Jacob Lederman, “Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—es…

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#Afterlives: A Trajectory and the Curatorial Turn

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Where did afterlives fever come from? These reflections suggest a trajectory. Today, amid a lively eruption of usages, afterlife has moved away from longstanding meanings in religious, archaeological…

Post date 26th May 2020
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NBN Classic: Charles King, “Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century” (Doubleday, 2019)

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This episode proved remarkably popular, so we’re reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. American anthropologists consider Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict,…

Post date 4th September 2019
Post author By Marshall Poe
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Oliver Kaplan, “Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves” (Cambridge UP, 2020)

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Reporters and scholars often focus on violence and victimization: “if it bleeds, it leads.” But unarmed civilians around the world often protect themselves against armed combatants using soci……

Post date 7th April 2020
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