019, a growing group of “anti-natalist” activists have been used as a foil to demonstrate rising anxieties regarding future prospects of life on earth. Writing for the New York Times, Ezra Kle…
Verfasst von Dr. Bernd Kasparek & Prof. Dr. Vassilis Tsianos – zuerst veröffentlicht am 12. August 2024 Abstract: Das Ruanda-Modell des externalisierten Asyls ist Ergebnis der Brexit-Konjunk…
the conference proceedings are here:
ISSH2024 Conference proceedings
We made the National TV news and all with a report on the start of the conference. The last part of the report has som…
Am 1. Juli habt Ihr bereits das Tool Value Proposition Canvas im Beitrag Wertschöpfung der Geisteswissenschaften – Teil 1 kennengelernt. Der heutige Beitrag ist der letzte …
Many museums are wrestling with returning looted or unethically obtained ancient objects. An archaeologist considers how a shift in public attitudes toward plaster and 3D copies could make a differenc…
I’m seeking a lot of positive momentum in femtech, and the latest round of investment in Flo Health (and Pitchbook’s weekly newsletter) prompted me to pull my thoughts together. I’d …
(Nota del equipo editorial): Nos complace presentar esta pieza publicada en español, previamente publicada en inglés, como parte del compromiso que ha asumido Engagement de ofrecer contenido en vari…
I’m glad to say I’ve achieved a goal to create walks in the East End of London. For these first walks I’ve focussed in the western area of what are called Docklands, the places where…
By Jolene Lujan, Executive Administrator and Board Liaison
The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is pleased t…
The School for Advanced Research (SAR) presents the 2024 SAR Humanities Festival: Food for Thought: lectures, discussions, film, and field trips investigating ancient and modern food systems, sustaina…
Degrowth scholarship calls for reducing less-necessary production in rich countries to enable faster decarbonization and reverse other ecological pressures. But how can this be achiev…
In Migrants and Machine Politics, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil examine how India’s urban poor navigate and shape political networks to secure representation and accountability within …
Figure 1: The entrance of the museum at the metro station reads, “Learning is possible through encounters.”
Multisensory Encounters with the “Others”Since February 2023, I hav…
In this episode of This AnthroLife, host Adam Gamwell dives deep into the concept of “cultural moats” and how tech giants like Apple leverage design, technology, and cultural influence to cultivate an…
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Alex Warburton: Your two main sites, a puppet theater and a children’s group home, aren’t obviously connect…
Der Mythos kursiert überall: ob in Wissenschaft, Kunst, Pop, Politik, Sport oder Medien. Alles, was empirisch nicht belegbar ist, von der Realität abweicht und nicht den Fakten entspricht oder berühmt…
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Del artículo “Estética e infamia. De la lógica de la distinción a la del estigma en los marcajes culturales de lo…
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Texto para el catálogo de una exposición de Eduardo Cordoba sobre Sarajevo, en preparación en Pamplona …
Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand narratives of migrant youth in Los Angeles, California to produce Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States (University of California Press, 2024), Dr. Stephanie L. Canizales shows that while a lucky few do find reprieve, many are met by resource-impoverished relatives who are unable to support them, exploitative jobs that are no match for the high cost of living, and individualistic social norms that render them independent and alone. Sin Padres, Ni Papeles illuminates how unaccompanied teens who grow up as undocumented low-wage workers navigate unthinkable material and emotional hardship, find the agency and hope that is required to survive, and discover what it means to be successful during the transition to adulthood in the United States.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics(Routledge, 2020) examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social insecurities that emerge in times of political transformations.
Carole Ammann argues that women’s political articulations in Muslim Guinea do not primarily take place within women’s associations or institutional politics such as political parties; but instead women’s silent forms of politics manifest in their daily agency, that is, when they make a living, study, marry, meet friends, raise their children, and do household chores. The book also analyses the relationship between the female population and the local authorities, and discusses when and why women’s claim making enjoys legitimacy in the eyes of other men and women, as well as representatives of ‘traditional’ authorities and the local government.
Paying particular attention to intersectional perspectives, this book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, social anthropology, political anthropology, the anthropology of gender, urban anthropology, gender studies, and Islamic studies.
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| | | La foto es de Matt Weber |
Reseña de Itinerarios transculturales de James Clifford (Gedisa), traducida por Mireya Reilly, publicada en el suplemento Babelia de El País el 28 de agosto de 1999.…
Reflecting on the complexities of conducting research in a region gripped by administrative upheaval and political uncertainty, I write to open up this forum to fellow anthropologists and scholars to…
| | | Precioso jardín de una de las residencias académicas de la Universidad de Granada |
Mi esposo y colega Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz y yo estuvimos durante junio y julio 2024 en Andalucía, haciendo trabajo de …
How does the environment emerge within ongoing electoral politics in the US and around the world? As an area of policy intervention, environmental politics is understood broadly as the policies and s…
Am 1. Juli habt Ihr bereits das Tool Value Proposition Canvas im Beitrag Wertschöpfung der Geisteswissenschaften – Teil 1 kennengelernt. Im Artikel Wertschöpfung der Geisteswissenschaften, Tei…
نشست سوم تهران پژوهی در کارگروه انسانشناسی شهری برگزار میشود. «مروری انتقادی به نقش هنر در تولید تهران» موضوعی است که در این نشست، با پوریا جهانشاد (پژوهشگر مطالعات بینارشتهای هنر و فضا و پژوهشگر م…
در هفتهی اول ژانویهی سال ۱۹۵۴، برف و بوران و سرمای شدیدی شمال و شمال شرقی فرانسه را فرا گرفت. این موج سرمایی بیسابقه، موجب شد که دمای استراسبورگ به ۱۶- و دمای نانسی به ۱۸- درجه سانتیگراد برسد. او…
یکی از نکات بسیار قابل توجهی که در تاریخ روشنفکری ایران دیده میشود و البته در جهان سوم بینظیر نیست اما کمنظیر است؛ و در همان حال گسستی عمیق را با تاریخ روشنفکری در غرب نشان میدهد، نفرت بیمارگونها…
نیکلاس فرولیگر[۱]، برگردان: آذر جوادزاده
ترجمه، دنیای کمتر شناختهشدهای است که به شدت به بُعد ادبی محدود میشود: ترجمه ابزاری برای ترویج زبانها، بخشی محتاط در اقتصاد و محملی برای انتقال ایدهها است….
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چکیده: کاربردپذیری کلیشهوار مبانی جامعهشناسی هنر بوردیو همچون سایر تئوریهای اروپایی مورد تردید است. از این رو در مقاله حاضر در دو بخش با عناوین «تفاوت زمینه تکوین با زمینه کاربرد»…
از راه اندازی پایگاه انسانشناسی و فرهنگ دو دهه میگذرد. نمیدانم در سالهای نخست این پایگاه فعالیتهای پژوهشی اتنوموزیکولوژی در آنجا منعکس میشد یا نه، اما میدانم نزدیک سیزده چهارده سال است که من و …
بخش نوزدهم/ افریقا: جنوب (Africa: South)/ اُ. گلبراندسن/ برگردان: مهرداد غلامی
جنوب افریقا در قرن بیستم کانون پژوهشهای فشرده مردمنگاری و همچنین منبع تعدادی از انسانشناسان برجسته متخصص در مطالعه جو…
Max Ernst (1891-1976)- Die ganze Stadt // aka Die versteinerte Stadt // The Entire City – Paintings from circa 1934-37. Is this Max anticipating Marston mats? The earliest date of manufacture …
The Northwest corner of Oregon, Astoria this weekend, was very picturesque. A giant bridge silhouetted hills on the north side of the Columbia. Astoria is
Once a week, I get to play doctor. Setting aside the endless anki cards and slide decks familiar to all medical students in their preclinical training, I turn instead to my patient interview skills an…
The Nain community freezer and local hunters and fishers provide nearly all samples for monitoring plastic ingestion by animals, which creates a sampling design that prioritizes and accurately reflect…
In this Mad Max–like California landscape, artists and activists are inventing renewable alternatives to the capitalist system that’s developing but also destroying the region.
✽Dusk at the Salton Se…
White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space (Policy Press, 2024) examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute and maintain racial hierarchies.
Dr. Miguel Montalva Barba focuses on the White residents of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which, according to the Cooks Political Report Partisan Voting Index, is the most liberal district in the state and 15th in the United States of America. The book uses settler colonialism and critical race theory to explore how self-identified progressive White residents perceive their gentrifying neighborhood and how they make sense of their positionality.
Using the extended case method, as well as in-depth interviews, participant observation, content analysis and visual/media analysis, the author reveals how systemic racialized inequality persists even in a politically progressive borough.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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Nicht ganz bei Trost sein? Oder doch? Wie das gehen könnte, zeigt Elke Erb in ihren Gedichten und Tagebuchnotizen
Societies divide labor by gender and age. A biological anthropologist considers when and why this behavior arose.
✽In his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations, economist Adam Smith described the “very tr…
The Manumea is an endemic bird of Sāmoa, currently on the brink of extinction. How can museums help to protect it?
Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by increasingly dystopian management technologies.
In Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work(Verso, 2024), Craig Gent takes us into workplaces where algorithms rule to excavate the politics behind the newest form of managerial power. Combining worker testimony and original research on companies such as Amazon, Uber, and Deliveroo, the cutting edge of algorithmic management technology, this book reveals the sometimes unexpected effects these new techniques have on work, workers and managers. Gent advances an alternative politics of resistance in the face of digital control.
Louisa Hann attained a PhD in English and American studies from the University of Manchester in 2021, specialising in the political economy of HIV/AIDS theatres.
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What does it mean to speak about the cloud? While the term tends to conjure images of fluffy white objects, the cloud in technological terms is a complex physical infrastructure that comprises hundred…
Diego Arispe-Bazán: The argument of the book hinges on the concepts of communicative care and convivencia (living together). How did you identify these phenomena ethnographically, and how have th…
In Digital Contention in a Divided Society,Paul Reilly examines how social media influences political engagement in Northern Ireland, analysing digital interactions during the Union Flag Protest (201…
Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labour: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England (Berghahn, 2024) by Dr. Aimee Louise Middlemiss describes the reproductive politics of this category of pregnancy loss in England. It shows how second trimester pregnancy loss produces specific medical and social experiences, revealing an underlying teleological ontology of pregnancy. Some women then understand their pregnancy through kinship with the unborn baby.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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La foto es de Xavier Ribas
Notas para Mirem Uharte, enviadas en julio de 2023.Sobre lo crudo y lo Real. Comentarios sobre Clément RossetManuel DelgadoClément Rosset es, quizás, uno de los último pensad…
Do newborns think-do they know that ‘three’ is greater than ‘two’? Do they prefer ‘right’ to ‘wrong’? What about emotions–do newborns recognize happiness or anger? If they do, then how are our inborn thoughts and feelings encoded in our bodies? Could they persist after we die? Going all the way back to ancient Greece, human nature and the mind-body link are the topics of age-old scholarly debates. But laypeople also have strong opinions about such matters. Most people believe, for example, that newborn babies don’t know the difference between right and wrong-such knowledge, they insist, can only be learned. For emotions, they presume the opposite-that our capacity to feel fear, for example, is both inborn and embodied. These beliefs are stories we tell ourselves about what we know and who we are. They reflect and influence our understanding of ourselves and others and they guide every aspect of our lives. In a twist that could have come out of a Greek tragedy, Berent proposes that our errors are our fate. These mistakes emanate from the very principles that make our minds tick: our blindness to human nature is rooted in human nature itself.
An intellectual journey that draws on philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, cognitive science, and Berent’s own cutting-edge research, The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature(Oxford UP, 2020) grapples with a host of provocative questions, from why we are so infatuated with our brains to what happens when we die. The end result is a startling new perspective on our humanity.
You can find Dr. Berent on Twitter at @berent_iris.
Joseph Fridman is a researcher, science communicator, media producer, and educational organizer. He lives in Boston with two ragdoll kittens and a climate scientist.You can follow him on Twitter @joseph_fridman, or reach him at his website, https://www.josephfridman.com/.
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Im Sommer vor genau vier Jahren schuf gerade Poesie in Belarus eine gemeinsame Sprache für die Protestierenden. Einzelne Gedichte verbreiteten sich rasant und konnten Erlebnisse, Eindrücke, Stimmungen…
No OlympicsBecause of the money-suck, the corporate sponsorship (riotinto making the medals in London), the fake moralism about drugs, the ‘security’ policing, the clearing of the inner city of u…
تقریبا اکثر ما با شانسهایی در زندگی خود روبرو شدهایم، ولی همه نتوانستهایم از آنها استفادۀ بهینه بکنیم. باز تقریبا اکثر ما بدشناسیهایی هم داشتهایم، ولی نتوانستهایم از گزند آنها در امان باشیم. تعد…
مقدمه
مطالعه منظم و سیستماتیک فضاهای شهری بخاطر تعدد تنوع فضاها و عناصر موجود در آن میسر نخواهد بود مگر به دستهبندی فضاها و عناصر مرتبط با آن. براین اساس عناصر موجود در فضای شهری را به دو دسته عناصر…
سیر نظریههای آرمانشهرگرایی از قرن پانزدهم میلادی تا امروز، ناصر فکوهی، علی اکبری، انتشارات کتابکده کسری، ۱۴۰۳
قبل از متن: کتابی که بدان خواهیم پرداخت، بررسی برخی مطالب از مجموعه درسگفتارهای ناصر ف…
اگر بگوییم نتیجه انتخابات ریاست جمهوری آمریکا در نوامبر ۲۰۲۴ (پاییز ۱۴۰۳) میتواند سرنوشت جهان را دگرگون کند، از زبان و موقعیت ما، شاید مبالغهآمیز و مضحک به نظر بیاید؛ شاید نیز مخاطبان به این بیندیشن…
Very different very the same – distraction is not just distraction, it is systematic and you probably miss the point of blaming the lower orders for rioting at a time when the path for this was…
علوم اجتماعی از آنجا شایستۀ عنوان علم شدهاند که رویکردی علمی و نظاممند به مسائل اجتماعی دارند، نه به خاطر نتایجی که از آنها حاصل میشود. به عبارت دیگر، اگر دو پژوهشگر با روش تحقیق یکسان در مکان و …
Why is height a focal point for some politicians? An anthropologist explores the significance of height—explaining how cultural perceptions influence and distort political dynamics in the U.S.
✽Durin…
کابارۀ لاپن آژیل در تقاطع دو خیابان سَنوَنسان (Rue Saint-Vincent) و دِسُل (Rue des Saules) قرار دارد. نقل است که بنای اصلی کاباره که همچون یک کلبه است، کلبۀ شکاری بود که به دستور آنری چهارم (احتمالاً…
There are Birds on the WireIn Mexican slang, “hay pájaros en el alambre” (there are birds on the wire), is an expression used to imply that a private conversation is at risk of being intentionally ov…
Kevin Aspaas, current Ronald and Susan Dubin Fellow and Native Artist in Residence at SAR, is a 29-year-old Navajo artist and sheep-to-loom weaver from Shiprock. Since his arrival on June 15th, he has…
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Felix Stephens
BSc Global Humanitarian Studies
This is a fictional piece about an ethnographer attending the funeral of a famous writer. It explores the power of different mediums, how litera…
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Daniel Krugman: This book is clearly a cumulation of thinking throughout your career arriving at a generative and fruitful apex. When was the first mo…
In two poems, an anthropologist speaks to the timelessness and constant change of the minority language Griko in the Italian landscape.
✽The story of the minority language Griko in Italy intertwines …
Mit seinen späten Songs inszeniert Leonard Cohen sein Abtreten, und zwar ebenso pathetisch wie ironisch. Dies zeigt exemplarisch die existenziell tröstliche Wirkung von Lyrik.
در چهارم آوریل سال ۲۰۰۹، در محلهی هفدهم پاریس خاطرهی جذابی رقم خورده است. شهردار وقت سوسیالیست پاریس، «برتران دلانوئه»، بدون برنامهریزی قبلی، از رییس جمهوری آنزمان ایالات متحده، «باراک اوباما»، ک…
هیلاری مک دی. بِکلِس[۱]، برگردان: آذر جوادزاده
از قرن هجدهم به بعد زنان برده، اکثریت جمعیت در مزارع استعماری را تشکیل میدادند. تجارت بردهداری به شدت متکی به کار و باروری زنان سیاه پوست برده بود. با …
ابهام در مفهوم «استعمار» از ریشههای عمیق خود این واژه آغاز میشود: چه این مفهوم را در زبانهای اروپایی بگیریم و چه آن را در زبان خودمان دنبال کنیم با یک واقعیت روبرو میشویم، اینکه این واژه در شکل ک…
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موضوع این مقاله شرح اندیشه جوهری، توضیح دامنه حضور آن در بنیادهای معرفتی گفتمان حوزوی و فقهی و نیز تبعات آن در معرفتشناسی مرجع در ایران و مهار علوم در دانشگاه است[۱]. این مبحث چنان که شکافته …
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اگر نظر کارشناسی برای آقای مسعود پزشکیان ملاک است، من بهعنوان دانشآموخته حقوق بشر با چاشنی گریزناپذیر سیاست این یادداشت را نوشتهام. حقوق اقلیتهای قومی، زبانی و… چنان مساله چالشبرانگیزی است …
بخش هجدهم/ افریقا: حوزۀ رود نیل (Africa: Nilotic) /ام. سی. جدری / برگردان: مهرداد غلامی
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Written by Keith Hart CLR James and the idea of an African revolution Events in Tunisia and Egypt have brought …
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“Con la guerra aumentan las propiedades de los hacendados, aumenta la miseria de los miserables, aumentan los discursos del general, y crece el silencio de los hombres�.Bertolt Brecht.
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Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. Moving beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet migration, it foregrounds the experiences of those who ‘stay put’ in the sending society and struggle to reproduce their moral communities. Dr. Borisova examines the role of mobility in historical and cultural ideas about the good life and how it becomes entwined with people’s efforts to become good, moral and modern subjects. Addressing the complex relationship between the economic, imaginative and moral aspects of (im)mobility, she shows that mass migration from Tajikistan is as much a project of navigating ethical personhood as it is a quest for economic resources.
This book reveals how transnational regimes and structures of mobility, citizenship and histories map out in the intimate spheres of the body, the person and the family. It is a contribution to contemporary migration research, which is mostly centred on Europe and North America, and to the field of Central Asian studies. It will be of interest to researchers of migration, (im)mobility and citizenship, and to scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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In Speak Out!, Milo Miller curates a selection of writings by one of the first and most important Black radical organisations of the 1970s, the Brixton Black Women’s Group. This vital anthology …
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Fuchsia Dunlop. 2023. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food New York:: Norton, ISBN: 978-0-393-86713-8 466 pp.
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by Florian Stammler, Asiarpa Paviasen and Tupaarnaq Kreutzmann-Kleist What connects dams, hydropower, green energy, agriculture, sheep farming and Inuit in Greenland? Inuit are better known in the pop…
Here is Antony Gormley’s presentation of work at the ISSH2024 conference at Ton Duc Thang University this weekend just gone. This was the 3rd International conference on Innovations in the Soci…
Rückblick auf die Vorlesungen des Schriftstellers und Übersetzers Aris Fioretos. Überraschungsgast beim abschließenden Begleitworkshop Ein Novum der Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen: Ein Schriftsteller, …
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Die Auseinandersetzung mit Digitalisierung findet nicht nur im digitalen Raum statt, sondern gezielt auch im Buchformat. Der Lyriker und Philosoph Daniel Falb setzt postdigitale Strategien ein und wid…
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بگویم که حیف شد که دکتر فکوهی از ایران رفته، چرا که بگویم هم، که مردم شناسی در ایران در حوزۀ دانشگاهی به همان پاشنه میگردد که مالینوفسکی میرفت- با ضد قدر پیشکسوت بودن- و سپس انسانشناسی هم اگر به مر…
شهرها به عنوان پیچیدهترین محصولات فرهنگی، ساختهی گروههای اجتماعی گوناگون، و همواره صحنۀ نمایش پدیدآورندگان و مداخلهگرانشان بودهاند. گرچه منظرِ همواره رو به توسعه و تغییرِ شهرها در مقیاس کلان غال…
بررسی کتاب «کلود لویاستروس و زایش انسانشناسی»، ترجمه و گردآوری ناصر فکوهی، انتشارات ثالث، ۱۴۰۳
ساختار کتاب «کلود لویاستروس و زایش انسانشناسی»، این امکان را به ما میدهد تا هنگام بررسیِ «متن»، فر…
امروز دیگر تقریباً نمیتوان کسی را در حوزۀ علوم انسانی یافت که زبان را صرفاً به یک ابزار و یک رسانۀ ارتباطی تقلیل دهد و تزهایی که این قابلیت را ظرف اصلی اندیشیدن، انباشت فکری و تحلیل میدانند کاملاً غ…
تاریخ ثابت کرده است که دست کم گرفتن اتفاقات به ظاهر کوچک که تبعات بسیار بزرگی داشتهاند، حماقت انسانی است. نمونۀ روشن آن ترور دوک بزرگ- شاهزاده اتریش، فرانتس فردیناند (Franz Ferdinand) و همسرش است که …
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ارتباط مابین قدرت در عرصۀ سیاسی با تباهی اخلاقی مانند استبداد بارها گوشزد شده است که شاید مشهورترین آنها جملهای از جان اَکتون است که میگوید «قدرت به فساد و تباهی میگراید و قدرت مطلق، به طور م…
بخش هفدهم/ افریقا: شرق (Africa: East)/ برناردو برناردی / برگردان: مهرداد غلامی
افریقای شرقی در معنای دقیق آن، شامل سه جمهوری مدرن کنیا، تانزانیا، و اوگانداست. این هر سه جمهوری، مستعمرههای پیشین بریت…
In this episode of Anthro Life host Adam engages in a fascinating discussion with Chris Carter, a geoscientist-turned-design-educator, and Scott Dorely, a filmmaker-turned-design-educator. They explor…
Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology graduate student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning the end of lives from an academic pursuit into something deeply personal. She became fascinated by the concept of loss and grief, the multiple ways we experience it across cultures, history, and art.
Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief, and Bereavement Across Cultures(404 Inklings, 2024) is part memoir, part meditation on the many faces of death – from sprinkling ashes across the globe, to the power of horror movies, the complexities of engaging in true crime entertainment, and the vital communities of peer support groups – Happy Death Club is a frank, curious and darkly humorous look at one person’s journey through grief, and what lies beyond.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did they decide whether to stay or flee, to cooperate or resist? Based on an original survey from Baghdad alongside key interviews in the field Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq (Columbia University Press, 2024) offers an insightful account of how Iraqis in different areas of the country responded to the rise and fall of the Islamic State.
Dr. Austin J. Knuppe argues that people adopt survival repertoires—a variety of social practices, tools, organized routines, symbols, and rhetorical strategies—to navigate wartime violence and detect threats. He traces how repertoires varied among different communities over the course of the conflict. In areas insulated from insurgent control, such as cosmopolitan Baghdad, local residents had the flexibility to support coalition forces while also voicing opposition to government policies. For Iraqis in rural communities confronting insurgent control, collaboration and resistance entailed significant risks. In Sunni-majority communities in the western desert, passive acquiescence and active cooperation temporarily insulated Iraqis from insurgent victimization. For ethnic and religious minorities in the north, however, flight or resistance proved the only viable options. In many communities, local residents mobilized neighborhood self-defense groups and militias loosely aligned with coalition forces once the tides turned against the Islamic State.
Beyond contributing to academic and policy debates about civilian protection during wartime, Surviving the Islamic State foregrounds everyday people’s experiences while modeling an ethical approach for conducting field research in conflict-affected communities.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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La foto procede de https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/superilles/es/Consideraciones enviadas a Dario Lovaglio en junio de 2024 a propósito de las supermanzanas.
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Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed, but for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how several of global history’s most ambitiously totalizing progressive endeavors have ended in cataclysmic collapse here. From the Japanese empire which banished Qing, Tsarist, and Choson dynastic histories from the region, through Chinese, Soviet, and Korean socialisms, these borderlands have seen projections and disintegrations of forward-oriented ideas accumulate on a grand scale.
Taking an archaeological approach to notions of historical progress, the book’s three parts follow an innovative structure moving backwards through linear time. Part I explores “post-historical” Hunchun’s diverse sociopolitics since high socialism’s demise. Part II covers the socialist era, discussing cross-border temporal synchrony between China, Russia, and North Korea. Finally, Part III treats the period preceding socialist revolutions, revealing how the collapse of Qing, Tsarist, and Choson dynasties marked a compound “end of history” which opened the area to projections of modernity and progress. Examining a borderland across linguistic, cultural, and historical lenses, Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea(Stanford UP, 2024) is a simultaneously local and transregional analysis of time, borders, and the state before, during, and since socialism.
Ed Pulford is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester. His research and teaching focus on anthropological and historical approaches to Eurasian borderlands, Sino-Russian relations, the past and present of socialism, and comparative experiences of socialism and empire. He has lived and worked in China, Russia, Japan, and Korea.
Yadong Li is a PhD student in anthropology at Tulane University. His research interests lie at the intersection of the anthropology of state, the anthropology of time, hope studies, and post-structuralist philosophy. More details about his scholarship and research interests can be found here.
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Some may remember our entry here with Erik Kielsen about the disastrous early snowfall and freezing event in South Greenland in late 2023. This summer fieldwork in the WIRE project there is on the occ…
A Brazilian archaeologist reexamines the way people treat ancestral Indigenous remains housed in museums—starting with one important encounter.
Can museums and archaeology harm the dead?
An Indigenou…
Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia(UCL Press, 2022) by Alexander Sasha Kondakov uncovers techniques of power that work to translate emotions into violence against queer people. Based on analysis of over 300 criminal cases of anti-queer violence in Russia before and after the introduction of ‘gay propaganda’ law, the book shows how violent acts are framed in emotional language by perpetrators during their criminal trials. It then utilises an original methodology of studying ‘legal memes’ and argues that these individual affective states are directly connected to the political violence aimed at queer lives more generally.
The main aim of Violent Affections is to explore the social mechanisms and techniques that impact anti-queer violence evidenced in the reviewed cases. Kondakov expands upon two sets of interdisciplinary literature – queer theory and affect theory – in order to conceptualise what is referred to as neo-disciplinary power. Taking the empirical observations from Russia as a starting point, he develops an original explanation of how contemporary power relations are changing from those of late modernity as envisioned by Foucault’s Panopticon to neo-disciplinary power relations of a much more fragmented, fluid and unstructured kind – the Memeticon. The book traces how exactly affections circulate from body to body as a kind of virus and eventually invade the body that responds with violence. In this analytic effort, it draws on the arguments from memetics – the theory of how pieces of information pass on from one body to another as they thrive to survive by continuing to resonate. This work makes the argument truly interdisciplinary.
This book is available open access here.
Alexander Sasha Kondakov is an assistant professor at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Tatiana Klepikova is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Regensburg, where she leads a research group on queer literatures and cultures under socialism.
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Consideracions per en Josep Roca, enviades l’abril de 2024*Místiques militàncies*Manuel DelgadoCom et vaig dir en la conversa, el trànsit de postures polítiques ma…
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Diane Lenney. 2020. Coffee. Object Lessons Series. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN # 9781501344367. Xiv + 167 pp.
David Sutton (Southern Illinois University)
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In Working Assumptions, Julia Hobsbawm examines the impacts of Covid-19 and generative AI on the future of work. Exploring debates around how flexible working impacts productivity, the rising number o…
An anthropologist working in Azerbaijan looks beyond forensic science to understand the value of culturally specific ways people navigate uncertainty in protracted conflict zones.
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Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr Ibrar Bhatt about heritage literacies, particularly as they are practiced by Chinese Muslims. Bhatt is the author of A Semiotics of Muslimness in China (Cambridge UP, 2023). About the book:
A Semiotics of Muslimness in China examines the semiotics of Sino-Muslim heritage literacy in a way that integrates its Perso-Arabic textual qualities with broader cultural semiotic forms. Using data from images of the linguistic landscape of Sino-Muslim life alongside interviews with Sino-Muslims about their heritage, the author examines how signs of ‘Muslimness’ are displayed and manipulated in both covert and overt means in different contexts. In so doing the author offers a ‘semiotics of Muslimness’ in China and considers how forms of language and materiality have the power to inspire meanings and identifications for Sino-Muslims and understanding of their heritage literacy. The author employs theoretical tools from linguistic anthropology and an understanding of semiotic assemblage to demonstrate how signifiers of Chinese Muslimness are invoked to substantiate heritage and Sino-Muslim identity constructions even when its expression must be covert, liminal, and unconventional.
For additional resources, show notes, and transcripts, go here.
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With the ubiquity of the Internet and the overwhelming number of screens that mediate our daily practices, the predominance of the image in daily life is indisputable. The image’s omnipresence has gui…
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ناصر فکوهی- استاد انسانشناسی دانشکدهی علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه تهران- در سالهای اخیر و پس از بازنشستگی، بیش از گذشته به نقاشی پرداخته است.
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The East German women’s movement remains an overlooked chapter of the history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In fact, a history of the East German women’s movement is difficult to find in bo…
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That’s how antropologi.info looked like in 2004In June 2004, I bought the domain antropologi.info, and this website with blogs in English, German, and Norwegian soon became part of a steadily growing …
Gogi is a comic strip character who boldly addresses issues of women’s rights in Pakistan and the broader Muslim world. A cultural anthropologist interviews Gogi’s creator, Nigar Nazar, to talk about …
Anthropologists have often explained human behaviour as though people predictably act in their own interests. But in Against Better Judgment, Patrick McKearney and Nicholas H. A. Evans compile researc…
Die außereuropäischen Museumssammlung hinterließen bei ihrem Umzug ins Humboldt Forum einen riesigen Gebäudekomplex in Dahlem zurück. Was passiert nun mit diesem Haus? Patricia Rahempipour (IfM) und …
The ‘baby boom’ generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering new and creative ways of relating, doing intimacy and making families. With this cohort now entering mid and later life in Britain, they are also said to be revolutionising the experience of ageing. Are the romantic practices of this ‘revolutionary cohort’ breaking with tradition and allowing new ways of understanding and doing ageing and relating to emerge? Based on an innovative combination of sensory ethnography in salsa classes and life history interviews, Ageing and New Intimacies: Gender, Sexuality and Temporality in an English Salsa Scene (Manchester UP, 2024) by Dr. Sarah Milton documents the meanings of desire and romance, and ‘new’ – or renewed – intimacies, among women in mid and later life.
Beginning with women at a transition point, when newly single or newly dating in midlife, the chapters look back over life histories to examine prior relationship experiences at different life stages, and look forward to hopes for future intimacies. In the navigation of romance and new relationships we see the sensory, sensual and affective nature of heteronormativity, and gendered practices that are informed by memories of the past, the imagination of previous generations and class-based desires. Challenging conventional notions of the baby boomers, this book illuminates the intersections of age, class, and white normativity, making important contributions to our understanding of ageing and generation, intimacy and gender.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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Landnutzungsänderungen, Verschmutzung, Ausbeutung, Erderwärmung, Einführen gebietsfremder Arten – die ungebremste Zerstörung der Biodiversität geht mit dringendem politischem Handlungsbedarf einher. E…
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Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Paula Bialski, an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland, about her recent book, Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough (Princeton UP, 2024). The pair talk about the art of ethnographic study of software work, and how, maybe, our world could do with a healthy dose of good enough-ness. They also scheme about some potential collaborations here on Peoples & Things, which you should definitely keep an eye out for. (You should also check out Paula’s folk pop group, Paula & Karol, whose music was greatly enjoyed while working on this episode.)
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Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175. You must spend twenty nights literally locked in a research facility. You will be told what to eat, when to eat, and when to sleep. You will share a bedroom with several strangers. Who are you, and why would you choose to take part in this kind of study?
This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in clinics across the country and 268 interviews with participants and staff, it illustrates how decisions to take part in such studies are often influenced by poverty and lack of employment opportunities. It shows that healthy participants are typically recruited from African American and Latino/a communities, and that they are often serial participants, who obtain a significant portion of their income from these trials.
This book reveals not only how social inequality fundamentally shapes these drug trials, but it also depicts the important validity concerns inherent in this mode of testing new pharmaceuticals. These highly controlled studies bear little resemblance to real-world conditions, and everyone involved is incentivized to game the system, ultimately making new drugs appear safer than they really are.
Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals (New York University Press) provides an unprecedented view of the intersection of racial inequalities with pharmaceutical testing, signaling the dangers of this research enterprise to both social justice and public health.
Jill A. Fisher is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Bioethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine. She teaches and writes about health behavior in historical context.
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Im Frühjahr brainstormte ich mit einem Kollegen zu einem Workshop für Studierende, der das boomende Thema KI für die Bewerbung aufgreifen sollte. Wir machten einen wunderbaren Plan für…
The following curated collection of fragments outlines two main strategies used over the last ten years in the creation of contemporary artworks to memorialise events: subtraction and accumulation.…
Mejorar la figura y perder peso es uno de los objetivos habituales al iniciar el año. Por salud pero también por vergüenza, la sociedad discrimina a las personas…
If you have any links that can be added, please email me. News Stories “University redundancies undermine Government’s own science strategy – academic” (RNZ, June 14) …
Read Time:14 Minute, 52 Second Rubén Blasco Rubén Blasco “Que llueva, que llueva, la Vírgen de la Cueva, los pajaritos cantan…” Canc…
Prof John Ziker introduces his research and plans in the European Arctic. The anthropology team is pleased to announce a rather spontaneous talk by our visiting professor at…
Louis comes to visit me in my office I am very saddened by the recent passing of my friend, colleague and fellow anthropologist, Dr. Louis Olsen. My deepest…
Ab Sommer 2023 wird im European HIV/AIDS Archiv (EHAA) eine Sammlung über Dänemark verfügbar sein. Sie umfasst Resolutionen und Gesetzesvorschläge des dänischen Parlaments zu HIV/AIDS im Zeitraum 1985…
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The biology, as astonishing as it is, does not tell us what it will mean. -Stephan Helmreich, “Homo Microbis” (2014, 4) Within microbiome research, the human body can…
In a public award event held at San Miguel Chapel on May 18, the School for Advanced Research received the Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s 2023 Preservation Award for…
A food archaeologist investigates everyday eating and lean times among the ancient Moche of Peru through a remarkable discovery of thousands of llama “beans.” A DAY IN THE…
Während der Kolonialherrschaft der Deutschen über das Kameruner Grasland kam ein prachtvoller Thron nach Berlin. Er zeugt von großer Kunstfertigkeit und wirft bis heute wichtige Fragen auf. …
Read Time:6 Minute, 24 Second Diego Moll Soto El asado en Argentina es una costumbre, un ritual, un motivo para reunirse o un fin en s…
Einst bildeten Konservative, Linke und Liberale in vielen europäischen Ländern einen „Sperrgürtel“ gegen die radikale Rechte: Bündnisse mit Rassisten und Nationalisten sollten tabu sein. Das Prinzip c…
Im letzten Schreiben mit KI-Workshop wurde ich gefragt, ob bei Brotgelehrte die Texte eigentlich auch KI-unterstützt verfasst werden? Ja, teilweise ist das der Fall. Diese Arbeit mit KI-Unt…
Foto von Marvin Meyer auf Unsplash Wir sind ein kleines Team, dass sich über die gemeinsame Leidenschaft für unsere Fachbereiche in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften und wie sie…
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اگرچه برای من هدف از بهرهگیری از تجربۀ زیسته، بیشتر شناخت ایران و ایرانی بود، اما دلم نیامد از خیر چند خردهروایت بهرهمند از تجربۀ زیستۀ تماشای فیلم…
حمیدرضا حسینی او یکی از همین جوانها بود که با رفتن خارجیها و خصوصاً آندره گدار فرانسوی که برای همۀ اروپاییها و آمریکاییها سفره پهن کرده بود و…
Download the transcript of this interview. For this episode of Platypod, I talked to Dr. Tanja Ahlin about her research, work, and academic trajectory. She’s currently a postdoctoral…
In the 1960s, credentialed scientists, including physical anthropologists, hunted for the legendary Sasquatch. How did they fall for the hoax? ✽ In the late 1960s, Bigfoot seemed to…
رشد فناوریهای ارتباطی و اطلاعاتی طی سالهای اخیر جنبههای متفاوتی از حیات بشر را با تغییرات و تحولات شایان توجهی مواجه کردهاند. صنعت گردشگری یکی از صنایعی است…
In den vergangenen Wochen gab es mehrere Anfragen bei Brotgelehrte von Menschen, die bereits erfolgreich im Beruf (oder in einem ersten Beruf) sind und nun darüber nachdenken, „doch…
Frankly, I was hoping that page 99 of my dissertation would capture the voices of one or more of my participants. Unfortunately, what I arrived at was the…
Read Time:6 Minute, 1 Second Celia Muñoz Rosado La prostitución es una práctica que se remonta a la Antigüedad Clásica, y su presencia…
An anthropologist and writer from the Tseltal community speaks back to a colonialist history of suppression—instead claiming his identity, language, and people. “Feeling What We Are/A’yel jtalel…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiterin zur Betreuung der Modernensammlung an der Ruhr Universität Bochum, eine Stelle als Content Creator für Alliance Auto…
Dies ist eine Vorschau aus Brotgelehrte Band 3 – erscheint im Sommer 2023. Direkt zu: Arbeitsmarkt Netzwerke Digitalisierung Anforderungen und Weiterbildung Mehr lesen und h…
Über russische Kultur reden während Russland Krieg gegen die Ukraine führt? Vadim Zakharov über zwei unterschiedliche Arten des Schweigens und über die Aktualität der Erfahrungen aus dem sowjetischen …
La foto es de Tristan Schirling Mensaje para Miren Uharte, a partir de una conversación sobre la niebla como alegoría de las multitudes urbanas, enviado en junio de…
On any given day, the remains of countless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in ancestral soils. Others are laid to rest in countries…
Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the archaeologist Christopher Witmore,…
Una de las fotografías del libro , tomada de tomascasademunt.com/ Palabras en la presentación del libro Obra Negra, del fotógrafo Tomàs Casademunt, en el Centro Cultural de España…
A power struggle is playing out at Vogue. Several things hang in the balance. The future of a publication that helps construct our sense of taste. The future of…
Hi all,AI & ChatGPT, fast fashion, weaponization of social media, refugee protection & many challenges for humanitarian aid in Ethiopia, Somalia, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh & Myanmar are so…
Wegen der hohen Nachfrage im April wiederholen wir am kommenden Montag, 12.6., 16 Uhr den Impuls-Workshop „Schreiben mit KI“. Was uns von anderen KI-Workshops anhebt, ist die Perspektive:…
Gustaf Redemo: Åren på resande fot i antropologins land har delvis gjort mig till en främling. Ibland känner jag mig mer befryndad med mina invandrade elever än de…
Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid conditions and a precarious water…
Marius Wamsiedel’s book The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania (Lexington, 2023) is an ethnography of the social process by which healthcare workers…
A filmmaker highlights the work of urban archaeologists digging a woman-owned business opened in the late 1800s. In this short documentary, Wayne State University archaeologist Krysta Ryzewski and…
Am 8. und 9. Juni werden die Innenminister:innen der EU-Mitgliedstaaten im Rat der Europäischen Union in Luxemburg zusammentreten, um sich auf eine Verhandlungsposition gegenüber der EU-Kommission un…
Während der Arbeit an Brotgelehrte Band 3, in dem wir vor allem Berufe rund um das Buch in den Blick nehmen, besuchten wir auch die Auftragsbörse https://www.mentorium.de/lektor-jobs, die…
How do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the city? How do they constitute themselves, and demand…
Along mountain pilgrimages, two anthropologists learn how an Indigenous Mesoamerican religion helps people practice a reciprocal relationship with the Earth. Based on Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Na…
Seit der Lancierung von ChatGPT Ende November 2022 durch OpenAI wird die Frage nach den gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Auswirkungen von Chatbots, die auf ‚Large Language Models‘ beruhen und…
Sesión plenaria de apertura. Foto GVC. Igor Ayora Diaz y yo estuvimos en el Global Business Anthropology Summit 2023, un congreso sobre antropología de negocios que tuvo…
Perched on a makeshift stage, a trio dressed in wool ponchos sings pirekuas, the region’s most acclaimed and loved musical genre in a mix of Purépecha and Spanish.…
In a village in Romania, residents maintain a centuries-old carnival tradition called farsang to mark winter’s death.
✽As the morning sun ambles over blunted cliffs, whips break the silence below. Th…
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. To keep practit…
Mullah Yaqub appeared in the doorway of his Quranic school, and smiled when he saw me, shaking my hand firmly. He looked tall in his long dark-blue felted coat, wearing a black knitted cap on his head…
A poet exuberantly gives thanks for the Munay-Ki rites enlivened across the ages and shared by the Q’ero people in the Peruvian Andes.
“A Love Letter to the Munay-Ki” is part of the collec…
Diese Woche gibt es viele Volontariats-Stellen, u.a. in den Bereichen Lektorat, Redaktion und Marketing. Der Rheinwerk Verlag in Bonn sucht außerdem einen Werkstudierenden und ECOVENTA sucht Q…
Interview by Joseph Wilson
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-machines-came-to-speak
Joseph Wilson: The combination of legal discourse analysis and technology studies in this book is a fascinat…
För en 6-7 år sedan var jag på en föreläsning på Uppsala Universitet, jag kommer inte ihåg vad föreläsaren hette eller vilket universitet hon kom ifrån. Jag tror det var nåt brittiskt, men föreläsning…
Here’s a quick update regarding my work on the Marshall Sahlins biography up to 1 June 2023.
I spent most of May not actually writing the biography, but preparing to write it. As I may have mentio…
Poor Black women who benefit from social welfare are marginalized in a number of ways by interlocking systemic racism, sexism, and classism. The media renders them invisible or casts them as racialized and undeserving “welfare queens” who exploit social safety nets. Even when Black women voters are celebrated, the voices of the poorest too often go unheard. How do Afro-descendant women in former slave-holding societies survive amid multifaceted oppression?
In The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States (Columbia University Press, 2023), Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour offers a comparative analysis of how Black women social welfare beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States defy systems of domination. She argues that poor Black women act as political subjects in the struggle to survive, to provide food for their children and themselves, and challenge daily discrimination even in dire circumstances. Mitchell-Walthour examines the effects of social welfare programs, showing that mutual aid networks and informal labor play greater roles in beneficiaries’ lives. She also details how Afro-descendant women perceive stereotypes and discrimination based on race, class, gender, and skin color. Mitchell-Walthour considers their formal political participation, demonstrating that low-income Black women support progressive politics and that religious affiliation does not lead to conservative attitudes. Drawing on Black feminist frameworks, The Politics of Survival confronts the persistent invisibility of poor Black women by foregrounding their experiences and voices. Providing a wealth of empirical evidence on these women’s views and survival strategies, this book not only highlights how systemic structures marginalize them but also offers insight into how they resist such forces.
Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour is Dan T. Blue Endowed Chair of Political Science at North Carolina Central University. She is the author of The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil (2018). Mitchell-Walthour is a national co-coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil and former president of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA).
Reighan Gillam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press).
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کریستوفر نولان در فیلمنامۀ تلقین غیرمستقیم به موضوعی میپردازد که این روزها بر خوان گستردۀ علوم مختلف نشسته است. نولان در این اثر، به مسئله روایت و روایتگری میپردازد. او روایت را با فلسفه ذهن در میآ…
این عکس در دهۀ سی در پل سفید گرفته شده است. سوژه و عکاس خود گرگری است، او خودش عکسها را با دوربینش میگرفت و در عکسهایی هم که خود حضور دارد، سوژه را آماده میکرد، کادربندی را درست میکرد، دوربین را …
Klimaschutz als Managementaufgabe? Controlling, Leistungsanreiz und Budgetierung werden oftmals als Ausdruck der Neoliberalisierung der Hochschulen angeprangert, lassen sich aber auf die ersten Forder…
In Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital(Duke UP, 2022), César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital—over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and collaborative ethnography to analyze the social life of neoliberal health policy, Abadía-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and after privatization. He argues that health care privatization is not only about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of practicing medicine that challenge Western medicine. Despite radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized system, El Materno’s professors, staff, and students continued to find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and noncommodified health care. By tracking the violences, conflicts, hopes, and uncertainties that characterized the struggles to keep El Materno open, Abadía-Barrero demonstrates that any study of medical care needs to be embedded in larger political histories.
If you are interested in a conversation in Spanish about this book listen to this episode of New Books Network en español
Host María Camila Núñez Gómez is a professor interested in social studies on health, diseases, and science.
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La foto es de Andrea Coma Entrevista publicada en la página web beta.esedosuno.com, el 20 de julio de 2012. MOVIMIENTOS Y MOVIMIENTISMO ¿Cuáles cree que son los principales…
Folge 6:„Made in Chima“ – wie aus einer Dissertation eine Performance wirdmit Yumin Li und Kira Jürjens
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The Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world’s oldest public earthquake early warning system. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, the technology was designed to give the people of Mexico City more than a minute to prepare before the next big quake hits. How does this kind of environmental monitoring technology get built in the first place? How does its life-saving promise align with reality? And who shapes modern risk mitigation?
In ¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground(MIT Press, 2023), Elizabeth Reddy surveys this innovation to shed light on what it means to imagine a world where sirens could sound out an ¡alerta sísmica! at any moment—and what it would be like to live in such a world.
Proponents of earthquake early warnings have long held that the technology can save lives and limit economic losses. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival data, Reddy conducts a thorough, qualitative analysis of these claims and considers the requirements and uses of the alert system. She embeds her study in a rich narrative of the engineers who designed the system in conjunction with contingent political and environmental conditions. The result demonstrates how addressing earthquake dangers is no small task: it means trying to change relationships between the environment, society, and technology. Doing so, she critiques universalist and techno-centric approaches to hazard risk mitigation and celebrates the potential of contextually appropriate and broadly supported efforts.
¡Alerta! takes readers on a vivid journey into the world of Mexican earthquake risk mitigation, with critical insights for anthropologists and science and technology studies scholars, as well as specialists in the geosciences, engineering, and emergency management.
Mentioned in this episode:
Donna Riley’s interview with Lee Vinsel on the NBN Peoples & Things series.
Elizabeth Reddy is Assistant Professor of Engineering, Design, & Society at the Colorado School of Mines, with a joint appointment in Geophysics.
Liliana Gil is an anthropologist. She is incoming Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies (STS) at the Ohio State University.
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If you’ve visited Thailand even for a short time you’ve probably been given, or have come across, some basic instructions on dos and don’ts — where to put, or not to put, your hands and feet, what to wear or not to wear to a temple, why not to get angry in public, that sort of thing. Perhaps you’ve wondered about the pedagogies that give these social practices their durability. And whether you’ve been to the country or not you might have seen news reports showing prime ministers and army generals prostrate in front of members of the royal family, and have wondered how almost a century after the demise of the absolute monarchy deference to sovereign power is so resolutely performed.
If so, then you’ve come to the right podcast! On this episode of New Books in Southeast Asian Studies one of the channel hosts, Patrick Jory, sits on the interviewee’s side of the microphone to talk about his A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand (Cambridge University Press, 2021). In a wide-ranging discussion Patrick outlines how manners have been codified over successive periods in Thailand; why Norbert Elias is still relevant for an understanding of the civilizing process not only in Europe but beyond, and the pertinence historical research for interpreting Thai society and politics into the 21st century.
Like this interview? If so you might also be interested in:
- Patrick Jory, Thailand’s Theory of Monarchy
- Roderic Broadhurst et al, Violence and the Civilising Process in Cambodia
- Yoshinori Nishizaki, Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand
Nick Cheesman is Associate Professor, Department of Political & Social Change, Australian National University. He hosts the New Books in Interpretive Political & Social Science series on the New Books Network.
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Der Rat für Migration begrüßt, dass eine Modernisierung des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts angegangen wird. Ein deutlich einfacherer Zugang zur deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft bietet für die (post-)migrantis…
Contemporary AI systems are typically created by many different people, each working on separate parts or “modules.” This can make it difficult to determine who is responsible for considering the ethi…
It was the kind of morning best spent in a worn chair next to a lamp reading a good book. Rain pelted at the r…
پارک مارک، کاگردان: بکتاش آبتین، تصویربردار: تورج اصلانی، ۵۲ دقیقه، ۱۳۸۸
«زمان» و «فضا» در مطالعات اجتماعی دو عنصر و عامل مهم برای درک شهرها محسوب میشوند. این دو، هر یک در تعریف و جایگاه مجزای خویش،…
روزی که مهندس مرباغی عزیز، بزرگ خاندان خانه اردیبهشت اودلاجان، اعلام کرد میخواهیم سفری به سمنان داشته باشیم، کمی تعجب کردم. مگر تا وقتی کاشان و نطنز و قزوین هست، آدم میرود سمنان؟! اما تصمیم گرفتم ک…
Nach Kohleresten gesucht, Kupferbarren gefunden: Irini Biezeveld und Jonas Kluge haben bei einer Routinegrabung in Oman erlebt, wie überraschend die Archäologie sein kann. Ihr Zufallsfund mit Seltenhe…
Written by Jehron Muhammad (RE: Africa’s Place in Global Diplomacy defined by Colonial and Post-Colonial History) Africa’s placement in global …
Wir empfehlen in dieser Woche eine Stellenbörse im sozialen Sektor:
https://www.stellenmarkt-sozial.de.
Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Plattform, die sich auf Stellenangebote im sozia…
An anthropologist uses explicit insults to get students thinking about gender and power in everyday language. Plus, a brief explainer on the slang term “sus.”
✽“Insult me,” I tell my students.
Admi…
Liebe Kolleg*innen,
der Fachinformationsdienst Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (FID SKA) lädt sehr herzlich ein zu:
Frag’ den FID! Offene Sprechstunde zu digitalen Infrastrukturen und Services f…
In Friendship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love. Beginning with Aristotle’s accounts of friendship as a political virtue and Montaigne’s famous essay on friendship as a form of love, Jackson examines the tension between the political and personal resonances of friendship in the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and the oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He offers reflections on childhood friends, imaginary friends, lifelong friendships, and friendships with animals.
He ruminates particularly on the complications of friendship in the context of anthropological fieldwork, exploring the contradiction between the egalitarian spirit of friendship on the one hand and, on the other, the power imbalance between ethnographers and their interlocutors. Through these stories, Jackson explores the unpredictable interplay of mutability and mutuality in intimate human relationships and the critical importance of choice in forming friendship—what it means to be loyal to friends through good times and bad, and even in the face of danger. Through a blend of memoir, theory, ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age and offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a measure of our own self-worth.
Dr. Jackson is an anthropologist, author, and senior research fellow in world religions at Harvard Divinity School. His academic work has been strongly influenced by critical theory, American pragmatism, and existential-phenomenological thought, and he has conducted extensive fieldwork experience in Sierra Leone and Aboriginal Australia.
Latoya Johnson is an editor, writer, and bibliophile with a master’s in Humanities. Her research and writing interests include books and reading in popular culture, the public history of women’s fiction, and women in Greco-Roman mythology.
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Photo and story from The New York Times, 5/29/23.
Using a guidebook published more than 20 years ago, a writer searches out the bars and restaurants that express the city’s traditional eating and d…
Die CSU skandalisiert Lesungen von Drag-Künstler*innen als angebliche Gefährdung des Kindeswohls, die SVP attackiert Gender-Tage. Sie übernehmen dabei die brandgefährliche queerfeindliche Agenda der U…
„Incompleteness, Mobility and Conviviality“ – unter diesem Titel hält der Soziologe und Anthropologe Prof. Francis B. Nyamnjoh von der University of Cape Town in Südafrika die diesjährige Ad. E. Jense…
Two researchers explain how ancient DNA research is helping to restore the origin story of the Swahili people along the coastal region of East Africa.
This article was originally published at The Con…
Namasté is no longer just a pleasant Hindi greeting, but an English lexeme; a unit of language in the form of a word or phrase that has become an abstract representation of something other than its li…
نوشته: هلن توماس، برگردان: فردین علیخواه
رویکرد تحلیلی به جامعهشناسی رقص که در اینجا پیشنهاد میشود، در حیطۀ وسیعتری قرار می گیرد که عموماً از آن به عنوان سنت «تفسیری» علوم اجتماعی یاد میشود (برای …
*اعتقاد به رستاخیز مردگان و عروج و بازگشت آنان به عالم خاکی در آغاز هر دورنوین از دورکیهانی و در زمان پیش از نوشدگی سال و پیوستن به جمع زندگان یک باور بسیار کهن بوده و تنها اختصاص به مردم ایران نداشته…
Dies ist eine Vorschau aus: Mareike Menne u.a.: Brotgelehrte 3. Erscheint Sommer 2023. Jetzt schon freuen!
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiterin (Bibliothek) / Fachreferentin (Bibliothek) / …*
Interview by Ilana Gershon
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/UrciuoliNeoliberalizing#:~:text=Bonnie%20Urciuoli%20is%20Professor%20Emerita,diversity%20in%20U.S.%20higher%20education.
Ilana…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle bei Dr. Ausbüttel als Content Manager im Bereich Training und E-Learning (Dortmund), eine Werkstudi-Stelle beim Coppenrath Verlag in Münster und eine Stell…
In the history of treaty making , there were two treaty periods for western Oregon, 1851, and 1853 to 1855. The 1851 treaties, 19 of them, were negotiated with tribes in four locations, Champoeg, Tans…
As AI, ChatGPT & broader discussions on the tools & technology behind it enter the digital #globaldev discussion sphere, I started a curated collection of articles & podcasts that have caught my atten…
Seit Beginn des Angriffskrieges gegen die Ukraine kursieren Begriffe wie Westsplaining, Eastsplaining und Russplaining. Sie kritisieren imperiale Sprechgesten beider Himmelsrichtungen und deren gegens…
Acabo de terminar de enseñar el curso optativo Antropología del Sonido. Los trabajos de las y los estudiantes fueron muy buenos. Estoy feliz de lo que hicieron, lo que mostraron haber aprendido por me…
Der Essay ist unter dem Titel “Mutterrecht zum Muttertag” in Der Standard vom 13. 5. 2023, Album S. 1 f. erschienen (in der Online-Ausgabe unter dem Titel “Das Matriarchat hat es nie…
Just a little trailer for 2023 new listeners to This Anthro Life!
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Obwohl der Lehrerberuf immer unattraktiver zu werden scheint – in Deutschland herrscht seit Jahren ein Mangel an Lehrkräften – bietet der Beruf dennoch viele Gründe, ihn zu ergreifen. Lehrer*…
I’m running a field school in Puerto Rico with a focus on ethnography and food sovereignty. Here I am raising my cup of morning coffee to all of you planning and submitting your award application…
Hi all,Welcome to another review after the weekly tour-de-Internet to highlight some great #globaldev readings; global governance, human rights, US arms sales, UN peacekeeping, the capitalistic histor…
Yoko Ono handed this artwork to me on arrival at her show somewhere in shoreditch about 2000. Christies auction house offers considered… dm me with your bids. This is Warhol level art, not jyst to pl…
The monumental sense of dislocation we experience after losing a loved one can be life-altering. There is no script for grieving–each individual passes through their own phases of mourning. In Don’t Be Sad When I’m Gone’: A Memoir of Loss and Healing in Buenos Aires (Toplight Books, 2020), psychologist Beatriz Dujovne documents how she grieved the loss of her husband and sought therapy during an extended stay in her hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Recounting her healing process day-to-day, from shock through recovery, this book traces her navigation of the uncertainty and devastation that often engulfs those who have suffered profound loss. A profound read!
Lexa Rosean is a licensed psychoanalyst with private practice in New York City. I am a graduate of New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (NYGSP) and Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS).
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Wir fordern die sofortige Rücknahme der Kündigung des Lehrauftrags von Bahar Aslan durch die Hochschule für Polizei und öffentliche Verwaltung NRW. Bahar Aslan hat in einem persönlichen Tweet die Angs…
Helena Wulff: Etnografiska museer måste förnya sig. Men inte genom publikfriande tillfälliga utställningar som har producerats utan etnografisk expertis utan genom att anlägga ett kosmopolitiskt persp…
Am vergangenen Dienstag hatten wir den Brotgelehrte-Impulsworkshop “Wartephasen nutzen”. Dieser Workshop ging auf einen Teilnehmerinnenwunsch im Februar zurück und wir freuen uns…
In Queer Phenomenology, Sara Ahmed reflects on all kinds of tables: work tables, dining tables, but most of all kitchen tables and desks. She reminds us that a lot of feminist theory has been written …
While visiting the exhibition by the artist Xadalu Tupã Jekupé at the Museum of Indigenous Cultures in São Paulo, one of the works caught my attention. It was a monitor on the floor. On the screen was…
چکیده :
مهمترین و اساسیترین منشاء فکری فلسفه در قرن بیست، مقولۀ پدیدارشناسی یا فنامنولوژی است. با توجه به دانش فکری یکی از بزرگترین فیلسوفان این قرن، مارتین هایدگر[۱] پیدا نمودن معنا و مفهوم خود مع…
This is a a view from the 4th floor window in the Center for International Education, a popular spot for students to watch the sunset. During the semester, more and more I found myself at this spot a…
جواد کزلان توسی- زهرا خان
دکتر جمالالدین مستقیمی را «پدر آناتومی ایران» میدانند. او طی چند دهه فعالیت علمی، خدمات ارزندهای در حوزۀ بسط و گسترش دانش آناتومی در ایران کرده و یافتههای علمی او ابعاد ج…
من نویسنده نیستم. حالا میتوانم ادعا کنم باستانشناس هم نیستم. راوی چیزها و زندگی انسانها، فارغ از دغدغههای زمانی و تخته بند مکان و موقعیت. شاید این معرفی خوبی برای من باشد.«این یک گزارش نیست» را ب…
Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken’s Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach (Routledge, 2022) explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed.
It examines the effects that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed. By weaving together experiences from a variety of countries and across disciplinary boundaries and research methods, the volume outlines the roots of over-research, where it comes from and what can be done about it.
The book will be useful for social science students and researchers working in ethnographic disciplines such as Human Geography, Anthropology, Urban Planning, and Sociology and seeking to navigate the tricky ‘absent present’ of already existing research on their fields of exploration.
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Sheila Liming talks about the party, social gatherings that occasion joy and dread and various emotions in between. The party is both a pause and an acceleration in the life-work continuum, it can deaden political motivation and engender fresh politics. We discuss the horrible parties in The Office and the wonderful parties in Small Axe, among other things.
Sheila Liming is Associate Professor at Champlain College in Burlington, VT, where she teaches classes in American literature, writing, and media. She is the author, most recently, of Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time (Melville House, 2023), and also of the books Office (Bloomsbury, 2020) and What a Library Means to a Woman (Minnesota UP, 2020). Her writing has appeared in publications like the The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Lapham’s Quarterly, LitHub, The Globe and Mail, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.
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Vincanne Adams. Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move. Duke University Press. 2023. Pp. 174. ISBN 9781478016755.
Pablo Lapegna (University of Georgia)
Welcome to …
By Christopher Marcatili
McGavin, Kirsten (ed.). 2022. World Beyond: An anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction. Sydney, Aus: Hibiscus Three.
In the remote mountains of Papua New G…
Im neuesten Podcast der Reihe “Verkehrsvisionen. Der feministische Podcast zur Verkehrswende spreche ich über Autonormativität.
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Aguilo-PerezAmerican
Interview by Julia Perillo
Julia Perillo: How did you get the idea for this book?
Emily Aguiló-Pérez: This was based on my doctor…
Writing almost 20 years ago, Nicky Gregson and her research partners claimed that “…(W)aste’s capacity as a theoretical vehicle is immense; like food it is good to think with and through” (Gregs…
A sociocultural anthropologist from Pakistan speaks to how women in asylums in a patriarchal culture are in a battle between their realities and their lost dreams. Yet those dreams offer hope for tomo…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Studi-Stelle bei der Filmförderungsanstalt in Berlin, ein Volontariat im Bereich Online-Redaktion bei Noack (u.a. in Köln) und eine Stelle als Pressereferent*in b…
In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity(Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing badly is a key part of many of our moral failures, and fearing better a central part of our moral repair.
We might think that fearing is undesirable and should be avoided whenever possible. In fact, Fearing Together shows that the avoidance of fear causes some of our greatest threats. This book brings together philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and psychoanalysis to help us understand fear as a relational practice so that we can see that our relationships with other fearers shape what we fear, what fear feels like, how we identify and understand our fears, and how we cope with them.
Growing as moral agents involves coming to grips with what kinds of fearers we want to be and become, and with what we owe each other when facing what we cannot control. At the heart of this book are the moral quandaries and complexities of relational fearing: the ethics of fearing together.
Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive.
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Die deutsche Regierung hat die Kolonialverbrechen in Namibia als Genozid anerkannt, dennoch ist der Versöhnungsprozess gescheitert. Das lag daran, dass zwei Regierungen miteinander verhandelten, ohne …
In dieser Woche möchten wir euch eine interessante Stellenbörse vorstellen, die sich auf ein noch junges Berufsfeld konzentriert
https://dig-hum.de/newskategorien/stellenangebote.
Die D…
27 ~~22~~ years ago my first book was typeset and laid out in the days before electronics – well, an electric typesetting machine was plugged into a wall, but no digital file was produced. Neverthe…
Hi all,This is a quite a bleak newsletter this week, unfortunately. In Sudan, Somalia & Afghanistan crises continue; even Mayotte, a tiny French outpost between Madagascar & Mozambique, is part of Eur…
As most of my friends and colleagues already know, the project I will take during my sabbatical in the (boreal) fall of 2023 is a biography of Marshall Sahlins. I’ll begin in the summer and sin…
شاه سلیمان صفوی در بستر مرگ اعضای دربار و نزدیکانش را در برابر یک سوال بسیار حیاتی قرار داد: پس از مرگ من شما به شاهی نیاز دارید و این شاه باید فردی مطلوب نظر شما باشد! پس اگر طالب راحتی و آرامش هستید…
سید یعقوب موسوی، دانشیار دانشگاه الزهرا بود و روز یازده اردیبهشت در آستانۀ روز معلم ما را ترک کرد. سالها بود که او میشناختم و از آنجا که موضوع کار ما هر دو، درباره شهر و مطالعات اجتماعی آن بود، باره…
هوشنگ ظریف، نوازندۀ توانای «تار» و یکی از برجستهترین هنرآموختگان هنرستان موسیقی ملی در دورۀ ریاست استاد روحاللّه خالقی، گذشته از اعتباری که در تکنوازی و نیز در همنوازی با گروههای معتبر موسیقی دار…
| | | Imagen de Caracas que tomé desde el Hotel Hilton, en marzo de 2008 |
Mensaje para mi colega y amigo Mikel Fernandino, en relación con una discusión mantenida en febrero de 2014.
SOBRE LAS RAÍCE…
In the book, Hurt Sentiments, historian Neeti Nair traces a political history of secularism, one which made a virtue out of hurt in twentieth-century India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Nair asks how a r…
Zentrale Ergebnisse finden Sie hier als PDF zusammengefasst Das erste parlamentarische Forum des Rats für Migration mit dem Titel „Was kommt nach dem Migrationshintergrund?“ fand am 27. April 2023 an …
با توجه به اینکه این روزها مشغول انجام طرحی پژوهشی در حوزۀ نقش اساتید در تعلیم و تربیت اجتماعی دانشجویان هستم برای مطالعۀ بیشتر به کتاب «حکایت دانشگاه» برخوردم که اتفاقاً تا حد زیادی مناسب این پژوهش ا…
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…
Great! Just great.
Director: Lam Son (AKA Bùi Sơn Duân, 1932-2001). Writers: Nguyen Huy Khanh and Vu Hanh, starring Thuy Lien as Tuyet Mai, Ha Van Buu as teacher Thanh, and Tran Quang as Maj…
Why do attraction and chemistry feel different in the digital age? The answer lies in how digitally mediated information is changing the way we come to know potential partners.
✽On a warm spring nigh…
خودکشی، برای بعضی از آدمها قابل تصور نیست. به همین دلیل خبر وقوعش ناباورانه شنیده میشود. کیومرث پوراحمد جزو این گروه است. ستارهای بود در آسمان ذهنی و خاطرهساز نسلی از کودکان و نوجوانان. کدام ایران…
قاسم منصور آلکثیر
یکی از مجموعههای تجاری-تفریحی تهران، ورود شهروندان افغانستانی در ایام نوروز ۱۴۰۲ را ممنوع و علت آن را راحتی شهروندان ایرانی اعلام کرده است. با مرور اخبار گذشته و همچنین بررسی دلنوش…
اشاره:
تا جایی که نویسنده اطلاع دارد تا کنون تاریخچۀ دقیقی برای «کتابخانۀ ملی رشت» تدوین نشده است. این مختصر به عنوان نقطۀ عزیمت برای یکی از میراثهای ماندگار گیلان که سالهاست مورد بیمهری نیز قرار گ…
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…
I begin this reflection on the potential of solidarities in anthropological praxis with an example drawn from the University College Union (UCU) pension strikes in the U.K. In 2018, many PhD researche…
Am 24.4.2023 fand unser Impuls-Workshop „Schreiben mit KI“ statt. Wir waren reichlich aufgeregt, da derzeit ja nahezu täglich neue Versionen und Anwendungsgebiete von KI entstehen und dadurch ein…
An archaeologist examines how community members in Cardiff, Wales, collaborated with a research team to make important insights into the Bronze Age.
This article was originally published at The Conv…
Schon Dürrematt hat den dramatischen Niedergang von Banken beschrieben. Doch während er noch von einer Haftbarkeit der Verantwortlichen ausging, bleiben die verheerenden Folgen von Bankencrashs wie jü…
How do people adapt when the ground beneath their feet starts to wash away? All over the world, coastal communities are facing the same challenges: rising sea levels and vanishing coastlines.
Aného …
Last week we were invited to present our work and research group on the LMU’s official Instagram account…
A post-doctoral position in the support and evaluation of community-based research on plastics pollution in Nunatsiavut
Budka, P. (2023). Cultural dimensions of digital ethics: Anthropological notes and perspectives. Presentation at Academies for Global Innovation and Digital Ethics (AGIDE) Workshop, Vienna, Austria: …
“No con la cólera, sino con la risa se mata ¡Adelante, matemos el espíritu de la pesadez!”
(Así habló Zaratustra. Friedrich Nietzsche.)
“Omumneepo”. Así llaman a los ataques de risa en Tanza…
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…
In this episode, Angela Saini, award-winning science journalist and author of “The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule,” traces the material and social roots of patriarchy with host Adam Gamwell. The duo…
In the wake of calls for responsibility and for ‘Raising our voice’ (AAA 2020), early-career researchers’ in anthropology risk to bear the weight to redeem the discipline while struggling in the bound…
Ebenso wie andere eher fachferne Bereiche bietet auch der Sport Berufschancen für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen im Aufgabenbereich Planung, Steuerung, Organisation und Verwaltung – im Sportmanagem…
Cities all over the world have witnessed a surge in the use of surveillance technologies, such as data-gathering phone apps, facial recognition software, and closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras a…
Text from Japan Today, 5/2/23.
A bill has been submitted to an ongoing session in the Japanese Diet targeting a crackdown on people who take surreptitious photographs, a move that would make it ille…
Yesterday marked the fourth year since a shooter entered my classroom in Kennedy 236, took two lives, and changed dozens more forever. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte brought me back to…
Distant Doctors: A Surgical Theater in Romania
– By Cristina A. Pop –
Someone has a fondness for purple decor, I decide, as I look around the examination room at a gigantic poster of blooming irises…
My dissertation is about how middle-class people in the United States economize their everyday life to get economic security. Ethnographically, I focus on two groups of Americans who participate in n…
Written by Jerhron Muhammad Recent Sudanese history paints the current conflict waging between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the …
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Propuesta de comunicación para el IX Congreso Geocrítica 2016LA CIUDAD IDEAL COMO DERROTA FINAL DE LO URBANOManuel
DelgadoEntre las ra…
Unsere Newsletter-Abonnent*innen finden jede Woche im Newsletter die Vorstellung einer Stellenbörse. Brotgelehrte-Mitarbeiter Vincenz Schmarsow kuratiert diese Sparte. Nun stellen wir Euch im Blo…
A poet-anthropologist celebrates how the Orring people of southeastern Nigeria conceptualize the origins—and workings—of the cosmos.
“T” is part of the collection Indigenizing What It Mean…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. zwei Campaign-Stellen im Bereich Anti-Rechtsterrorismus bei Campact e.V. (Berlin/ remote), eine Trainee-Stelle im Bereich Europawahl und Naturschutzpolitik beim Naturs…
نوشته: هلن توماس
برگردان: فردین علیخواه
در اواخر دهۀ ۱۹۷۰، نظریههای پساساختارگرایانه، بهویژه نظریههای دریدا و بارت، به ورای اقیانوس اطلس سوق یافتند و با علایقِ دوباره شکوفا شده به پراگماتیسم…
Die Colonia Dignidad und ihre Verbrechen finden wieder Aufmerksamkeit. Doch die Erinnerungspolitik, die sich allein auf die Vergangenheit richtet, riskiert, das Leiden in der Gegenwart vergessen zu ma…
The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites. According to French philosopher Michel Serres, ordered systems are founded on the pathologization of parasites, which can never be fully expelled.
In Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City (MIT Press, 2021), Macs Smith extends Serres’s approach to Paris as a mediatic city, asking what organisms, people, and forms of interference constitute its parasites. Drawing on French poststructuralist theory and philosophy, media theory, the philosophy of science, and an array of literary and cultural sources, he examines Paris and its parasites from the early nineteenth century to today, focusing on the contemporary city. In so doing, he reveals the social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism.
Salvador Lopez Rivera is a PhD candidate in French language and literature at Washington University in St. Louis.
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سال جدید هر روز قصۀ تلخ دیگری به همراه دارد. و هرچند برخی از این قصهها، آنقدر تکراریاند که به نظر ملالآور میآیند اما همین تکرارها خود گویای مصیبتی هستند که بر سر شرف و انسانیت و آبرو و اخلاق در ا…
من هم در کودکی قصههای مجید را دوست داشتم. رؤیاهای مجید را شبیه به رؤیاهای کودکانۀ خودم میدیدم. با وجود این، مخاطب قصههای مجید صرفاً کودکان نبودند؛ درست است که این سریال در جدول پخش برنامههای کودک …
بعضیها خودشان را میکشند چون دنیا جای خوبی نیست. آدمهای خوب در این دنیا جایی ندارند که کار و زندگی کنند. بعضی آدمها خودشان را میکشند چون نمیتوانند ببینند کنار دستشان، این همه بلا بر سر دیگران می…
Hi all,Can Andrew Mitchell save UK #globaldev?Can we engage with the Taliban?Can AI empower marginalized people?Can economic development deliver in the future?And what about Sollywood?!?Answers to the…
The key goal of the DFG-funded interdisciplinary research project “Curating the Feed” is to gain a better understanding of digital image feeds and their curatorial assemblages. The project asks how ev…
The DFG-funded research project “From the Era of the Witness to Digital Remembrance: New Media, Holocaust Sites and Changing Memory Practices” is an interdisciplinary and international collaboration b…
Man kan ikke se tilbake på språkåret 2022 uten å stoppe opp ved 16. juni: dagen da det kjønnsnøytrale pronomenet hen offisielt ble tatt inn i norske ordbøker. Debatten i forkant av innføringen av hen…
Lina Franken: Digitale kulturelle Archive: Oral History Interviews digital analysieren (Master, Kulturwissenschaften, Universität Vechta) Lina Franken: Formen und Strategien historischer Sinnbildung: …
From Louis Aragon’s epic History of the USSR 1962 (1964)
“Although it may have been necessary to remind creative artists and writers of the national context of art and to dissuade them…
Lina Franken: Methoden digitaler Kulturwissenschaften (MA Kulturwissenschaften, Universität Vechta) Lina Franken: Beispiele zur Medienkulturanalyse: #Hashtag. Soziale Medien mit digitalen Methoden erf…
Bareither, Christoph (2023): „Computergestützte ethnografische Datenanalyse (CEDA): Potenziale und methodische Affordanzen von QDA-Software in der ethnografischen Forschung.“ In: Hamburger Journal für…
Jeanne d’Arc, the fifteenth-century Maid of Orleans who led France to victory against England during the Hundred Years’ War, was burnt at the stake as a heretic on account of her cross-dressing as wel…
A biocultural anthropologist shares new research on the surprising long-term hazards of volcanoes in Iceland—and how to address them.
THE RISE OF ICELANDIC VOLCANOESIn the fall of 2022, my friends an…
Kūṭiyāṭṭam, India’s only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually performed in Kerala for at least a thousand years. David Shulman and Heike Oberlin’s Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam(Oxford UP, 2019) focuses on Mantrāṅkam and Aṅgulīyāṅkam, the two great masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam. It provides fundamental general remarks and relates them to pan-Indian reflections on aesthetics, philology, ritual studies, and history.
Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at his own virtual School of Indian Wisdom. For information seerajbalkaran.com.
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Fragmento del artículo “Sospecha y elegancia. De la distinción al estigma: el caso de Patricia Heras”, incluido en el libro colectivo Ciutat morta. Crónica del caso 4FSOSPECHA Y ELEGANCIADe…
INTERVJU. Årets SANT-konferens har ”taking care” som tema, vilket fick Sverker Finnström att återvända till sitt första fältarbete och en begravning i inbördeskrigets Uganda. Några berusade äldre män …
Leonidas Vournelis
Baruch College, CUNY
Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a 2 part essay.
Like most EU countries during the past year Greece has been faced with significant inflationary pre…
Tomorrow, I get on a plane to fly to Charlotte, NC to attend the unveiling and dedication of a new memorial for Reed, Riley, and the other victims of the April 30, 2019 shooting that occurred in my c…
Interview by Ilana Gershon
https://iupress.org/9780253065186/a-most-valuable-medium
Ilana Gershon: What inspired you to study early commercial sound recordings? And what problems did these …
By Barbara van Male – ‘When it came to major issues such as migration, climate crisis, inequality, I often felt a sense of unease. How could I to relate to that? It helped me when someone talke…
مجموعهداران موسیقى به اندازۀ موسیقیدانان و گاهی بیش از آنان، در ترویج و فرهنگسازى این هنر نقش آفرین بودهاند. در ایران زمینۀ شناخت انواع موسیقى که نیاز به سرمایۀ فرهنگى بالاترى داشته، بیش از آنکه به…
پدیدۀ به آتش کشیدن کتابهای ممنوعه، پیشینۀ تاریخی طولانی دارد و جملۀ «این آغاز کار است، آنجا که کتابها را بسوزانند، روزی انسانها را خواهند سوزاند» را هم به اراسموس (۱۴۶۶-۱۵۳۶) فیلسوف هلندی، نسبت داد…
Artículo publicado en El Periódico de Catalunya el
18/8/1997UNA FORMA ANDALUZA DE SER CATALANES Manuel DelgadoCatalunya es un excelente e…
Islanders have long claimed ape-like humans, remarkably similar to the fossil species Homo floresiensis, survive in secluded forests of Indonesia. An anthropologist investigates why.
Excerpted from Be…
La fotografía és de Daniellks
Comentario para Cecilia Vergnano, enviado el 26 de agosto de 2022
Hermenéutica y conspiración
Manuel Delgado
Toda lectura de un texto sagrado es siempre interpretación, incl…
Identitätspolitik – das machen immer nur die anderen. Das suggerieren zumindest die einschlägigen deutschsprachigen Feuilleton-Debatten. Es hilft daher zu wissen, woher der Begriff kommt, wofür er zu …
“There is absolutely no question that productive thinking today can take the form only of one that works through breaks and fractures, whereas any thinking which is simply oriented in advance t…
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Lucien van Liere and Erik Meinema’s book Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence: Things of Conflict (Brill, 2022) explores relations between materiality, religion, and violence by drawing upon two fields of scholarship that have rarely engaged with one another: research on religion and (violent) conflict and the material turn within religious studies. This way, this volume sets the stage for the development of new conceptual and methodological directions in the study of religion-related violent conflict that takes materiality seriously.
Tiatemsu Longkumer is a Ph.D. Student working on ‘Anthropology of Religion’ at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong: India.
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This semester I taught a new course called “Wicked Science,” which examines the challenges posed by wicked problems — those problems that defy solution because of fundamental di…
Cheuk Kwan. Have You Eaten Yet?: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World. Pegasus Books. New York and London. 2023. ISBN: 978-1-63936-334-6. pp. 260.
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The shock among the Dutch chattering classes on 16 March was palpable. The right-populist Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) – established in 2019 by a small communications firm, bankrolled by the powerfu…
Interview by Elliott Wiseman
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by Rebecca Prentice
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Mitul Baruah’s Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam (Routledge, 2022) presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra Valley as a whole.
Written in an engaging style, full of the author’s insider perspectives, this insightful volume explores the processes of flooding and riverbank erosion in Majuli, including re-configuration of the island’s geographies, loss of local livelihoods, and large-scale displacement of the population. The book begins with an examination of the physical geography of Majuli and its ecological complexities, leading to discussion on the role of the state in water governance and hazard management, as well as popular resistance by the rural communities on the island. The book focuses on livelihoods as a way of offering economic context to living in challenging environmental conditions and examines the interactions between the state and a whole host of non-state actors, and the everyday, arbitrary functioning of the bureaucracy in a hazardscape.
This volume is an invaluable resource for scholars interested in political ecology of hazards and vulnerability, water and hydraulic infrastructure, rural livelihoods and agrarian questions, state theorizations, island studies, and resistance and social movements, as well as those with an interest in northeast India more generally across various disciplines.
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Am Wochenende habe ich in der Alice-Salomon-Hochschule gearbeitet. Wie (fast) immer bin ich mit dem Rad gefahren. Es hat aber viel länger gedauert. Zu besten Zeiten bin ich unter einer Stunde gef…
The question of who is Chinese and how Chineseness as an identity is constituted has been a recurring question, particularly in the context of the extensive Chinese diasporic community. In Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants (Amsterdam University Press in 2022), Dr Sylvia Ang investigates these questions in the context of Singapore, with a specific focus on unravelling why tensions exist between Singaporean-born Chinese and new Chinese migrants from the mainland despite a shared sense of ethnicity, heritage, and culture. Combining traditional and digital ethnographic methods, she brings to life the intricate contests between Singaporean Chinese and new Chinese migrants on what it means to be Chinese. Contesting Chineseness is a valuable and timely contribution to the literature on the Chinese overseas, which demonstrates how an intersection of local and global developments have come to shape the experiences of contemporary Chinese migrants working and living in Singapore.
Bernard Z. Keo is Lecturer in Asian History at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia and specialises in decolonisation and nation-building in Southeast Asia. He can be contacted at: b.keo@latrobe.edu.au.
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An archaeologist uses climate data and tailoring tools to trace the invention and evolution of apparel in the world’s colder climates.
seeking paleolithic clothing originsNot long ago, I left m…
The Paraguayan Chaco is a settler frontier where cattle ranching and agrarian extractivism drive some of the world’s fastest deforestation and most extreme land tenure inequality. Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco(U California Press, 2023) shows that environmental racism cannot be reduced to effects of neoliberalism but stems from long-standing social-spatial relations of power rooted in settler colonialism. Historically dispossessed of land and exploited for their labor, Enxet and Sanapaná Indigenous peoples nevertheless refuse to abide settler land control. Based on long-term collaborative research and storytelling, Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapaná dialectics of disruption enact environmental justice by transcending the constraints of settler law through the ability to maintain and imagine collective lifeways amidst radical social-ecological change.
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| | | “Paisaje de crepúsculo con dos hombres”, de Caspar David Friedrich |
Artículo publicado en la revista Universitas, 2-3 (1988) : 55-57ROMANTICISMO Y ANTROPOLOGIAManuel Delgado
“Mon coeur dési…
The way I approach my surroundings significantly changed after two years of working theoretically as well as hands-on with objects…
When we think of robots, we tend to think of things like R2-D2, the Terminator skeleton, or a piece of machinery that automates the construction of goods in an assembly line. But that’s not all there …
Material objects—things made, used, and treasured—tell the story of a people and place. So it is for the Indigenous Sámi living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, whose story unfolds across borders and centuries, in museums and private collections. As described in From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture (University of Minnesota, 2023) by Barbara Sjoholm, the objects created by the Sámi for daily and ceremonial use were purchased and taken by Scandinavians and foreign travelers in Lapland from the seventeenth century to the present, and the collections described in From Lapland to Sápmi map a complex history that is gradually shifting to a renaissance of Sámi culture and craft, along with the return of many historical objects to Sápmi, the Sámi homeland.
The Sámi objects first collected in Lapland by non-Indigenous people were drums and other sacred artifacts, but later came to include handmade knives, decorated spoons, clothing, and other domestic items owned by Sámi reindeer herders and fishers, as well as artisanal crafts created for sale. Sjoholm describes how these objects made their way via clergy, merchants, and early scientists into curiosity cabinets and eventually to museums in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, and abroad. Musicians, writers, and tourists also collected Sámi culture for research and enjoyment. Sjoholm follows these objects and collections from the Age of Enlightenment through the twentieth century, when artisanship took on new forms in commerce and museology and the Sámi began to organize politically and culturally. Today, several collections of Sámi objects are in the process of repatriation, while a new generation of artists, activists, and artisans finds inspiration in traditional heritage and languages.
Deftly written and amply illustrated, with contextual notes on language and Nordic history, From Lapland to Sápmi brings to light the history of collecting, displaying, and returning Sámi material culture, as well as the story of Sámi creativity and individual and collective agency.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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An anthropologist attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—ground zero for the current onslaught of anti-trans rhetoric and legislation in the U.S.
HOW THE RIGHT DEMONIZES TRANS PEO…
Das Reizwort „klimaneutral“ ist auf dem besten Weg, nach ‚Green Economy‘, ‚nachhaltigem Wachstum‘ oder ‚Resilienz‘ zum nächsten überstrapazierten Modebegriff zu werden. Zumindest muss sich das Konzept…
“Introduction to Visual Anthropology: Focus on Photo-ethnography.”
The first half of the lecture will be about Visual Anthropology in general; the second half will be about my Tachinomiya Visual Et…
Meet Katherine Chiou, an archaeologist who conducts research in Mexico and Peru to search for clues about humanity’s spicy romance with hot chili peppers.
The world over people live with plants. Whet…
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The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security threats have empowered law enforcement agents, while the lack of adequate reform has upheld institutional weaknesses. This exploration of policing in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and financial capital, reveals many colonial continuities. Both civilian and military regimes continue to ensure the suppression of the policed via this institution, itself established to militarily subjugate and exploit in the interests of the ruling class. However, contemporary policing practice is not a simple product of its colonial heritage: it has also evolved to confront new challenges and political realities.
Based on extensive fieldwork and around 200 interviews, this ethnographic study reveals a distinctly ‘postcolonial condition of policing’. Mutually reinforcing phenomena of militarisation and informality have been exacerbated by an insecure state that routinely conflates combatting crime, maintaining public order and ensuring national security. This is evident not only in spectacular displays of violence and malpractice, but also in police officers’ routine work. Caught in the middle of the country’s armed conflicts, their encounters with both state and society are a story of insecurity and uncertainty.
Zoha Waseem an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick. She also Co-Coordinator for the Urban Violence Research Network (UVRN), an international platform connecting academics and researchers working on urban violence and related issues. Her research interests include policing, security/insecurity, armed violence, counterinsurgency, informality, militarisation, and migration in Pakistan, South Asia, and beyond.
Deniz Yonucu is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University. Her work focuses on counterinsurgency, policing and security, surveillance, left-wing and anti-colonial resistance, memory, racism, and emerging digital control technologies. Her book, Police, Provocation, Politics Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022), presents a counterintuitive analysis of policing, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence and perpetual conflict by state security apparatus.
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In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador (Rutgers University Press, 2023) relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua and two resettlement communities built for people displaced by government operations following volcanic eruptions in 1999 and 2006. The stories take shape in ways that influence prevailing ideas about how disasters are produced and reproduced, in this case by shifting assemblages of the state first formed during Spanish colonialism attempting to settle (make “legible”) and govern Indigenous and campesino populations and places. The disasters unfolding around Tungurahua at the turn of the 21st century also provide lessons in the humanitarian politics of disaster—questions of deservingness, reproducing inequality, and the reproduction of bare life. But this is also a story of how people responded to confront hardships and craft new futures, about forms of cooperation to cope with and adapt to disaster, and the potential for locally derived disaster recovery projects and politics.
A.J. Faas (PhD, Anthropology, University of South Florida) is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator at San Jose State University in California, where he studies disasters, environmental crises, and displacement and resettlement. He focuses on the anthropology of the state, postcolonialism, cooperation and reciprocity, economic anthropology, organizations and bureaucracy, and the politics of nature, culture, and memory.
Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. His research interests lie at the intersection of Urban Geography, Social Exclusion and Psychology. His dissertation research focuses on the link among negative psychosocial dispositions, exclusion, and under-development among marginalized communities in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. You can find him on Twitter.
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The screen is dark, the music sombre. There are sounds of muffled voices and explosions. The dark screen breaks to reveal blue skies as the words “2011: A Suburb of Damascus, Syria” fade into the midd…
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In my new book, The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry (University of Chicago Press, 2022) I study the work of repair and maintenance necessary to keep the global scale going. I do…
| | | Jóvenes ndembu en una ceremonia de iniciación, fotografiados por Victor Turner |
Esto es una de los apartados de Los mundos intermedios entre la vida y la muerte. El caso de Lost (Perdidos), co…
Graham M. Jones
Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy
University of Chicago Press, 2017
240 pp., 25 halftones, notes, bibl., index
Editor’s note: This essay was origin…
On April 9 the Middle East historian Jere Bacharach, emeritus professor at the University of Washington, passed away. He was an amazing individual, great scholar and friend. He will be missed. Fo…
Interview with Robyn Taylor-Neu
https://www.routledge.com/Dragging-Or-in-the-Drag-of-a-Queer-Life/McGlotten/p/book/9780367439521
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Chimit, a Buryat professional in his late 20s, had been considering moving to Europe for at least a decade, but this plan proved hardly feasible with his low income and thousands of kilometres of dist…
On Unsustainable Refugee Livelihoods and the Politics of Time in Humanitarian Governance. Estella Carpi with Amina al-Halabi[1] In this short article, in an attempt to question the politics of time th…
Essay i Morgenbladet 12. mars 2023.
Bildet: Whole Earth Catalog: det tidlige møtet mellom hackere og miljøaktivister. Bildet er fra en utstilling av katalogen ved MoMA
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A Ghanian American poet-anthropologist crafts her own African diasporic and Indigenous identity through weaving herself into a famous story of African resistance and survival.
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Um eine stabile jüdische Mehrheit zu sichern, vertrieb Israel bei seiner Gründung hunderttausende Palästinenser:innen. Das Geschehen von 1948 ist wie ein Brennglas für aktuelle Fragen: nach der Zukunf…
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On March 1st 2023, an impromptu protest rally took place outside the headquarters of Greece’s only railway company, Hellenic Trains (HT). HT is the passenger carrier of the recently privatized and fo…
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When one is a public academic there are many pitfalls one might encounter. This is an example of one of them that I face as a faculty member of the board of governors.
I have continued the sorts …
An einem der letzten Tage in Delhi bin ich barfuß gegangen. Da konnte die indische Kollegin sehen, dass meine Füsse ganz schön Sonne bekommen haben und gebräunt waren. Darauf reag…
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Different cultural upbringings can determine a person’s illness experience. The relationship between the experience of a patient, and in turn, a course of treatment is inherently valuable to document….
In a nearly treeless desert, Ancestral Puebloans built Great Houses with more than 200,000 massive log beams. Where they got the wood has long puzzled archaeologists.
THE QUESTION OF CHACO CANYON TIMB…
While Immanuel Kant’s account of human reason is well known and celebrated, his account of human animality (Thierheit) is virtually unknown. Animality and reason, as pillars of Kant’s vision of human nature, are original and ineradicable. And yet, the relation between them is fraught: at times tense and violent, at other times complementary, even harmonious.
Kant on the Human Animal (Northwestern UP, 2022) offers the first systematic analysis of this central but neglected dimension of Kant’s philosophy. David Baumeister tracks four decades of Kant’s intellectual development, surveying works published in Kant’s lifetime along with posthumously published notes and student lecture transcripts. They show the crucial role that animality plays in many previously unconnected areas of Kant’s thought, such as his account of the human’s originally quadrupedal posture, his theory of early childhood development, and his conception of the process of human racial differentiation. Beginning with a delineation of Kant’s understanding of the commonalities and differences between humans and other animals, Baumeister focuses on the contribution of animality to Kant’s views of ethics, anthropology, human nature, and race. Placing divergent features of Kant’s thought within a unified interpretive framework, Kant on the Human Animal reveals how, for Kant, becoming human requires that animality not be eclipsed and overcome but rather disciplined and developed. What emerges is a new appreciation of Kant’s human being as the human animal it is.
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Most cherry blossom trees planted in Japan today are the iconic pale-pink somei-yoshino variety—but its reign may be coming to an end.
SAKURA FEVERI was in Japan this March just as the famed cherry b…
Auch die Wissenschaft ficht Arbeitskämpfe aus. In Deutschland wurde das Reformvorhaben zum Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (WissZeitVG) zurecht von den betroffenen Wissenschaftler:innen abgelehnt. Abe…
Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title
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This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of difference? More specifically, how do our r…
“Criminal.” It’s a label that can follow someone around for much of their life. But how does a person become a criminal?
Anyone who is in prison has been charged for a crime by a prosecutor. The char…
In der Metro in Delhi werden alle Ansagen in Englisch und Hindi gemacht. Auch die Anzeigen gibt es in Hindi und Englisch. Mein Hindi ist mies, aber ich versuche zumindest die Buchstaben zu entziffern….
Firstly, this is satire. I love all of my paleoanthropologist friends.
Paleoanthropology is a scientific discipline dedicated to illuminating our evolutionary history. However, it is also a low-k…
One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition.
Capitalism relies on mai…
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Los virus afectan a la vida de millones de personas en el mundo provocando enfermedades. Pero tambié…
Interview with Yun Chen
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344136/recovering-histories
Yun Chen: Recovering Histories is an ethnography of the entanglements between individuals’ lived expe…
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Te invitamos a este recorrido por la historia de la esclavitud en las colonias españolas de los sigl…
An Indigenous poet-anthropologist speaks to the survivance of Native communities in the face of colonialism and genocide.
“In the Event of Flooding” is part of the collection Indigenizing …
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| | | Processó de la Virgen de la Soledad al barri de Llefià a Badalona. És de Silvia Llamas i està pressa de lavanguardia.com. |
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| | | Romería del Rocío a l’ermita de Loreto, a Tarrgaona, el 2014. Foto de Lluís Millán |
Article publicat a El Periódico de Catalunya el 13 de març de 1997.UNA CULTURA ANDALUSA A CASA NOSTRA?…
Supporters of academic boycott during the annual business meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Denver, Colorado, November 21, 2015. Photo by Alex Shams.
Responding to the petition…
Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society rejected it in a polarizing referendum, amid an emotive disinformation campaign. Gwen Burnyeat joined the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, the government institution responsible for peace negotiations, to observe and participate in an innovative “peace pedagogy” strategy to explain the agreement to Colombian society. Burnyeat’s multi-scale ethnography reveals the challenges government officials experienced communicating with skeptical audiences and translating the peace process for public opinion. She argues that the fatal flaw in the peace process lay in government-society relations, enmeshed in culturally liberal logics and shaped by the politics of international donors. The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy Amid Disinformation in Colombia(U Chicago Press, 2022) offers the Colombian case as a mirror to the global crisis of liberalism, shattering the fantasy of rationality that haunts liberal responses to “post-truth” politics.
Alex Diamond is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Texas, Austin.
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In Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine(Duke UP, 2023), Jennifer Lynn Kelly explores the significance of contemporary solidarity tourism across Occupied Palestine. Examining the relationships among race, colonialism, and movement-building in spaces where tourism and military occupation operate in tandem, Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as both political strategy and emergent industry. She draws from fieldwork on solidarity tours in Palestine/Israel and interviews with guides, organizers, community members, and tourists, asking what happens when tourism is marketed as activism and when anticolonial work functions through tourism. Palestinian organizers, she demonstrates, have refashioned the conventions of tourism by extending invitations to tourists to witness Palestinian resistance and the effects of Israeli state practice on Palestinian land and lives. In so doing, Kelly shows how Palestinian guides and organizers wrest from Israeli control the capacity to invite and the permission to narrate both their oppression and their liberation.
Fulya Pinar is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University. Her work focuses on alternative solidarities, displacement, and refugee care in Turkey and the Middle East.
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Verdankt sich Umweltbewusstsein dem gekränkten Ego US-amerikanischer Militärpiloten? Vor sechzig Jahren sorgte ihr Protest dafür, dass Raumkapseln Sichtfenster bekamen. Die geschossenen Bilder formten…
Subhash R. Walimbe
Retired Faculty, Deccan College
Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006
subhashwalimbe@gmail.com
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Vor zwei Tagen hat der Indian Express über Änderungen in Schulbüchern berichtet, die offensichtlich dazu da sind, dass Bild des Sangh Parivars (also BJP, VHP und RSS) zu ändern. Of…
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The Familiar Strange · Ep#104 We let ChatGPT write this title: ""ChatGPT: The Future of AI-Assisted Conversations" It’s been a while… We’re back, this time with Familiar Strange Emma leadi…
Über die Metro habe ich schon verschiedentlich geschrieben. Eine Freundin in Delhi erzählte mir aber, dass sie lieber Busfahren würde. Etwas dass ich nicht mehr gemacht habe, seit dem i…
Über die Metro habe ich schon verschiedentlich geschrieben. Eine Freundin in Delhi erzählte mir aber, dass sie lieber Busfahren würde. Etwas dass ich nicht mehr gemacht habe, seit dem i…
This book is a rich cultural analysis of how people live with big cats in India in times of the Anthropocene and climate change. As people are increasingly sharing space with big cats in India, anthro…
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An archaeologist explains what a 500-year-old horn container found in South Africa illuminates about precolonial Khoisan medical and spiritual knowledges.
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On the morning of Friday, March 10, 2023 Nick Seaver and I met over Zoom to talk about his new book Computing Taste: Algorithms and Makers of Music Recommendation, which was published in 2022 by the U…
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many of us individually and as a global cohort to reassess how and why we live the ways that we do and what really matters to us. Through the pandemic, we may have also fe…
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An anthropologist takes readers inside a Hong Kong ecovillage, revealing a small but thriving movement built around food, sustainability, and community.
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One day, a woman in Baltimore received a text message from her mother wishing her a happy holiday. But something didn’t feel quite right.
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Im Winter war der Bollywood-Film Pathaan ein viel diskutiertes Ereignis in Indien und in unserem Büro. Zuerst gab es eine Zensurdiskussion, dann wurde der Kinobesuch zu einer oppositionellen Hand…
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Interview by Alana Mazur
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Baebia, Turpa y Secundilla fueron mujeres que desempeñaron un oficio en la Cádiz de época romana imp…
A poet-anthropologist who is a Passamaquoddy tribal member lights a path toward healing both within the field of archaeology and in reflecting on the voices and presence—past, present, and future—of I…
Hier ein Hinweis für alle Abonent*innen des Newsletters: Der Newsletter wird diese Woche am Dienstag, den 4ten April versendet.
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Einleitung Seit seiner Entstehung in den 70er Jahren hat sich HipHop seit dem Ende der 90er Jahre zur einflussreichsten jugendkulturellen Strömung in Deutschland und der Welt entwickelt (Farin, 2010; …
Shalina Mehta
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology (retd.)
Department of Anthropology
Panjab University
Chandigarh
Shalinamehta137@gmail.com
Many a doctrine is like a windowpane. We see trut…
We are excited to announce our very first “Editors’ Forum.” As part of this initiative, we are calling for blog submissions on the fascinating topic of “Popular Culture Representations of Anthropologi…
In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains(Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for marks of torture and fatal wounds—hands bound by rope, machete cuts—and also for signs of identity: how life shapes us down to the bone. A weaver is recognized from the tiny bones of the toes, molded by kneeling before a loom; a girl is identified alongside her pet dog. In the tenderness of understanding these bones, forensics not only offers proof of mass atrocity but also tells the story of each life lost.
Working with forensic teams at mass grave sites and in labs, Hagerty discovers how bones bear witness to crimes against humanity and how exhumation can bring families meaning after unimaginable loss. She also comes to see how cutting-edge science can act as ritual—a way of caring for the dead with symbolic force that can repair societies torn apart by violence.
Weaving together powerful stories about investigative breakthroughs, histories of violence and resistance, and her own forensic coming-of-age, Hagerty crafts a moving portrait of the living and the dead.
Kelly McFall is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Newman University.
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Pañuelada en las fiestas de Lizarra. Tomada de http://www.estella-lizarra.com/estella-lizarra/fiestas/Fragmento de “Estella: entre el poder y la fiesta”, publicado en los Cuadernos de Etnología y Etno…
What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation?
Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand (U Hawaii Press, 2021) addresses this question by exploring the ways that democratic urban planning projects intersect with emerging political aspirations among squatters living in the northeastern Thai city of Khon Kaen. Based on ethnographic and historical research conducted since 2007, Citizen Designs describes how residents of Khon Kaen’s railway squatter communities used Thailand’s experiment in participatory urban planning as a means of reimagining their citizenship, remaking their communities, and acting upon their aspirations for political equality and the good life. It also shows how the Thai state used participatory planning and design to manage both situated political claims and emerging politics.
Through ethnographic analysis of contentious collaborations between residents, urban activists, state planners, participatory architects, and city officials, Eli Elinoff’s analysis reveals how the Khon Kaen’s railway settlements became sites of contestation over political inclusion and the meaning and value of democracy as a political form in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Elinoff examines how residents embraced politics as a means of enacting their equality. This embrace inspired new debates about the meaning of good citizenship and how democracy might look and feel. The disagreements over citizenship, like those Elinoff describes in Khon Kaen, reflect the kinds of aspirations for political equality that have been fundamental to Thailand’s political transformation over the last two decades, which has seen new political actors asserting themselves at the ballot box and in the streets alongside the retrenchment of military authoritarianism. Citizen Designs offers new conceptual and empirical insights into the lived effects of Thailand’s political volatility and into the current moment of democratic ambivalence, mass urbanization, and authoritarian resurgence.
Eli Elinoff is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at the Victoria University of Wellington. He is also the co-editor of Disastrous Times: Beyond Environmental Crisis in Urbanizing Asia and the co-founder of Commoning Ethnography which is an off-centre, annual, international, peer-engaged, open access, online journal dedicated to examining, criticizing, and redrawing the boundaries of ethnographic research, teaching, knowledge, and praxis.
Amir Sayadabdi is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. He is mainly interested in anthropology of food and its intersection with gender studies, migration studies, and studies of race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
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Written by Keith Hart The originality of Keynes Commerce waxed and waned throughout the agrarian era, until the market became …
Mein erster Weg nach Rückkehr nach Deutschland war heute ein Ausflug zu meinem Arbeitsamt, um mich zum 01.04.23 wieder arbeitslos zu melden. Das bin ich diesmal seit dem 01.10.21, mehrfach unterb…
Citational politics often means citing a diverse group of authors, but often that will bring up the political and practical problems of categorization.
Hi all,Any weekly review post that features a link to Robert Chambers’ work is a good post ;). More seriously, lots of new research, reflections & reporting from humanitarian crises, well-being of hu…
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On February 25, SAR President Michael F. Brown, Ph.D., presented SAR’s first ever Centennial Medal to author N. Scott Momaday for distinguished service to SAR and the world. The award was presen…
Today’s book is: The Good-Enough Life(Princeton UP, 2022) by Avram Alpert. We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possible—a good-enough life for all. Dr. Alpert shows how our obsession with greatness results in stress and anxiety, damage to our relationships, widespread political and economic inequality, and destruction of the natural world. He describes how to move beyond greatness to create a society in which everyone flourishes. By competing less with each other, each of us can find renewed meaning and purpose, have our material and emotional needs met, and begin to lead more leisurely lives. Alpert makes no false utopian promises, however. Life can never be more than good enough because there will always be accidents and tragedies beyond our control, which is why we must stop dividing the world into winners and losers and ensure that there is a fair share of decency and sufficiency to go around.
Visionary and provocative, The Good-Enough Life demonstrates how we can work together to cultivate a good-enough life for all instead of tearing ourselves apart in a race to the top of the social pyramid.
Our guest is: Dr. Avram Alpert, a writer and teacher. He is currently a research fellow at The New Institute, Hamburg. He previously taught at Princeton and Rutgers Universities. He is the author of three books, most recently The Good Enough Life. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Aeon.
Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender.
Listeners to this episode may also be interested in:
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- Find the Good, by Heather Lende
- A Wonderful Life: Insights on Finding a Meaningful Existence, by Frank Martela
- Podcast on making a meaningful life
- Podcast on belonging and the science of creating connection and bridging divides
- Podcast on the knowledge unlocked by facing failure
- Podcast on the benefits of doing less, and stressing less
Welcome to The Academic Life! Join us each week, where we learn directly from experts. We embrace the broad definition of what it means to lead an academic life, and are informed and inspired by today’s knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy.
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Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots (Lexington Books, 2022) is an ethnography about local wageworkers in the Indian branches of a transnational yoga institution and about yoga practitioners and spiritual tourists who visualize peace through yoga. Practitioners’ aspirations for peace situate them at the heart of an international movement that has captured the imagination of cosmopolitans the world over, with its purported benefits to mind, body, and spirit. Yoga is thought to offer health, vitality, and relief from depression through control of body and breath. Yet, the vision of peace in this institution is a partial vision that obscures the important but seemingly peripheral others of its self-conception.
Through in-depth ethnographic analysis, this book explores the processes through which global spiritual movements can have peace front and center in their vision and yet condone and perpetuate cycles of injustice and social inequality that form the critical and problematic foundations of our global economy. The book privileges the experiences and hardships faced by Indian wageworkers–most of them women –but it also offers a sympathetic portrayal of international yoga practitioners and of the complex patterns of work and worship central to a global mission.
Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at his own virtual School of Indian Wisdom. For information see rajbalkaran.com.
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La foto es de Lídia Carbonell i està presa de beteve.cat.Publicat a Capçalera, maig-juny 2003
Els violents són els altres
Manuel Delgado
Comencem establint que violència no és mai una qualitat de les co…
The Sierras in California. Photo by: Ángela CastilloEngagement is happy to announce a new editorial team starting in 2023!
Ángela Castillo-Ardila, Colin Hoag, Jia Hu…
On May 21, 2022 the cover of The Economist left no space to the imagination: a set of skulls replaced the grains of a wheat straw, and the world was soon going to experience a ‘Coming Food Catastroph…
By Peter Versteeg –
The opening images of the documentary “White Balls on Walls” show us an ivory tower: a huge building, shining white, almost sterile, a stronghold of modern a…
Do we spend too much time worrying about truth and its manipulation of the senses, priority of matter etc., Rene Descartes owes us much as the destructive consequences of both his having too much…
Some cochlear implant users can’t afford to keep up with compulsory technology upgrades. After becoming dependent on the devices, they’re losing their hearing and feel abandoned by manufacturers.
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Die Proteste gegen den Kohleabbau bei Lützerath haben den Tunnel als Protestform ins Licht der Öffentlichkeit gerückt. Tunnel sind mehr als nur Mittel des Widerstands: Sie entwerfen ein neues Verhältn…
After writing my last post about chatGPT, I got in touch with Nick Seaver to see what he had to say about some of these issues. Here’s our conversation:
Ryan Anderson: So, I just signed up for …
In this post, we unpack the meaning and many works of creating and maintaining digital multiples, a term we coined in our recent ethnography, A Filtered Life, to explore the multiple, dynamic expressi…
An anthropologist journeys to the Arctic Circle and finds a surprising story about the human remains that end up in museum collections.
“Prime harvest”—that’s how one early 20th-century explorer des…
Die allermeisten Autos, denen ich begegne, glänzen. Das ist kein Wunder den ständig sehe ich, wie Männer Autos putzen.
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The minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) in the People’s Republic of China has been claimed to be the „world’s largest cash-based social policy.“ Examining the making of d…
Vi tar studenterna med oss på jakt efter nostalgi i vardagen. Målet är Finlands näst äldsta saluhall som öppnades år 1896 i Åbo centrum. Utifrån ser den rätt liten ut, även om den sträcker sig över et…
Interview by Timothy Y. Loh
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sensory-futures
Tim Loh: Congratulations on this exciting new book! Your first book, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban …
Am Samstag hatte uns eine Freundin zu einem feministischen Rundgang durch die National Gallery of Modern Art eingeladen. Ich spazierte hin, lange Zeit über die Amrita Shergil Marg, eine Stra&szli…
A sqilxʷ poet and artist who currently lives in Mohkínstsis, Treaty 7 in Canada speaks to their grandmother of longing and connection, wanting to wake up the medicine she planted within.
“a love…
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La foto es de Diane Arbus.
Consideraciones para Cecilia Vergnano sobre lo racional y lo irracional, enviadas en enero de 2023
Nada es irracional
Manuel Delgado
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Ein Eckpunktepapier zur Novellierung des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes löste unlängst so massiven Protest aus, dass es Tage später zurückgenommen wurde. Dieses Gesetz rahmt – zusammen mit dem Drit…
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Der Countdown läuft. In einer Woche bin ich wieder in Berlin. Und so viele Termine und Verabredungen wie in den letzten sieben Tagen hatte ich die ganze Zeit nicht. Abschiednehmen ist gar nicht…
Der Countdown läuft. In einer Woche bin ich wieder in Berlin. Und so viele Termine und Verabredungen wie in den letzten sieben Tagen hatte ich die ganze Zeit nicht. Abschiednehmen ist gar nicht…
How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness (Princeton UP, 2023) shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country’s expanding cities.
Drawing on years of pioneering fieldwork in India’s slums, including ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, and experiments, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil reveal how migrants harness forces of political competition—as residents, voters, community leaders, and party workers—to sow unexpected seeds of accountability within city politics. This multifaceted agency provokes new questions about how political networks form during urbanization. In answering these questions, this book overturns longstanding assumptions about how political machines exploit the urban poor to stifle competition, foster ethnic favoritism, and entrench vote buying.
By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politicssheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South.
Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College.
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AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Patiently Edona explained to me, “Evil eye gets unleashed when someone thinks ‘Oh this is good, this is nice.’ It will also happen when someone thinks that you are looking good or pr…
A Case study from Kalam Village, Kalahandi District
By
Madhulika Sahoo (1) and Sanghamitra Bhoi (2)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Director Student Welfare and Placement, Kalahand…
Introduction November 2022, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. I am sipping evening tea with Dario, an electrician from Ukraine, one of the 25 seafarers working on board a the liquified na…
By Barbara van Male. A freelance journalist, a UX-researcher, a policy advisor in radicalisation, a researcher in water management, and a senior officer at an NGO walk into a room … Their shared back…
Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins (Routledge, 2022) explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting ‘magical’ and ‘shamanic’ practices associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia. With a chronological frame going from the mediaeval Indic period up to the present, a wide geographical framework, and through the dialogue between various disciplines, it presents a coherent enquiry shedding light on practices and practitioners that have been frequently alienated in the elitist discourse of mainstream Indic religions and equally overlooked by modern scholarship.
The book addresses three desiderata in the field of Tantric Studies: it fills a gap in the historical modelling of Tantra; it extends the geographical parameters of Tantra to the vast, yet culturally interlinked, socio-geographical construct of Monsoon Asia; it explores Tantra as an interface between the Sanskritic elite and the folk, the vernacular, the magical, and the shamanic, thereby revisiting the intellectual and historically fallacious divide between cosmopolitan Sanskritic and vernacular local.
The book offers a highly innovative contribution to the field of Tantric Studies and, more generally, South and Southeast Asian religions, by breaking traditional disciplinary boundaries. Its variety of disciplinary approaches makes it attractive to both the textual/diachronic and ethnographic/synchronic dimensions. It will be of interest to specialist and non-specialist academic readers, including scholars and students of South Asian religions, mainly Hinduism and Buddhism, Tantric traditions, and Southeast Asian religions, as well as Asian and global folk religion, shamanism, and magic.
Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at his own virtual School of Indian Wisdom. For information see rajbalkaran.com.
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If you have ever gotten excited over buying a new object only to feel let down once you acquire it, then today’s discussion will be relevant to you. My guest is Todd McGowan, author of the book Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016, Columbia University Press). We discuss his critique of capitalism as a system that encourages us to forever chase satisfactions that never come. And we explore his suggestion that true satisfaction lies in the wanting, not the acquiring. It’s a fascinating conversation that will radically change the way you approach everyday consumption and how you think about your own satisfaction.
Todd McGowan is professor of film studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of several other books, including Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2013, University of Nebraska Press), Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (2017, Northwestern University Press), and Universality and Identity Politics (2020, Columbia University Press). He is also co-host, along with Ryan Engley, of the podcast Why Theory.
Eugenio Duarte, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist practicing in Miami. He treats individuals and couples, with specialties in gender and sexuality, eating and body image problems, and relationship issues. He is a graduate and faculty of William Alanson White Institute in Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology in New York City and former chair of their LGBTQ Study Group; and faculty at Florida Psychoanalytic Institute in Miami. He is a contributing author to the books Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining Terms and Building Bridges (2018, Routledge) and Patriarchy and its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2023, Routledge) and has published on issues of gender, sexuality, and sexual abuse.
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Mitter der 1990er habe ich zwei Semester Hindi an der Uni Kiel belegt. Das erste Semester war super. Ich hatte ein Gefühl für die Sprache und konnte einiges lernen. Im zweiten bin ich dann k…
Mitter der 1990er habe ich zwei Semester Hindi an der Uni Kiel belegt. Das erste Semester war super. Ich hatte ein Gefühl für die Sprache und konnte einiges lernen. Im zweiten bin ich dann k…
A paleoanthropologist explains what fossilized teeth—analyzed through a recently developed mathematical equation—can tell us about how brains have developed in utero over millions of years of human ev…
This year I tried to get out there into the field when the camas is beginning to erupt from the ground. I am not sure I have seen the baby camas when it just erupts before, only when it is already in …
همچون هر سال ویژه نامه نوروزی و سالگرد موسسه انسانشناسی و فرهنگ منتشر می شود. در ویژه نامه امسال که با سردبیری ناصر فکوهی، مدیر موسسه و دستیاری خانم پگاه دودانگه منتشر می شود. بخش بزرگی از اعضای ش…
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Man könnte meinen, es müsste einfach sein Milch zu kaufen. Vorallem wenn es dafür auch noch spezialisierte Läden gibt. Und es ist auch nicht schwer sie zu kaufen, aber durchaus nic…
Man könnte meinen, es müsste einfach sein Milch zu kaufen. Vorallem wenn es dafür auch noch spezialisierte Läden gibt. Und es ist auch nicht schwer sie zu kaufen, aber durchaus nic…
Jag sitter i bussen som kör på en smal sandväg igenom en liten by. Plötsligt ropar någon till, ”Vad är det där!?” Två rödlurviga varelser rör sig på vägen, den ena går lugnt medan den andra skuttar oc…
Women’s rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from which women must be liberated. Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) contends that this perspective overlooks the social and cultural contexts in which women understand and navigate their relationships with kin.
This book follows frontline workers in India, called family counselors, as they support women who have experienced violence at home in the context of complex shifting legal and familial systems. Drawing on ethnographic research at counseling centers in Jaipur, Rajasthan, Julia Kowalski shows how an individualistic notion of women’s rights places already vulnerable women into even more precarious positions by ignoring the reality of the social relations that shape lives within and beyond the family. Thus, rather than focusing on attaining independence from kin, family counselors in India instead strive to help women cultivate relationships of interdependence in order to reimagine family life in the wake of violence. Counselors mobilize the beliefs, concepts, and frameworks of kinship to offer women interactive strategies to gain agency within the family, including multigenerational kin networks encompassing parents, in-laws, and other extended family. Through this work, kinship becomes a resource through which people imagine and act on new familial futures.
In viewing this reliance on kinship as part of, rather than a deviation from, global women’s rights projects, Counseling Women reassesses Western liberal feminism’s notions of what it means to have agency and what constitutes violence, and retheorizes the role of interdependence in gendered violence and inequality as not only a site of vulnerability but a potential source of strength.
Rituparna Patgiri is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the areas of food, media, gender and public. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology. Patgiri can be reached at @Rituparna37 on Twitter.
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The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to artistic production of images that were read with epistemic authority. But the advent of modernity has at once shaken this certainty and reinforced it. No sooner than we reckoned with the singular history painting and illustrated magazines, we have landed in a mass-media world where any possible image can and does exist.
And the more we are surrounded by images, the greater claims they make. Photographs are not only routinely used to convey news, they are used to establish what is and isn’t true. The crime scene photograph is now as likely to be used in a court of law as in a newspaper infographic explainer. The artifact is at once the evidentiary carrier of truth and a visualisation used to confirm it. It creates meaning and it argues for it
Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics(Routledge, 2022) bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence.
David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d’Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects.
- Angela Strassheim’s Evidence
- Melanie Pullen’s Crime Scenes, Hugo’s Camera
- The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei’s restaging of the scene
- Kathryn Smith’s Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles’ Shroeder, 1949-2012
- Luc Delahaye
- Horace Vernet
- Trevor Paglen’s Autonomy Cube
- Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour
- Julian Charrière’s Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013
- Simon Norkfolk’s When I am Laid in Earth
- Cory Arcangel’s Data Diaries, 2003
- Interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture
- Josef Mengele’s bones used in forensic identification
- Forensic Architecture‘s investigations
- Interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus.
David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter.
Pierre d’Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional.
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If your genes make you better suited to succeed, is that fair? And if not, can anything be done about it? Kathryn Paige Harden – professor psychology at University of Texas in Austin – tells Owen Bennett Jones that we should acknowledge the difference in our genetic make ups and then set about thinking about how to make a fairer society in the light of this differences. Harden is the author of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (Princeton UP, 2021).
Owen Bennett-Jonesis a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press.
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Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation(Lexington Books, 2022) is the newest monograph from Professor Juwen Zhang of Willamette College. Through a historical survey and analyses of oral traditions like fairy tales, proverbs, and ballads, among others, that are still in vigorous practice in China today, this informative and stimulating book proposes a theoretical framework for interpreting how and why traditions continue or discontinue in any culture. Recently winning the prestigious Chicago Book Prize, the work is an excellent distillation of Professor Zhang’s recent work.
Timothy Thurston is Associate Professor in the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Leeds.
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This March, SAPIENS is partnering with the Royal Anthropological Institute’s RAI Film Festival to celebrate anthropological documentaries.
✽The art of anthropological documentary filmmaking is thriv…
Was sind die Grundlagen eines politischen Systems? Nach dem Sturz von Saddam Hussein sollte die Teilung der Macht zwischen Schia und Sunna dem Irak Frieden und Demokratie garantieren. Doch seither dom…
Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, eds. Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice. University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis. 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0814-0. pp. 302.
Jenni…
How to Build a More Resilient WorldThe COVID-19 pandemic leveled the playing field between those who have the privilege to avoid or mitigate disasters and those who don’t. But the pandemic is just one…
In the fifth season of the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of human stories: from the origins of the chili pepper to how prosecutors decide someone is a criminal to stolen skulls from Ice…
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Based on critical theory and ethnographic research, Gediminas Lesutis’ book The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering (Routledge, 2021) explores how intensifying geographies of extractive capitalism shape human lives and transformative politics in marginal areas of the global economy. Engaging the work of Judith Butler, Henri Lefebvre, and Jacques Rancière with ethnographic research on social and political effects of mining-induced dispossession in Mozambique, in the book Lesutis theorises how precarity unfolds as a spatially constituted condition of everyday life given over to the violence of capital. Going beyond labour relations, or governance of life in liberal democracies, that are typically explored in the literature on precarity, the book shows how dispossessed people are subjected to structural, symbolic, and direct modalities of violence; this simultaneously constitutes their suffering and ceaseless desire, however implausible, to be included into abstract space of extractivism.
As a result, despite the multifarious violence that it engenders, extractive capital accumulation is sustained even in the margins, historically excluded from contingently lived imaginaries of a “good life” promised by capitalism. Presenting this theorisation of precarity as a framework on, and a critique of, the contemporary politics of (un)liveability, the book speaks to key debates about precarity, dispossession, resistance, extractivism, and development in several disciplines, especially political geography, IPE, global politics, and critical theory. It will also be of interest to scholars in development studies, critical political economy, and African politics.
Shraddha Chatterjee is a doctoral candidate at York University, Toronto, and author of Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects (Routledge, 2018).
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In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles of family and justice. In Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance(Stanford UP, 2023), Melanie Heath comparatively investigates the regulation of polygamy in the United States, Canada, France, and Mayotte. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and archival sources, Heath uncovers the ways in which intimacies framed as “other” and “offensive” serve to define the very limits of Western tolerance.
These regulation efforts, counterintuitively, allow the flourishing of polygamies on the ground. The case studies illustrate a continuum of justice, in which some groups, like white fundamentalist Mormons in the U.S., organise to fight against the prohibition of their families’ existence, whereas African migrants in France face racialized discrimination in addition to rigid migration policies. The matrix of legal and social contexts, informed by gender, race, sexuality, and class, shapes the everyday experiences of these relationships. Heath uses the term “labyrinthine love” to conceptualise the complex ways individuals negotiate different kinds of relationships, ranging from romantic to coercive.
What unites these families is the secrecy in which they must operate. As government intervention erodes their abilities to secure housing, welfare, work, and even protection from abuse, Heath exposes the huge variety of intimacies, and the power they hold to challenge heteronormative, Western ideals of love.
Rituparna Patgiri is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the areas of food, media, gender and public. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology. Patgiri can be reached at @Rituparna37 on Twitter.
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Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China(Rutgers UP, 2022) traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from the state orphanage into the humble, foster homes of Auntie Li, Auntie Ma, and Auntie Huang. Traversing the geography of Guangxi, from the modern capital Nanning where Pei Pei and Meili reside, to the small farming village several hours away where Dengrong is placed, this ethnography details the hardships of social abandonment for disabled children and disenfranchised, older women in China, while also analyzing the state’s efforts to cope with such marginal populations and incorporate them into China’s modern future. The book argues that Chinese foster families perform necessary, invisible service to the Chinese state and intercountry adoption, yet the bonds they form also resist such forces, exposing the inequalities, privilege, and ableism at the heart of global family making.
Erin Raffety is a research fellow at the Center for Theological Inquiry, an empirical research consultant at Princeton Theological Seminary, and an associate research scholar at Princeton Seminary’s Institute for Youth Ministry. Raffety researches and writes on disability, congregational ministry, and church leadership and is an advocate for disabled people.
Shu Wan is currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. As a digital and disability historian, he serves in the editorial team of Digital Humanities Quarterly and Nursing Clio.
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Das letzte halbe Jahr haben Anne-Kathrin Will und ich uns das Büro bei ICAS:MP hier in Delhi geteilt. Beworben haben wir uns unabhängig voneinander, gekannt hatten wir uns aber schon vorher….
Das letzte halbe Jahr haben Anne-Kathrin Will und ich uns das Büro bei ICAS:MP hier in Delhi geteilt. Beworben haben wir uns unabhängig voneinander, gekannt hatten wir uns aber schon vorher….
Interview by Bonnie Urciuoli
https://www.routledge.com/Global-English-and-Political-Economy/ORegan/p/book/9781138811126
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Interview by Anna-Marie Sprenger
http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/black-side-river
Anna-Marie Sprenger: First of all, congratulations on your new book! I am curious how you came …
Here I want to think through the politics and ethics of citing against harm in academia.
Ganz in der Nähe meiner Wohnung ist der Lodi Colony Market mit guten Restaurants und Läden. Da bin ich immer mal wieder. Den Park in der Mitte blende ich dabei meist aus. Beim ersten Lesen d…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine interessante Stelle als Referent*in für Antirassismus- und Dekolonialisierungsarbeit (Berlin, mit guten Chancen remote arbeiten zu können), und Stellen für die fr…
A poet of the Indigenous Lepcha community of the Eastern Himalayas is looking to find herself as she grapples with the legacy of writings and material that speak “about” her community.
“Looking …
By Michiel Baas. The University of Amsterdam has appointed a committee to investigate academic freedom within its institution. The reason for this is a complaint from lecturer Laurens Buijs who…
Verbote sind im Zeitalter des Neoliberalismus verpönt. Aber sie werden immer dringender dort, wo es am meisten brennt: in der Klimapolitik
Urban landscapes are complex spaces of sociocultural diversity, characterized by narratives of both conviviality and conflict. As people with multiple ethnicities and nationalities find their common destinies in thriving globalizing cities, social cohesiveness becomes more precarious as different beliefs, practices, ambitions, values, and affiliations intersect in close proximity, producing social tensions.
Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan’s Tensions in Diversity: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles (U Toronto Press, 2022) presents a multi-method comparative study that draws on the experiences of 140 residents of native and immigrant origin, community organizers, and municipal officers in three culturally diverse neighborhoods of varying income levels in Los Angeles County. Using cognitive mapping analysis combined with data from interviews, surveys, and participant observation, this book explores how exactly coexistence is socio-spatially experienced and negotiated in daily life. Tensions in Diversity identifies the planning and design considerations that enable intercultural learning in the public places within diverse cities. In doing so, this book foregrounds urban space as an active force in shaping coexistence and convivial public environments.
Anna Zhelnina holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Helsinki. To learn more, visit her website or follow Anna on Twitter.
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Kate Sylvester’s Women and Martial Art in Japan (Routledge 2023) examines sport, gender, and society in Japan through the author’s extensive experience and ethnographic research as a kendo practitioner both at elite international levels and in Japan. Sylvester focuses on kendo as a university sport, placing her experiences as a veteran (foreign) competitor working within the hierarchies of that system in the context of the ideologies and lived realities of gender in contemporary Japan. In doing so, Women and Martial Art in Japan unpacks the “sporting masculinity” that permeates women’s experiences of sport within a masculinist culture, and places the practice of sport within the idealized and actual life course of Japanese women.
Nathan Hopson is an associate professor of Japanese language and history in the University of Bergen’s Department of Foreign Languages.
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Where does the concept of “community” come from? How does it shape the lives of Hindus and Muslims in metropolitan Yangon? And how do these people navigate between their ethno-religious and other cosmopolitan identities? In this episode, Prof. Judith Beyer, a Professor of Social and Political Anthropology at the University of Konstanz, joins Dr. Mai Van Tran, a postdoc at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, to discuss her latest book Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon (NIAS Press, 2022). In it, she offers the first anthropological monograph of Muslim and Hindu lives in contemporary Myanmar. The book introduces the concept of “we-formation” as a fundamental yet underexplored capacity of humans to relate to one another outside of and apart from demarcated ethno-religious lines and corporate groups. Her argument also provides an alternative lens to understand the dynamics of the ongoing Myanmar Spring Revolution.
The work on this episode was supported by funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under grant agreement No 101079069.
The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo.
We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia.
About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk
Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast
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We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest!
The weighty decision was reached by a panel made up of SAFN officers, including Jennifer Jo T…
Scholars working in various communities that are advocating in favor of alternatives to the mainstream food system encounter groups with various ways that they frame their alternatives. We are buildi…
Irgendwie hat es sich ergeben, dass wir Fellows angefangen haben, zusammen feministische (Dokumentar)Filme anzusehen.
Zuerst war es Paromita Vohras Dokumentarfilm Unlimited Girls von 2002. Vohra mac…
Når vi snakker om klart språk, forbinder vi det gjerne med tekster skrevet av det offentlige, men klart språk er også relevant i andre sammenhenger, om enn gjerne på en annen måte. I bacheloroppgaven…
Interview by Maria Eugenia Ulfe
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/indigeneity-in-real-time/9781978834781
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Trauma is a concept with wide-ranging impact, moving out of limited psychiatric fields into the popular imagination and policy (Fassin 2009). Psychologists now accompany medical doctors in the w…
At the Arctic Circle in Finland, Rovaniemi, we are frantically putting the finishing touches to the programme of the biennial conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, from 21-23 March 2023….
In Spanien wurde am 16.2.23 ein Gesetz beschlossen, wonach Beschäftigte bei Menstruationsbeschwerden bis zu drei Tage bezahlt von der Arbeit freigestellt werden können. Zwar weckt die umgangssprachlic…
In meiner Familie hat sich viel geändert. Love Marriages sind inzwischen auch möglich. Nicht-Heiraten ist aber keine Option. Und Sich-Scheiden-Lassen noch weniger.
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Ideas discussed in this contribution were first presented at the Solidarity, Displacement & the University workshop that took place on October 13-14, 2022, in Berlin and focused on access programs…
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Davor hatte ich Besuch und bin mehr unterwegs gewesen. Vor allem in Delhi und Jaip…
Archaeologists can help communities retake what colonialism and racism tried to erase through a new goal of “archaeological reclamation.”
The following individuals co-authored this essay: Lindsay M. M…
Man muss den Kampf gegen den Antisemitismus ernst nehmen. Aber diese Aufgabe darf die Unterdrückung der Palästinenser durch Israel nicht verdecken. Ein Kommentar.
IntroductionWhen I asked my aunt back in 2014 if my old Game Boy Color was still around, she handed it to me, but confirmed that the A and B buttons no longer worked properly. The Game Boy Color is a…
Paolina Lu
Call for participation in a panel for AAA/CASCA 2023: Multispecies Labor in Emerging Agricultural Practices.
In recent years, ethnographers have looked to agricultural settings, i…
Claudia Liebelt, Free University of Berlin
Professor Pnina Werbner, 3 December 1944 – 17 January 2023
Pnina Werbner was a British social anthropologist, a brilliant thinker and engaged intellec…
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Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders: Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) is based on anthropological research Charlotte Marchina carried out between 2008 and 2016 to investigate the spatial features of nomadic pastoralism among the Mongol herders of Mongolia and Southern Siberia. In addition to classical survey methods, Charlotte used GPS tracking to analyze the ways in which pastoralists envision and concretely occupy the landscape, which they share with their animals, non-herders, and invisible entities and deities. In this episode, we discuss differences between pastoralism in Mongolia and Siberia, changes in Mongol herding throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, and how animals and animal knowledge of the landscape shape pastoralist systems.
Maggie Freeman is a PhD student in the School of Architecture at MIT. She researches uses of architecture by nomadic peoples and historical interactions of nomads and empires, with a focus on the modern Middle East.
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It’s common to feel that technology removes the magic of the world, but Hindu worshippers in Bangalore have shown that it’s all in the approach.
Guest
Tulasi Srinivas, associate professor of anthropology at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College. Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Indian Sociological Society. Author of Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism, among other books.
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Inspired by pop culture depictions of cavepeople, an archaeologist searches for elusive evidence of ancient wooden clubs.
✽Growing up in the 1990s, I first encountered the ancient world through a vid…
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Call for Pitches – SAFN’s Anthropology News Online Articles
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Interview by Sarah Ihmoud
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34196
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CLEAR is excited to share the results of the 2020-2021 Newfoundland and Labrador Food Pricing Project!
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Als ich mit der Freundin aus Berlin auf den Eingang des Qutub Minars zulaufe, wird uns gesagt, ich müsse meinen Rucksack abgeben. Also gehe ich, nachdem wir unsere Tickets gekauft haben – die Fre…
Diese Woche gibt es vergleichsweise viele Volontariats- und Trainee-Stellen, z.B. im Bereich Ökologische Marktüberwachung (Greenwashing etc.) bei der Deutschen Umwelthilfe e.V. (Berlin), oder …
An anthropologist and Menominee Indian Nation citizen recounts the story of independent-minded Frank, a man who kept tribal lifeways in the early 20th century.
“A Free Man: The Story of a Menominee El…
A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge (Utah State UP, 2021) questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look back at his own influential works as well as critical readings of the field, that scholars can disrupt existing social and discourse theories across disciplines when they collaborate with theorists whose insights are not constrained by the bounds of scholarship.
Eschewing narrow Eurocentric modes of explanation and research foci, Briggs brings together colonialism, health, media, and psychoanalysis to rethink classic work on poetics and performance that revolutionized linguistic anthropology, folkloristics, media studies, communication, and other fields. Beginning with a candid memoir that credits the mentors whose disconcerting insights prompted him to upend existing scholarly approaches, Briggs combines his childhood experiences in New Mexico with his work in graduate school, his ethnography in Venezuela working with Indigenous peoples, and his contemporary work—which is heavily weighted in medical folklore.
Unlearning offers students, emerging scholars, and veteran researchers alike a guide for turning ethnographic objects into provocations for transforming time-worn theories and objects of analysis into sources of scholarly creativity, deep personal engagement, and efforts to confront unconscionable racial inequities. It will be of significant interest to folklorists, anthropologists, and social theorists and will stimulate conversations across these disciplines.
Dr. Charles Briggs is co-director of the Medical Anthropology Program, co-director of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, and the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor of Folklore in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including Learning How to Ask, Voices of Modernity, Stories in the Time of Cholera, Making Health Public, and Tell Me Why My Children Died. He has received such honors as the James Mooney Award, the Chicago Folklore Prize, the Edward Sapir Book Prize, the J. I. Staley Prize, the Américo Paredes Prize, the New Millennium Book Award, and the Cultural Horizons Prize.
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Die Hoffnung auf den starken Mann hält sich hartnäckig, auch wenn die Realität zeigt, dass Autokraten aller Art das Problem sind und nicht die Lösung. Vielleicht ist das der Grund, warum ein Essay von…
By Luciana Massaro
Writing ethnography can be an intimidating experience. As anthropologists we face the challenge to write and interpret what research participants share with us in a way that res…
Hi all,From the closure of Nairobi’s iconic Hilton Hotel to palliative care in Uganda, a dodgy app by US immigration & how universities can prepare students better for work in #globaldev this week’s r…
“Ciertos idiomas nativos tienen un término para referirse a las plantas en general que puede traducirse como: aquellas que cuidan de nosotros”. Escribe Robin Wall Kimmerer, científica potaw…
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The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to send papers centering the analysis of political and/or le…
On 2 March 2023, Juliane Müller presented her book “El comercio popular globalizado. Mercado, reciprocidad …
On a blustery fall morning back in 2019, RTB welcomed Christine Walley, anthropologist and author of Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago. In the early 1980s Chris’s father, along with thousands of other steel workers, lost his job when the mills in Southeastern Chicago closed. The book is part of a multimodal project, including the documentary film, “Exit Zero: An Industrial Family Story,” (with director Chris Boebel) and an NEH-funded digitization project of the Southeastern Chicago Historical Museum, a community-based archive of materials related to the neighborhood.
How can academics begin conversations about class and deindustrialization with those most negatively affected by the precarious economic present? What is the secret to unpacking the great diversity hidden behind the phrase “white working class”? This episode’s signature RTB move (fleeing the present, only to discover echoes of its misery back in the past) takes us to Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel North and South, published in 1854 just as industrialization in the North of England was taking off.
In Recallable Books, Elizabeth lingers in England’s North to recommend George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier. Chris points out how Jane Addams’s Twenty Years at Hull House (though perhaps patronizing in some ways) shows us 19th century projects for combating the dislocation and suffering of deindustrialization. John goes against type by anteing up the most current of our recallable books, Joseph O’Neill’s The Dog.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago, Christine J. Walley
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
- Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson
- Chicago School of Sociology
- Suspended Dreams: the Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Album, Martha Langford
- Trump’s Election and the ‘White Working Class’: What We Missed, Christine J. Walley
- North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
- Give a Man a Fish, James Ferguson
- The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
- The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell
- Twenty Years at Hull House, Jane Addams
- The Dog, Joseph O’Neill
Listen to the episode here:
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Fragmento de La ciudad redimida. Las ciencias sociales como forma de caridad, publicado en Fundamentos de Antropología, 10-11 (2001): 99-113
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Nature-loving volunteers in the Mexican state of Chihuahua gather weekly on the banks of the San Pedro River to collect trash. But their aims are bigger.
✽If you were to join the environmental group …
I’ve been hard at work recently with the new book on Shaligram interpretive tradition which is still on track to come out around the end of 2023. But, in the meantime, I spent some time with Dr…
The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age.
Whether we interact with video games or spreadsheets or social media, playing with software shapes every facet of our lives. In Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture (MIT Press, 2023), Miguel Sicart delves into why we play with computers, how that play shapes culture and society, and the threat posed by malefactors using play to weaponize everything from conspiracy theories to extractive capitalism. Starting from the controversial idea that software is an essential agent in the information age, Sicart considers our culture in general—and our way of thinking about and creating digital technology in particular—as a consequence of interacting with software’s agency through play.
As Sicart shows, playing shapes software agency. In turn, software shapes our agency as we adapt and relate to it through play. That play drives the creation of new cultural, social, and political forms. Sicart also reveals the role of make-believe in driving our playful engagement with the digital sphere. From there, he discusses the cybernetic theory of digital play and what we can learn from combining it with the idea that playfulness can mean pleasurable interaction with human and nonhuman agents inside the boundaries of a computational system. Finally, he critiques the instrumentalization of play as a tool wielded by platform capitalism.
Rudolf Inderst is a professor of Game Design with a focus on Digital Game Studies at the IU International University of Applied Science, editor of “Game Studies Watchlist”, a weekly messenger newsletter about Game Culture and curator of @gamestudies at tiktok.
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In Berlin und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist der Internationale Frauen*kampftag Feiertag. Der VCD Nordost nimmt das zum Anlass einen neuen Podcast Verkehrsvisionen – der feministische Podcast zur Mobili…
Wenn Widerstand nicht als solcher anerkannt wird, um das etablierte Bild vom Nationalsozialismus nicht korrigieren zu müssen, läuft etwas schief in der historischen Forschung. Das ist der Fall, wenn e…
During my first semester of undergrad, I began my truly independent cooking journey—a path many have taken before me, but few survive. After weeks of failing to replicate one of my mother’s simplest d…
Wir waren heute im Akshardham Tempel in Delhi. Versprochen worden war mir ein hindu-nationalistisches Disneyland. Nachdem die Sicherheitsanlagen überwunden sind. Reinnehmen darf mensch fast nicht…
In today’s episode of This Anthro Life, anthropologists Elizabeth Briody and Phil Surles join host Adam Gamwell to discuss their latest project: Anthropologists on the Public Stage, a self-paced video…
Timothy Benedict’s Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan (U California Press, 2023) is an exploration of spiritual care in the context of the Japanese hospice. The book is rooted in Benedict’s experience as a hospice chaplain in Japan and his extensive fieldwork and interviews with patients, medical personnel, and other chaplains. The author thoughtfully problematizes the application of ideas about spiritual care in end-of-life care that are not necessarily well rooted in the culture and life experience of Japanese patients, and proposes that greater attention should be paid to the care of the heart-mind (kokoro) as a central concept for attending to their needs. In this sense, Spiritual Ends contributes to a better understanding of the ways in which specific beliefs and practices of religion, spirituality, and medicine affect both patients and their loved ones on the one hand and the institutions providing end-of-life care on the other.
This book is available open access here.
Nathan Hopson is an associate professor of Japanese language and history in the University of Bergen’s Department of Foreign Languages.
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In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews Dr Beatrice Zani, author of the book Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan. Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions, published by Routledge in 2021. The two scholars chat about novel ethnographic methods, such as itinerant ethnography and digital ethnography, solidarity between migrant women, the role of emotions in research. This episode can’t be missed by those interested in understanding globalisation from the perspective of contemporary Chinese migrant women, e-entrepreneurship and petit-capitalism.
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Read Time:3 Minute, 25 Second La teoría del crecimiento unificado, de Oded Galor, nos hace remontarnos a los albores de la humanida…
There is something beautiful that lies within repetitive actions; something inventive and creative that emerges through doing things again and again. The way musicians or dancers learn step-by-step pi…
Two archaeologists explore the complicated story of 33,000-year-old human remains—and calls for their repatriation to Wales.
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been rep…
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Interview by Ahona Palchoudhuri
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Ahona Palchoudhuri: I’d like to begin with a particularly moving ethnographic instance from your book in…
Bei der Vorstellung des neuen Buches von Rajeev Bhargava Between Hope and Despair. 100 Ethical Reflections on Contemporary India hat unter anderem Romila Thapar gesprochen. Sie sagte, dass eine Demo…
Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains difficult there. Building on empirical research with refugees in a Ugandan camp, Ulrike Krause offers nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees who mainly escaped the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda explores how risks of gender-based violence against women, in particular, but also against men, persist despite and partly due to their settlement in the camp and the system established there. It reflects on modes and shortcomings of humanitarian protection, changes in gender relations, as well as strategies that the women and men use to cope with insecurities, everyday struggles, and structural problems occurring across different levels and temporalities.
Ulrike Krause is Junior Professor of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies and the Institute for Social Sciences, Osnabrück University, Germany, and affiliated Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the gender, forced migration and conflict, including gender-based violence, humanitarian refugee protection, policy and norms, as well as displaced people’s agency and resilience.
Lamis Abdelaaty is an associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She is the author of Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees (Oxford University Press, 2021). Email her comments at labdelaa@syr.edu or tweet to @LAbdelaaty.
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The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry (The University of Chicago Press, 2022) shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women’s shoes.
We know a lot about how clothing and shoes are made cheaply, but very little about the process when they are made beautifully. In The Perfect Fit, Claudio E. Benzecry looks at the craft that goes into designing shoes for women in the US market, revealing that this creative process takes place on a global scale. Based on unprecedented behind-the-scenes access, The Perfect Fit offers an ethnographic window into the day-to-day life of designers, fit models, and technicians as they put together samples and prototypes, showing how expert work is a complement to and a necessary condition for factory exploitation.
Benzecry looks at the decisions and constraints behind how shoes are designed and developed, from initial inspiration to the mundane work of making sure a size seven stays constant. In doing so, he also fosters an original understanding of how globalization works from the ground up. Drawing on five years of research in New York, China, and Brazil, The Perfect Fit reveals how creative decisions are made, the kinds of expertise involved, and the almost impossible task of keeping the global supply chain humming.
Claudio E. Benzecry is Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology (courtesy) at Northwestern University.
Jun (Philip) Fang is an incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colby College.
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Diese Woche gibt es ein Praktikum im Bereich Klimapsychologie und -kommunikation (remote!), eine Volo-Stelle als Projektmanagerin im Bereich Kultur und eine Stelle als Referentin für Antiras…
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2023 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition.
A Quechua poet and linguist speaks to the conflicting feelings some Indigenous groups experience when non-Native paleoarchaeologists and others visit their communities for research projects.
“Se…
SAR is pleased to announce that Hugh Raffles, Professor and Anthropology Department Chair at the New School for Social Research, has been named winner of the 2023 J. I. Staley Prize for The Book of Un…
Welcome back to the Familiar Strange. We’re kicking off 2023 with an interview with Dr Jasmijn Rana from Leiden University. Dr Jasmijn’s research interests include, gender, race-ethnicity, relig…
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The City of Edmonton’s urban and budgeting planners have estimated that to institute the bike transportation infrastructure needed to mee…
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“No es mi circo, no son mis monos”, así lo expresan en Polonia (y ahora en todo el mundo, en realidad) un “me importa un bledo”, “un comino”, “un carajo”, “un pimiento”…
El escritor Adam Sharp @AdamC…
Mit der Herausforderung einer Stabilisierung des globalen Temperaturanstiegs erlangen historische urbanistische Projektideen zu einer aktiven Transformation des Klimas eine neue Bedeutung – jenseits d…
Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Oxford UP, 2022) provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the pandemic will be able to capture, namely the movement of readers between new purchases and books long kept in their collections. The book follows readers who have tuned into novels about plague, apocalypse, and racial violence, but also readers whose taste for older novels, and for re-reading novels they knew earlier in their lives, has grown. Alternating between chapters that analyze single texts that were popular (Albert Camus’s The Plague, Ali Smith’s Summer, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre) and others that describe clusters of, for example, dystopian fiction and nature writing, this work brings out the diverse quality of the Covid-19 bookshelf.
Time is of central importance to this study, both in terms of the time of lockdown and the temporality of reading itself within this wider disrupted sense of time. By exploring these varied experiences, this book investigates the larger question of how the consumption of novels depends on and shapes people’s experience of non-work time, providing a specific lens through which to examine the phenomenology of reading more generally.
This timely work also negotiates debates in the study of reading that distinguish theoretically between critical reading and reading for pleasure, between professional and lay reading. All sides of the sociological and literary debate must be brought to bear in understanding what readers tell us about what novels have meant to them in this complex historical moment.
Ben Davies is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction (2016); editor of John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (2020); and co-editor of Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture (2011). He has also published articles in journals such as Textual Practice and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction.
Christina Lupton is a professor at the University of Warwick and the University of Copenhagen. She is author of three monographs: Knowing Books (2012), Reading and the Making of Time (2018), and Love and the Novel: Life After Reading (2022), and numerous articles on the topics of reading, time use, and the materiality of books.
Johanne Gormsen Schmidt holds a PhD in literature from University of Southern Denmark and is currently a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of several pieces in the fields of literary sociology, comparative and Scandinavian literature, and uses of literature. She is editor of the literary journal Passage.
Daniel Moran earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in History from Drew University. The author of Creating Flannery O’Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers, he teaches research and writing at Rutgers and co-hosts the podcast Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics, found at https://fifteenminutefilm.podb… and on Twitter @15MinFilm.
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In To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide(Cornell UP, 2023), Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi to try and save those targeted for killing. Many genocide perpetrators were not motivated by political ideology, ethnic hatred, or prejudice. By shifting away from these classic typologies of genocide studies and focusing instead on hundreds of thousands of discrete acts that unfold over time, Burnet highlights the ways that complex decisions and behaviors emerge in the social, political, and economic processes that constitute a genocide.
To Save Heaven and Earth explores external factors, such as geography, local power dynamics, and genocide timelines, as well as the internal states of mind and motivations of those who effected rescues. Framed within the interdisciplinary scholarship of genocide studies and rooted in cultural anthropology methodologies, this book presents stories of heroism and of the good done amid the evil of a genocide that nearly annihilated Rwandan Tutsi and decimated the Hutu and Twa who were opposed to the slaughter.
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This just in from the SAFN program committee. Please read the previous posting with the full call for panels and papers for the annual AAA/CASCA meeting in Toronto.
In order to facilitate organ…
Hi all,This week’s link review is almost a double-feature: New #globaldev readings, but also a longer section on gender & feminism right in time for next week’s International Women’s Day! ‘Women at le…
Zavaleta: “[Apparent states] appear to be Western… in all respects but somehow they are not. What misfires here is a structural concept of sovereignty that is ultimately incompatible with the conditi…
Språkprat har mange lesere – og en del av disse er lærere og skoleelever. Likevel tror vi at mange av tekstene har et didaktisk potensial som til nå har vært uutnyttet. Språkprat har derfor satt i ga…
In our last blog post, the second of our series on the return of the skulls from Inishbofin, Ciarán Walsh continued the story of the struggles to repatriate the skulls. On 22 February, Trinity Colleg…
Anyone who spends time in Mexico City will spend much of it in traffic. One of the most clogged cities in the world, residents will lose on average 158 hours per year to congestion on the road (Ortego…
When I talked with Jia, who works for an e-commerce company in Shanghai, China, she was trying to finish a “Perfect Month Challenge” on her Apple Watch. That meant closing the rings on her watch…
I’ve sent off the first section of my dissertation to my advisor. This section is going in the introduction around the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study.
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Este semestre he estado enseñando un curso de antropología del sonido como curso optativo en la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. En otros años he tenido en e…
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There is a striking contrast between significant attention to Ukraine after the 2022 re-invasion and the pre-February abstinence of Ukraine in the global cultural…
By Keith Hart This essay starts with a personal account of the near starvation of Europe after the Second World …
Es ist bekannt, dass einige Länder Polygynie erlauben, vulgo Vielweiberei. Aber wie steht es mit Polyandrie – dem Recht einer Frau auf Mehrfachehen?
Der Essay ist in Der Standard vom 4. 2. 2023, Album…
An archaeologist traces the current protests in Peru to exploitive labor policies enacted in silver mines during Spanish colonial rule from 1532 to 1800.
✽Last month, Peru’s Ministry of Culture close…
Trotz brutaler Repression halten die Proteste im Iran weiterhin an. Der herrschende Klerus kann die „Massen“ nicht mehr hinter sich sammeln, wie er das seit dem 18. Jahrhundert immer wieder erfolgreic…
Despite brutal repression, protests in Iran continue. The ruling clergy can no longer rally the “masses” behind it, as it has done successfully time and again since the 18th century. But what are the …
This is a follow-up to my earlier post “How to approach a research proposal: Writing Questions.” In that entry, I laid out a dynamic hierarchy of questions—conceptual questions, research questions, a…
Die deutsche Kollegin wohnt 3 km vom Büro entfernt. Die Metro lohnt sich nicht, da sie zu lange zu den Haltestellen laufen müsste. Den ganzen Weg laufen ist nicht nur lang, sondern auch unsc…
Abstract. High-income countries are responsible for up to 93% of global excess material use over the period 1970-2017. Specific results depend on the methods used, ranging from 74-93%.
Human i…
”Det här är min plats, här ska jag sitta!” Det finns många situationer i livet när man kan råka ut för detta. Antingen som förövare (den som tagit någon annans plats) eller offer (den som blivit av me…
Space exploration in northern Sweden often gains meaning in relation to mining. In this blog post, I ask: how does mining serve as a “speculative device” (McCormack 2018) for envisaging a future beyon…
The James Webb Space Telescope’s stunning photos require extensive image processing—revealing as much about humanity as about the universe.
In July 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled “Webb’s Firs…
Sverker Finnström: Skärmar i alla ära, men det är svårt att slå läsupplevelsen med en bok i ena handen och en blyertspenna i den andra. I bokhögens tillfälligheter ser man ibland oväntade historier oc…
2-year position from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025$50,00/year, including benefitsLocation: CLEAR Lab, Geography Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, Canada …
Bei einem Workshop letzte Woche sprach Shilpa Phadke über Loitering, also über das Recht von Frauen*, sich einfach so im öffentlichen Raum aufzuhalten. Ohne dass ihnen der Vorwurf gemac…
Der Landgraben, das Gewässer zwischen Groß-Gerau und Trebur, mündet nordwestlich von Astheim in den Rhein. Sein Name geht auf den Landgrafen Georg I. (1547-1596) von Hessen-Darmstadt zurück, dem der U…
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Diese Woche gibt es z.B. einige Aushilfsjobs auf der Leipziger Buchmesse, eine Stelle für Quereinsteiger*innen, die sich für die Bereiche digitaler Wissenstransfer & E-Learning interessier…
On the last day of class, my advanced theory students would break up into small groups and each have the option of choosing one such old anthropology textbook from the box of them that I had selected …
Der Sechsteiler „Bonn – Alte Freunde, neue Feinde“ hat die Frühgeschichte der BRD als Agententhriller erzählt, bei dem allerdings das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz viel zu gut wegkommt. Dabei wäre g…
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Prólogo a José Antonio Langarita, En tu árbol o en el mio. Una aproximación a la práctica del sexo anónimo entre hombres (Bellaterra, 2015)
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Graeber, David. 2023. Pirate Enlightenment, Or the real Libertalia. London: Allen Lane.
In this entertaining book, the world of early eighteenth century Madagascar piracy, and the women they l…
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Hi all,Honduras, Kenya, Indonesia, China-and four very different environmental challenges, all linked to consumerist lifestyles & vague promises of ‘development’ contribute to a broader theme in this …
Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” I consider it to be the study of humans and the variety of relationships h…
“But at the laste, as every thing hath ende…”
Today I published my final editorial as founding editor of Museum Anthropology Review. It may be that Museum Anthropology Review thus concludes with v…
Following climate protests at art museums, a conservator considers museums’ role in the unsustainable exploitation of nature and cultural heritage.
✽Over several months in 2022, climate activists eng…
CLEAR lab at Memorial University is seeking a full-time (35 hrs/week) lab manager. Closing date: June 2, 2023
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The city was humid by midmorning. We were sweaty. The streets fragrant, alternately perfumed with lemongrass, turmeric, galangal or ginger. Often there i…
The winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2023 is Gwen Burnyeat for her book The Face of Peace. Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia. Gwen Burnyeat is Junior Research Fel…
Archaeologists have often ignored evidence for the 1915 Armenian genocide that has long been denied by Turkey. The consequences have lessons for the U.S. as Florida limits educators from teaching abou…
Der aktuelle Zwist um geheime Regierungsdokumente in den Privathäusern von Trump, Biden und Pence ist nicht nur ein Lehrstück über Geheimhaltung, sondern auch über Transparenz. Und er berührt nicht zu…
I am lucky to have a prosperous and happy life, so I feel like I have little to complain about. However, during the crush of mid-career responsibilities it is also easy to forget to take time to do t…
Auf der Suche nach Silbererz haben die Römer im 1. Jahrhundert nach Christus in der Gegend von Bad Ems zwei Militärlager errichtet. Das ergaben Forschungen im Rahmen einer mehrjährigen Lehrgrabung [&#…
IntroductionThis is is a multilingual comic that serves as a meditation on the infrastructures of COVID-19, care, and time. In the spirit of the multilingual spaces I inhabit in Tio’tia:ke/Moon…
Celebrated 19th-century biologist Ernst Haeckel pushed race science as his little known protégé Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay defended Indigenous rights. A biological anthropologist reflects on the impacts …
Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich. Extreme Weight Loss: Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery. New York University Press. New York. 2021. ISBN: 9781479803958. pp.213
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Fionnán Mac Gabhann: Overthrowing the Queen represents one of several objectives devised as part of a collaborative proje…
In sport policy research and media reports, culture, ethnicity and religion are constantly framed as contradictory to sport participation. Jasmijn Rana and Kathrine van den Bogert argue that only when…
It is only February and we already have another case of “how did this get through peer review??!!” in social science #highered. The piece in question is an article in Perspectives on Psychological Sci…
Ja, Absagen bei Bewerbungen zu erhalten ist normal und rein statistisch gesehen für die überwiegende Mehrheit der Bewerber*innen auch zu erwarten. Und dennoch machen Absagen etwas mit uns:
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Poet-anthropologist Jason Vasser-Elong revitalizes stories of interwoven lineages of his African-descent ancestors and those who were Native American.
The Woods Lament For Me – Listen—For Will…
No matter where I have taught, one job that often challenges graduate students is the writing of a research proposal. When first encountered, it is a peculiar piece of academic writing that most unde…
This is a beautifully illustrated text, a copy of a text first written in the 14th century. You can examine it at https://smarthistory.org/the-ardashirnama-judeo-persian-manuscript/?fbclid=IwAR2H…
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From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing—and a strategy for dismantling them. White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and police but also by visual culture and distinctive ways of seeing.
Nicholas Mirzoeff argues that this form of “white sight” has a history. By understanding that it was not always a common practice, we can devise better ways to dismantle it. Spanning centuries across this wide-ranging text, Mirzoeff connects Renaissance innovations—from the invention of perspective and the erection of Apollo statues as monuments to (white) beauty and power to the rise of racial capitalism dependent on slave labor—with the ever-expanding surveillance technologies of the twenty-first century to show that white sight creates an oppressively racializing world, in which subjects who do not appear as white are under constant threat of violence. Analyzing recent events like the George Floyd protests and the Central Park birdwatching incident, Mirzoeff suggests that we are experiencing a general crisis of white supremacy that presents both opportunities and threats to social justice. If we do not seize this moment to dismantle white sight, then white supremacy might surge back stronger than ever. To that end, he highlights activist interventions to strike the power of the white heteropatriarchal gaze. White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness (MIT Press, 2023) is a vital handbook and call to action for anyone who refuses to live under white-dominated systems and is determined to find a just way to see the world.
Anna E. Lindner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. On Twitter.
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Ah, midsommar! Många personers favorithögtid. Man träffas med familj och vänner, äter, leker lekar och gör olika aktiviteter som hör midsommaren till. Aktiviteterna varierar såklart med åldern, men nä…
Am 19. Februar 2020 ermordete ein Rechtsextremist in Hanau neun Menschen. Die Essayistin Asal Dardan blickt in einer Rede am Brechtfestival in Augsburg zurück auf drei Jahre Erinnerung an Hanau und au…
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Charles R. Browne, the first graduate in academic anthropology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), went to Inishbofin in 1893 with a plan to collect skulls in a burial groun…
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Why technology is most transformative when it is playful, and innovative spatial design happens only when designers are both tinkerers and dreamers.
In Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and Space (MIT Press, 2021), Fábio Duarte and Ricardo Álvarez argue that the merely functional aspects of technology may undermine its transformative power. Technology is powerful not when it becomes optimally functional, but while it is still playful and open to experimentation. It is through play—in the sense of acting for one’s own enjoyment rather than to achieve a goal—that we explore new territories, create new devices and languages, and transform ourselves. Only then can innovative spatial design create resonant spaces that go beyond functionalism to evoke an emotional response in those who use them.
The authors show how creativity emerges in moments of instability, when a new technology overthrows an established one, or when internal factors change a technology until it becomes a different technology. Exploring the role of fantasy in design, they examine Disney World and its outsize influence on design and on forms of social interaction beyond the entertainment world. They also consider Las Vegas and Dubai, desert cities that combine technology with fantasies of pleasure and wealth. Video games and interactive media, they show, infuse the design process with interactivity and participatory dynamics, leaving spaces open to variations depending on the users’ behavior. Throughout, they pinpoint the critical moments when technology plays a key role in reshaping how we design and experience spaces.
Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu.
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The 2022 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology was awarded to James H. Smith for “The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo.” Congratulations!
Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the “Orient” constitute the “limit” of Western rationality.
Using archival research supplemented by interviews with key scholars in Tunisia, Japan and France, Marnia Lazreg‘s Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan(Berghahn Books, 2020) examines the philosophical sources, evolution as well as contradictions of Foucault’s experience with non-Western cultures. Beyond tracing Foucault’s journey into the world of otherness, the book reveals the personal, political as well as methodological effects of a radical conception of cultural difference that extolled the local over the cosmopolitan.
I asked Marnia how young philosophers should read Foucault’s texts and also how she has integrated his concepts into her excellent sociological research that focuses on the world outside the “West.” Her insightful advice should be taken into account when approaching any works of Foucault today.
Takeshi Morisato is philosopher and sometimes academic. He is the editor of the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy. He specializes in comparative and Japanese philosophy but he is also interested in making Japan and philosophy accessible to a wider audience.
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Diversity als affektive Identitäts- und Vermarktungsstrategie in der Sendung Germany’s Next Topmodelvon Eleonora GrammatikouWer kennt ihn nicht, den einen berühmten Satz der bereits etwas in d…
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I met Esther, a bit by chance, as I was exploring Nairobi’s streets after a Kiswahili class. Esther is a 24-year-old Kenyan entrepreneur. She owns three sho…
Following a devastating Civil War, archaeologists are helping Liberia rewrite a more inclusive history and forge a more diverse future.
✽In 2019, in the aftermath of a particularly severe storm, a m…
A PhD dissertation defence, in some countries called a viva, is usually a ceremonial event only attracting a few other academics from the same field, and perhaps the closest friends and family of the…
When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier’s Story(Duke UP, 2015) is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerrilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military. After escaping the conflict, he became a Franciscan priest and is now an anthropologist. Gavilán Sánchez’s words mark otherwise forgotten acts of brutality and kindness, moments of misery and despair as well as solidarity and love.
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Who are expatriates? How do they differ from other migrants? And why should we care about such distinctions? Expatriate: Following a Migration Category(Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Sarah Kunz interrogates the contested category of ‘the expatriate’ to explore its history and politics, its making and lived experience. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, the book offers a critical reading of International Human Resource Management literature, explores the work and history of the Expatriate Archive Centre in The Hague, and studies the usage and significance of the category in Kenyan history and present-day ‘expat Nairobi’. Doing so, the book traces the figure of the expatriate from the mid-twentieth-century era of decolonisation to today’s heated debates about migration.
The expatriate emerges as a malleable and contested category, of shifting meaning and changing membership, and as passionately embraced by some as it is rejected by others. Dr. Kunz situates the changing usage of the term in the context of social, political and economic struggle and explores the material and discursive work the expatriate performs in negotiating social inequalities and power relations. Migration, the book argues, is a key terrain on which colonial power relations have been reproduced and translated, and migration categories are at the heart of the insidious ways that intersecting material and symbolic inequalities are enacted today. Any project for social justice needs to dissect and interrogate categories like the expatriate, and this book offers analytical and methodical strategies to advance this project.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that traditional media lacked. The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media(Princeton UP, 2023) tells the story of how early digital creators scrambling for work amid the Great Recession gave rise to the multibillion-dollar industry that has fundamentally reshaped culture, the flow of information, and the way we relate to ourselves and each other.
Drawing on dozens of in-depth interviews with leading social media influencers, brand executives, marketers, talent managers, trend forecasters, and others, Emily Hund shows how early industry participants focused on creating and monetizing digital personal brands as a means of exerting control over their professional destinies in a time of acute economic uncertainty. Over time, their activities coalesced into an industry whose impact has reached far beyond the dreams of its progenitors–and beyond their control. Hund illustrates how the methods they developed for creating, monetizing, and marketing social media content have permeated our lives and untangles the unforeseen cultural and economic costs.
The Influencer Industry reveals how, in an increasingly fractured and profit-driven communications environment, the people we think of as “real” are merely those who have learned to exploit the industry’s ever-shifting constructions of authenticity.
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Paleogenomic research has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, igniting heated debates about handling human remains. Who gives consent for the ancient subjects of studies—and who should speak f…
Identitätspolitik wird von ihren rechten Kritiker:innen als „woke“ und als neue Gefahr für den Zusammenhalt der Gesellschaft denunziert. Doch schon die amerikanischen Siedlerkolonien des 17. Jahrhunde…
It was often said, in the course of the transition from communism to capitalism in the 1990s and 2000s, that Eastern Europeans are good at surviving. The IMF and the World Bank praised the local popu…
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IntroductionWhen seen through the experiences and histories of experimentation and care, plants such as roses can bring new insights into the affective and material entanglements of more-than-human r…
Over the past two decades, the subway system has reshaped social relations in India’s densely populated capital—especially for women, who continue to face everyday violence in public spaces.
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Edward F. Fischer. Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value. University of California Press. Berkeley: 2022. ISBN: 978-0-520-38696-9
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“Jibaro” makes me wonder if we should listen more closely to the call of Sirens. This 17 minute long, Love Death Robots episode has me asking if the intent of such creatures of …
Interview by Wendy Goldberg
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Wendy Goldberg: How fixed is Japan’s perceived cultural dominance for anime? How could cultural do…
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Falkof’s book discusses the everyday experiences of fear and moral anxiety in the city of Johannesburg in post-apartheid state South Africa. Drawing on narrative accounts from political protests, main…
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A poet-anthropologist reflects on the musings of an older Noni woman from Cameroon who critiques anthropology’s past as a handmaiden of colonialism in responding to her daughter’s chosen profession. T…
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Shailaja Paik’s book The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford UP, 2022) is an important reflection on the question of Dalit women and their sexuality question. Through the performance of Tamasha, Paik has relooked into the lifeworld of Dalit women and has argued about what the performance of Tamasha means in Dalit women’s everydayness rather than conventionally understanding it through a moral lens of good vs bad. The framework of ‘manuski’ and ‘assli’ reflects upon the Dalit women quest to transgress ascribed identities and it reinforces Dalit performance as a weapon for the weak. The work is a watershed as it re-centers Dalit woman’s experiences in the sex-gender-caste complex, rather than looking at them as passive recipients of male-centered Dalit assertion.
Shailaja Paik is an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati. She is Taft’s Distinguished Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Asian Studies. Her research lies at the intersection of fields concerning Modern South Asia, Dalit Studies, Women’s Studies, and oral History to mention a few.
Kalyani Kalyani is a sociologist and currently teaches at School of Arts and Sciences in Azim Premji University at Bengaluru.
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In White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route (Duke UP, 2022), Piro Rexhepi explores the overlapping postsocialist and postcolonial border regimes in the Balkans that are designed to protect whiteness and exclude Muslim, Roma, and migrant communities. Rather than focusing on present crises to the exclusion of the histories that have gotten us to this point, Rexhepi takes a wide lens to understand how different mechanisms and regimes of exclusion are historically intertwined. This book makes a bold and important intervention against ‘colorblindness’ and white assimilation in the region, pushing us instead to disturb hierarchies of power by forging solidarities with those who are most excluded and marginalized by the Euro-American colonial project.
Piro Rexhepi is a researcher based in London. He received his PhD in Politics from the University of Strathclyde. His new review essay, co-authored with Harun Buljina and Dženita Karić, is “Feel-good Orientalism and the Question of Dignity,” is available to read on The Maydan. You can follow him on Twitter @pirorexhepi.
Dino Kadich is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Cambridge. You can follow him on Twitter @dinokadich.
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Nach dem Erbeben in Syrien und der Türkei ist die Lage dramatisch. Wir haben eine kleine Liste mit Spendenmöglichkeiten zusammengestellt, die vor allem auch lokale Hilfsorganisationen unterstützen. Sc…
In a post script to a letter he sent before leaving Algeria in his penultimate year, Marx, is recovering, a little, from pleurisy, and trying to enjoy himself – ‘Nothing could be more mag…
Hi all,A great week of teaching is coming to its close-colleagues from Brazil, the US, Pakistan, the Netherlands & Finland joined us virtually in our Glocal Classroom in Sweden together with many stud…
Det är möjligt att bli ett folktroväsen, både metaforiskt och bokstavligt. Wendigo, ett nordamerikanskt folktroväsen, är ett perfekt exempel på hur en människa kan förvandlas till en ”mytisk” varelse….
In this blogpost, Ernst Nordtveit draws upon legal perspectives to discuss projections of sea level rise and reflect upon regional strategies in the Pacific that view maritime boundaries “not as…
Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. In Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt (Duke UP, 2022), Jessica Barnes explores the process of sourcing domestic and foreign wheat for the production of bread and its consumption across urban and rural settings. She traces the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people might not have enough good bread to eat, and the daily efforts to ensure that this does not happen. With rich ethnographic detail, she takes us into the worlds of cultivating wheat, trading grain, and baking, buying, and eating bread. Linking global flows of grain and a national bread subsidy program with everyday household practices, Barnes theorizes the nexus between food and security, drawing attention to staples and the lengths to which people go to secure their consistent availability and quality.
Jessica Barnes is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina. She is author of Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change.
Amir Sayadabdi is a lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. He is mainly interested in anthropology of food and its intersection with gender studies, migration studies, and studies of race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
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There is a global push towards making AI more ethical and transparent. As critical contributions on the topic of AI have pointed out: even when computational applications are considered self-learning,…
Pegi Vail (New York University)
In the most recent issue of AJEC (Volume 31 Issue 2), my colleagues and I focused on ‘World Fairs, Exhibitions and Anthropology: Revisiting Contexts of Po…
Archaeologists use a wide variety of methods to explore a fascinating range of topics about human history, culture, and behavior. Here’s an overview of the ways archaeologists preserve heritage and ho…
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Consideracions per l’historiador Paul Preston l’agost de 2012SOBRE L’ANTICLERICALISME POPULARManuel DelgadoLa ira sagrada és el primer dels tres llibres en e…
The T&T Clark Handbook of Theological Anthropology(T&T Clark, 2020) is a ground-breaking volume that gathers together the voices of veteran theologians and some of the most promising emerging scholars publishing in the field of theological anthropology today. The contributing essays outline the various approaches (classical, modern, postmodern) that Christian theologians have taken to present and interpret the doctrines of creation, the human person as imago dei, sin, grace, and the final destiny of humans and other creatures. In presenting theological anthropology, the editors have striven for ecumenical balance (Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox), inclusion of previously neglected voices (women, African American, Asian, Latino/a and LGBTQ), revisiting authors from the “Great Tradition” (early church, medieval, modern); as well those with theological perspectives that are critical and liberationist (feminist, theological, decolonial, intersectional, critical race theory, queer performance theory, etc).
Your host, Ryan Shelton (@_ryanshelton) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast.
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In post-growth Japan, some people are looking to Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia, as a source of new hope. A notable change in the recent pattern of global migration is the movement of people within Asia. Previous studies on Asian migration have mostly considered the movement of people from Asia to Europe and North America. Yet in recent years, countries in Asia have emerged as major receiving sites of intra-regional migration.
Joining Dr Natali Pearson on SSEAC Stories, Dr Shiori Shakuto takes a closer look at Japanese retirement migration to Malaysia, revealing some of the motivations for inter-Asian migration, and what that might tell us about their hopes and dreams for a different kind of life.
About Shiori Shakuto:
Shiori Shakuto is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Her feminist research bridges household economies with transnationalism, with a particular focus on the movement of people and (domestic) things between Japan and Malaysia. Her recent projects have focused on the rise of Japanese migration to Malaysia in the aftermath of various disasters – at the scales of personal, national and environmental. Shiori’s research shows how transnational movement destabilises heteronormative lifecourse, and how gendered household practices in turn shape and reshape the existing hegemonic geopolitical relations. She is the co-editor of the Special Issue, “Gender, Migration and Digital Communication in Asia” (2022).
For more information or to browse additional resources, visit the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre’s website: www.sydney.edu.au/sseac.
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Als ich nach Indien aufgebrochen bin, habe ich mich auf den Tee gefreut. Tschai heisst in Hindi Tee. Der wird traditionellerweise mit Milch und Wasser gekocht. Dann kommt massenweise Zucker rein. Ich …
A quick reminder! The deadline for entering the 3rd annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photo contest is February 16. Details on how to enter are below. Fame and glory can be yours…but only if you …
Interview by Pauline Turner Strong
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In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy(Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children’s books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness.
At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America.
Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing.
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By Desirée Hetzler, César Giraldo, Yvonnen Kunz, Katherine Sammler
Quote as: Hetzler, Desirée, César Giraldo, Yvonnen Kunz, Katherine Sammler (2023). Teufelsberg: More-than-mountain. https://umwel…
Photographs from Russia’s war on Ukraine dissolve an archaeologist’s fondness for a Soviet-era sculpture.
✽On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. Counter to Russian President V…
Kompromisse gelten als Ausdruck demokratischer Reife und sind konstitutiv für die politische Kultur der Bundesrepublik. Doch gilt das auch für den „Kohlekompromiss“, der von den regierenden Grünen zwa…
I am very pleased to share news of a new publication. It is an article appearing now in the Journal of American Folklore:
Jackson, Jason Baird. “Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and He…
Allegra Lab expresses its concerns over Central European University’s (CEU) unexpected decision to close the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve), a university refugee education project established in Bud…
Schlechtes Timing. Zum erstenmal nach vier Monaten hatte ich etwas Magen-Darm-Probleme. Und eine Street Food Tour durch Alt-Delhi gebucht. Gegessen habe ich dann nicht so viel. Die Freundin aber. Und …
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Interview with Andrew Carruthers
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Two anthropologists explain how humans managed to not just survive but dominate northern climates despite evolutionary origins in—and hence, biological predispositions to—warmer environments.
This ar…
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De la conferencia pronunciada en las Jornadas sobre la vida y la muerte. Identidad, creencias y ritual, celebradas en el Museo …
Venetia Johannes. Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia. Berghahn Books. New York: 2022. ISBN: 978-1-80073-203-2.
Mary Black (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
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Interview by Toni Nieminen
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Laura Ann Twagira, an associate professor of history, head of African Studies, and an affiliate with science in society program and feminist gender sexuality studies program at Wesleyan University, talks about her book, Embodied Engineering: Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Embodied Engineering examines how women in rural Mali have used technology to ensure food security through the colonial period, environmental crises, and postcolonial rule. Twagira charts how women in Mali resisted some technological changes in agriculture and kitchens while embracing others, often in the name of pursuing their own notions of how food should taste. Twagira and Vinsel also talk about the need to redefine concepts, such as engineering and technology, in different contexts, and how doing so challenges reigning paradigms, such as that the goal of technology adoption should be increasing productivity and replacing labor – two values that women in Mali rejected.
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Meine Erfahrung mit anue.eu. von Vincenz Schmarsow
Bei Anue handelt es sich um eine Art Partnerbörse für junge Menschen, die nach einer Universität oder Hochschule suchen. Anstatt mit ein…
Da es in der letzten Stellenbörse keine Ausschreibungen im Bereich ‚Quereinstieg‘ gab, habe ich mich gestern besonders angestrengt, um diese Kategorie wieder zu füllen. Eine Stelle ist mir bes…
A poet of the Indigenous Lepcha community of the Eastern Himalayas ponders how to draw maps of the mind, heart, and soul that show her community’s heartland—an “eternal paradise.”
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Seit Oktober besetzen Klimagerechtigkeitsgruppen in ganz Europa Hörsäle und Seminarräume an Universitäten. Die erste Besetzung in Deutschland fand in Göttingen durch die europaweit aktive Gruppe „End …
Deutschland ist zu einem Land der Erb:innen geworden, doch die weitergegebenen Vermögen sind höchst ungleich verteilt. Ist dies für eine Demokratie gefährlich? Und welche Rolle spielt die Erbschaftste…
1984 wurde Indira Gandhi umgebracht. Von einem Sikh. Vorausgegangen war die Operation Blue Star und eine längere Geschichte der separatistischen Bewegung von Sikhs und deren staatlicher Unterdr&u…
Als ich im Oktober nach Delhi kam, hatte ich nicht wirklich Lust, meine Familie zu treffen. In der Vergangenheit fand ich Aufenthalte bei der Familie häufig sehr langweilig und anstrengend. Wir h…
Hi all,This week’s curation takes from Afghanistan to Ethiopia, Somalia, Myanmar, Dubai & Zimbabwe with a little sprinkling of USA(id) & Davos!And then there are more insights into the Effective Altru…
La foto es de William Klein
Fragmento de Marca y territorio. Sobre la hipervisibilidad de los inmigrantes en espacios públicos urbanos, en Joaquín García Roca y Joan Lacomba, eds., La inmigración …
Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and social security. Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India (Cambridge UP, 2018) investigates the everyday practices through which citizens of the world’s largest democracy make claims on the state, asking whether, how, and why they engage public officials in the pursuit of social welfare. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural India, Kruks-Wisner demonstrates that claim-making is possible in settings (poor and remote) and among people (the lower classes and castes) where much democratic theory would be unlikely to predict it. Examining the conditions that foster and inhibit citizen action, she finds that greater social and spatial exposure – made possible when individuals traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, or village – builds citizens’ political knowledge, expectations, and linkages to the state, and is associated with higher levels and broader repertoires of claim-making.
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner is an Associate Professor of Politics & Global Studies at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA, she was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science and Masters in International Development Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in Sociology & Anthropology from Swarthmore College
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2004 bin ich durch das Queere Indien gereist und habe Interviews gemacht (und danach auch dazu geschrieben). Dabei habe ich Paromita Vohras Dokumentarfilm Unlimited Girls kennengelernt.
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Roberta Raffaeta (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) gave a talk entitled “Crossing ecosystems, crossing ontologies. How microbiome science is remaking what does it means to be human” a…
Anna Sokolova (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies) gave a talk on the 1st of February 2023 entitled: ‘Red Fewer’: State Timber Production and Commercial Berry Harvesting in Late Soviet Karelia.
It’s always great when readers contact me about a potential guest post! So when Dipankar Datta, Country Director Somalia, Norwegian Church Aid, asked whether I would like to share his reflections on r…
In the Andes, minga, a form of collective labor, has existed for centuries, often helping communities weather disasters. But how does it work in practice?
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On 8 December 2022, Nickey Diamond visited the VU for two lectures. Nickey is an activist from Myanmar who recently started a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Konstanz, …
GRADUATE ASSOCIATION FOR FOOD STUDIESEditor’s note: We are reprinting this announcement, which we received a few days ago. This looks like a great opportunity for graduate students to get in…
New evidence is prompting researchers to rethink Homo sapiens’ origin story—and what it means to be human.
✽As a university student in the early 2010s, I recall how beautifully simple our origin stor…
Drag shows that test the capacity of bars persist alongside wishes for stronger community among River City’s LGBTQ population. In this examination of LGBTQ community in a small, Midwestern city, Clare Forstie highlights the ambivalence of LGBTQ lives in the rural Midwest. Drawing on in-depth interviews, ethnographic research, and friendship mapping, Forstie reveals the ways that community spaces are disappearing and emerging, LGBTQ people feel safe and unrecognized, and friendships do and don’t matter. In this community, non-LGBTQ allies are essential support for their LGBTQ friends and organizations, but, sometimes, their support comes at a cost. Those who find they feel most comfortable and safe also align with community norms, forming with and connecting to families and identities that are the majority in River City.
In Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community (NYU Press, 2022), Forstie offers the story of a community that does not fit neatly into a narrative of progress or decline. Rather, it’s a little bit of both. Forstie’s ambivalent community framework reveals the ways we might think about our communities and relationships more authentically, embracing the contradictions that inform the possibilities for change.
Clayton Jarrard is a Research Project Coordinator at the University of Kansas Center for Research, contributing to initiatives at the nexus of research, policy, and community efforts. His scholarly engagement spans the subject areas of cultural anthropology, queer studies, disability studies, mad studies, and religious studies.
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The city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand has become the destination for a growing segment of the international tourism market: religious tourism. International tourists visit Buddhist temples, volunteer as English teachers, discuss Buddhism with student monks, and experiment with meditation. In her new book, Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks(University of Washington Press, 2021), Brooke Schedneck examines this growing phenomenon. While such interactions may constitute yet another case of the commodification of Buddhism, religious tourism in Buddhist Chiang Mai can also be seen as another way in which Thai Buddhism is adapting to a more globalized, market-oriented society. It may even constitute a new opportunity for Buddhist missionary work.
Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand has been shortlisted for the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize for 2022.
Patrick Jory teaches Southeast Asian History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. He can be reached at: p.jory@uq.edu.au.
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Eine der besten Sachen, die Delhi in den letzten 20 Jahren verändert hat, ist die Metro. Damit kommt mensch gut und sicher an viele Orte in der Stadt. Im Ladies Coach ist es auch meistens nicht &…
Der 1933 in Deutschland geschriebene Roman Unsere Straße hat einmal einen Klassiker der antifaschistischen Erinnerung an den Beginn des Nationalsozialismus gebildet. Heute ist er weitgehend vergessen….
By Jehron Muhammad Every year, including 2023 we in the United States celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights …
Final de Marca Copito. Un gorila blanco y otros legados y memorias, destinado al catálogo de la exposición Ikunde. Barcelona metrópoli colonial, celebrada en el Museu de les Cultures del Món de Barcel…
The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2022), edited by Professor David Newheiser reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. In fact, contributors contend that narrowly defining atheism as the belief that there is no god misunderstands religious and nonreligious persons altogether. The essays gathered here show that, just as religion exceeds doctrine, atheism also encompasses every dimension of human life: from imagination and feeling to community and ethics. Contributors offer new, expansive perspectives on atheism’s diverse history and possible futures. By recovering lines of affinity and tension between particular atheists and particular religious traditions, this book paves the way for fruitful conversation between religious and non-religious people in our secular age.
David Newheiser is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University, with research that explores the role of religious traditions in debates over ethics, politics, and culture. He received a PhD in Religion from the University of Chicago and an MPhil in early Christian thought from Oxford. He was on New Books in Secularism in September of 2020 to discuss his book Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student at Université Laval in Quebec City. carrie-lynn.evans@lit.ulaval.ca @carrielynnland.
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Over six million prime-age men are neither working nor looking for work; America’s low unemployment rate hides the fact that many men have dropped out of the workforce altogether. Our workforce participation rate is on par with that seen during the Great Depression.
Why does this problem affect men so acutely? Why is it so specific to America? What are these missing men doing with their time? How do we differentiate between leisure and idleness? Demographer and economist Nicholas Eberstadt, author of Men Without Work(Templeton Press, 2022), discusses these trends and what they mean for America’s future.
Annika Nordquist is the Communications Coordinator of Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and host of the Program’s podcast, Madison’s Notes.
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In the film Doctor Dolittle (1967), the title character yearns to “Talk to the Animals,” as the song goes, to understand their mysterious and often vexing ways. It is interesting to observe a similar …
The 2020 discovery of an ancient villa in Britain uncovered the most important Roman mosaic found in the last century. An archaeologist explains how the mosaic offers an alternate ending to a grim tal…
Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets. Columbia University Press. New York: 2022. ISBN # 9780231192446
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Page 99 of my dissertation reflects on a detail in an elite type of garment that the Inka Empire (ca. 1476-1532 CE) fabricated in its workshops during the period before contact with Europeans. Alongs…
Ich habe mir nun endlich auch indische Gewürze gekauft. Und ein Nudelholz. Und Atta, das lokale Mehl. So konnte ich nun auch beginnen, indisches Essen zu kochen. Das Weißkohlgericht habe …
Ich habe mir nun endlich auch indische Gewürze gekauft. Und ein Nudelholz. Und Atta, das lokale Mehl. So konnte ich nun auch beginnen, indisches Essen zu kochen. Das Weißkohlgericht habe …
M. R. Sharan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, studying questions centred around development economics and political economy. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 2020 and was previously at the Delhi School of Economics and Hansraj College. His novel, Blue, was published in 2014. His writings have appeared across various publications, including the Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, The Times of India and The Economic Times. He is at www.mrsharan.com and on Twitter at @sharanidli.
Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar’s Villages (Westland, 2021) eschews the usual sweeping narratives of national and state politics, reaching instead for the ‘swirling, vivid sub-narratives that escape easy categorisations’, the darkness of the material leavened with deep empathy. The result is a captivating, often searing narrative of how lives are lived in the villages of Bihar–and indeed in much of India.
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Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Praktikum auf dem 23. Internationalen literaturfestivals in Berlin, ein Praktikum in den Bereichen Marketing, Social Media und Kundenbetreuung bei cooler Bike Comp…
A Tohono O’odham poet and linguist reflects on the stories and wisdom ancestors communicated—how people survived, how they dispersed and differentiated, how they remember.
“Rock Drawings” …
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s cannot be generalized from the specific history of Buffalo, New York.
In the episode they reference a number of scholarly books including J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (NYU Press, 2005); Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke UP, 2010); Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993); Mairead Sullivan, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer (Minnesota UP, 2022); Henri Lefebre, The Production of Space (La production de l’espace, Editions Anthropos, 1974, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1919). He also names a number of scholars, including the geographer Gill Valentine, the historian David Harvey, and cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin, and the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality.
Jack Jen Gieseking is a Research Fellow at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center. Their book A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers was published by NYU Press in 2020, and has a companion website called An Everyday Queer New York. They are working on a new book called Dyke Bars: Queer Spaces for the End Times* that uses the trans asterisk to invite consideration of queer spaces not historically claimed as dyke bars.
Image: “Last Lesbian Bars in New York City” © 2023 Saronik Bosu
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Trying to read in the library but looking out the window at the reminder that this is no ordinary library experience.
A few parts from a recent text: Sophie Fuggle & John Hutnyk (2022) “Saigon…
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Though we rarely see them at work, building inspectors have the power to significantly shape our lives through their discretionary decisions. The building inspectors of Chicago are at the heart of sociologist Robin Bartram’s analysis of how individuals impact—or attempt to impact—housing inequality. In Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality(U Chicago Press, 2022), she reveals surprising patterns in the judgment calls inspectors make when deciding whom to cite for building code violations. These predominantly white, male inspectors largely recognize that they work within an unequal housing landscape that systematically disadvantages poor people and people of color through redlining, property taxes, and city spending that favor wealthy neighborhoods. Stacked Decks illustrates the uphill battle inspectors face when trying to change a housing system that works against those with the fewest resources.
Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University.
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Ist das Leben mit den ganz wenigen edlen Dingen wirklich die Erlösung aus dem Konsum? Von Apple bis Marie Kondo gibt es die konzentrierte Klarheit und die schöne Leere nicht umsonst: Reduktion muss ma…
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford UP, 2022) offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit performance of Tamasha—a popular form of public, secular, traveling theater in Maharashtra—and places Dalit Tamasha women who represented the desire and disgust of the patriarchal society at the heart of modernization in twentieth century India. Drawing on ethnographies, films, and untapped archival materials, Shailaja Paik illuminates how Tamasha was produced and shaped through conflicts over caste, gender, sexuality, and culture. Dalit performers, activists, and leaders negotiated the violence and stigma in Tamasha as they struggled to claim manuski (human dignity) and transform themselves from ashlil(vulgar) to assli (authentic) and manus (human beings).
Building on and departing from the Ambedkar-centered historiography and movement-focused approach of Dalit studies, Paik examines the ordinary and everydayness in Dalit lives. Ultimately, she demonstrates how the choices that communities make about culture speak to much larger questions about inclusion, inequality, and structures of violence of caste within Indian society, and opens up new approaches for the transformative potential of Dalit politics and the global history of gender, sexuality, and the human.
Lakshita Malik is a doctoral student in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on questions of intimacies, class, gender, and beauty in South Asia.
Niharika Yadav is a PhD candidate in the history department at Princeton University. She is a historian of South Asia whose research interests include the genealogies of literary and political practices; print cultures; and language movements in postcolonial India.
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Hi all,This week’s not-so-good news from Lebanon, Ethiopia, North Korea & Syria found a positive counterpart with powerful, hopeful stories from women contributing to change-from Vanuatu, Sweden, Sout…
Die deutsche Kollegin ist ganz begeistert von den Affen, setzt sich in den Park, um sie zu beobachten, und möchte sie am liebsten auch mit Leckereien versorgen.
Die indische Kollegin reagiert eh…
China re-opened border in a final farewell to its strict zero-COVID policy on the 8th of January, 2023. But in the first few weeks of January, the Myanmar side of the border and the Myanmar immigration authorities refused to open the border for fear of COVID surge. This has continued to affect the livelihood of Myanmar jewellers who used to travel to China to do business.
In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen (University of Helsinki) talks to Juliet Zhu from the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia at Mahidol University in Thailand. Juliet Zhu is currently a postdoctoral researcher. She has been conducting research on Myanmar jewellers since her doctoral study at the same university. As Juliet illuminates, since the late 1980s, generations of Myanmar jewellers have settled down in the Chinese border cities next to northern Myanmar. Currently, most of them are based in Dehong Prefecture, a border prefecture in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province. In the past few years, they have faced increasingly precarious economic and social conditions due to China’s anti-corruption campaign, the Belt and Road Initiative and the rise of live-streaming trade in the transnational jewellery business. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many Myanmar immigrants have left China. Listeners can read Zhu’s 2021 co-authored paper to learn more about her study and find a map of her studied area in this paper.
Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr. Chen serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer, SSCI). Formerly, she was chair of Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis). You can find her on University of Helsinki Chinese Studies’ website, Youtube and Facebook, and her personal Twitter.
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While a graduate student in social anthropology, Moisés Lino e Silva’s curiosity about the scarcity of freedom and lack of liberty in Brazilian favelas led him to Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de…
Michel Leiris fotografiat per Man Ray el 1930Fragment de Michel Leiris o el deure de la lucidesa, pròleg Pròleg per Michel Leiris, L’etnòleg devamt el colonialisme, Icaria/ICA, Barcelona, 1995.
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The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is seeking recent PhD theses in the anthropology of food and nutrition to…
In They Eat Our Sweat, Daniel Agbiboa engages the road transport sector in Lagos, Nigeria, to reveal how corruption operates through a dialectical “double capture” of state and society. Ethnographic e…
Today I talked to Batja Mesquita about her book Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions(Norton, 2022).
To a degree sometimes not realized, we discuss emotions through the lens of what have been called WEIRD cultures, i.e. Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. As a result, the perspective taken tends to be inside/out, privileging one’s private feelings: a Mine approach. Yet in much of the world, more of an Ours approach prevails, with an understanding of emotions as being important because they help us navigate the cultures we live in. So as Batja Mesquita notes, emotions are therefore recognized as happening between people because emotions are relational, cultural, situational, and heavily involve cultural norms. To unpack an emotional episode is to explore, by degrees, what is going on and why the episode is significant in relation to one’s goals and values, and one’s place within a given situation and wider, cultural context.
Dr. Batja Mesquita is a social psychologist, an affective scientist, and a pioneer of cultural psychology. She’s a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. She’s from a Dutch Jewish family with parents who survived the Holocaust in hiding. She’s also lived in Italy, Bosnia, and the U.S., where she did her post-doctoral work at the University of Michigan.
Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of ten books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. (https://www.sensorylogic.com). His newest book is Emotionomics 2.0: The Emotional Dynamics Underlying Key Business Goals. To check out his related “Dan Hill’s EQ Spotlight” blog, visit https://emotionswizard.com.
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Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. But as more intense and out-of-synch flood events occur, wary cities like Winnipeg continue to depend on systems and specifications that will soon be out of date. Rivers have impulses that defy many of the basic human assumptions underpinning otherwise sophisticated technologies. This is the river-city expression of climate change.
In Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control(McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022), Stephanie Kane shows how geoscience, engineering, and law converge to affect flood control in Winnipeg. She questions technicalities produced and maintained in tandem with settler folkways at the expense of the plural legal cultures of Indigenous nations. The dynamics of this experimental ethnography feel familiar yet strange: here, many of the starring actors are not human. Ice and water – materializing as bodies, elements, and digital signals – act with diatoms, diversions, sensors, sandbags, and satellites, looping theories about glacial erratics and feminist science studies into scenes from neighbourhood parks, conferences, survey maps, plays, archival photos, a novel, an emergency press conference, LiDAR images, and a lab experiment in a bathtub.
Through storytelling and environmental analytics, Just One Rain Away provides a starting point for cross-cultural discussions about how expert knowledge and practice should inform egalitarian decision-making about flood control and, more broadly, decolonize current ways of thinking, being, and becoming with rivers.
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Bis jetzt habe ich den Bollywood-Star Shah Rukh Khan vor allem für einen mässig begabten Schauspieler gehalten, der nur zwei Gesichtsausdrücke hat, bei denen er immer wie er selbst auss…
Der Begriff Ambivalenz bezeichnet Widersprüche, die nebeneinander existieren. Aktuell wird er oft sehr vage benutzt, was verschleiert, wie aktuell er eigentlich sein könnte. Dies zeigen Beispiele aus …
A contributor to a special series on decolonizing anthropology argues that true decolonization would require the complete dismantling of existing global power structures, including academic discipline…
Three contributors to a special series reflect on why slowing down and building trust between community partners is fundamental to decolonizing anthropology—and our shared future.
This contribution is…
A contributor to a special series on decolonizing anthropology reckons with bioarchaeology’s racist past by focusing on Black women’s creativity and everyday lives in her work.
This contribution is p…
A contributor to a special series on decolonizing anthropology rejects the discipline’s colonial and racist roots and instead pursues ways of doing science that center human liberation and possi…
In recent years, anthropology has increasingly reckoned with its colonial and racist roots. In a special forum, scholars weigh in on what “decolonizing” means—and share their visions for the future of…
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and the incredible challenges she faced advocating for her daughter’s health in the United States. When she arrived in Texas, Claudia discovered that being undocumented would mean more than just an immigration status—it would be a way of living, of mothering, and of being discarded by even those institutions we count on to care.
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos spent five years with Claudia. As she listened to Claudia’s experiences, she recalled her own mother’s story, another life molded by migration, the US-Mexico border, and the quest for a healthy future on either side. Witnessing Claudia’s struggles with doctors and teachers, we see how the education and medical systems enforce undocumented status and perpetuate disability. At one point, in the midst of advocating for her daughter, Claudia suddenly finds herself struck by debilitating pain. Claudia is lifted up by her comadres, sent to the doctor, and reminded why she must care for herself.
A braided narrative that speaks to the power of stories for creating connection, Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing (University of Texas Press, 2022) reveals what remains undocumented in the motherhood of Mexican women who find themselves making impossible decisions and multiple sacrifices as they build a future for their families.
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos is a medical anthropologist and the author of Black Bodies, Black Rights: The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil.
Reighan Gillam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press).
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Tibetan nomads have developed a way of life that is dependent in multiple ways on their animals and shaped by the phenomenological experience of mobility. These pastoralists have adapted to many changes in their social, political and environmental contexts over time. From the earliest historically recorded systems of segmentary lineage to the incorporation first into local fiefdoms and then into the Chinese state (of both Nationalist and Communist governments), Tibetan pastoralists have maintained their way of life, complemented by interactions with “the outside world.”
In Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations Among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet (Springer, 2018), Gillian Tan, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Deakin University, identifies and analyzes the changes undergone by Tibetan pastoralist society in recent years, the sources of these changes, and the effects produced on Tibetan pastoralists, their lifeways, religious practices, and social structures. Drawing on long-term fieldwork that underscores an ethnography of local nomadic pastoralists, international development organizations, and Chinese government policies, Gillian argues that careful analysis and comparison of the different epistemologies and norms about “change” are vital to any critical appraisal of developments – often contested – on the grasslands of Eastern Tibet. Rapid changes brought about by an intensification of interactions with the outside world call into question the sustained viability of a nomadic way of life, particularly as pastoralists themselves sell their herds and settle into towns. Pastures of Change probes how we can more clearly understand these changes by looking specifically at one particular area of high-altitude grasslands in the Tibetan Plateau.
Maggie Freeman is a PhD student in the School of Architecture at MIT. She researches uses of architecture by nomadic peoples and historical interactions of nomads and empires, with a focus on the modern Middle East.
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Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. Unsaid: Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences(U California Press, 2022) is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid—whether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what goes without saying.
“…there’s always been a latent importance to absences and silences, and people have been saying that for a long time, but I think this is a time of just trying to get our act together with how we’re going to make strong claims about exclusions and silences and disappearances.” – Lois Presser, author of Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences.
Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology and a volunteer at Interference Archive. Jen edits for Partnership Journal and organizes with the TPS Collective. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive.
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The protests in Iran began with a revolutionary act of mourning that became a symbol of the movement: cutting off the hair. The protesters are responding to a regime that does not allow every dead per…
Nachdem ich die ersten Monate in Delhi fast nichts gemacht habe, ausser zur Arbeit zu gehen. Und für die Kolloquien in den Norden Delhis zu fahren. Hat sich das jetzt sehr geändert. Ich bin …
Welcome to Platypus in 2023! We’re excited for another year of anthropological and social thinking around science and technology. Last year we had over forty-five posts on topics ranging from ph…
Anny Gaul, Graham Ajman Pitts, Vichi Valosik, eds. Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean. University of Texas Press. Austin: 2021. ISBN: 9781477324585
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Page 99 of my dissertation falls in Chapter 1, “A ‘Viktator’ in the Making: Gaslighting Democracy, Telling Lies, and Evoking Histories,” which describes political culture in Hungary after 1989. In it…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. die Möglichkeit sich im Bereich Geschlechtergerechtigkeit im ASA-Programm zu bewerben (internationale Standorte), eine Stelle als Volontär*in im Rohwolt-Verlag (Hambur…
“one half of them who perish in London, dye of Phthisical and Pulmonic distempers; that the inhabitants are never free from Coughs” John Evelyn 1661
The biggest trick though is that in the 20th Ce…
Die BBC hat einen Dokumentarfilm über die Rolle des jetzigen indischen Premierministers Modi bei den Pogromen in Gujarat im Jahr 2002 veröffentlicht (kann nur in Großbritannien angesch…
What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold stories of the people, politics, and production chains behind architecture, real estate, and construction in areas surrounding New Delhi, India.
In The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction (U California Press, 2022), the personal histories of those in India’s large laboring classes are brought to life as Namita Vijay Dharia discusses the aggressive environmental and ecological transformation of the region in the twenty-first century. Urban planning and architecture are messy processes that intertwine migratory pathways, corruption politics, labor struggle, ecological transformations, and technological development. The aggressive actions of the construction activity produce an atmosphere of ephemerality in urban regions, creating an aesthetic condition that supports industrial political economy. Dharia’s brilliant analysis of the aesthetics and experiences of work lends visibility to the struggle of workers in an era of growing urban inequality.
Garima Jaju is a Smuts fellow at the University of Cambridge.
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Die Proteste im Iran begannen mit einem revolutionären Akt des Trauerns, der zu Symbolbild der Bewegung wurde: das Abschneiden der Haare. Sie antworten auf ein Regime, das nicht jedem Toten erlaubt, b…
Este semestre estoy enseñando un curso sobre la antropología del sonido. Murray Shafer, un compositor y director de orquesta canadiense, quien desafoftunadamente nos dejó en 2021, ha sido quizá la fi…
Die Chancen auf einen attraktiven Job stehen gut, nicht nur für junge Absolventen, sondern auch für Quereinsteiger, Aufsteiger, Umsteiger oder ältere Semester. Also nichts wie los, schreibt Initiativb…
Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading scholars from several disciplines offer the first coordinated effort to define this field of research, assess its theoretical and methodological foundations, and use a critical assessment of current practices as a basis for guiding its future. Contributors include stars in this field who have written some of the classic works on critical junctures, as well as the rising stars of the next generation who will continue to shape historical comparative analysis for years to come. David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck’s Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies. Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science(Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) will be an indispensable resource for social science research methods scholars and students.
Javier Mejia is an economist at Stanford University who specializes in the intersection of social networks and economic history. His research interests also include entrepreneurship and political economy, with a particular focus on Latin America and the Middle East. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Los Andes University. Mejia has previously been a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at New York University-Abu Dhabi and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Bordeaux. He is also a frequent contributor to various news outlets, currently serving as an op-ed columnist for Forbes Magazine.
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Defoe is as good at mocking Robinson as anyone, despite swallowing a thesaurus. In volume three: ”poor, wild, wicked Robinson” (316) “a churl, a morose, sour disposition, a covetous…
Hi all,Davos came & went, but there are also other important stories from Afghanistan, Brazil, on faux carbon offsets, value/poverty chains, peace intermediaries & much more!And another brand new post…
När du skapar en bild av en klok gumma i ditt huvud, hur ser hon då ut? Är hon en gammal, ensam änka som bor djupt in i skogen långt från civilisationen, omringad i sin stuga av okända örter, illvilli…
Gabriele Dietze bat mich für ihr Forschungsprojekt Quarantine Cultures nach indischen Romanen zur Pandemie zu schauen.
Also bin ich letztes Wochenende mal in den Buchladen um die Ecke gegange…
Fatigue, disorientation, numbness, envy, rage, burnout. What good could come from thinking about trans experience and these bad feelings? In Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad(University of Minnesota Press, 2022), Hil Malatino theorizes the centrality of bad feelings in a world of quotidian and spectacular anti-trans misrecognition, hostility, and violence. He does so not only to understand how bad feelings arise and how they can be hard to survive, but also what they can make possible when they are taken up through political practices of care. Centered on trans experience as it is represented through many cultural productions, Malatino highlights the pressure on trans folks to be made happy by transition. He takes the analysis further by arguing for the power of communal care to enable survival not despite, but through these feelings.
Sarah Tyson is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver.
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How do farmers struggle for land and democracy in Myanmar’s hybrid political system? How might a feminist approach to this question look like and enable novel findings? In which ways can researchers make the most of ethnographic methods to understand ordinary people’s survival strategies? And do experiences from rural Myanmar reflect the wider changing landscape of development in the Global South? In this episode, Dr. Hilary Faxon, a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, joins Dr. Mai Van Tran, a postdoc at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, to discuss her upcoming book on grassroots struggles over land, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar.
The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo.
We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia.
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Interview with CBC Radio, Jan. 17, 2023.
I did an interview with CBC January 17th that contributed to a web story on that day and short news items the following morning. I also did a segment with…
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- In this eighth interview in the series on the development of Food Anthropology I sit down with Professor Krishnendu Ray (NYU). We discuss Professor Ray’s initial interest in food …
Am Dienstag, 24.1.2023, 16-17:30 Uhr findet der nächste offene Brotgelehrte-online-Workshop statt.
Unser Thema ist dieses Mal Selfbranding in Bewerbungsprozessen:
- Wie…
The first thing flying into Kangerlussuaq, Greenland reminds us that this is ‘properly’ Arctic. For most people who call the North home, the Arctic is further up North from where they liv…
A Nigerian poet-anthropologist witnesses the powerful rising up of ancestors through the revival of a tree in the Igbo village of Ogbodu.
“A Tree’s Tongue” is part of the collection Indige…
SAPIENS offers a curated collection of poems and stories that center Indigenous values, worldviews, and insights, creatively reimagining anthropology and the human experience.
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For many centuries, Hindu temples and shrines have been of great importance to South Indian religious, social and political life. Aside from being places of worship, they are also pilgrimage destinations, centres of learning, political hotspots, and foci of economic activities. In these temples, not only the human and the divine interact, but they are also meeting places of different members of the communities, be they local or coming from afar. Hindu temples do not exist in isolation, but stand in multiple relationships to other temples and sacred sites. They relate to each other in terms of architecture, ritual, or mythology, or on a conceptual level when particular sites are grouped together. Especially in urban centres, multiple temples representing different religious traditions may coexist within a shared sacred space.
Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives (HASP, 2022) pays close attention to the connections between individual Hindu temples and the affiliated communities, be it within a particular place or on a trans-local level. These connections are described as temple networks, a concept which instead of stable hierarchies and structures looks at nodal, multi-centred, and fluid systems, in which the connections in numerous fields of interaction are understood as dynamic processes.
Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at his own virtual School of Indian Wisdom. For information see rajbalkaran.com.
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Based on another recent conversation on LinkedIn-this time far more productive and polite compared to my previous experience, I want to expand a little on the answer I posted.Ashley Ruba, a UX Researc…
Inder_innen würden viel über Essen reden, erklärten mir Freund_innen in Berlin. Und ich widersprach. In meiner indischen Familie wurde nie viel über das Essen gesprochen. Aber seit…
‘The midwife tells the woman in labour that she sees she is having a hard time during the contractions. “The strength of them is good, after breaking the membranes you can definitely see a difference…
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Tayo Jolaosho died on October 21, 2021, months before their book was published in July 2022. We honor their work and memory …
Das neue Jahr hat neue Fellows gebracht. Fellows mit transnationalen Erfahrungen und dem Wunsch, keine Fehler zu machen. Also fragte uns die eine, wie denn das sei mit dem Essen nur mit der rechten Ha…
Cultivating Q Methodology is a collection of essays is in honor of Professor Steven R. Brown, the preeminent scholar of Q methodology. Q methodology, innovated by the British physicist/psychologist William Stephenson (1902-1989), Q methodology is a conceptual framework and set of procedures to systematically and scientifically study the subjective. Professor Brown has dedicated his academic life, more than 50 years and counting, to advancing the methodology and Stephenson’s profound ideas. Each of the contributors in this volume are experts in the methodology as well, and the book is divided into 3 sections: 1. Chapters honoring Brown’s legacy; 2. Chapters devoted to methodological aspects of Q; and 3. Applications of Q methodology to various topics. Professor Steven R. Brown has directly impacted the work of each of the contributors of this volume, and hundreds more who have sought to use Q methodology to study topics spanning the human sciences.
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An anthropologist considers how different the world might be if Neanderthals—and hence, their ways of navigating relationships with the environment and one another—had survived the gauntlet of evoluti…
Die Pandemie hat Menschen mit Behinderungen als „besonders vulnerable Gruppe“ kurzfristig in die Aufmerksamkeit gerückt. Doch sie hat lediglich schlaglichtartig sichtbar gemacht, was häufig nicht wahr…
This is Hanif Kureishi’s study, and I am looking forward to his next book that will be greater than Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, with Italianate stylings. He had a fall in Rome, but he is a glad…
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Apuntes para la clase Antropologia de los Espacios Urbananos y la Globalización del 8/19/15DEFINICIÓN Y NATURALEZA DE LO URBANOManuel DelgadoLa primera clase la dediqué a dilucida…
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A Message to UBC Vancouver Indigenous Faculty and Staff Members on behalf of the President and Vancouver Provost
To quote the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan, “Truth before Reconciliation” – all of…
An anthropologist delves into the rarefied ritualistic world of specialty coffee, where highly trained brewers and judges compete to determine which beans reign supreme.
Excerpted from Making Better C…
Science and Technologies scholar Lilly Irani talks her book, Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India, with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. Irani’s work examines the ideological role that ideas of “innovation” and “entrepreneurship” have played in India and the people who are left behind by such visions. Irani and Vinsel also discuss her other work and activism focusing on the politics of the Bay Area in California, including organization against the digital technology industry.
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Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Uruguay from 1870 to 1960. Those publications were as important in Black community and intellectual life in Latin America as African American newspapers were in the United States, yet they are almost completely unknown to English-language readers. Expertly curated, the articles are organized into chapters centered on themes that emerged in the Black press: politics and citizenship, racism and anti-racism, family and education, community life, women, Africa and African culture, diaspora and Black internationalism, and arts and literature. Each chapter includes an introduction explaining how discussions on those topics evolved over time, and a list of questions to provoke further reflection. Each article is carefully edited and annotated; footnotes and a glossary explain names, events, and other references that will be unfamiliar to English-language readers. A unique, fascinating insight into the rich body of Black cultural and intellectual production across Latin America.
Paulina Alberto is Professor of African and African American Studies and of History at Harvard University. She is the author of Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina (Cambridge University Press) and Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil (University of North Carolina Press). She is the editor (with Eduardo Elena) of Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina (Cambridge University Press).
George Reid Andrews is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000 (Harvard University Press), Afro-Latin America 1800-2000 (Oxford University Press), Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay (University of North Carolina Press), Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988 (University of Wisconsin Press), and The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900 (University of Wisconsin Press).
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean (Princeton University Press) and A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 (Princeton University Press)
Reighan Gillam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press).
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Read Time:3 Minute, 33 Second Hace unas semanas me enteré de que la plataforma audiovisual Filmin va a sacar a la luz uno de los se…
Der Leiter des hindunationalistischen RSS Mohan Bhagwat hat kürzlich in einem Interview, Offenheit für LGBTQ gezeigt (siehe Indian Express). Zwei Tage später haben im Indian Express der…
Jerome Carroll
Anthropology’s Interrogation of Philosophy from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
Lexington Books, 2018
256 pp., references, index
Anthropology and philosophy are today well-e…
Max Haiven Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire. Pluto Press, London, 2022. ISBN 9780745345826.
Leonidas Vournelis (Baruch College)
Max Haiven’s Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire explores an import…
St. Joseph’s Day Altar, New Orleans. Photo: David BerissSAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day (February 16). If you have food anthropology related…
*“‘Toonto nuttag’ es el lugar de nacimiento de alguien, donde fue enterrada su placenta bajo el umbral de la casa, ger o yurta de los padres, donde estaba situada en el momento del nacimiento. A difere…*
Interview by Grace East
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Brunnar, fontäner, dekorativa små bassänger av olika slag. De flesta människor har säkert sett slantar glimma på botten av en sådan någon gång. Kanske har man till och med blivit inspirerad och själv …
Das India International Centre ist in der Max Mueller Marg. Das Goethe-Institut in Indien heisst Max Mueller Bhavan. Max Müller war ein wichtiger Indologe , der in Oxford an der Universität …
Das India International Centre ist in der Max Mueller Marg. Das Goethe-Institut in Indien heisst Max Mueller Bhavan. Max Müller war ein wichtiger Indologe , der in Oxford an der Universität …
“Raise your voice!” and “Speak up!” are familiar refrains that assume, all too easily, that gaining voice will lead to empowerment, healing, and inclusion for marginalized subjects. Marlene Schäfers’s Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey (U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals where such assumptions fall short, demonstrating that “raising one’s voice” is no straightforward path to emancipation but fraught with anxieties, dilemmas, and contradictions. In its attention to the voice as form, this book examines not only what voices say but also how they do so, focusing on Kurdish contexts where oral genres have a long, rich legacy. Examining the social labor that voices carry out as they sound, speak, and resonate, Schäfers shows that where new vocal practices arise, they produce new selves and practices of social relations. In Turkey, recent decades have seen Kurdish voices gain increasing moral and political value as metaphors of representation and resistance. Women’s voices, in particular, are understood as potent means to withstand patriarchal restrictions and political oppression. By ethnographically tracing the transformations in how Kurdish women relate to and employ their voices as a result of these shifts, Schäfers illustrates how contemporary politics foster not only new hopes and desires but also create novel vulnerabilities as they valorize, elicit, and discipline voice in the name of empowerment and liberation.
Marlene Schäfers is assistant professor in cultural anthropology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. You may find some of the songs mentioned in the book and the episode here.
Armanc Yildiz is a doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology with a secondary field in Studies in Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. He is also the founder of Academics Write, where he supports scholars in their writing projects as a writing coach and developmental editor.
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Content note: This episode contains discussions of suicide, as well as allusions to graphic anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Black violence
Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and the expansion of hate crimes legislation—have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable(Duke UP, 2021), theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the United States. Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley shows how it is a structuring antagonism in our social world. Drawing on an archive of suicide notes, AIDS activist histories, surveillance tapes, and prison interviews, they offer a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies to it. In calling for trans/queer organizing and worldmaking beyond these forms, Stanley points to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures.
Dr. Eric A. Stanley is an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Rine Vieth is a researcher studying how the UK Immigration and Asylum tribunals consider claims of belief, how claims of religious belief are evidenced, and the role of faith communities in asylum-seeker support.
Links referenced in the episode:
- LGBT Books to Prisoners project
- Ashley Diamond fundraiser
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Read Time:6 Minute, 18 Second ¡Esa noche la escuchamos! Era como un susurro, como un lamento, como un canto quedito, como el murmul…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. die Möglichkeit eine Masterarbeit im Bereich Wirkungsanalyse/ Bildung zu schreiben (Frankfurt a.M.), und in Oberhausen gibt es eine Werkstudi-Stelle im Bereich Text/ R…
In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politically, rivaling and at times exceeding voting booths and halls of government. The Sovereign Street documents this important period, showing how indigenous-led mass movements reconfigured the politics and racial order of Bolivia from 1999 to 2011.
Drawing on interviews with protest participants, on-the-ground observation, and documentary research, activist and scholar Carwil Bjork-James provides an up-close history of the indigenous-led protests that changed Bolivia. At the heart of the study is a new approach to the interaction between protest actions and the parts of the urban landscape they claim. These “space-claiming protests” both communicate a message and exercise practical control over the city. Bjork-James interrogates both protest tactics—as experiences and as tools—and meaning-laden spaces, where meaning is part of the racial and political geography of the city.
Taking the streets of Cochabamba, Sucre, and La Paz as its vantage point, The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia(U Arizona Press, 2020) offers a rare look at political revolution as it happens. It documents a critical period in Latin American history, when protests made headlines worldwide, where a generation of pro-globalization policies were called into question, and where the indigenous majority stepped into government power for the first time in five centuries.
Brad Wright is a historian of Latin America specializing in postrevolutionary Mexico. He teach world history at Kennesaw State University currently. PhD in Public History with specialization in oral history.
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Today I talked to Steven Lukes about Émile Durkheim’s classic The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). Lukes is the author of Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical Study among many other works.
In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigates what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion – totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. For Durkheim, studying Aboriginal religion was a way “to yield an understanding of the religious nature of man, by showing us an essential and permanent aspect of humanity.” The need and capacity of men and women to relate to one another socially lies at the heart of Durkheim’s exploration, in which religion embodies the beliefs that shape our moral universe.
The Elementary Forms has been applauded and debated by sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers, and theologians, and continues to speak to new generations about the intriguing origin and nature of religion and society.
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How does creativity work? In Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process (Edward Elgar, 2022), Chris Bilton, a Reader at University of Warwick’s Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, Stephen Cummings, Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Victoria University Wellington, and dt ogilvie, Professor of Urban Entrepreneurship at the Rochester Institute of Technology, use a combination of theoretical analysis and detailed case studies to explain creativity. Using global examples from a diverse range of business, individual, and organisational settings, the book ranges from to critical analysis of creative business scandals such as Weinstein and #MeToo. It will be essential reading across creative industries and management studies, with valuable insights for social science and humanities scholars too.
Dave O’Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield.
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Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in Chinese. The English translation has just come out with Palgrave Macmillan.
Self as Method provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao, a social anthropologist, and Wu Qi, a rising journalist, the book probes how China has reached its current stage and how young people can make changes.
The Chinese version, 把自己作为方法, was named the “most impactful book of 2021” by Dou4ban4, China’s premier website for rating books, films, and music. The English version, which is entirely Open Access and downloadable for free, was translated by David Ownby. The book reached 157,000 downloads in just over a couple of months.
Dr. Suvi Rautio is an anthropologist of China.
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Seit der Berliner Silvesternacht eskaliert der Diskurs um Integration. Warum wir uns endlich verabschieden müssen vom Phantasma der homogenen Gemeinschaft.
In Deutschland war es über die Feiertage eher zu warm. In Delhi derweil war es Anfang Januar sehr kalt. Eine Cold Wave. Das bedeutet, die Temperatur ist mehrere Tage hintereinander nachts unter 4…
Jesuit Father Greg Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industriesin East LA, the world’s largest and most successful gang intervention and rehabilitation program. He talks about this ministry and his “therapeutic mysticism” which has trained him to see God and God’s people. Father Greg (“Father G”) has no interest in categories and the games of exclusion that we humans often play; he says, “gang violence is about a lethal absence of hope.” His mission to the homies, therefore, is filled with faith, hope, and love and brings “the God who is tender, the God who is too busy loving us to be disappointed, the God who can’t take His eyes off of us.” That’s why it has been so effective.
· Here is the website of Homeboy Industries.
· Books by Fr. Greg (including New York Times bestseller, Tattoos on the Heart) are available from Amazon.com.
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Cannibalism has been used for centuries to define the lowest form of humanity, but the story isn’t as straightforward as it may seem. Turns out, there may be a logic – or even a love – to eating people.
Guests
- Emily Anderson, Curator of “Cannibalism: Myth & Reality”
- Bill Schutt, Author of Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
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Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality(Beacon Press, 2022) will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for a historically marginalized group to experience discrimination and also be discriminatory. Racism is deeply complex, and law professor and comparative race relations expert Tanya Katerí Hernández exposes “the Latino racial innocence cloak” that often veils Latino complicity in racism. As Latinos are the second-largest ethnic group in the US, this revelation is critical to dismantling systemic racism. Basing her work on interviews, discrimination case files, and civil rights law, Hernández reveals Latino anti-Black bias in the workplace, the housing market, schools, places of recreation, the criminal justice system, and Latino families.
By focusing on racism perpetrated by communities outside those of White non-Latino people, Racial Innocence brings to light the many Afro-Latino and African American victims of anti-Blackness at the hands of other people of color. Through exploring the interwoven fabric of discrimination and examining the cause of these issues, we can begin to move toward a more egalitarian society.
Anna E. Lindner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. On Twitter.
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Wir schreiben das Jahr 2023. Meine Finger huschen noch ein wenig ungelenk über die Tastatur. Zuvor habe ich lange auf das leere Blatt vor mir gestarrt und versucht, mich zu erinnern, wie das eigentlic…
I will be giving a book launch on my recent book on Gulf almanac lore via Zoom for the Qatar National Library on February 22, 2023. Details about registering for the talk are provided at https:/…
In this upcoming free live event, SAPIENS 2022 Poet-in-Residence Jason Vasser-Elong celebrates the end of his residency with a discussion of poetry as a dialogue across the ages.
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Hi all,Welcome to the first link review of 2023!Unfortunately, we start where we left off: The climate crisis, Afghan refugees, toxic UN work cultures & challenges around localization; Bangladesh, Ken…
Kurz nach 2.00 Uhr nachts bin ich letzte Woche in meiner Unterkunft in Delhi angekommen. Ich habe meine Sachen weggepackt, den Kühlschrank aufgemacht und da ist eine Wasserflasche rausgefallen. A…
Most people in developed countries think inequality is increasing. And most would also agree that in terms of the global poor, the last 20 years have seen vast improvements with hundreds of millions living much better lives than their parents. These are some of the themes Professor Mike Savage addresses in his book The Return of Inequality: Social change and the Weight of the Past (Harvard UP, 2021).
Owen Bennett-Jonesis a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press.
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What needs are satisfied in digital gaming? And what does the shift of these need satisfactions into the digital space say about the social realities in which they are embedded?
Harald Koberg lets gamers themselves have their say and follows their traces of the described fascinations and passions in his latest book Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness (Freies Spiel: Digitales Spielen und die Sehnsucht nach Wirkmächtigkeit). The answers found aim at experiences of efficacy: digital games and the communication spaces around them offer particular opportunities to experience one’s own decisions and actions as relevant and effective. It is not only about narrated stories and interactions with the game, but also about the rules and limits of communication, spaces of unfolding, self-dramatization, and norm-setting.
Using the examples of adolescent search for free spaces, insecure masculinity, and achievement society overload, Harald Koberg shows why critique of the medium of video games must focus on people and how much can be determined about larger social contexts along the way.
Rudolf Inderst is a professor of Game Design with a focus on Digital Game Studies at the IU International University of Applied Science, editor of “Game Studies Watchlist”, a weekly messenger newsletter about Game Culture and curator of @gamestudies at tiktok.
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A new year and a new column. As a reminder, this is a brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got i…
Der RatSWD (Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten https://www.konsortswd.de/ratswd/ ) informiert, dass die Registrierung zur Wahl für die 8. Berufungsperiode des Gremiums geöffnet ist.
Bisher sind wir …
Read full article here (in German)Schnepf, M. 2022. Chemisch-Werden: Verkörperte Momente urbaner Zugehörigkeit in Berlin. sub\urban: zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 10 (2/3): 17-42….
An archaeologist fascinated by a centurieslong memorial practice in Georgia considers how these unique gravestones reflect shared values and traditions—yet are sometimes destroyed in nationalist cultu…
Contemporary diet culture is only the latest manifestation of a long history of religious fervor about food.
Guests
- Isabel Foxen Duke, health coach
- Alan Levinovitz, Professor of Religious Studies at James Madison University
- Corrie Norman, Associate Director, Religious Studies at the University of
- Wisconsin-Madison
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Read Time:2 Minute, 47 Second En julio de 2022, el Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro acogió el estreno de «La Tof…
By Laura Elliff Cruz, Collections Manager, Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research
After teaching an SAR member class in early December, Caring for Your Personal Collections at Home:…
by Anna Maria Ritz, Sandro SimonZitiervorschlag: Ritz, Anna Maria und Sandro Simon (2023). Fluchtlinien der Erfahrung. Multimodale Widerspenstigkeit entlang der Siemensbahn Berlin. https://umwelt…
Fabio Parasecoli. Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics. Columbia University Press. New York: 2022. ISBN:9780231202077
Mary Black (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
Politics is no…
Am 1. Januar 2023 ist das Chancen-Aufenthaltsrecht in Kraft getreten. Die Situation der Geduldeten soll, wie im Koalitionsvertrag der Bundesregierung angekündigt, verbessert werden. Obwohl das Gesetz …
From 15 to 17 December 2022, the DFG Network “Anthropology and China(s)” convened its 3rd Conference in Zurich. The meeting continued the preparation of a book that reconsiders the place of regional a…
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From Critique to Political Practice12 May 2023, University of SussexDear colleagues,
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An archaeologist explains how new evidence stands to change what we thought about how ice age humans prepared food.
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished …
Der Krieg in der Ukraine ist nicht nur geografisch nah, sondern durch die Fülle an Filmaufnahmen direkt aus dem Kriegsgeschehen auch visuell. Welche Wirkungsweisen entfaltet diese neue technische Repr…
Welcome to 2023 and one of the first “proper” blog posts in a while-I hope more will follow this year!A few years ago there was a little bit of a hype in #globaldev and #ICT4D circles around the conce…
A coalition of educators believes that ChatGPT will kill the essay. But should we really fear the algorithms used in large language models? Anthropology has the generative potential to re-evaluate te…
Interview by Chris Ball
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Christopher Ball: Onscreen/Offscreen tracks Tamil film of the first decade and a half of the 2000s through analysis of di…
In zahlreichen Städten gab es zum Jahreswechsel Angriffe mit Feuerwerkskörpern auf Rettungs- und Sicherheitskräfte. Alleine in Berlin wurden mehr als hundert Menschen deswegen kurzzeitig inhaftiert, d…
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An anthropologist explores whether Lebanese turning to solar power is a story of resilience, environmental triumph, or something else.
✽I recently returned to Lebanon, where I have been doing ethnogr…
Knowing oysters? Photo by David BerissA quick reminder that the final deadline to submit proposals for the ASFS/AFHVS 2023 Conference is January 15! Click here for the submission site. The confere…
Page 99 of my thesis opens with an evocative image:
‘Sleepy Cloncurry, the scene of more unfulfilled promises than any other town in Australia, clung to its horses and its camels’.
This quote f…
Wer unserem Instagram-Account folgt, wundert sich vielleicht, was Brotgelehrte nun mit Sport zu tun hat.
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The future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on the country’s northeastern coast where Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people, have resided for over two hundred years. In The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras(Stanford UP, 2022), Christopher A. Loperena examines the Garifuna struggle for life and collective autonomy, and demonstrates how this struggle challenges concerted efforts by the state and multilateral institutions, such as the World Bank, to render both their lands and their culture into fungible tourism products. Using a combination of participant observation, courtroom ethnography, and archival research, Loperena reveals how purportedly inclusive tourism projects form part of a larger neoliberal, extractivist development regime, which remakes Black and Indigenous territories into frontiers of progress for the mestizo majority. The book offers a trenchant analysis of the ways Black dispossession and displacement are carried forth through the conferral of individual rights and freedoms, a prerequisite for resource exploitation under contemporary capitalism.
By demanding to be accounted for on their terms, Garifuna anchor Blackness to Central America—a place where Black peoples are presumed to be nonnative inhabitants—and to collective land rights. Steeped in Loperena’s long-term activist engagement with Garifuna land defenders, this book is a testament to their struggle and to the promise of “another world” in which Black and Indigenous peoples thrive.
Christopher A. Loperena is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. You can find the article discussed during this conversation, published in American Anthropologist, here.
Alize Arıcan is a Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar at Boston University, focusing on urban anthropology, futurity, care, and migration. Her work has been featured in Current Anthropology, City & Society, JOTSA, Radical Housing Journal, and entanglements. You can find her on Twitter @alizearican
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Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Praktikum im Bereich Marekting bei Men’s Health und Women’s Health (Stuttgart), eine Volo-Stelle beim Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V. (Köln) und ei…
Its’ time UBC’s senior administration apologize for claiming Indigenous ‘identity’ had no role in Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s appointment. Even if they might ‘technically’ be correct that it wasn’t a s…
La foto es de JONATHAN ALPEYRIE (EUROPA PRESS)Consideraciones para Cecilia Vergnano, antigua doctoranda, colega y amiga, enviadas en noviembre de 2022.Nada es irracionalManuel DelgadoEsto de que …
In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society(University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country’s global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations.
When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti’s Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti’s Founders indeed first defeated native Africans’ armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.
Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm.
Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven.
Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
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A principios de los 2000 inicié un breve periodo de colaboración con El Mundo. Publiqué dos o tres artículos. Este fue el último que les envié, escrito en relación no explícita con uno de los regulare…
Secret weapons sales (not so secret) and fancy dress panto season – really beyond the pale (white supremacy evil tricksters all). Justification here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/1…
Contemporary issues like the refugee crisis, climate refugees, and global restrictions on movement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have brought into stark relief the extent to which our movements, lives, and worldviews are governed by national borders and boundary-making. But these borders and their associated militarization and security infrastructures are a recent phenomenon, the legacy of 20th-century wars and colonialism. Modern borders are also often the result of complex, disputed negotiation processes between governments and other authorities, which rarely take into consideration the local populations living in border zones.
What happens when these modern border-making processes interact with nomadic peoples? How is pastoralism affected and circumscribed by nation-state borders and boundary regimes? This episode discusses histories of border formation in the modern Middle East in relation to nomadic pastoralists – the Bedouin – specifically in Iraq and Israel. I talked to a range of scholars working on these topics, and you’ll hear from them throughout the episode. We also talk about the effects of these borders on the Bedouin today, as well as evidence for Bedouin alternatives to borders and maps.
Music in this episode: Desert City by Kevin MacLeod. License.
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In ihrem Buch “Sag mir nicht, wer ich bin” setzt sich die Journalistin Julia Wadhawan mit (ihrer Beziehung zu) Indien auseinander. Ich hatte mir nicht viel von dem Buch erwartet und war positiv ü…
In a recent article published in World Development, we drew on newly available data to calculate that India suffered 50-165 million excess deaths during the mortality crisis of 1881-1920 (depe…
In Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety(Stanford UP, 2022), Daniel White draws on extensive fieldwork in government ministries and government-adjacent organizations to explore Japan’s current “politics of anxiety,” the ways in which state administrators have transformed anxieties about Japan’s global geopolitical status into future-oriented programs of national branding and revitalization based on a narrowly defined vision of pop-culture as synecdoche and savior. Examining the so-called “Cool Japan” soft-power strategy and policymaking decisions to nominate anime favorite Doraemon as a cultural ambassador and icons of young women’s culture as “Ambassadors of Cute,” White shows that the anxieties driving Japan’s administrators are disseminated into the culture broadly. He also pays close attention to the gender politics of these campaigns and the instrumentalization of women as agents of national branding and soft-power politics.
Nathan Hopson is an associate professor of Japanese language and history in the University of Bergen’s Department of Foreign Languages.
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Against the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today’s world, civil societies remain vibrant, animated by people’s belief that they should and can solve such issues and build a better society. Their imagination of a good society, their understanding of their engagement, and the ways they choose to act constitute the cultural aspect of civil society.
Central to this cultural aspect of civil society is the “culture of democracy,” including normative values, individual interpretations, and interaction norms pertaining to features of a democratic society, such as civility, independence, and solidarity. The culture of democracy varies in different contexts and faces challenges, but it shapes civic actions, alters political and social processes, and thus is the soul of modern civil societies.
The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (Polity Press, 2022) provides the first systematic survey of the cultural sociology of civil society and offers a committed global perspective. It shows that, as everyone is eager to have their voice heard, cultural sociology can serve as an “art of listening,” a thoroughly empirical approach that takes ideas, meanings, and opinions seriously, for people to contemplate significant theoretical and public issues.
Rituparna Patgiri is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the areas of food, media, gender and public. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology. Patgiri can be reached at @Rituparna37 on Twitter.
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My favourite Warramiri (?) story from Arnhem Land is of a maths teacher out on a river one time teaching kids to measure distances – how far to from the canoe to the river edge, how far to that…
«Vi blir daglig minnet om at flere typer kunnskap trengs for å forstå og håndtere verdens kompleksitet», skriver Thomas Hylland Eriksen i et essay i Morgenbladet, og han fortsetter: «Det vil…
Als ich mit 14 Jahren in Indien war, war ich von den drei Wochen gefühlt drei Wochen krank. Ich bewegte mich zwischen Bett und Toilette und fühlte mich elend. Seitdem passe ich sehr darauf a…
Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture that appears to feed on murder and brutality while being fed by a romanticism about power and capital.
Carlos Alberto Sánchez uses Mexican narco-culture as a point of departure for thinking about the nature and limits of violence, culture, and personhood. A Sense of Brutality. Philosophy after Narco-Culture(Amherst College Press, 2020) argues that violent cultural modalities, of which narco-culture is but one, call into question our understanding of “violence” as a concept. The reality of narco-violence suggests that “violence” itself is insufficient to capture it, that we need to redeploy and reconceptualize “brutality” as a concept that better captures this reality. Brutality is more than violence, other to cruelty, and distinct from horror and terror–all concepts that are normally used interchangeably with brutality, but which, as the analysis suggests, ought not to be. In narco-culture, the normalization of brutality into everyday life is a condition upon which the absolute erasure or derealization of people is made possible
This book is available open access here.
Host Pamela Fuentes historian and editor of New Books Network en español.
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A Waffle House in Columbus, Ohio (Photo By Andrew Mitchel)Andrew Mitchel and Laurie K. Smith
The Ohio State University
Waffle House occupies a distinct space in the American culinary imaginary. …
Auf dem Weg zum Kolloquium gehe ich an der Goel(a) Lane vorbei.
In der Nähe meiner Wohnung könnte ich in der Goel Gift Gallery einkaufen.
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This is the story of Samira the Snail. Together with various other animals and plants, she lives in a small village near the forest. Samira wants to build a new house for hersel…
In the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, fishing communities have become part of a complex “assemblage” of human and natural worlds shaped by the global fossil fuel industry.
✽We cut the engine as the …
Das Landesverfassungsgericht hat beschlossen, dass in Berlin sowohl die Wahlen für die Bezirke als auch für das Land wiederholt werden müssen. Wiederholt heisst, dass die gleichen Kandi…
Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France(U Chicago Press, 2021) shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France.
Jazz manouche—a genre known best for its energetic, guitar-centric swing tunes—is among France’s most celebrated musical practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It centers on the recorded work of famed guitarist Django Reinhardt and is named for the ethnoracial subgroup of Romanies (also known, often pejoratively, as “Gypsies”) to which Reinhardt belonged. French Manouches are publicly lauded as bearers of this jazz tradition, and many take pleasure and pride in the practice while at the same time facing pervasive discrimination. Jazz manouche uncovers a contradiction at the heart of France’s assimilationist republican ideals: the music is portrayed as quintessentially French even as Manouches themselves endure treatment as racial others.
In Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France (U Chicago Press, 2021), Siv B. Lie explores how this music is used to construct divergent ethnoracial and national identities in a context where discussions of race are otherwise censured. Weaving together ethnographic and historical analysis, Lie shows that jazz manouche becomes a source of profound ambivalence as it generates ethnoracial difference and socioeconomic exclusion. As the first full-length ethnographic study of French jazz to be published in English, this book enriches anthropological, ethnomusicological, and historical scholarship on global jazz, race and ethnicity, and citizenship while showing how music can be an important but insufficient tool in struggles for racial and economic justice.
Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi’i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com.
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An anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins of why so many people seem practically programmed to love sugar.
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished…
As of 1 January, my blog will be 22 years old. I have achieved this significant landmark by continuing to pay my hosting fees and then not blogging.
Seriously, though, earlier this year I tried to…
«Fortellingen om ulvebarna er en fortelling om menneskearten.» (Klassekampen 31.12.2022)
Sakset fra Klassekampen: «ULVEBARN: Romulus og Remus, som grunnla Roma, ble oppdratt av e…
Two archaeologists show how investigating tactics, weaponry, and the logistics of battle helps answer questions about social conflict in the human experience.
✽Arresting trails of light arc across th…
Seit mindestens 40 Jahren sieht diese Strasse in Karlsruhe in etwa so aus. Eine Strasse die im Namen die französische Partnerstadt ehrt, ist schon immer ein Provisorium. Sie sollte einer grossen …
Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary nature between anthropology and Christianity. Both sociocultural anthropology and theology have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of human experience and the place of humanity in the world. But can these two disciplines, despite the radical differences that separate them, work together to transform their thinking on these topics?
In Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life (Oxford UP, 2020), Joel Robbins argues that they can. To make this point, he draws on key theological discussions of atonement, eschatology, interruption, passivity, and judgement to rethink important anthropological debates about such topics as ethical life, radical change, the ways people live in time, agency, gift-giving, and the nature of humanity. The result is both a major reconsideration of important aspects of anthropological theory through theological categories and a series of careful readings of influential theologians such as Moltmann, Pannenberg, Jüngel, and Dalferth informed by rich ethnographic accounts of the lives of Christians from around the world.
In conclusion, Robbins draws on contemporary secularism discussions to interrogate anthropology’s secular foundations and suggests that the differences between anthropology and theology surrounding this topic can provide a foundation for transformative dialogue between them rather than being an obstacle to it.
Tiatemsu Longkumer is a Ph.D. scholar working on ‘Anthropology of Religion’ at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong: India.
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Interview by Jeremy A. Rud
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Quote as: Tess, Margherita, Bartsch, Jan, Ködding-Zurmühlen, Oleg, Langbein, Atidh Jonas and Cornelia Ertl (2023). Choreographies of Unruliness. https://umweltethnologie.com/2023/01/02/choreographies…
Quote as: Eitel, Kathrin, Klaas, Franziska and Jeanine E. Dağyeli (2023). Identifying care-utilization relations through unruly sites at the public park Gleisdreieck in Berlin. https://umweltethnolog…
Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series.
In this episode, our host Juan Llamas-Rodriguez discusses the book The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power (2022) by Dr. Lilie Chouliaraki and Dr. Myria Georgiou.
You’ll hear about:
- What The Digital Border is about, its importance, and its implication;
- How the authors’ previous works helped build the foundation for writing this book collaboratively;
- Why and how the authors chose to focus on specific forms of media such as social media and journalism;
- A discussion of humanitarian securitization vis a vis entrepreneurial securitization;
- How to understand the theoretical shift from the “crisis of migration” to the “crisis of responsibility”;
- How do we contend the different temporalities of resistance as various actors produce or respond to border technologies and infrastructures;
- As the displacement of people are intensifying, what frameworks and toolkits can be useful for us to rethink global migration against the “crisis of imaginary” (imaginary as a representational framework that people normatively think about certain issues);
- What are the futures of globalization and its counter movements in Global North from the perspectives of migration and bordering;
- What are the areas the authors wish to further explore in the future.
About the book
What is the role of digital technologies is shaping migration today? How do digital infrastructures, platforms, and institutions control the flow of people at the border? And how do they also control the public narratives of migration as a “crisis”? Finally, how do migrants themselves use these same platforms to speak back and make themselves heard in the face of hardship and hostility? Taking their case studies from the biggest migration event of the twenty-first century in the West, the 2015 European migration “crisis” and its aftermath up to 2020, Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou offer a holistic account of the digital border as an expansive assemblage of technological infrastructures (from surveillance cameras to smartphones) and media imaginaries (stories, images, social media posts) to tell the story of migration as it unfolds in Europe’s outer islands as much as its most vibrant cities. You can find this book on the NYU Press website.
Authors:
Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, where she also serves as the department’s Doctoral Program Director.
Myria Georgiou is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, where she also serves as Research Director.
Host: Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is an assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, where he researches and teaches global media cultures, digital technologies, border studies, infrastructure studies, and Latin American media.
Editor & Producer: Jing Wang is Senior Research Manager at CARGC at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
Our podcast is part of the multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media and communication. We aim to bridge academic scholarship and public life, bringing the very best scholarship to bear on enduring global questions and pressing contemporary issues.
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Das Team von Brotgelehrte wünscht allen Leser*innen ein frohes neues Jahr 2023!
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. viele verschiedene Studi-Stellen auf dem Tollwood Festival (München), ein Praktikum…
Året är 2021 men det nya året närmar sig med stormsteg. Ett nytt år, en ny början. Jag sätter mig ner med en packe kort, närmare bestämt tarotkort som illustrerats i den klassiska Rider Waite-stilen, …
Here’s a New Year’s Resolution for everyone for 2023: Question everything about how we teach, do research, and select students or job applicants.
– Question grades
– Question …
The Future Sudan Campaign reviewed the published details of the signing of the so-called framework agreement between General Abdel Fattah …
A special bonus episode in honor of the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25, 2021! One of the most-nominated films at this year’s Oscars is “Nomadland,” adapted from a book of the same name by journalist Jessica Bruder. “Nomadland” is about a 21st-century American phenomenon – the post-2008 increase in (mostly elderly) people who practice “vandwelling,” living in vans, trucks, or other mobile housing and traveling the country in search of seasonal jobs. This episode talks about the characteristics of this nomadic community, how they adhere to an anthropological definition of the term “nomad,” and nomadism in US history.
Desert City by Kevin MacLeod. License.
All other sounds courtesy of the BBC Sound Archive.
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In 2013, the Journal of Burma Studies published an article titled “An Introduction to Wa Studies.” It seems that even within the last decade the Wa, an upland people living predominantly on what is today the Burma-China frontier, still needed to be introduced to other scholars of the region. Magnus Fiskesjö, the article’s author, began with the caveat that it was by no means complete and was intended only by way of brief introduction. But the article held out the promise of more, and now its author has delivered, with Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture (Berghahn, 2021). In this episode, Magnus joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss everything from rice beer to silver mining, opium production and warfare, the tension between the Wa egalitarian ethos and practices of slave holding, and the present and possible future conditions for a people on the periphery of mainland Southeast Asia in an age of intolerant ethno-nationalism.
Like this interview? If so you might also be interested in:
- Holly High, Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village
- Jane Ferguson, Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand and a Nation-State Deferred
- James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Nick Cheesman is Associate Professor, Department of Political & Social Change, Australian National University and Senior Fellow, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo (Fall 2022). He hosts the New Books in Interpretive Political & Social Science series on the New Books Network.
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این مطلب در ۸ بهمن ۱۳۹۸ در همین وبگاه منتشر و اکنون در تاریخ ۱۰ دی ماه ۱۴۰۱ بازنشر میشود.
تصویر: دبلیو یو اچ ریوورز
نوشته فردریک بارث برگردان و تلخیص محسن حجاریان
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آدمیان، مؤلفههای تأسیس پایدار و با دوام …
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I wrote my first book as a critique of charity work in Kolkata, India. I attempted a critique of western ‘charity’ workers helping those they saw as the ‘unfortunates’ in clas…
Depression:
I am no expert on depression, at all, but I also note that over the last two decades it has become a more visible topic of discussion in Western circles as well as Southeast Asia ̵…
Norskfaget er kanskje det viktigaste faget i skulen og har blitt kalla «alle fags mor». Faget er ein sentral møtestad for alle elevar frå det første året i grunnskolen til det siste året i vidaregåan…
In his new book,Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space(MIT Press, 2022), Mathew Gandy explores urban nature as a multilayered material and symbolic entity. The book examines the articulation of alternative, and in some cases, counterhegemonic, sources of knowledge about urban nature produced by artists, writers, scientists, as well as curious citizens, including voices seldom heard in environmental discourse. The book is driven by Dr. Gandy’s long-standing fascination with spontaneous forms of urban nature ranging from postindustrial wastelands brimming with life to the return of such predators as wolves and leopards on the urban fringe. Dr. Gandy develops a critical synthesis between different strands of urban ecology and considers whether “urban political ecology,” broadly defined, might be imaginatively extended to take fuller account of both the historiography of the ecological sciences, and recent insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.
In this episode, Tayeba Batool talks to Dr. Mathew Gandy about his inspiration to write this book, and how an attention to spontaneous ecologies adds to the critical discourse on “new cultures of nature” and the “constellation” of diverse ecological relations, ideas, and assemblages. Moving beyond planned urban spaces (such as parks), Dr. Gandy argues that an attention to the “marginal or interstitial spaces of urban nature” or wastelands brings forward the most compelling assemblages of relations, biodiversity, and life in cities. The conversation also highlights the role of language in setting up taxonomic borders and ideological agendas for species and diversity, and advocates caution against global theories of urban change. Dr. Gandy also shares his thoughts on future direction of urban political ecology and how the book innovates across disciplines of botany, geography, cultural history, and urban studies.
You can also learn more about his film project, “Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin” here.
Dr. Mathew Gandy is Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography and Fellow of King’s College at University of Cambridge. Tayeba Batool is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tayeba Batool is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania
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by Peter Versteeg
“Apology” is another word for acknowledgment
Acknowledging the past, but not just any kind of past
It is a formal word for a moral occasion
No emotion, no affection
It is…
(June Fog, photo by Zoe Todd)2 years and 11 months ago, I posted my last entry on this website: https://anthrodendum.org/2020/01/27/an-answer/
What I didn’t know then, on January 27, 2020, was …
Semana de Arte Moderna Poster,
São Paulo, 1922This year marks the centenary of São Paulo’s 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna (Week of Modern Art).[1]Funding for this article was provided by the Alexan…
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This episode looks at the main types and categories of nomads, how they live, and the similarities and differences between them.
Music in this episode: Desert City by Kevin MacLeod. License.
All other sounds courtesy of the BBC Sound Effects Archive.
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What roles do things play in the context of forced migration? How do things become a vital source in the constitution of a sense of (new) home? Which promises, emotions, hopes, and expectations do the…
Det är den 21 december, årets mörkaste dag. Tanken på att julafton bara är tre dagar borta borde göra julstämningen påtaglig. Men så är det inte för barnen i Nedervetil i Österbotten – där är man ner…
Like Canada, Brazil, the whole of Africa, and many other places in the world, Cameroon has the combination of indigenous people and a special fondness for big industry. In Brazil, it’s all about the …
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. To keep practit…
Page 99 ends my verbatim account of broken dialogue in an anti-gentrification rally in Leimert Park, Los
Angeles in 2017. This third of a page consists of three references to Marilyn Strathern’s work,…
In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture(Routledge, 2019),Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. Life in Citationsprovides a close reading of these narratives, along with works by contemporary Hebrew Israeli artists that respond to them. Together they read as a modern commentary on life with text, or even life under the rule of its verses, to answer questions like: How can we explain the fascination and intense identification of Israelis with the Bible? What does it mean to live in such close proximity with the Bible, and What kind of story can such a life tell?
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پرسش اساسی که این یادداشت در پی پاسخ به آن است اینکه: آیا در بحرانهای اجتماعی، جنگها، شورشهای بزرگ، آشوبهای عمومیتیافته، فعالیتهای فرهنگی و در اینجا به طور خاص، سینما، میتوانند و یا الزام دارند…
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کتاب گفتمانها و خانوادهی ایرانی: جامعهشناسی الگوهای خانواده، پس از مناقشههای مدرنیته در ایران نوشتهی «سهیلا صادقی» و «ایمان عرفانیمنش»، توسط مؤسسهی انتشارات دانشگاه تهران در سال ۱۳۹…
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ما چگونه با فقدان عزیزانمان روبرو میشویم؟ مرگ پدر و مادر و دیگر عزیزانمان را چگونه تاب میآوریم؟ چه اتفاقی میافتد که…
در این نوشتار، بهنحو مختصر، به ارائه آراء و اندیشههای خانم دکتر آن کیهیل، دارای درجۀ استادی کامل دانشگاه الون امریکا دربارۀ زیبایی زنانه در دو دیدگاه مختلف فمنیستی به زبان غیرفلسفی میپردازم. درحقی…
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On July 31 this year Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery opened in Santa Fe at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. The exhibition, curated by the Pueblo Pottery Collective and organize…
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The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvarying landscape fails to consider a significant community at its very heart. Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest (NYU Press, 2022) uncovers the long history of Muslims in a part of the country where many readers would not expect to find them.
Edward E. Curtis IV, a descendant of Syrian Midwesterners, vividly portrays the intrepid men and women who busted sod on the short-grass prairies of the Dakotas, peddled needles and lace on the streets of Cedar Rapids, and worked in the railroad car factories of Michigan City. This intimate portrait follows the stories of individuals such as farmer Mary Juma, pacifist Kassem Rameden, poet Aliya Hassen, and bookmaker Kamel Osman from the early 1900s through World War I, the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and World War II. Its story-driven approach places Syrian Americans at the center of key American institutions like the assembly line, the family farm, the dance hall, and the public school, showing how the first two generations of Midwestern Syrians created a life that was Arab, Muslim, and American, all at the same time.
Muslims of the Heartland recreates what the Syrian Muslim Midwest looked, sounded, felt, and smelled like—from the allspice-seasoned lamb and rice shared in mosque basements to the sound of the trains on the Rock Island Line rolling past the dry goods store. It recovers a multicultural history of the American Midwest that cannot be ignored.
Joseph Stuart is a scholar of African American history, particularly of the relationship between race, freedom rights, and religion in the twentieth century Black Freedom Movement.
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Will Wilson, William Wilson, citizen of the Navajo Nation, trans-customary Diné artist, 2012.
Will Wilson, the Santa Fe-based Navajo photographer and 2013 Rollin and Mary Ella King Artist Fell…
This panel was convened by Ida Susser at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2022 – Unsettling Landscapes. It builds on the workshop Vision and Method in Anthropology: Forty…
Ich hatte eine lange Wartezeit auf dem Flughafen in Delhi. Und bin da natürlich auch auf Toilette gegangen. Mit meiner Mütze auf dem Kopf und der Maske davor (siehe Foto am 18.12.22). Da spr…
Last spring, I began work with the open access advocacy group, Libraria, as a Community Convener to help organize a mutual aid network amongst a group of open access publications in anthropology and a…
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With the end of Robert Weiner’s compelling presentation about the roads of Chaco Canyon on December 14, we successfully concluded SAR’s 2022 Resident Sc…
On November 3, 2022, SAR President Michael F. Brown presented the 2022 J.I. Staley Prize to J. Lorand Matory, Duke University, at an event in Durham, North Carolina, hosted by Duke’s School of A…
Vid en kaffepaus diskuterade vi nyligen traditioner och begreppet tradition. Ann-Helen Sund kommenterade att hon nyligen läst en artikel som handlade om skapandet av julstämning. Jag sökte fram artike…
Qatar, an ambitious country in the Arabian Gulf, grabbed headlines as the first Middle Eastern nation selected to host the FIFA World Cup. As the wealthiest country in the world—and one of the fastest-growing – it is known for its capital, Doha, which boasts a striking, futuristic skyline.
In Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization (NYU Press, 2022), Geoff Harkness takes us beyond the headlines, providing a fresh perspective on modern-day life in the increasingly visible Gulf. Drawing on three years of immersive fieldwork and more than a hundred interviews, he describes a country in transition, one struggling to negotiate the fluid boundaries of culture, tradition, and modernity.
Harkness shows how Qataris reaffirm – and challenge – traditions in many areas of everyday life, from dating and marriage, to clothing and humour, to gender and sports. A cultural study of citizenship in modern Qatar, this book offers an illuminating portrait that cannot be found elsewhere.
Rituparna Patgiri is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the areas of food, media, gender and public. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology. Patgiri can be reached at @Rituparna37 on Twitter.
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GdG geht in die Winterpause: Zum Jahresende legen auch wir die Füße hoch. Wir verabschieden uns mit Lektüretipps. Für den Fall, dass Ihnen bis zum 8. Januar der Lesestoff ausgeht oder Sie noch auf der…
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective.
Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, which migrated from psychology to design with Donald Norman’s influential 1988 book, How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things(MIT Press, 2020), offers a useful analytical tool in technology studies—but, Jenny L. Davis argues in How Artifacts Afford, it is in need of a conceptual update. Davis provides just such an update, introducing the mechanisms and conditions framework, which offers both a vocabulary and necessary critical perspective for affordance analyses.
The mechanisms and conditions framework shifts the question from what objects afford to how objects afford, for whom, and under what circumstances. Davis shows that through this framework, analyses can account for the power and politics of technological artifacts. She situates the framework within a critical approach that views technology as materialized action. She explains how request, demand, encourage, discourage, refuse, and allow are mechanisms of affordance, and shows how these mechanisms take shape through variable conditions—perception, dexterity, and cultural and institutional legitimacy.
Putting the framework into action, Davis identifies existing methodological approaches that complement it, including critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA), app feature analysis, and adversarial design. In today’s rapidly changing sociotechnical landscape, the stakes of affordance analyses are high. Davis’s mechanisms and conditions framework offers a timely theoretical reboot, providing tools for the crucial tasks of both analysis and design.
Jenny L. Davis is Associate Professor of Sociology at Australian National University.
Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is on media representations of people and place at festivals and celebrations. He is currently working on his next book where he conducted research on an annual canoeing and kayaking event that takes place on the Upper Mississippi River. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu.
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Can the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion, especially work in “theory and method,” is preoccupied with matters of research procedure and thus inarticulate about the goals that motivate scholarship in the field. For that reason, the field suffers from a crisis of rationale. Richard B. Miller identifies six prevailing methodologies in the field, and then offers an alternative framework for thinking about the purposes of the discipline. Shadowing these various methodologies, he notes, is a Weberian scientific ideal for studying religion, one that aspires to value-neutrality. This ideal fortifies a “regime of truth” that undercuts efforts to think normatively and teleologically about the field’s purpose and value. Miller’s alternative framework, Critical Humanism, theorizes about the ends rather than the means of humanistic scholarship.
Why Study Religion? (Oxford UP, 2021) offers an account of humanistic inquiry that is held together by four values: Post-critical Reasoning, Social Criticism, Cross-cultural Fluency, and Environmental Responsibility. Ordered to such purposes, Miller argues, scholars of religion can relax their commitment to matters of methodological procedure and advocate for the value of studying religion. The future of religious studies will depend on how well it can articulate its goals as a basis for motivating scholarship in the field.
David Gottlieb is the Director of Jewish Studies at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago. He is the author of Second Slayings: The Binding of Isaac and the Formation of Jewish Memory (Gorgias Press, 2019).
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Pollution is Colonialism (Liboiron 2021) uses plastics to trace pollution in fish stomachs in Newfoundland while showing how this pollution is embedded in bad “land…
Keith Hart. Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022. 314 pp., appendix, bibliography, index.
Editor’s note: This response to Keith Hart’s new book was presen…
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Ich habe mir kürzlich eine schön knallig orange Kurta gekauft. Als ich damit im Büro auftauchte, kommentierten zwei indische Kolleginnen die Farbe der Kurta. Erst ganz unauffällig,…
“Page no.297: ‘Een Jonk van Palimban.’ (Junk from Palimban on present day Sumatra, Indonesia). A scene that took place near Pulo Condore / Con Son Island an Island off the South Vie…
Page 99 of my dissertation begins with a passport photograph taken of me in 2016, juxtaposed with a purikura photograph taken in the same year.
Purikura, a colloquialism for “print club” (puri…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Volontariat beim Carlsen Verlag, eine Stelle als Bildungsreferentin beim Weltfriedensdienst und eine Stelle als Vorstand ‘Mensch und Soziales’ bei Pr…
I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point the anthropological community that used to be online shifted mostly to Twitter and other platforms. Maybe this was around 2015-2017 or so? I shifted th…
The Familiar Strange · Ep #101: When Anthropology Strikes Back: Strikes & Casualisation in Academia This week we’re back for a really important panel. This week, Familiar Strangers Lachlan, …
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Catálogo de la exposición Construyendo democracia, Fundación Chirivella Soriano, Valencia, 2015, pp. 70-75. BAJAR…
Freitagabend habe ich meine Unterkunft in Delhi verlassen. Der Angestellte, der mich zum Tor herausliess, schaute sich um und fragte verwundert: “No Car?” Meine Antwort, dass ich die Metro nehmen w&uu…
By Thiago Pinto Barbosa. 156 million Brazilians were called to vote on the last Sunday of October. It was the second round of the presidential elections: Brazilians had to decide between the far-righ…
What worlds take root in war? In A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (U California Press, 2022), anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war. A Landscape of War takes us to frontline villages where armed invasions, indiscriminate bombings, and scattered land mines have become the environment where everyday life is waged. This book dwells with multispecies partnerships such as tobacco farming and goatherding that carry life through seasons of destruction. Neither green-tinged utopia nor total devastation, these ecologies make life possible in an insistently deadly region. Sourcing an anthropology of war from where it is lived, this book decolonizes distant theories of war and brings to light creative practices forged in the midst of ongoing devastation. In lyrical prose that resonates with imperiled conditions across the Global South, Khayyat paints a portrait of war as a place where life must go on.
Eyad Houssami makes theatre and has participated in the revitalization of an ancient organic farm in southern Lebanon. He is editor of the Arabic-English book Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre (Pluto Press/Dar Al Adab) and was editor-at-large of Portal 9, a bilingual literary and academic journal about urbanism. His doctoral research project on ecology and agriculture in post-independence Lebanon at the University of Leeds and this work are supported by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/R012733/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities.
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Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022) examines British anthropology’s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs. He focuses on the importance of establishing credible witnesses of spirit and psychic phenomena in the writings of anthropologists such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Edward Burnett Tylor, Andrew Lang, and Edward Clodd. The book draws on major themes, such as the historical relationship between science and religion, the history of scientific observation, and the emergence of the subfield of anthropology of religion in the second half of the nineteenth century. For secularists such as Tylor and Clodd, spiritualism posed a major obstacle in establishing the legitimacy of the theory of animism: a core theoretical principle of anthropology founded in the belief of “primitive cultures” that spirits animated the world, and that this belief represented the foundation of all religious paradigms. What becomes clear through this nuanced examination of Victorian anthropology is that arguments involving spirits or psychic forces usually revolved around issues of evidence, or lack of it, rather than faith or beliefs or disbeliefs.
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Buchtipp: Mit Freude lehrenMit der Lehre ist es für viele ein Spagat. Auf der einen Seite lehren viele Kolleg*innen sehr gern, empfinden die Resonanz der Studierenden als fachliche und persönlich…
Putins Atomdrohung löste im Westen ganz unterschiedliche Reaktionen aus: Angst, Kopfschütteln und neue Bekenntnisse zum „nuklearen Tabu“. Ein Blick in die Geschichte der Atomdrohungen seit 1953 zeigt,…
این مظلب در پژوهشهای انسانشناسی ایران سال ۱، شمارۀ ۱ بهار و تابستان ۱۳۹۰، صص ۵۹- ۳۵ منتشر شده است و اکنون برای بار دوم در انسانشناسی و فرهنگ بازنشر میشود. بار اول این مطلب در ۱۳ آذر ۱۳۹۸ منتشر شده…
When viewed through the context of an interactive play, a video game player fulfills the roles of both actor and spectator, watching and influencing a game’s story in real time. This book presents video gaming as a virtual medium for performance, scrutinizing the ways in which a player’s interaction with the narrative informs personal, historical, social and cultural understanding.
Centering the author’s own experiences as both video game player and performance scholar, The Performance of Video Games: Enacting Identity, History and Culture Through Play (McFarland, 2022) thoroughly applies concepts from theatre and performance studies. Chapters argue that the posthuman player position now challenges what can be contextualized as a lived experience, and how video games can change players’ relationships with historical events and contemporary concerns, ultimately impacting how they develop a sense of self.
Using the author’s own gaming experiences as a framework, the book focuses on the intersection between player and narrative, exploring what engagement with a storyline reveals about identity and society.
Rudolf Inderst is a professor of Game Design with a focus on Digital Game Studies at the IU International University of Applied Science, editor of “Game Studies Watchlist”, a weekly messenger newsletter about Game Culture and curator of @gamestudies at tiktok.
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Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman (Cornell UP, 2021) explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari’a Imamate (1913–1958) to a modern nation state from 1970 onwards.
Since its inception as a nation state, material forms in the Sultanate of Oman—such as old mosques and shari’a manuscripts, restored forts, national symbols such as the coffee pot or the dagger (khanjar), and archaeological sites—have saturated the landscape, becoming increasingly ubiquitous as part of a standardized public and visual memorialization of the past. Oman’s expanding heritage industry, exemplified by the boom in museums, exhibitions, street montages, and cultural festivals, shapes a distinctly national geography and territorialized narrative.
But Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern demonstrates there are consequences to this celebration of heritage. As the national narrative conditions the way people ethically work on themselves through evoking forms of heritage, it also generates anxieties and emotional sensibilities that seek to address the erasures and occlusions of the past.
Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi’i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com.
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در برابر اتحاد شی و بن سلمان علیه دولت ایران، شاید بسیار شگفتزده شده باشند، شاید گروهی هم خشمناک. واکنش سیاسی دولت، در شرایطی که خود بحرانی درونی را تجربه میکند و بیش از هر زمانی در مقابل تحریمهای …
بحث امروز درباره «دیگری» و نسبت آن با هویت «ما» است. مفهوم «دیگری» بسیار کلی و کلان است و آن را در بسیاری حوزهها میتوان دنبال کرد، ولی مطالعات فعلی نشان میدهد که «دیگری» مقولهای اصلی در حیات اجتما…
معرفی عمومی
کتاب مسائل اجتماعی نوشتهی «جان مشونیس»، توسط هوشنگ نائبی ترجمه شده و ناشر آن پژوهشگاه فرهنگ، هنر و ارتباطات است.
این کتاب در ۲ جلد، ۵ بخش و ۱۷ فصل نگاشته شده است. به لحاظ بخشبندی، جلد او…
El planeta es el mejor reciclador.
Cada átomo de carbono, fósforo o nitrógeno que obtiene el planeta a través del vulcanismo, lo recicla entre un 99,5 y un 99,8% antes de que vuelva a incorporarse de …
Hi all,This is the final weekly #globaldev post for 2022. A special section on ‘localization’ & articles on EA, greenwashing & countries like Haiti or DRC in crisis all resonate with another year comi…
15 sogenannte „Benin-Bronzen“ aus Deutschland kehren jetzt nach Nigeria zurück, allein zehn davon aus dem Bestand des Ethnologischen Museums. Mit dieser Rückgabe endet nicht nur eine jahrhundertealte…
Kurz vor dem Weihnachtsfest sind sicherlich noch viele auf der Suche nach einem inspirierenden Geschenk, vielleicht sogar mit Bezug zur Goethe-Universität. Wir hätten da eine Idee: Wie wär’s mit einem…
How far did post-UNTAC Cambodia exemplified an expanded Habermasian public sphere? What happened when a range of aid agencies, private donors, activists and academics showed up with all sorts of competing agendas for educational and cultural projects? In conversation with Duncan McCargo, former Center for Khmer Studies director Philippe Peycam discusses his book reflecting on Cambodia’s first decade following the new millennium, and explains (inter alia) why he has so much admiration for librarians and publishers.
Cultural Renewal in Cambodia: Academic Activism in the Neoliberal Era(Brill and ISEAS, 2020) narrates the establishment of a cultural project in post-war Cambodia. It depicts a country at the crossroads of conflicting imaginaries, and shows through the story of the first decade of the Center for Khmer Studies how the neoliberal agenda of ‘northern’ academic institutions effectively constrained alternative ‘southern’ visions of development.
Philippe Peycam is the director of the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden. He served as director of the Center for Khmer Studies from 1999 to 2009; https://www.iias.asia/profile/…
Duncan McCargo is director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and a professor of political science at the University of Copenhagen.
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Die Ausgabe 147 der Zeitschrift für Ethnologie│Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology enthält die folgenden Artikel:
Special Section: Fieldwork Meets Crisis
(Ed. by Mirco Göpfert, Andrea Behrends…
By
Sonia Dhanda
PhD Anthropology
On 14–25 November 2022, government representatives from over 160 countries convened in Panama City for solutions to the biodiversity crisis and negotiations on w…
“What’s your Nation?” That’s one of the first questions I got asked in the First Nations Longhouse shortly after I was hired at UBC in 1996. I’d been invited to a board meeting with other Indigenous s…
Written by Paloma López, Educator, Indian Arts Research Center
Sunday, November 6 was Film Day at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC). The School for Advanced Research (SAR) and MIAC teamed…
On a cold and rainy December night, the School for Advanced Research (SAR) welcomed sixty members of the Presi…
This year, DEI went into the holiday season by introducing the recently published Special Issue “Across Mobile Online and Offline Spaces: Reflections on Methods, Practices, and Ethics” (ed. by K…
In meinem Forschungsprojekt zur Anwerbung von Krankenschwestern aus Kerala geht es auch um deren Ehemänner und damit um Männlichkeit. Und so bekam ich schon bei meinen ersten Gesprächen…
Why do we feel the need to belong, and what happens when we don’t? This episode explores:
- What it takes to belong.
- Why it physically hurts to be excluded.
- How perspective-gathering can help create more inclusion.
- A Discussion of the book Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides.
Today’s book is: Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides, by Dr. Geoffrey Cohen, which explores how we became so alienated from one another, the physical and emotional costs of exclusion, and what we can do to create belonging even in polarized times. Dr. Cohen applies his and others’ groundbreaking research to offer solutions for improving daily life at work, in school, in our homes, and in our communities. We all feel a deep need to belong, but most of us don’t fully appreciate that need in others. Small acts of connection such as reflecting on our core values, and a suite of practices that Cohen defines as “situation-crafting,” can lessen polarization, improve performance in school and work, and unleash the potential in ourselves and in our relationships.
Our guest is: Professor Geoffrey Cohen, whose research examines processes that shape people’s sense of belonging and self and implications for social problems. He studies the big and small threats to belonging and self-integrity that people encounter in school, work, and health care settings, and strategies to create more inclusive spaces for people from all walks of life. He believes that the development of psychological theory is facilitated not only by descriptive and observational research but by theory-driven intervention. He has long been inspired by Kurt Lewin’s quip, “The best way to try to understand something is to try to change it.”
Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender.
Listeners to this episode may also be interested in:
- Brady, S. T., Cohen, G. L., Jarvis, S. N., & Walton, G. M. (2020). A brief social-belonging intervention in college improves adult outcomes for black Americans. Science Advances, 6(18), eaay3689.
- Connor, Alice. How To Human: An Incomplete Manual for Living in a Mess-up World.
- Frank Martela, A Wonderful Life: Insights on Finding a Meaningful Existence.
- Milam, L. A., Cohen, G. L., Mueller, C., & Salles, A. (2019). Stereotype threat and working memory among surgical residents (vol 216, pg 824, 2018). American Journal of Surgery, 218(3), 668.
Welcome to The Academic Life! On the Academic Life channel we embrace a broad definition of what it means to lead an academic life. We view education as a transformative human endeavor and are inspired by today’s knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy. Find us on Twitter: @AcademicLifeNBN.
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A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together. We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside, but in Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions (Norton, 2022), acclaimed psychologist Dr. Batja Mesquita asks us to reconsider them through the lens of what they do in our relationships, both one-on-one and within larger social networks. From an outside-in perspective, readers will understand why pride in a Dutch context does not translate well to the same emotion in North Carolina, or why one’s anger at a boss does not mean the same as your anger at a partner in a close relationship. By looking outward at relationships at work, school, and home, we can better judge how our emotions will be understood, how they might change a situation, and how they change us. Brilliantly synthesizing original psychological studies and stories from peoples across time and geography, Between Us skillfully argues that acknowledging differences in emotions allows us to find common ground, humanizing and humbling us all for the better.
This interview was conducted by Jolie Ho, a PhD candidate in clinical psychology whose own research focuses on social connection and reward in the context of social anxiety.
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In a year of continuing global conflagrations, anthropologists investigated a wide range of pressing and curious questions about humanity’s past, present, and future. Here are the editors’ picks for t…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Emotion and talk about emotion are “simultaneously embodied and discursive ways of commenting on the possibilities, limitations, frustrations, and outcomes which an individual faces …
An anthropologist’s research with Tlingit communities in Alaska shows they have good reasons to be skeptical about vaccines. They know their history.
✽New COVID-19 boosters are now available in the U…
Die britische Journalistin Gouri Sharma hat für die Zeit einen Artikel über indische Migration nach Deutschland geschrieben.
Dafür hat sie auch mich interviewt. Das war interessant, da…
I invite you to share in a partial and subjective review of the exhausting academic marathon that was the 17th congress of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
After two years o…
„Wir machen Tempo!“ Muss es eigentlich immer voran gehen, immer schneller? Plädoyer für ein neues Denken von Wandel und Wissen in Krisenzeiten
On September 18, 2021, Dada Docot launched what she called “Search for 2021 Worst Anthro Job Ads.” Taking place on Twitter, this “contest” brought public attention to conversations that often happ…
In recent work I have begun to document the various wetlands of the Willamette Valley from before settler changes took effect. Our best, and most
It is my conviction that all of us who ever saw the 1977 James Bond film “The spy who loved me” were fascinated by “Wet Nellie,” Bond’s (Roger Moore) Lotus Esprit S1 spo…
A Concert in AnalamazaotraThe four minute clip above was one of many that I recorded during preliminary fieldwork this past summer in the Eastern rainforest corridor of Madagascar. This specific rec…
La foto es de Nate RobertNotas para el espacio “El rincón y la esquina”, con Marta Sanz, en el programa “Hoy por hoy”, de Àngels Barceló en la cadena SER. 22 de junio de 2021.
¿Qué es un imbécil?Manuel…
Am Samstag war ich bei einer Podiumsdiskussion des Indo-German Media Networks zu “India-EU relations after the Russian invasion of Ukraine”. Zwei indische Politikwissenschaftler_innen und der ARD-Korr…
David Newheiser is a senior research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith.
The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics(U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. In fact, contributors contend that narrowly defining atheism as the belief that there is no god misunderstands religious and nonreligious persons altogether. The essays show that, just as religion exceeds doctrine, atheism also encompasses every dimension of human life: from imagination and feeling to community and ethics. Contributors offer new, expansive perspectives on atheism’s diverse history and possible futures. By recovering lines of affinity and tension between particular atheists and particular religious traditions, this book paves the way for fruitful conversation between religious and non-religious people in our secular age.
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Studying zinc levels in unearthed Neanderthal skeletal remains, an archaeologist examines whether the carnivorous eating habits of Neanderthals in the Eurasian Steppe contributed to their eventual ext…
On the issues of weaponising research, this might be a minor quibble, but its part of the great restriction…
Of course I like what academia-edu can do for finding research papers I want, of …
Michael W. Twitty. Koshersoul: The Faith and Journey of an African American Jew. Amistad—An Imprint of Harper Collins. New York: 2022. ISBN: 9780062891754.
Richard Zimmer, (Sonoma Stat…
Interview by Volha Verbilovich
New York University Press
Volha Verbilovich: Emergency media are cultural and temporal. In Case of Emergency develops these definitions, revealing the history…
Anlässlich des Unfalltodes eines Radaktivisten in Delhi hat der Indian Express geschrieben:
“A recent National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-5 revealed that only about 8 per cent of Indian househo…
This book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cum artistic practice of Ramkatha, staged narratives of the Ramcharitmanas.
Focusing on the sensory and media experiences, the author examines the aesthetics and dynamics of the Ramkatha ethnoscape through participant-observation in everyday practices, and how it particularly, translates politics from the realm of religion. Besides being socially constructed, the Ramkatha heavily relies on technologies for its production and continuation. Negotiated through a telling of Hindu religious stories, the mediated voice of Morari Bapu, a former school-teacher turned narrator, is a major medium of performance transposed into multiple media such as theatre, stage, music and spectacle. The book engages with voice as a vehicle of meaning to scrutinize its discursive production, imagination and re-production across mobile contexts. It investigates how the transnationally disseminated practices re-contextualize religious subjectivities of an affective community enmeshed in spatio-sensorial modes.
Mrinal Pande’s Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances: The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media (Routledge, 2022) will be of interest to academic audiences in the fields of South Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, as well as Performance Studies and Religious Studies.
Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at his own virtual School of Indian Wisdom. For information see rajbalkaran.com.
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For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories—such as religion, science, and art—has collapsed under the weight of postmodern critiques, calling into question the possibility of progress and even the value of knowledge. Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm aims to radicalize and move beyond these deconstructive projects to offer a path forward for the humanities and social sciences using a new model for theory he calls metamodernism.
Metamodernism: The Future of Theory(U Chicago Press, 2021) works through the postmodern critiques and uncovers the mechanisms that produce and maintain concepts and social categories. In so doing, Storm provides a new, radical account of society’s ever-changing nature—what he calls a “Process Social Ontology”—and its materialization in temporary zones of stability or “social kinds.” Storm then formulates a fresh approach to philosophy of language by looking beyond the typical theorizing that focuses solely on human language production, showing us instead how our own sign-making is actually on a continuum with animal and plant communication.
Storm also considers fundamental issues of the relationship between knowledge and value, promoting a turn toward humble, emancipatory knowledge that recognizes the existence of multiple modes of the real. Metamodernism is a revolutionary manifesto for research in the human sciences that offers a new way through postmodern skepticism to envision a more inclusive future of theory in which new forms of both progress and knowledge can be realized.
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Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als Content-Manager für den Bereich E-Learning, eine Stelle als Lektorin bei Bastei Lübbe Ag in Köln und eine Stelle für Quereinsteigerinnen bei Slow Foo…
We’re back this week with a great interview with Frank Pasquale! The Familiar Strange · Ep #100 The laws of Robotics & Anti-Trust Frank Pasquale on AI Law & Multidisciplinary Interactions Fam…
Vor gut einer Woche habe ich an einem Workshop in Italien teilgenommen. Und da ich da nicht hinfliegen konnte, habe ich virtuell teilgenommen. Ich habe hier in Delhi eine ziemlich gute Internetverbind…
If we are going to do maps, some sort of campaign aspect is implied.
Here are ten areas of geocide to consider (a Daly is years of life lost because of pollution). Class war anti geocide targettin…
Anfänge – eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit, geschrieben von dem Anthropogen David Graeber und dem Archäologen David Wengrow, hat große Wellen geschlagen. Kein Wunder, schließlich bieten sie eine ne…
The 2022 Board of Governors election for faculty governors came to a close Thursday, Dec. 8th at 4pm. Results were announced to the candidates late Friday afternoon.
Declared elected were Anna Kindler …
Examples of advice that may not be worth the paper they are written on…
I was asked to suggest things to read for the topic:
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Migration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration(U Texas Press, 2022), documents a revealing irony in the latter sort: internal migration often is global in character, motivated by foreign affairs and international economic integration, and it is no less transformative than its cross-border analog.
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes spent nearly two years observing and interviewing migrants from the rural Oaxacan town of Santa Ana Zegache. Many women from the area travel to Mexico City to work as domestics, and men are encouraged to join the Mexican military to fight the US-instigated “war on drugs” or else leave their fields to labor in industries serving global supply chains. Placing these moves in their historical and cultural context, Sandoval-Cervantes discovers that migrants’ experiences dramatically alter their conceptions of gender, upsetting their traditional notions of masculinity and femininity. And some migrants bring their revised views with them when they return home, influencing their families and community of origin. Comparing Oaxacans moving within Mexico to those living along the US West Coast, Sandoval-Cervantes clearly demonstrates the multiplicity of answers to the question, “Who is a migrant?”
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. You can find him on Twitter @IvanAntropologo
Alize Arıcan is a Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar at Boston University, focusing on urban anthropology, futurity, care, and migration. Her work has been featured in Current Anthropology, City & Society, JOTSA, Radical Housing Journal, and entanglements. You can find her on Twitter @alizearican
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In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision.’ However, it ended dramatically when two men believed to be sorcerers and responsible for much of the society’s problems were hung by persons fearing for the island’s future security. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, Tom Bratrud’s book Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu (Berghahn Books, 2022) investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems but also carry risks of exacerbating the same problems they arise to address.
Tiatemsu Longkumer is a Ph.D. scholar working on ‘Anthropology of Religion’ at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong: India.
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The episode features Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, co-authors of an extraordinary, field-shifting new book – Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires(Cornell University Press, 2022). Dr. Boatca is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Freiburg in Germany, where she teaches and publishes widely on world-systems analysis, decolonial perspectives on global inequalities, gender and citizenship in modernity/coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Dr. Parvulescu joins us from St. Louis where she teaches at the Washington University’s English Department. A prolific author, she has worked in the fields of literary theory and criticism, visual culture, female labor and migration, and the East-West relations in contemporary European history. The result of their sustained collaboration, Creolizing the Modern develops a comparative, multidisciplinary method for engaging with areas of the world that have inherited multiple, conflicting imperial and anti-imperial histories. Transylvania, one such historical region at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, has offered Boatca and Parvulescu a platform for a multi-level reading of topics that include the region’s capitalist integration into global commercial circuits, antisemitism and slavery, multilingualism, gender relations, and religion. Using Liviu Rebreanu’s 1920 modernist novel Ion as an analytical point of departure and a chronicle of Transylvania’s modernities, the co-authors provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system.
Vladislav Lilic is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University.
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Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname(U Toronto Press, 2021) explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid competition for belonging, political power, and control over natural resources, Surinamese Ndyuka Maroons and Hindus look to spirit mediums to understand the causes of their successes and sufferings and to know the hidden minds of relatives and rivals alike. But although mediumship promises knowledge of others, interactions between mediums and their devotees also fundamentally challenge what devotees know about themselves, thereby turning interpersonal suspicion into doubts about the self.
Through a rich ethnographic comparison of the different ways in which Ndyuka and Hindu spirit mediums and their devotees navigate suspicion, Suspect Others shows how present-day Caribbean peoples come to experience selves that defy concepts of personhood inflicted by the colonial past. Stuart Earle Strange investigates key questions about the nature of self-knowledge, religious revelation, and racial discourse in a hyper-diverse society. At a moment when exclusionary suspicions dominate global politics, Suspect Others elucidates self-identity as a social process that emerges from the paradoxical ways in which people must look to others to know themselves.
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Great discussion of iron smelting for coins and guns by Amitabha Ghosh in Aniruddha Ray (ed) “Tipu Sultan and his Age” . Asiatic Society 2002, Park Street. Much else in the volume, a coll…
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Fragmento de “Urbanismo y urbanidad. Guayaquil, Barcelona y elfuturo de las ciudades”, ponencia en…
Hi all,I’m looking forward to the weekend like anybody else & leave you with a fresh #globaldev review that features articles that are as absurd, shocking, unsurprising & smart like the sector & peopl…
Menneskets språkevne er vår mest unikt menneskelige egenskap. Alle språk er uttrykk for det å være menneske i verden, og bor i akkurat samme slags hjerne. Derfor har språk universelle egenskaper. Men…
Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine(U Toronto Press, 2022) explores the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests – a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine – through in-depth ethnographic research with leftist, feminist, and student activists in Kyiv. The book discusses the concept of self-organization and the notion that if something needs to be done and a person has the competence to do it, then they should simply do it.
Emily Channell-Justice reveals how self-organization in Ukraine came out of leftist practices but actors from across the spectrum of political views also adopted self-organization over the course of Euromaidan, including far-right groups. The widespread adoption of self-organization encouraged Ukrainians to rethink their expectations of the relationship between citizens and their state. The book explains how self-organized practices have changed people’s views on what they think they can contribute to their own communities, and in the wake of Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has also motivated new networks of mutual aid within Ukraine and beyond. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, including the author’s first-hand experience of the entirety of the Euromaidan protests, Without the State provides a unique analytical account of this crucial moment in Ukraine’s post-Soviet history.
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Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown’s new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference is writ through the banalities of everyday life: who one trusts, what one eats, where one shops, even what time one’s clocks are set to (Xinjiang being perhaps one of the only places where different ethnic groups live by different time-zones).
In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talk to David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown who are both working at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany now. The conversation unpacks how discourses of Chinese nationalism romanticise empire and promote racialised ways of thinking about Chineseness, how cultural assimilation (‘Sinicisation’) is being justified through the rhetoric of ‘modernisation’, how Islamic sites and Uyghur culture are being secularised and commodified for tourist consumption.
Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr. Chen serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer, SSCI). Formerly, she was chair of Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis). You can find her on University of Helsinki Chinese Studies’ website, Youtube and Facebook, and her personal Twitter.
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The AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab transpires as a collaborative space for emerging scholars, artists, scientists, and practitioners of all kinds working in the Global South with a…
Chicago’s Field Museum recently unveiled their new Native North America Hall, redesigned with input from Native collaborators. But does it go far enough to address past harms?
✽For decades, generati…
Inna Perheentupa’s book Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources(Policy Press, 2022) is a nuanced and compelling analysis of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the politically turbulent 2010s. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, the author illustrates how a new generation of activists chose feminism as their main political beacon, and how they negotiated the challenges of authoritarian and conservative trends. As we witness a backlash against feminism on a global scale with the rise of neoconservative governments, this highly relevant book decentres Western theory and concepts of feminism and social movements, offering significant insights into how resistance can mobilize and invent creative tactics to cope with an increasingly repressed space for independent political action.
Rituparna Patgiri, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the areas of food, media, gender and public. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology. Patgiri can be reached at @Rituparna37 on Twitter.
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See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won over the years. Indeed, as noted below, Dr. Coe was an anthropologist. The …
Heute mittag hallte ein entsetzes vierstimmiges “No” durch den Besprechungsraum. Eine indische Kollegin hatte irgendwas zu Brot gefragt, was zu diesem entsetzen, überzeugten, gemeinsamen Ausruf v…
Replik von Dr. Anne-Kathrin Will (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Zum Abschluss der RfM-Debatte 2022 möchte ich auf die Kommentare zu meinem Initialbeitrag „Anstelle des Migrationshintergrundes: Ein…
Margret Grebowicz’s Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animal—in something like the original interspecies space, as old or older than any other practice that might be called human. But it’s also about the role of this relationship in the attrition of life—especially social life—in late capitalism. As we become more and more obsessed with imagining ourselves as benevolent rescuers of dogs, it is increasingly clear that it is dogs who are rescuing us. But from what? And toward what? Exploring adoption, work, food, and training, this book considers the social as fundamentally more-than-human and argues that the future belongs to dogs—and the humans they are pulling along.
Jimena Ledgard is a journalist, writer and researcher from Lima, Peru. You can find her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jimedylan or send her an email at jimena.ledgard (at) gmail.com
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Today I talked to Ted Conover, author of Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge (Knopf, 2022)
In May 2017, Conover went to Colorado to explore firsthand a rural way of life that is about living cheaply, on your own land—and keeping clear of the mainstream. The failed subdivisions of the enormous San Luis Valley make this possible. Five-acre lots on the high prairie can be had for five thousand dollars, sometimes less.
Conover volunteered for a local group trying to prevent homelessness during the bitter winters. He encountered an unexpected diversity: veterans with PTSD, families homeschooling, addicts young and old, gay people, people of color, lovers of guns and marijuana, people with social anxiety—most of them spurning charity and aiming, and sometimes failing, to be self-sufficient. And more than a few predicting they’ll be the last ones standing when society collapses.
Conover bought his own five acres and immersed himself for parts of four years in the often contentious culture of the far margins. He found many who dislike the government but depend on its subsidies; who love their space but nevertheless find themselves in each other’s business; who are generous but wary of thieves; who endure squalor but appreciate beauty. In their struggles to survive and get along, they tell us about an America riven by difference where the edges speak more and more loudly to the mainstream.
Ted Conover is the author of several books, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and National Geographic. He is a professor at, and the former director of, New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Daniel Moran earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in History from Drew University. The author of Creating Flannery O’Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers, he teaches research and writing at Rutgers and co-hosts the podcast Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics, found at https://fifteenminutefilm.podb… and on Twitter @15MinFilm.
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Safe Spaces, also Räume, die Marginalisierten Sicherheit verschaffen sollen, werden heiß diskutiert. Und tatsächlich sollte dieses Konzept beunruhigen, aber aus anderen Gründen als vielfach angenommen…
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Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society(U Georgia Press, 2022) asserts that anti-Black racism is not better than it used to be; it is just performed in more-nuanced ways. Barbara Harris Combs argues that racism is dynamic, so new theories are needed to help expose it. The Bodies-out-of-Place (BOP) theory she advances in the book offers such a corrective lens. Interrogating several recent racialized events—the Central Park birding incident, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, sleeping while Black occurrences, and others—Combs demonstrates how the underlying belief that undergirds each encounter is a false presumption that Black bodies in certain contexts are out of place.
Within these examples she illustrates how, even amid professions to color-blindness, fixed attitudes about where Black bodies belong, in what positions, at what time, and with whom still predominate. Combs describes a long historical pattern of White pushback against Black advancement and illuminates how each of the various forms of pushback is aimed at social control and regulation of Black bodies. She describes overt and covert attempts to push Black bodies back into their presumed place in U.S. society. While the pushback takes many forms, each works to paint a narrative to justify, rationalize, and excuse continuing violence against Black bodies. Equally important, Combs celebrates the resilient Black agency that has resisted this subjugation.
Omari Averette-Phillips is a graduate student in the department of history at UC Davis. He can be reached at okaverettephillips@ucdavis.edu.
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آخرین فرضیه استیون هاوکینگ، کیهانشناس فقید معاصر، در مورد جهانهای موازی چند ماه پس از اینکه او زندگی شیرینش را وداع کند در قالب مقاله مشترکی با هرتوگ، در مجله فیزیک انرژیهای بالا منتشر شد. این مقا…
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YES to far more sensible gun-purchase background checks and restrictions.
YES to more comprehensive mental health treatment options.
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“Yes,” I said.
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For as long as humans have existed, we have struggled when a loved one dies. Poets and playwrights have written about the dark cloak of grief, the deep yearning, how devastating heartache feels. But until now, we have had little scientific perspective on this universal experience.
In The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss (HarperOne, 2022), neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD, gives us a fascinating new window into one of the hallmark experiences of being human. O’Connor has devoted decades to researching the effects of grief on the brain, and in this book, she makes cutting-edge neuroscience accessible through her contagious enthusiasm, and guides us through how we encode love and grief. With love, our neurons help us form attachments to others; but, with loss, our brain must come to terms with where our loved ones went, or how to imagine a future that encompasses their absence.
Based on O’Connor’s own trailblazing neuroimaging work, research in the field, and her real-life stories, The Grieving Brain does what the best popular science books do, combining storytelling, accessible science, and practical knowledge that will help us better understand what happens when we grieve and how to navigate loss with more ease and grace.
Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network’s Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She’s on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here.
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Over the past few years I have been sharing the readings I assign for an undergraduate course I teach at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Anthropology for...
Because I was looking for it online and could not see the contents pages, here are some rough snaps.
I lived many years in Thailand where a subject of fascination for outsiders is the “sex industry.” I have of course known many people who were involved at...
I wasn’t expecting my p. 99 – right in the middle of my methodology – to be particularly revealing. But as luck (or indeed Ford Madox Ford) would...
Mark D. Calder’s Bethlehem’s Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice (Gorgias Press, 2017) is anthropological study of Syriac Orthodox Christian identity in a time of displacement,...
In Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity (Duke University Press, 2017), David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the...
Read Time:5 Minute, 13 Second Por razones que no vienen al caso he tenido que dedicarme a la búsqueda activa de vivienda en alquile…
Vor gut zehn Jahren habe ich mir für die Lehre in Berlin Mary E. John’s Reader “Women’s Studies in India” angeschafft. Jetzt habe ich sie hier in Delhi...
An interview with anthropologist Dána-Ain Davis digs into abortion rights and reproductive justice after the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. ✽ On June 24, the...
The allure of the onion Fieldwork can produce odd obsessions. As an anthropologist studying agrarian risk economies, mine was onions. In the central Indian region of Malwa where...
Seattle has a reputation as a city of Progressive values, but as Megan Asaka argues in Seattle From the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (U Washington...
Read Time:7 Minute, 43 Second “Leemos mal el mundo, y después decimos que nos engaña” Rabindranath Tagore Son las 9:45 de la ma…
An anthropologist explores the resurgence of “new Animism”—interest in spiritual practices that recognize the interrelationships among animals, places, plants, and people. This article was originally…
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (Sociology, USC), a 2017-2018 Weatherhead Fellow, was recently honored for a book written during her time at SAR. South Central Dreams: Finding Ho…
In 1904 the proud D.D. Methodist Robert William van Schroik, at the age of 61, boarded a German steamer in New York for a 70-day trip to the...
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-76900-0 Last fall, we published a co-edited volume entitled Metalinguistic Communities: Case Studies of Agency, Ideology, and Symbolic Uses of …
The 1822 University Prize for Excellence in Teaching was presented at Goethe University Frankfurt for the 21st time. A Spanish lecturer, a bioscience professor and an educational science...
Ich bewege mich ganz vorwiegend in meiner Bubble rund um den Lodhi Garden. Ich wohne feudal, kann zur Arbeit durch den Park laufen, muss mich um nichts kümmern,...
Ich bewege mich ganz vorwiegend in meiner Bubble rund um den Lodhi Garden. Ich wohne feudal, kann zur Arbeit durch den Park laufen, muss mich um nichts kümmern,...
How do transnational Filipino families remain connected through mobile media technologies? In (Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media (Oxford UP, 2022), Earvin Charles...
https://cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10.1079/9781789249392.0000 It is interesting, and often useful, once a project has come to fruition (that is, seen the light of print), to breathe deepl…
By Aleeha Zahra Ali A year and a half ago, I learnt what grief was. Before that I had known waves of sadness, despair, depression, heartbreak and anger....
In Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage (Duke UP, 2022), Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist...
In Moldova, the number of dual citizens has risen exponentially in the last decades. Before annexation, many saw Russia as granting citizenship to-or passportizing-large numbers in Crimea. Both...
Two anthropologists explain a novel genetic analysis of ancient DNA and artifacts that suggests Neanderthals in Siberia lived in close-knit communities. This article was originally published at The C…
Mit Resilienz ist die Fähigkeit gemeint, schwierige Situationen unbeschadet zu überstehen. Der Begriff ist nicht neu, gewinnt aber in Zeiten von Krieg, Klimawandel und Pandemie neue Aktualität. Grund...
While every year should be Native American heritage year, November is Native American Heritage Month and thus a good time to reflect on the ways that the recent...
Monarch butterflies’ epic annual migration from North America to Mexico inspires an anthropologist to reflect on this insect’s precarious life cycles through the lens of “multispecies ethnography.” …
I en tid der vi trenger å tenke nytt om vårt forhold til jordens mange skapninger, har Lars Risan skrevet en tverrfaglig bok om hvordan gjensidig avhengighet, samarbeid...
Ich forsche über die Anwerbung von Krankenschwestern aus dem südindischen Kerala in die BRD in den 1960ern. Ein wichtiger Anwerber war der Stettfelder Pfarrer Debatin. Gerade habe ich...
La foto es de Robert Frank Apuntes para el espacio “El rincón y la esquina”, del “Hoy por hoy” de la Cadena SER, para el 28 de septiembre...
Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has broadened that framework radically to encompass the...
How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social change Assumptions about human behavior lie hidden in plain sight all around us, programmed into the...
Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, count our steps, change the...
“There’s a struggle that repeats itself throughouthistory, over and over again – the oppressorsagainst the oppressed.”—Simon Bolívar Interestingly, when Simon …
A poet-anthropologist speaks to the labyrinthine experiences of domestic violence—the entrapment, the hope for freedom. ✽ During the final week of domestic violence awareness month in October, I...
Interview with Q https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rethinking-politeness-with-henri-bergson-9780197637869 The following dialogue is a transcript of an interview by a member of our sta…
In Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa, Jovan Scott Lewis explores the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in the city’s Greenwood neighbourhood (known colloquially as ‘Black…
Ich mag Festpreise. Da weiss ich, wo ich dran bin. Damit kann ich umgehen. Trinkgelder überfordern mich immer wieder, weil ich nicht weiss, wann was angebracht ist. Irgendwie...
Thomas C. Patterson. A Social History of Anthropology in the United States. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2021. 240 pp., bibl., index. Twenty years after its first release, Thomas Patterson,...
Changing offensive place names on public lands is a strong move toward decolonization. But to heal relationships and address ecological crises, non-Native people must do more. ✽ On...
“Police, Provocation, Politics” by Deniz Yonucu is an ambitious text that documents the long and complicated history of dissident populations and spaces in urban Turkey in the context...
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”....
Hunden har länge varit människans bästa vän och fungerat som sällskap till såväl adel som bönder. Under medeltiden och tidigmodern tid då samhället präglades av folktro och tro...
By Freek Colombijn. “Football is the most important thing of unimportant things”. The truth of this quote, which I often give in my classes, but which –if I...
It’s no secret that chamomile tea is a popular choice due to the many positive health effects it has been shown to have. Chamomile is a herb derived...
Whether you’re just starting out or have been running for years, you’ve probably encountered discomfort during or after a run because you didn’t hydrate or fuel adequately. Having...
Trail running is an excellent method to mix up your workout, lower your chance of injury, and present yourself with a fresh challenge if you’re running bored with...
While it’s true that the vast majority of us can agree on the unhealthiness of certain eating habits, that doesn’t imply we never indulge in them. Eating past...
You’re not alone if you’ve ever fought the inner critic who tells you that you can’t do something or won’t succeed. It’s impossible (and probably not good) to...
A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of Social Order (Verso, 2021) offers a critical look at policing and the power of the state, examining the relationship between our ideas...
Sorry to be the bearers of bad news, but after three years of use those running shoes are now doing more harm than good. It’s impossible to make...
The term “speed walking” refers to exactly what it sounds like: a style of walking that is done at a rapid clip in order to raise heart rate...
An anthropologist who migrated from India to the U.K. uses his research to illustrate how fellow migrants from India maintain cultural heritage through hard-to-find ingredients. ✽ Before I...
Tote Fische, trübes Wasser. Die Oder war in den letzten Wochen in den Schlagzeilen. Von deutscher und polnischer Seite hagelte es Vorwürfe, man schiebt die Verantwortung hin und...
The Familiar Strange · Theory as reproduction: Reflections on the history of feminist anthropology in Australia Part 3 We’re back this week and with a very special collaboration....
Multimorbidity, or the co-occurrence of two or more long-term health conditions in one person, is seen as one of the greatest challenges to contemporary healthcare services. As the...
Have you ever tried to bring all of your groceries inside the house in one trip after returning from the grocery store? By the time you enter, you...
Before your body can utilize the nutrients you consume, your digestive tract must digest and absorb them. But before eating, it is beneficial to feel hungry. Appetite is...
Kashif pointed to different parts of the wounds on his leg and explained to me how they had healed, exacerbated, or been ignored at different places of care....
Morgen breche ich zu einem halbjährigen Forschungsaufenthalt in Delhi (Indien) auf. Zehn Jahre war ich nicht dort. Ich bin gespannt, was mich erwartet. Jetzt stand aber erstmal das...
On 6 June 2022, activists and researchers working in and from the former Soviet sphere met at UCL Anthropology to discuss ways in which Russia’s war on Ukraine...
The Museum of Black Civilizations, dubbed the world’s largest dedicated to Black Art, Culture and History, is an impressive building … More
Guest Column The Two Hands of Washington’s Myanmar Policy Reposted from: https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/the-two-hands-of-washingtons-myanmar-policy.html –By TONY WATERS 28 Septe…
Kommentar von Dr. Coşkun Canan und Anja Petschel, Statistisches Bundesamt¹ – Einreichung am 09. September 2022 Statistische Kategorien dienen keinem Selbstzweck, sondern immer einem spezifischen…
It is for the last time that the lecture “Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology” in the BA program “Social and Cultural Anthropology” at the University of Vienna…
In The Metabolic Museum (Hatje Cantz, 2020), Clémentine Deliss, a curator, researcher, and former director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum, explores possible functions for anthropological museums in a postcolonial culture....
Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game....
Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. They are public officials, but local citizens do not always...
The Janus-face of bureaucratic incorporation of Islam in Europe. A seminar on the occasion of the valedictory lecture of prof. dr Thijl Sunier Date: Friday the...
Post by blog member Kerim Friedman. As one gets older, one’s experience of time simultaneously collapses and expands, creating a parallax effect. Amidst the daily routine of the...
Read Time:9 Minute, 29 Second Puedes leer la primera parte aquí Origen del Eboga y del Bwiti En algunos avatares revitalizadores …
Today Julia Keblinska and I had the pleasure of talking to Assistant Professor Jerry Zee about his book, Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System, published by University of California...
From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data...
مقدمه بر مستند ، نوشتۀ بیل نیکولز( انتشارات دانشگاه ایندیانا-۲۰۰۱) اثری نظری در زمینۀ سینمای مستند است. بیل نیکولز منتقد فیلم، و نظریه پرداز سینماست که گفته میشود...
جلسه پنجاه و پنجم مؤسسهٔ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ با موضوع « مناسک شهری و جهانشهر بمبئی» برگزار خواهد شد. در این جلسه، آقای دکتر رضا مسعودینژاد (پژوهشگر...
نویسنده: آلفرد کروبر- ۱۹۵۹، برگردان: طراوت مظفریان با تعدیل توافق بالقوه درباره نظریه اجتماعی-فرهنگی، یک درونمایه قوی در جامعهشناسی باقی میماند که در مقایسه با محصول یا الگوی...
مناقشۀ ناسیونالیستها و انترناسیونالیستهای گرجی؟ نادر انتخابی استالین به مسائل زبانشناختی تنها در پیوند با مسئله ملی علاقهمند بود./چیکوباوا قفقاز شاهد بیشترین مخالفت با هواداران نظریه مار...
Workshop: Social Media für Autor*innen Wann? Dienstag, 27.9.2022, 16:30-18 Uhr Format? Online per zoom, Begleitmaterial nachträglich per E-Mail Wer? Vanessa Schmidt, Element Studios | Med…
pixabay: Leonhard_Niederwimmer Diese Woche gibt es ein interessantes Praktikum im Bereich “nachhaltige urbane Mobilität” in Oberhausen (FRAUNHOFER Umsicht), eine Volontariats-Stelle in …
Der Sommer ist fast vorbei, und mit ihm unser Sommerprogramm. Sie hätten jetzt also ein Jahr lang Zeit, um Robert Musils monumentales Hauptwerk zu lesen. Tun Sie es...
La foto es de Blake Pleasant y procede de https://www.behance.net/gallery/36457613/Street-Photography Comentario sobre lo Real en Lacan, enviado a Mirem Uharte ael 24 de agosto de 2022 Lo Real...
این مطلب در ۷ دی ماه ۱۳۹۸ در همین وبگاه منتشر و اکنون در ۱۲ شهریور ۱۴۰۱ بازنشر میشود. شعر حافظ شیرازی بیگمان چکیدۀ روح ایرانی است....
میخائیل گورباچف (۱۹۳۱-۲۰۲۲)، آخرین رهبر حزب کمونیست شوروی پیشین (۱۹۸۵-۱۹۹۰) و آخرین رئیس جمهور این کشور (۱۹۹۰-۱۹۹۱) روز گذشته ۳۰ اوت (۸ شهریور ۱۴۰۱) در ۹۱ سالگی درگذشت....
نقاشی ازWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau, فرانسه ۱۹۰۰ زیرشاخه مطالعات کودکان سال ۱۹۹۱ علاوه بر ایجاد شاخه جامعهشناسی کودکان، حوزه میانرشتهای مطالعات کودکان نیز شروع به کار کرد. بنیانگذاران این بینرشته…
عباس معروفی (۱۴۰۱-۱۳۳۶) نویسنده ایرانی درگذشت. عباس معروفی، رماننویس ایرانی و خالق آثاری چون «سمفونی مردگان» و «سال بلوا» به دلیل ابتلا به سرطان در ۶۵ سالگی درگذشت....
Hi all,First full teaching week, welcoming 150+ students to our courses with our team, happy days :).#Globaldev also happened this week, featuring the US, Ukraine, Equatorial Guinea &...
France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today. Postcolonial France: The Question of Race and the Future of the Republic (Pluto Press,...
Foto de Oliver Wilke Notas de la clase de l’asignatura Nous entorns religiosos, del Màster d’Antropologia i Etnografia de la UB, del día 22/4/13 LA SECULARIZACIÓN COMO SUBJETIVIZACIÓN ...
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our second podcast episode explores how UK anthropology departments hire. Every … More
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie e.V. schreibt zum dritten Mal ihren Dissertationspreis aus. Dieser Preis soll der besonderen Anerkennung herausragender wissenschaftlicher…
Understanding Sudanese politics is like a long-distance relationship. You never fully appreciate the relationship until you are living with the … More
Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, Aniket De’s book The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia (Oxford UP, 2022) explores how spaces of popular performance have changed...
A bioarchaeologist reflects on how a team of scientists investigated various elements that contributed to the destabilization and ultimate breakdown of Mayapán. This article was originally published …
Steve Lekson briefing members at Chetro Ketl Chaco Canyon and the so-called “Chaco Phenomenon” have long evoked intense interest among SAR members. Our long tradition of annual Chaco...
What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of...
Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons (NYU Press, 2022) could not have...
خاطرت ما، در نهایت، اصلیترین عناصری هستند که هویتمان را میسازند. و اگر روایتی پیوسته و شخصی از تجربه زندگیمان، نتوانسته باشد خاطراتی هویتساز برایمان به وجود بیاورد،...
تداوم فرهنگ موسیقایی ساسانی تا سده پنجم هجری[۱] مهشید فراهانی چکیده موسیقی دوره ساسانی یکی از وجوه فرهنگی بارز این دوره است که به سبب نامهایی چون باربد...
نوشته: ایوان پین دانیل، برگردان: فردین علیخواه تعارضاتی بین آزادی زنان و برتری مردان چه در سطح گروه رومبا و چه در سطح تحلیل رقص،...
An archaeologist navigates her dad’s passing by using the methods of her discipline to preserve his office and gain insight into the mysteries of his personality. ✽ In...
SAPIENS’ poetry editor and inaugural poet-in-residence break down what makes certain poems anthropological and explore how poetry has the potential to transform ways of thinking and being in...
Bioethics must burn before it can be reimagined to enable the flourishing of all humans, and not just the ones that align with or are presupposed by its...
Sarah Chinnery, via Trove I spent this week fascinated by the photography of Sarah Chinnery. Her images of PNG, famous anthropologists, flower still lives, street scenes, and friends...
Alex W. Barker, who joined the SAR board of directors in August, has been appointed by President Biden to the federal government’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC). Alex...
Interview by Karen Strassler https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823298693/orphaned-landscapes/ Karen Strassler: You are writing about a moment of profound destabilization and disorientation: …
نویسنده: آلفرد کروبر- ۱۹۵۹، برگردان: طراوت مظفریان منظور ما از “شخصیت” تمامیت استعداد فکری، خلقوخو، کیفیتها و سرشتی است که یک شخص تکین را مشخص میکند. وقتی این...
قسمت دهم: یک مصاحبه کامل، مواجهه زبان مادری و هنر برای یک شاعر عرب لیلا حسین زاده، سپهر خدابخش پیشگفتار: هنر و زبان مادری در ایران، مجموعه...
تلقّی و تصوّر شاعران ایران از لنین و استالین:۱۲۹۶-۱۳۲۵ کامیار عابدی (ادامه از شمارهٔ گذشته) غ) از شعر وحید دستگردی و یحیی ریحان در حدود سالهای ۱۲۹۶-۱۲۹۸ در...
pixabay: wal_172619 Diese Woche gibt es besonders viele Praktika- und Werkstudi-Stellen, z.B. bei IMAP im Bereich Kultur- und Organisationsentwicklung (Schwerpunkt Digitale Transformation) und bei …
…time is not natural: it is a social product. A year might be the duration that has elapsed as the Earth circles the sun, but our planet’s orbital...
Die deutsche Übersetzung von Michael Rothbergs Buch zur Multidirektionalen Erinnerung hat für einige Aufregung gesorgt. In den oft sorgenvollen, teilweise auch gehässigen Besprechungen ist eins zu kur…
I have always been confused why there is a Chemawa Jr. High in Riverside CA. in recent reserahc I foudn there was a preexisting Chemawa park which predated...
Franco y Porcioles en coche descubierto por Barcelona, en junio de 1970 Comentario para la doctoranda Muna Makhlouf, enviado el 14 de diciembre de 2014 El triunfo póstumo...
این مطلب در تاریخ ۷ آبان ۱۳۹۷ در همین وبگاه منتشر و اکنون در تاریخ ۵ شهریور ۱۴۰۱ بازنشر میشود. همواره نزدیکی اساطیر و آیینها و شباهت تفاسیر...
✍️ جلسه پنجاه و چهارم مؤسسهٔ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ با موضوع « فضای مجازی و ما پدر و مادرها» برگزار خواهد شد. در این جلسه، آقای دکتر...
یکی از وسوسههایی که قدرتها (از اشکال سلولی آنها مثل خانواده تا اشکال گسترده آنها مثل دولت) به صاحبانشان میدهند، تمایل بیمارگونه به انباشت (accumulation) بدون ضابطه آن...
گرترود لنزر برگردان فاطمه سیارپور این یادداشت برگردان فصل ۲۴ (صص ۲۳۹- ۲۴۵) از کتاب راهنمای جامعهشناسی انتشارات دانشگاه کمبریج در سال ۲۰۱۷ با عنوان جامعهشناسی کودکان که...
مجسمههای مردم پیرامون سمیه مؤمنی با ساختن هر مجسمه انگار بار دیگر متولد میشود. او را باید در میان انبوه پیکرهای آدمهایی شناخت که همین دوروبرها هستند. آدمهای...
When a researcher asks to use CLEAR as a study site, we use a collective consent process to decide together.
Hi all,After a little summer flu health break last week, Aidnography is almost back to the usual routines just as the new semester is about to start next...
Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, the vision that enables as well...
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the...
Canfield, Matthew C. Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance. Stanford University Press. Stanford, Ca. 2022. pp.264. ISBN:978150363104. R…
Letztes Wochenendende unternahmen mein Partner und ich eine Rundwanderung hoch über dem Genfersee (https://www.schweizmobil.ch/fr/suisse-a-pied/itineraires/route-0266.html) und als Belohnung für die A…
“Con nuestros cantos, la tierra se renueva, nuestros cantos son nuestros derechos territoriales”. “Los Songspirals (cantos en espiral) son una universidad para nosotras. Son un mapa de entendimientos”.…
«Jeg lærer veldig godt på engelsk, men hadde nok dessverre ikke turt å spørre om noe på engelsk i forelesning foran alle.» Slik uttrykte ein kvinneleg student seg...
Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures. ✽ After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade...
Crikey, would you have paid 35 grand (in 2017) for just parts one and two of the original Robinson – this was missing the third part. Bargain at...
“We want a different museum. One where people are not afraid to interact with the objects” were the words[1] of one of the promoters of the ITINTEC museum,...
I would like to encourage you with this post to fill in a short anonymous survey on your experiences and challenges with the co-creation of knowledge here: https://survey.hifis.dkfz.de/351545...
این یادداشت در ۱۴ شهریور ۱۳۹۱ در این وبگاه منتشر و امروز دوم شهریور ۱۴۰۱ بازنشر میشود. آیینها و مناسک، راهی هستند برای تشرف. با تشرف و مشرف...
PoLAR invites submissions for its newly launched first article mentoring workshop, in which scholars who have not yet published a peer-reviewed article with PoLAR are invited to submit...
بحث درباره زبان به مثابه ابزار سیاسی و دستکاری سیاسی، دستکم از زمانی که کتاب «۱۹۸۴» جرج اورول منتشر شد، به صورتی جدی به یک موضوع مناقشه عمومی...
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Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith, The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (Oxford UP, 2022) explores a more holistic understanding of knowledge production...
In Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford University Press, 2022), sociologist Victoria Reyes combines her personal experiences with research findings to examine how academia creates conditional citizenship for its...
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جلسه پنجاهم مؤسسهٔ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ درباره «چالشهای زندگی در تهران (مطالبات فرهنگی)» برگزار خواهد شد. در این جلسه خانم دکتر ترانه یلدا (معمار، شهرساز و عضو...
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دستکاری نمادها برای کسب مشروعیت آنکا گیورچسکو، برگردان فردین علیخواه دستکاری نمادها باید تأکید شود که این نه افراد درون یک فرهنگ، بلکه بیگانگان هستند که مفاهیمی همچون...
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(Why I am NOT a scientist) جاناتان مارکس در کتابش با نام “چرا من دانشمند نیستم؟” به عنوان یک انسانشناس به تحقیق پیرامون چیستی علم پرداخته و تلاش...
انسانِ سوژهگونه، بررسی جامعهشناسی روانی. تهران، انتشارات اندیشه احسان. چاپ اول، ۱۴۰۱. ۲۳۱ صفحه. کتاب شامل هفت فصل و یک نتیجهگیری نهایی است. فصل اول، بررسی فرد و...
From screens and tabloids, we are fed images of slender bodies. For decades sleek and angular silhouettes were said to be icons of style, fashion, beauty, youth, and...
@Lara Ripoll “La luna camina despacio… pero atraviesa el mundo”Proverbio akan (Ghana). En Twitter, Christiana A. Mbakwe, escribió: “Si alguien comienza un aforismo con ‘hay un dicho africano’,...
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Several things happened this week: Finished my colleague John Rosa’s book Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case And The Culture Of History. Re-watched Redbelt for the first time in...
Die Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Holocaust auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent sind ebenso wenig bekannt, wie die reiche Literatur zum Thema. Unterschiedliche Erfahrungen und andere Formen des Gedächtniss…
در «بیگانه»، شخصیت اصلی، ظاهرا آدمی «بیاحساس» است: کسی که حتی در تشیع جنازه مادرش هم گریه نکرده؛ کسی که نه تنها یک انسان (آن هم یک عرب)...
فرهنگهای بومی و محلی که در ایران دارای کثرت و تنوع هستند بسترهای کمتر شناختهای هستند که همواره در حال تولید فرهنگی هستند و متأثر از شرایط اجتماعی...
مسعود سینائیان بیش از هشتاد اثر ترجمه دارد و ویراستاری بالغ بر نود کتاب را انجام داده است. از ترجمههایش میتوان به مجموعهکتابهای نسل قلم، فلسفۀ غرب و...
HE ZHANG Professor Linying Li Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences China Women’s Health Network No. 5 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District,…
Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory....
I normally don’t shill for Amazon — in fact I go out of my way to get my ebooks elsewhere. However in this case I think a plug...
Als Anerkennung seiner Leistungen in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften ist Mamadou Diawara zum Fellow der British Academy gewählt worden. Diawara ist Professor für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie …
Suman Nath’s book Democracy and Social Cleavage in India: Ethnography of Riots, Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal (2012-2021) (Routledge, 2022) explores the emergence of identity politics and violence...
Fotograma de “Cordobés 65” (Francesc Betriu, 1965) Programa de mano para el corto “Cordobés 65”, de Francesc Betriu (1965). Filmoteca Española, julio 2022 Que Dios reparta suerte Manuel...
I do not want to attract new madness, the old madness does well enough. Here, a summary of various items of fun fact where I use the term...
the official website is https://www.neom.com/en-us Long before Abraham/Ibrahim left Ur of the Chaldees for the promised land and became the ancestral icon of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, there…
Our times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often depicted as apocalyptic. Monika Kostera’s book After The Apocalypse: Finding Hope in Organizing (John Hunt, 2020) takes the apocalypse...
The health care sector frequently emphasizes “Cultural competence”, an elastic concept that stretches from the simplest recognition of diversity of patient populations, to include policy implications of patients’...
قسمت هفتم. دشواری های خواندن و نوشتن در زبان و لهجه غیرمعیار لیلا حسین زاده، سپهر خدابخش پیشگفتار: هنر و زبان مادری در ایران، مجموعه مصاحبه با...
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کارکرد اجتماعی رقص آنکا گیورچسکو برگردان فردین علیخواه رقص در درجه نخست رسانهای غیرکلامی برای ارتباط است و بین انسانها، یا بین انسانها و دنیای ماوراء طبیعی...
تصویر: اکریلیک روی بوم با عنوان قاصدک، اثر محمد احصایی. این یادداشت در پاسخ به یک پیشفرض نوشته است؛ پیشفرضی که میگوید هنر معاصر ایران موردتوجه قرار گرفته...
برگردان طراوت مظفریان تاریخ انسانشناسی- ارائه شده در کنگره بینالمللی هنرها و علم- (سن لوئیس- سپتامبر ۱۹۰۴) از من خواستند درباره تاریخچه انسانشناسی صحبت کنم. این کاری که...
Die konservative Revolution in den USA geht weiter, und im Fokus steht der weibliche Körper. Elisabeth Bronfen spricht über die Bedeutung der Aufhebung von Roe v. Wade und...
La foto es de Min An y está tomada de https://www.pexels.com/es-es/@minan1398/ Apuntes para el espacio “El rincón y la esquina”, con Marta Sanz, en el programa “Hoy por...
After two months of radio four brainwash, it is good to be in recovery, getting back to normal with Radio M-L and happy to leave the sinking remain/brexit...
In its opening episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Cassandra Hartblay (University of Toronto) and Zihao Lin (University of Chicago). They discuss their research on accessibility culture…
Today, the majority of the world’s population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In Being Single in...
Why are we working harder? In The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation (Polity Press, 2022), Heejung Chung, a professor of sociology and social policy at the University of Kent, looks a...
Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility (Cornell UP, 2022) relates narratives of Athenians struggling to survive the impoverishment of relentless austerity measures, compounding emergencies, and human disasters...
Are you a born, revert, or convert Muslim who is trying to navigate the puzzle that is Muslim marriage in America? Do you want an egalitarian and fair...
Author: Daniel Miller In June we held a very successful workshop with invited guest academics to discuss our contribution to comparative studies of ageing. Based on the very...
SHALINA MEHTA Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology (retd.) Department of Anthropology Panjab University Chandigarh shalinamehta137@gmail.com “Every Great Dream begins with a dreamer. Always …
By Genevieve Smith & Jasmine Sanders Today we are in a belonging crisis. This is reflected in steep mental health declines since the start of the pandemic. In...
It’s been a busy half year at Allegra Lab, and we are now taking some time off for the summer. We had some great thematic threads already in...
Interview by Jonathan DeVore https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dancing-youth/9783837656343 Jonathan DeVore: Congratulations on your new book! First of all, can you recount how you became involv…
As the academic world continues its slow motion descent into financial and sometimes intellectual insolvency, some anthropologists seek employment in the world of business. The Journal of Business…
NATASHA STURGESS Mr Gan Kim YongMinistry of Health16 College RoadCollege of Medicine Building Singapore 169854 6th March 2022 Dear Minister, I hope this letter comes to you well....
This is part one of a two part interview. “The social sciences have prospered best in the federal government where they have been included under broad umbrella classifications...
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Gonçalo Santos (University of Coimbra), about his new book, Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition, which was published...
pixabay: ds_30 Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Praktikum mit möglicher Abschlussarbeit im Bereich Marketing & Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation in Bielefeld, diverse Stellen bei HateAid gGmbH und eine …
The Familiar Strange · Ep #93: Waterworlds, Witchcraft and Chaos: This Month on TFS We’re back! We’re back from our Semester break and keen to get back into...
Der berechtigte Antisemitismus-Vorwurf gegen das indonesische Künstlerkollektiv Taring Padi auf der documenta15 wird international diskutiert. Doch wie kann man aus der Dialektik von Anklage und Verte…
La foto és de Sebastian Jacobitz i prové de https://digital-photography-school.com/author/sebastian-jacobitz/ Nota per Carla Rivera, doctoranda, enviat el març de 2022 Moments com flamarades Manuel …
جلسه چهل و نهم مؤسسهٔ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ درباره « جریانهای فکری معماری امروز ایران» برگزار خواهد شد. در این جلسه آقای مرتضی خیاط پور نجیب (معمار،...
کارکرد دانشگاه را ـ به طور عام در رشتهی علوم انسانی و رشتههای علوم اجتماعی و به طور خاص ـ درایران امروز چگونه میبینید؟ به گمانم در پرسش...
انتظامی پیش از آنکه نامآشنای عرصۀ سینما باشد، از پیشکسوتان بازی در صحنۀ نمایش است. با اینکه سالهاست از خاک صحنه دور شده و حدود سه دهه است...
ویژهنامه مصطفی فرزانه در آبان ۱۳۹۹ و با یادداشتهایی از محمدرضا اصلانی، محمد تهامی نژاد، همایون امامی، سعید عقیلی و رضا حائری منتشر شد. علاوه بر این، گفتگوی...
NAPAT PRASITSIRIGUL Dear Mr. Javid, CAMHS is a joke. Like many others my age, I enjoy mindlessly scrolling through TikTok in my free time. Occasionally I come across...
We are pretty sure that summer is here! If you have no idea what to do with all this spare time, let’s see whether we, the SpW editorial...
When it should be that the declaration of a public health emergency is itself the crime. “There are efforts being made to ensure that countries respond in the...
‘Who Were You When You Stepped to This Pot?’1: A Lesson in Community Curation from Grounded in Clay Guest post by Emily Santhanam …
Figure 1: Emma Kowal writing her thesis in 2006 with 7-month old Maya in Darwin, Australia. Image: supplied. One evening in December 2021, in a small South African...
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/English-Linguistic-Imperialism-from-Below/?k=9781788929134 Interview by Shivani Nag Shivani Nag: It would be helpful if you could first intr…
قدرت رقص[۱]-قسمت اول آنکا گیورچسکو برگردان فردین علیخواه پرداختن به جنبههای اجتماعی رقص (یا رقصیدن)، به معنای اشاره به عامترین و جامعترین ویژگیهای آن است، چرا که رقص...
✍️ جلسه چهل و نهم مؤسسهٔ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ درباره «خودمحوربینی فرهنگی در ایران و آسیبهایش» برگزار خواهد شد. در این جلسه آقای دکتر ناصر فکوهی...
مقدمه طی چند دهۀ اخیر با تشدید فرآیند جهانی شدن، جوامع و کشورها در شرایطی قرار گرفتهاند که هر چه بیشتر به سمت عدم قطعیتها و بحرانهای غیر...
اتنوگرافی صبح در فضای اطراف بیمارستان تخصصی چشم، مراجعان از خودروی شخصی یا تاکسیها پیاده میشوند؛ برخی با عینکی سیاه برخی هم با پانسمانی سفید و برجسته بر...
فصل چهارم: اصالت وجود هایدگر و همگنان (ادامه از قبل) نکته جالبتر اینکه هایدگر، حتی به اجتماعی شدن جهان طبیعت از طریق کار گواهی میدهد: ] در ضمنِ...
Die Handelsstadt Odessa ist eines der strategischen Ziele von Russlands Angriffskrieg. Schon ihre Geschichte ist voller Spannungen und gesellschaftspolitischer Konflikte.
Found in my notebooks from 2019: a proposal. Journal for Rejected Papers of Persistence and Perseverance Aims and scope. This journal, set up to the standards...
Frog hunters, known as “giggers,” search for bullfrogs in southern Indiana. Saish Solankar The moon emerged out of the clouds at a few minutes past midnight, reflecting on...
By Pia K. R. Beiermann, second-year student of CADS This Saturday I wake up slowly, a bit later than usual. Still in a morning fogginess best described as...
Read Time:5 Minute, 42 Second “Está muerto y desaparecido. A su cabeza un césped verde hierba, a sus talones una piedra” William…
A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-first century, about one...
In Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke UP, 2022), Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan’s most important site...
Teemu Taira‘s book Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill, 2022) demonstrates through methodological reflections and carefully chosen case studies a new way to conduct the...
From grasshoppers to grubs, an eye-opening look at insect cuisine around the world. An estimated two billion people worldwide regularly consume insects, yet bugs are rarely eaten in...
Efter allt regn växer gräset så det knakar och borde klippas. Bryggan är sned och vinglig på grund av att isen och framförallt islossningen som även detta år...
In Kolumbien hat eine neue Geschichtsschreibung begonnen. Als erste schwarze Frau wurde Francia Marquez zur Vizepräsidentin der ersten linken Regierung des Landes gewählt. Sie verkörpert den Kampf geg…
The Citizens’ Hearing is, “an independent inquiry into Canada’s response to Covid-19. We will hear evidence from scientists, legal experts, and healthcare providers, as well as test…
Mit dem Johann Philipp von Bethmann-Studienpreis 2021 zeichnete die Frankfurter Historische Kommission Dr. Berit Wagner zusammen mit ihrem Projektteam für die virtuelle Ausstellung und digitale Wissen…
Deadline for submission is September 16, 2022. To be eligible for the competition, please submit at least five and no
Since the beginning of the Russian offensive on Ukraine on February 24th, over 5 million people have registered for temporary protection programmes and other schemes across Europe. By...
Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat unsere Handlungen im Raum tiefgreifend verändert und unser Raumerleben auf zuvor unbekannte Weise auf den Kopf gestellt: Maßnahmen gegen die Ausbreitung des Virus schränken B…
Every year, after Easter, hundreds of families from all over Ukraine gather in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. People converge toward the now-deserted area to perform rites called...
[no-caption] Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images This article was originally published at Otherwise magazine and has been republished with permission as a lightly edited excerpt. CONST…
Read Time:9 Minute, 21 Second (Arriba) Rafa y Dona unas de las fundadoras de Territorio Doméstico (Abajo) compañeras celebrando la …
From Wednesday, June 22, through Friday, June 24, 2022, a combined effort by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance and Fearless Canada, brought three full days of testimonies that were stre…
Professor Leslie Aiello forged innovative pathways for the discipline of anthropology toward the goal of “the increase and dissemination of
A good video primer of the far right and mainstream ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theories by DW NEWS with experts from the field
On the 99th page of my dissertation, “The Objective Function: Science and Society in the Age of Machine Intelligence”, the first full paragraph describes how machine learning researchers...
(W.H.R.Rivers and the Toda) Professor Promode Kumar Misra PATRON UIAF Former National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research Email ID: pramodkumarmisra@gmail.com Nilgiris the habitat of the…
Read Time:5 Minute, 2 Second Cuando Antonio Machín cantaba aquello de: “Yo no puedo comprender cómo se pueden querer dos mujeres a …
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon’s edited volume Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG (Lexington Books, 2022) examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing...
In Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (W. W. Norton, 2022), world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal...
لوکینو ویسکونتی (۱۹۰۶-۱۹۷۶) / فیلمساز ایتالیایی لوکینو ویسکونتی، در خانواهای اشرافی و بسیار فرهنگی در ایتالیا زاده و به یکی بزرگترین فیلمسازان این کشور بدل گردید. ویسکونتی در...
شماره چهار. زبان و لهجه غیرمعیار در جایگاه کهتری لیلا حسین زاده، سپهر خدابخش پیشگفتار: هنر و زبان مادری در ایران، مجموعه مصاحبه با هنرمندانی است که هنرشان...
جلسه چهل و هفتم مؤسسۀ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ دربارۀ « مسئلۀ جامعۀ ایرانی: چالش احیای همبستگی اجتماعی در ایران » با حضور دکتر جبار رحمانی (عضو شورای...
از کتاب بوطیقا و سیاست در شاهنامه سجّاد آیدِنلو* از سیاحت در یک حماسه (منطق روایی و وحدت هنری در شاهنامه). محمود امیدسالار. ترجمۀ مصطفی حسینی. تهران: هرمس،...
Stellungnahme als PDF Der Vorstand des Rats für Migration begrüßt und unterstützt ausdrücklich die Nominierung von Ferda Ataman als unabhängige Antidiskriminierungsbeauftragte des Bundes. Ihre Wahl wä…
pixabay: makabera Diese Woche gibt es einige interessante Volo-Stellen in den Bereichen Lektorat (Psychologie), Social Media und Content Creation. Wie immer gibt es Stellen in den Bereichen Bildung…
In the European Arctic Midsummer nowadays marks mostly the start of the summer holidays. But at the roots of this big holiday, celebrated on or close to the...
In den Diskussionen über Erinnerungspolitik und Gedenkstättenarchitektur geht es auch um das von den Nazis zerstörte Revolutionsdenkmal. Doch die Forderung nach seiner Rekonstruktion ist nicht frei vo…
Disaster X is a new publication, that is tied to this site: it is available on Substack. Here I just want to briefly introduce the material that already...
گفتوگو با «محسن شهرنازدار»، سرپرست علمی مجموعۀ «پژوهشهای ایران فرهنگی» ویژۀ بلوچستان شناخت از تاریخ و فرهنگ؛ لازمۀ توسعۀ پایدار برای آنکه متوقف نمانیم هرکس باید سهم خود...
دربارۀ گسترۀ فرهنگی بلوچستان در طول تاریخ سالهاست عادت کردهایم هر بار سخن از بلوچها و بلوچستان به میان میآید، جز تصاویری از فقر و محرومیت، از سرزمینی...
فصل چهارم: اصالت وجود هایدگر و همگنان طی سالهای اخیر کتابهای متعددی (اعم از ترجمه یا تألیف) درباره فلسفه هایدگر به چاپ رسیده است، که دربین آنها میتوان...
چگونه میتوان فارغ از نظریههای پیچیده، از فضا و کنشگری در فضا به زبان ساده سخن گفت؟ فضا چیست؟ آیا فضا محاط است یا محیط؟ آیا فضا ظرفی...
La foto és de Kevin Mohett Comentari per en Guillermo Aguirre, enviat el 15 de juny de 2022 Centralitzacio no és centralitat Manuel Delgado El que volen fer...
Hi all,This final post before the traditional summer break until early August is filled with interesting stories from around the #globaldev world again! UN whistleblowers, MSF visual communication,...
Read Time:10 Minute, 56 Second “…el conocimiento que ha aportado la hipercrítica de la posmodernidad en Ciencias Sociales, tan pol…
Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the...
Inequality is an urgent global concern, with pundits, politicians, academics, and best-selling books all taking up its causes and consequences. In Inequality: A Genetic History (MIT Press, 2022), Carles Lalueza-Fox...
Dr. Iris Köhler und ich laden herzlich zur dritten offenen Karrierewerkstatt via Zoom ein: 28.6.2022, 17:00-18:30 Uhr Unser Schwerpunktthema ist: Bewerben. Wenn Du graduierst, promoviers…
Multipurpose ancient stone tools harbor more clues about human sociality than initially meet the eye. Paloma de la Peñ This article was originally published in The Conversation and...
Thunder and light rain did not keep 100 stalwart gala guests from descending the stone steps to enter a white-tented world where they were …
Jennifer Jo Thompson, University of Georgia (SAFN President) After three years of planning, postponing due to COVID-19, and then planning again, “Cultivating Connections”—the 2022 joint annual mee…
Read Time:3 Minute, 43 Second Todas las épocas tienen canciones que son seña de identidad de la misma, y grupos memorables que han …
City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town (Beacon Press, 2022) paints an intimate portrait of the newcomers revitalizing a fading industrial...
Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were...
Så kändes det som att många kände inför att Nordiska etnolog- och folkloristkongressen (Ethnofolk) gick av stapeln i Reykjavik 13-16 juni, det märkets också genom ett högt deltagarantal...
I have a hunch this place won’t last the decade – some sort of global cataclysm is in the offing, you can just tell. Yet despite prognostications of...
We are excited to announce the first annual ARHE Policy Brief Award is now open for submissions. The aim of the award is to encourage and acknowledge the contributions...
Dear students and staff, We are delighted to write with news of a new departmental photography initiative. We warmly invite submissions from all members of the department—students and...
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Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different story: for nearly 150 years, the...
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As part of our application process for our MA in Communication for Development program we encourage applicants to submit a short application letter together with all the other...
جلسه چهل و ششم مؤسسۀ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ دربارۀ « دشواریهای راه ایرانی و بازگشت به خود جامعه » با حضور آقای دکتر مقصود فراستخواه (جامعهشناس، استاد...
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Unlike many books that examine the how of making theater, Brian Kulick’s The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation (Routledge, 2019) examines the why. Using Jorge Luis...
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مسئله «تعهد» در هنر (به فرانسه engagement به انگلیسی commitment) دست کم از قرن هجدهم در هنر و ادبیات اروپایی و آمریکایی مطرح است، و برخلاف یک تصوّر...
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شهرام صحرائی سخنوری. شعرهای مراسم سخنوری که در تکیهها و قهوهخانهها برگزار میشد، همراه با تحقیق در پیشینهٔ سخنوری. تصحیح و تحقیق: مهران افشاری. تهران: موقوفات دکتر محمود...
شماره سه: اندوخته هنر، زبان و لهجه معیار لیلا حسین زاده، سپهر خدابخش پیشگفتار: هنر و زبان مادری در ایران، مجموعه مصاحبه با هنرمندانی است که هنرشان به...
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Nach dem School-Shooting in Uvalde (TX) wird in den USA zum x-ten Mal über Schusswaffen diskutiert. Doch obwohl Schussverletzungen mittlerweile die häufigste Todesursache von Kinder und Jugendliche si…
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In 2011, we started a project entitled “Anthropology By the Wire” with participants drawn mainly from community colleges in the Baltimore area. Our goal was to collaborate with...
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Anthrodendum welcomes Aleksandra Cejovic, a Montenegrin anthropologist based in the United States whose work is focused primarily on female embodied experiences, mainly menstrual and sexual health. Se…
I saw big momma once, seated in a wooden chair with hair braided all the way like if you look downriver, you could imagine the chillin’ playing— after...
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جلسه چهل و چهارم مؤسسهٔ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ دربارۀ کتاب «وضعیت دیجیتال و نظام دانش» برگزار خواهد شد. در این جلسه آقای حامد طاهری کیا (عضو هیئت...
Two little intro to the author books that I think are absolute gems – and they will get inside your ear to tell you more about the world...
We all are aware of the annual seasons, winter, spring, summer, and fall, but in the growing cycle of the plants of the Willamette Valley there are micro-seasons...
I remember when I was a little girl, I was fascinated with war memorials. Stone colossi towering over people, gravely staring into the infinite as if seeing something...
Kurz nach Beginn des Krieges ist im russischen Fernsehen ein neues Genre entstanden: die Anti-Fake-Show. Allerdings wird hier Desinformation nicht entlarvt, sondern hergestellt.
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I typed this out a week ago on Facebook and it was shared nearly 200 times on the first day. This, I think, indicates that the time is...
Haspel, Tamar (2022) To Boldly Grow. Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 231 pp. Ellen Messer (Tufts University) How many...
On June 14th at 1:00 PM EST and 8:00 PM EST tune in for the last two installments of “Proposal
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any day or part day that the individual sees their child in person in the UK counts as a day on which they see their child in the...
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In Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military (Duke UP, 2021), Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military’s attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological “supersoldiers” capable of withstanding...
I personally have mixed feelings about Pride Month this year. We do have a lot to celebrate, but there are lots of reasons for concern, too. Here are...
In this contribution, Gloria Rudolf describes the beginnings of her long-term friendship with Esperanza Ruiz and the people of Loma Bonita in Panama. Nineteen visits and half a...
Abstract The global economic crisis is not merely financial, a moment in the historical cycle of credit and debt. The … More
I love trees. I also love dendrochronology—literally, “the study of tree time.” This science, which uses data derived from tree growth rings, provides scientists with a wealth of...
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What happens when the written words of biblical scripture are transformed into experiential, choreographed environments? To answer this question, anthropologist James Bielo explores a diverse range of practices...
Her dark gray eyes scan the horizon. An iridescent golden sun and stars encircle her head, flanked on one side by a cobalt sockeye salmon and the other...
Prólogo no publicado para el libro de Ana Olva y Gloria Fernández, Antonio Banderas, Toda su vida (Ediciones B, 1995). ¿TIENEN LOS DIOSES DERECHOS HUMANOS? Manuel Delgado La...
Andrew Leon Hanna’s book 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs (Cambridge UP, 2022) takes readers inside the Za’atari refugee camp to follow the stories of three courageous...
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Campanale, Joe, and Joshua David Stein. Vino: The Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine. Clarkson Potter, 2022. 320 pp. ISBN 9780593136140. Jesse Dart, Arizona State University, Swette Center...
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“Near Ahmedabad’s civil hospital, in a small dilapidated house. A dog lives with his wife and their children. After two days, the dog returns to his home. Af…
What drives and sustains participation in unemployed workers’ movements in Argentina? Today’s guest, Marcos Perez, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Washington and...
In Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine (Duke UP, 2020), Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and...
How can development programs deliver benefits to marginalized citizens in ways that expand their rights and freedoms? Political will and good policy design are critical but often insufficient...
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Too good.
It’s one of those lists where you get a point for each one you’ve done. I’m winning. Full dance card. Bring it on.
H/t Niel
*Research team members excavate a tumulus burial structure.
Michele R. Buzon*
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished with Creative Commons.
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Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies of power between researchers and research participants. This project critically assesses the ways in which knowledge is co-created and reproduced through narratives in spaces of displacement, advancing a creative, collective, and interdisciplinary approach.
Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022) explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Each chapter delves into specific ethical and methodological challenges, with particular attention to unequal power relations in the co-creation of knowledge, questions about representation and ownership, and the adaptation of methodological approaches to contexts of mobility. Contributors reflect honestly on what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by both established and emerging researchers. Innovative in its use of arts-based methods, Documenting Displacement invites researchers to explore new avenues guided not only by the procedural ethics imposed by academic institutions, but also by a relational ethics that more fully considers the position of the researcher and the interests of those who have been displaced.
Lois Klassen is an artist, writer and researcher based on Coast Salish Territory (traditional and unceded) in what is referred to as Vancouver.
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The global success of football icons like Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless young men across the African continent who dream of following – literally and figuratively – in their footsteps. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research, African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories(Manchester University Press, 2022) captures and chronicles the aspirations, experiences and trajectories of those pursuing this highly prized form of transnational migration. In doing so, the book’s three authors Dr. Paul Darby, Dr. James Esson, and Dr. Christian Ungruhe uncover and trace the myriad actors, networks and institutions that affect the ability of young people across the continent to realise social mobility through football’s global production network.
The book sheds critical light on the barriers to social mobility erected by neoliberal capitalism, and how these are negotiated by aspiring African footballers. It also generates original interdisciplinary perspectives on the complex interplay between structural forces and human agency, as young players navigate an industry rife with commercial speculation. While a select few reach the elite levels of the game and build a successful career overseas, the book vividly illustrates how for the vast majority, ‘trying their luck’ through football results in involuntary immobility in post-colonial Africa. These findings are complemented by rare empirical insights from transnational African migrants at the margins of the global football industry and those navigating precarious retirement from careers as players.
African Football Migration offers essential coverage of why and how African youth and young men have become actors in the global football industry, revealing the complex implications of transnational mobility, both imagined and enacted.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
Unfortunately, Dr. Christian Ungruhe was unable to join this interview.
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Prof. Schnepel, hat die Ethnologie eine Zukunft?
Möglicherweise.
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Eine mutige Oberbürgermeisterin wagt einen Vorstoß, und halb Europa ist in Aufruhr. Der Kommentar ist mit anderem Untertitel in der Wiener Zeitung am 3. 5. 2022 erschienen. Allfreitäglich dürfte nun i…
Klassiker der Kinderliteratur wie „Alice im Wunderland“, „Heidi“ und „Pippi Langstrumpf“ sind so erfolgreich, dass sie niemand mehr liest. Ihre Figuren und Geschichten wurden zu Schablonen für banale …
I revisited Bush Park today to tour the other areas of camas. I began at the “Picnic” area, south side of the park at its upper level and worked my way own to the flower garden area. For y…
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Aaron Gronstal* These illustrations tell the story of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in a small tourist town in the Iowa Great Lakes region: my hometown of Okoboji.
A…
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AD KAN (NO MORE) was founded in 1988 by a group of academics at Tel Aviv University. The initiative, a public pressure group, was prompted by public indifference (at best) about Israel’s 20-year occupation of the Palestinian Territories, and its forceful attempts to suppress the nascent First Intifada popular uprising in the West Bank. Whilst outward facing in their basic ambitions, the founder members of AD KAN also understood that academia’s failure to engage with the realities of the moment—through debate, protest, even applied research—could easily be taken too as acceptance of the status quo, embodying as it did the subaltern position of the Palestinian people.
Can Academics Change the World? An Israeli Anthropologist’s Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus (Berghahn Books, 2020) by Moshe Shokeid, is a personal account of the author’s experiences as co-founder of AD KAN. An account of dissent on campus, the book is at once a memoir, a historical account, and an anthropological consideration of the academic’s responsibility as a public intellectual.
Can Academics Change the World? remains relevant today, with many of the issues underpinning the formation and activities of AD KAN still live: the occupation of the West Bank; attempts to force Israel into concession and compromise, principally through the Boycott, Diversification, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign; and the continued status of the academic as public intellectual, in Israel and elsewhere—this cast against a university landscape that has reorganized itself around a different set of principles in the three decades since AD KAN ceased its activities.
Professor Moshe Shokeid is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. His other books include Three Jewish Journeys through the Anthropologist’s Lens: From Morocco to the Negev, Zion to the Big Apple, the Closet to the Bimah; A Gay Synagogue in New York; Children of Circumstances: Israeli Emigrants in New York; and The Dual Heritage: Immigrants from the Atlas Mountains in an Israeli Village.
Akin Ajayi (@AkinAjayi) is a writer and editor, based in Tel Aviv.
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Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. The author, a scion of the erstwhile ruling family of Kanker, delves into the oral accounts given in the ancestral deity practices of the mixed tribe-caste communities of the region to highlight popular narratives of its historical polity. As he struggles with his own dilemmas as ethnographer-king, what comes into view is a polity where the princely state is drawn out amidst a terrain of gods and spirits as much as that of law courts and magistrates, and political power is divided, contested and shared between the raja/state and the people. This study constitutes an intervention in the larger debate on the relationship between state formations and tribal peoples and the very nature of history as a knowledge practice, especially the understandings of power, authority, and sovereignty in it.
Combining intensive ethnography, complementary archival work, and crucial theoretical questions engaging social scientists worldwide, the author charts an explanatory path that can allow us to understand societies/peoples that have historically been marginalized and seen as different. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of history, anthropology, politics, religion, tribal society and Modern South Asia.
Tiatemsu Longkumer is a Ph.D. scholar working on ‘Anthropology of Religion’ at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong: India.
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Alexa, Bixby, the GPS voice, Siri.… AI (Artificial Intelligence) assistants, which operate through algorithms …
Jie Gao. Saving the Nation through Culture: The Folklore Movement in Republican China. Contemporary Chinese Studies. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019. 364 pp., 20 b/w photos, ap…
By Zoë Oosterveld
Entering the field
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Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya
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We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest!
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Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to this music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet music is an overlooked part of our origin story. The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth (Bloomsbury, 2021) takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages – from Bach to BTS and back – to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on the widest possible canvas, looking at music in our everyday lives; music in world history; and music in evolution, from insects to apes, humans to AI. Through this journey we begin to understand how music is central to the distinctly human experiences of cognition, feeling and even biology, both widening and closing the evolutionary gaps between ourselves and animals in surprising ways.
The Musical Human boldly puts the case that music is the most important thing we ever did; it is a fundamental part of what makes us human.
Mel Rosenberg is a professor of microbiology (Tel Aviv University, emeritus) who fell in love with children’s books as a small child and now writes his own. He is also the founder of Ourboox, a web platform that allows anyone to create and share awesome flipbooks.
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In Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era (University of California Press, 2022), Natali Valdez examines research trials that enroll pregnant people in the United States and England. These research trials aim to lower the health risks to future generations by intervening in and studying the diet and exercise of pregnant people. As an ethnographer, Valdez enrolled pregnant participants into the studies, met with them to administer the intervention, and observed the processes of the trials. Valdez argues that these studies focus on the pregnant individual without accounting for the social, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that present risk factors to their pregnancies. Structural factors such as racism, pollution, and poverty are not acknowledged, studied, or tracked. And this focus on the individual forecloses addressing issues, such as unstable housing, childcare, immigration, and racism. In the book, Valdez discusses how pregnancy trials have changed very little since the 1950s, the politics of recruiting participants to the trials, and how they handle racial diversity. Valdez asserts that these trials use race as an unstable and inconsistent marker of identifying participants, but they do not address racism, which is an underlying cause of health disparities. In the episode we discuss Valdez’s arguments, ethnographic work, and experience of writing the book. Weighing the Future would be of interest to those in medical anthropology, science and technology studies, as well as women and gender studies. Weighing the Future is the first book of its kind, and it contributes much to our understandings of the increasingly salient issues of maternal health, research, and race.
Natali Valdez is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College.
Reighan Gillam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California.
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Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific(Duke UP, 2021) maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Nitasha Tamar Sharma highlights the paradox of Hawaiʻi as a multiracial paradise and site of unacknowledged anti-Black racism. While Black culture is ubiquitous here, African-descended people seem invisible. In this formerly sovereign nation structured neither by the US Black/White binary nor the one-drop rule, non-White multiracials, including Black Hawaiians and Black Koreans, illustrate the coarticulation and limits of race and the native/settler divide. Despite erasure and racism, nonmilitary Black residents consider Hawaiʻi their haven, describing it as a place to “breathe” that offers the possibility of becoming local. Sharma’s analysis of race, indigeneity, and Asian settler colonialism shifts North American debates in Black and Native studies to the Black Pacific. Hawaiʻi Is My Haven illustrates what the Pacific offers members of the African diaspora and how they in turn illuminate race and racism in “paradise.”
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This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua(Duke University Press, 2022). Her new book examines the lives of Marind people in West Papua as they are transformed by Indonesian colonialism. These transformations are epitomized in Marind relations to two species of trees: Sago palm, a source of subsistence which is profoundly meaningful to them, and oil palm, an introduced species grown in mono-crop plantations which are destroying Marind lands. While it would be easy to vilify the oil palm as a nefarious symbol of colonialism, Chao chooses the subtler route of describing Marind ambivalence about oil palm, which they see as both the stuff of nightmares and a kidnapped species pressed into use against them by the capitalism and the state. Both pitiful and threatening, oil palm complicate multispecies ethnography, which has not yet fully come to grips with the fact that relationships between species can be violent and exploitative. In this podcast, Sophie talks with Alex Golub about the history of her research, the argument of the book, and changing definitions of ‘theory’ and ‘ethnography’ in contemporary anthropology.
For more on Sophie and her work, see her website morethanhumanworlds.com
Alex Golub is a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
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Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke University Press, 2021) collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors —who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions— enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration, the essays invite readers to focus on the imaginative work that needs to be performed prior to completing an argument. Whether exchanging objects, showing how to use drawn images as a way to analyze data, or working with smartphones, sound recordings, and social media as analytic devices, the contributors explore the deliberate processes for pursuing experimental thinking through ethnography. Practical and broad in theoretical scope, Experimenting with Ethnography is an indispensable companion for all ethnographers.
Gustavo E. Gutiérrez Suárez is PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, and BA in Social Communication. His areas of interest include Andean and Amazonian Anthropology, as well as Film poetics and aesthetics. You can follow him on Twitter vía @GustavoEGSuarez.
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Lima, 2015. At the Mistura, an annual food festival in Peru wherein people from the desert, the Andes, and the coast bring their produce and artisanal products to Lima for days of festivities and com…
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Introduction Working-class people in the United States are now at a turning point – whether to compliantly return to the pre-Covid conditions capital set for them, or to shift toward a new mil…
InGenre Publics: Popular Music, Technologies, and Class in Indonesia, Emma Baulch explores the interconnections between the Indonesian public sphere and popular music. This is a rich contribution to …
The anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo approaches ethnography as not just the depiction of a world but as what addresses and displaces both the writer and the reader, where ethnography itself becomes a…
Since SAPIENS launched in 2016, several social media outlets have been central to the magazine’s promotion strategy. Every week, we publish multiple posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to dissem…
Author: Daniel Miller I want to make a slightly surprising suggestion. That my current ambition in anthropology is to become more like TikTok (or its original Chinese form Douyin). Because TikTok capt…
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John and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson in this rebroadcast of a 2019 Recall this Book conversation. Her Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia both relates the history of Polynesia, and explores how histories of Polynesia are constructed.
The discussion considers various moments of cultural contact between Polynesian and European thinkers and doers. Those range from the chart Tupaia drew for Captain Cook during the “first contact” era (above) to the moment ijn 1976 when the Hokule’a‘s traveled from Hawaii to Tahiti in a triumphant reconstruction of ancient Polynesian wayfinding. Thompson has fascinating thoughts on how the work of David Lewis, Brian Finney and the Bishop Planetarium served as invaluable background to the navigational achievements of Mau Pialug and Nainoa Thompson.
The conversation then turns to Epeli Hau’ofa’s influential article, “Our Sea of Islands,” and the conditions that arise to separate islands–water, language, or national boundaries. Can these conditions also serve to draw islands together? The discussion turns to the much-celebrated voyage of the Hokule’a, revivals of Polynesian tattooing practice, hula dancing, and oh yes, Moana.
Planetarium at the Bishop Musuem
Finally, in Recallable Books, Christina recommends Nancy D. Munn’s The Fame of Gawa as a book that takes seriously the theories of value developed within Gawan community; Elizabeth recommends Sam Low’s documentary text Hawaiki Rising; and John, thinking archipelagically, recommends Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea novels.
Christina Thompson (not in our studio)
Mentioned in this episode:
- Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia and Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, Christina Thompson
- “Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific,” Andrew Sharp
- We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific, David Lewis
- “Our Sea of Islands,” Epeli Hau’ofa
- Moana, dir. Ron Clements and John Cusker
- The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society, Nancy D. Munn
- Hawaiki Rising, Sam Low
- The Books of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Elizabeth Ferry is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Email: ferry@brandeis.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu.
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Dear NAFA Friends, A new year for all of us, a new year for the Nordic Anthropological Film Association – NAFA, so here we send a new reminder of the work NAFA now has been doing for a…
The sky island of Dzil Nchaa Si’an is more than a mountain. It is a significant landmark in Arizona for Apache tribal members to collect medicinal plants, perform ceremonies, and connect with th…
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The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges digitalization poses to different strands of sociological theory and offers paths to adapt them to new social realities in his book Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes that Bind Us Together, published by Polity Press in 2021.
What would symbolic interactionism look like in a world where interaction no longer takes place within bounded situations and is constantly documented as durable digital objects? How should we understand new digitally mediated forms of human association that bind our actions and lives together but have little in common with old-time ‘collectives’; and why are they not simply ‘social networks’? How does social capital transform when it is materialized in a digital form, and how does it remold power structures? What happens to our conceptualization of power when faced with the emergence of new forms of algorithmic power? And what happens when labor departs from work? By posing and answering such fascinating questions, and offering critical tools for both students and scholars of social theory and digital society to engage with them, this thought-provoking book draws the outline of future sociological theory for our digital society.
Rituparna Patgiri, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the areas of food, media, gender and public. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology. Patgiri can be reached at @Rituparna37 on Twitter.
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Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most important fish species in the Northern Hemisphere. Human dependence on herring has evolved for millennia through interactions with key spawning areas, but humans have also significantly impacted the species’ distribution and abundance.
Combining ethnological, historical, archaeological, and political perspectives with comparative reference to other North Pacific cultures, Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species (U Washington Press, 2021) traces fishery development in Southeast Alaska from precontact Indigenous relationships with herring to postcontact focus on herring products. Revealing new findings about current herring stocks as well as the fish’s significance to the conservation of intraspecies biodiversity, the book explores the role of traditional local knowledge, in combination with archeological, historical, and biological data, in both understanding marine ecology and restoring herring to their former abundance.
Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi’i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com.
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Nach dem russischen Angriff auf die Gedenkstätte Babyn Jar erklärte Präsident Selenskyi umgehend, es drohe die Gefahr, dass der Holocaust sich wiederhole. Ist das bloßer Krieg der Worte – oder angesic…
Packed with beautiful imagery, but also hard scientific facts, Jackie Higgins’s book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses (Atria Books, 2022) explores how we process the world around us by analyzing the incredible sensory capabilities of thirteen animals and reveals that we are not limited to merely five senses. There is a scientific revolution stirring in the field of human perception. Research has shown that the extraordinary sensory powers of our animal friends can help us better understand the same powers that lie dormant within us. From the harlequin mantis shrimp with its ability to see a vast range of colors, to the bloodhound and its hundreds of millions of scent receptors; from the orb-weaving spider whose eyes recognize not only space but time, to the cheetah whose ears are responsible for its perfect agility, these astonishing animals hold the key to better understanding how we make sense of the world around us. Eye-opening and captivating, Sentient will change the way you think about what it is to be human.
Ana Georgescu is a Romanian transplant, astrophysics graduate, aspiring journalist.
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Around five million people across Southeast Asia identify as Shan. Though the Shan people were promised an independent state in the 1947 Union of Burma constitution, successive military governments blocked their liberation. From 1958 onward, insurgency movements, including the Shan United Revolutionary Army, have fought for independence from Myanmar. Refugees numbering in the hundreds of thousands fled to Thailand to escape the conflict, despite struggling against oppressive citizenship laws there. Several decades of continuous rebellion have created a vacuum in which literati and politicians have constructed a virtual Shan state that lives on in popular media, rock music, and Buddhist ritual.
In Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred (U Wisconsin Press, 2021), Jane M. Ferguson details the origins of these movements and tells the story of the Shan in their own voices. She shows how the Shan have forged a homeland and identity during great upheaval by using state building as an ongoing project of resistance, resilience, and accommodation within both countries. In avoiding a good/bad moral binary and illuminating cultural complexities, Repossessing Shanland offers a fresh perspective on identity formation, transformation, and how people understand and experience borderlands today.
Like this interview? If so, you might also be interested in:
- Nick Enfield, The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
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- Nicole Curato, Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedies to Deliberative Action
Professor Michele Ford is the Director of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, a university-wide multidisciplinary center at the University of Sydney, Australia.
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In Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene(Duke UP, 2020), Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a “just recovery” in the Caribbean emerge from specific transnational political, economic, and cultural dynamics. Because foreigners are largely ignorant of Haiti’s political, cultural, and economic contexts, especially the historical role of the United States, their efforts to help often exacerbate inequities. Caribbean survival under ever-worsening environmental and political conditions, Sheller contends, demands radical alternatives to the pervasive neocolonialism, racial capitalism, and US military domination that have perpetuated what she calls the “coloniality of climate.” Sheller insists that alternative projects for Haitian reconstruction, social justice, and climate resilience-and the sustainability of the entire region-must be grounded in radical Caribbean intellectual traditions that call for deeper transformations of transnational economies, ecologies, and human relations writ large.
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Culture, Context and Ageing of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond (Springer 2021) discusses the intersections between culture, context, and ageing. It adopts a socio-cultural lens and highlights emotional, social, and psychological issues of the older adults in urban India. It is set in multiple sites such as Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kolkata, and Saskatoon to indicate how different cultural practises and contextual factors play an integral role in determining the course of ageing. It also focuses on different narratives such as older adults living with adult children, older adults living with spouses, and older adults living alone to demonstrate the intricate process of growing old. Drawing from various sites and living arrangements of older adults, it sheds light on cultural constructions of growing old, ideas of belonging, the inevitability of death, everyday processes of ageing, perceptions associated with growing old in India, acceptance of the ageing body, and intergenerational ties in later lives. Given its scope, the book is essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of sociology, demography, and social scientists studying ageing.
Rituparna Patgiri, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the areas of food, media, gender and public. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology. Patgiri can be reached at @Rituparna37 on Twitter.
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The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure (U California Press, 2021) is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi’s Metro, a massive infrastructure project that is reshaping the city’s social and urban landscapes. Ethnographic vignettes introduce the feel and form of the Metro and let readers experience the city, scene by scene, stop by stop, as if they, too, have come along for the ride. Laying bare the radical possibilities and concretized inequalities of the Metro, and how people live with and through its built environment, this is a story of women and men on the move, the nature of Indian aspiration, and what it takes morally and materially to sustain urban life. Through exquisite prose, Rashmi Sadana transports the reader to a city shaped by both its Metro and those who depend on it, revealing a perspective on Delhi unlike any other.
Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. To know more about Sneha’s work, please visit www.snehanna.com
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In her new book, Fan Sites: Film Tourism and Contemporary Fandom (U Iowa Press, 2021)(University of Iowa Press, 2021), Abby Waysdorf explores why and how we experience film and television-related places, and what the growth of this practice means for contemporary fandom. Through four case studies—Game of Thrones tourism in Dubrovnik, Croatia and Northern Ireland, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme parks in Orlando, Florida, fandom of The Prisoner in Portmeirion, Wales, and Friends events in the United Kingdom and United States—this book presents a multifaceted look at the ways place and fandom interact today. Fan Sites explores the different relationships that fans build with these places of fandom, from the exploratory knowledge-building of Game of Thrones fans on vacation, the appreciative evaluations of Harry Potter fans at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, to the frequent “homecoming” visits of Prisoner fans, who see Portmeirion as a “safe vault” and the home of their fandom. Including engaging accounts of real fans at each location, Fan Sites addresses what the rise of fan tourism and places of fandom might mean for the future of fandom and its relationship with the media industry.
Rebekah Buchanan is an Associate Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music.
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Online exhibition: Human traces in the landscape The online exhibition Human traces in the landscape conveys impressions and sentiments from rapidly changing frontier areas in Indonesia and Papua Ne…
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