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2025 Council for Museum Anthropology: Lifetime Achievement/Distinguished Service Award

Shreds and Patches

The Council for Museum Anthropology is seeking nominations for its Distinguished Service Award. The award recognizes CMA members whose careers demonstrate extraordinary achievements that have adv…

  • Post date 19th June 2025
  • Post author By Jason Baird Jackson
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

On Silence

Allegra Lab

On the 7th of December 2024, Damascus was up all night having a special kind of party.  At 3 a.m., my siblings […] The post On Silence appeared first on…

  • Post date 19th June 2025
  • Post author By Lama Ranjous
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

The “Encounter” is not Important: Living with My Transfeminine Beard

Genderblog

Many people assume that queer rights movements are primarily about acceptance or visibility. But this perspective risks reducing queerness to a plea for recognition within the boundaries of…

  • Post date 19th June 2025
  • Post author By Redaktion
  • Post categories In Dutch, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

STS Academic Publishing As a Work of Service and Hope: A Conversation with Vivette García-Deister

Platypus

Thinking, writing, and publishing from Latin America pose significant challenges, especially for younger researchers. Academic work is affected by various kinds of asymmetries, but when we add to…

  • Post date 19th June 2025
  • Post author By Vivette García-Deister
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

The Invisible Light That’s Harming Our Health — And How We Can Light Things Better

Stories by Amber Case on Medium

The Invisible Light That’s Harming Our Health — And How We Can Light Things Better I recently spent a few weeks running a conference for a community of researchers and writers…

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Amber Case
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Turing Tests and ChatGPT’s Sleight of Hand

All Tomorrow's Cultures

  One of the many benchmarks for AI is the “Turing test,” Alan Turing’s adaptation of the “imitation game” where an interrogator must decide which of two respondents…

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Samuel Gerald Collins
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Forest as Kin and Pantry in the Himalayas

SAPIENS

In the Sikkim and Kalimpong Himalayas in Northeast India, supply chains are often interrupted by changing monsoon systems that damage highways. Responding to uncertainty, communities are reclaiming an…

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia
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Frankenstein’s Monsters Finding Home

Genderblog

This dreamy poem of trans~formation was written in an attempt to envision a trans materialist utopia. In these verses, we find ourselves at the beginning of this emergence;…

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Redaktion
  • Post categories In Dutch, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Anthropology of Religion: A Comprehensive Overview

ANTHROPOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS

   Anthropology of Religion: A Comprehensive Overview Contents Anthropology of Religion: A Comprehensive Overview.. 1

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Suman Nath
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Oath and Ordeal: Concepts in Political Anthropology

ANTHROPOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS

  Oath and Ordeal: Concepts in Political Anthropology In political anthropology, the concepts of oath and ordeal offer fascinating insights into how societies establish truth, enforce justice, an…

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Suman Nath
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Ways to overcome barriers to intercultural communication in China

Sociology/Anthropology - LSE Review of Books

Bridging the Gap by Catherine Hua Xiang is aimed at anyone doing business in or with China and examines the complexities of intercultural communication with Chinese people. Covering…

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Dalton,A
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Political Anthropology: POWER, LAW, AUTHORITY and LEGITIMACY

ANTHROPOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS

  POWER, LAW, AUTHORITY and LEGITIMACY   POWER, LAW, AUTHORITY and LEGITIMACY. 1

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Suman Nath
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Anthropology of Social Control

ANTHROPOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS

  Anthropology of Social Control: Social control is a fundamental concept in political anthropology, referring to the mechanisms and processes by which conformity to norms, rules, and laws…

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Suman Nath
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Candace Lukasik, “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire” (NYU Press, 2025)

New Books in Anthropology

Coptic Orthodox Christians comprise the largest Christian community in the Middle East and are among the oldest Christian communities in the world. While once the objects of American…

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network
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Political Anthropology: ‘primite law’ and sanction

ANTHROPOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS

 ‘Primitive Law’ and Sanctions in Political Anthropology Political anthropology, in its exploration of power, authority, and governance across diverse human societies, pays particular attention …

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Suman Nath
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Economic Anthropology: Reciprocity, Redistribution and Market Exchange

ANTHROPOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS

  Economic Anthropology: Reciprocity, Redistribution and Market Exchange Anthropological economic theory, heavily influenced by Karl Polanyi’s seminal work, The Great Transformation (1957)¹ parti…

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Suman Nath
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

The Latest Hanshin Tigers Merch

Visual Anthropology of Japan - 日本映像人類学

Bonus(?): This picture pretty much says it all… 7 losses in a row. And on Umeno’s birthday no less (he did get a hit, but was tagged out…

  • Post date 18th June 2025
  • Post author By Unknown
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Cerdà, el noucentisme i la restauració maragalliana

EL COR DE LES APARENCES

Foto presa de ajuntament.barcelona.cat Comentari per als col·legues de l’OACU a propòsit de la vindicació neomaragallista de Cerdà i, sobre tot, del noucentisme. Enviat el març de 2016.…

  • Post date 17th June 2025
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado
  • Post categories In Norwegian / Swedish / Danish, Spanish

Right to the City – Trans Materialism and Third Spaces in Berlin

Genderblog

Public spaces are shaped by us and, in turn, they shape us. Too often, however, they are commodified, reduced to grids and coordinates designed for control, measurement, and…

  • Post date 17th June 2025
  • Post author By Redaktion
  • Post categories In Dutch, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Book review: Allen Tran’s ‘A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety’

Somatosphere

A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety by Allen Tran (University of California Press: 2023) In A Life of Worry, Allen L. Tran…

  • Post date 17th June 2025
  • Post author By Ellen Hausner
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

How Societies Morph With the Seasons

SAPIENS

An evolutionary anthropologist details seasonal changes among foraging communities—and distills how the fixed political structures of industrialized societies are an outlier in human history. ✽ If you…

  • Post date 17th June 2025
  • Post author By Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

LOST PREDICTIONS II

Public Anthropologist

Maruška Svašek without ChatGPT Karel entered the museum with a visceral urge to be surrounded by artefacts. To be sucked in by the collection and erase himself. The…

  • Post date 17th June 2025
  • Post author By Maruška Svašek
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley Book Presentations

The Quartux Journal

  Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley Book events (upcoming and past) 2025 (upcoming) Dec 12/6 Wild Arts Festival Author Table Hillsboro Aug 8/4 Shared Stewardship 101, Benton…

  • Post date 17th June 2025
  • Post author By David G. Lewis, PhD
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Concept Work: Constructing Frameworks for Folklore Studies Due October 2025 from IU Press.

Shreds and Patches

I am happy to note that my book Concept Work: Constructing Frameworks for Folklore Studies is in press with Indiana University University. Look for it in October and…

  • Post date 16th June 2025
  • Post author By Jason Baird Jackson
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish
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