Sherry Fukuzawa, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the elephant in the room in every classroom. However, this is even more of a concern…
Every Thursday at 9 o’ clock in the morning, housewives from a residential neighborhood on the outskirt of Jakarta gather at their usual spot at the “Love Earth”…
Utterances like “um,” “wow,” and “mm-hmm” aren’t garbage, they keep conversations flowing. This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. …
In der bitterbösen Satire “The White Lotus” über privilegierte Hotelgäste spielen Tiere eine besondere Rolle. Ihre Inszenierung in der Serie destabilisiert die anthropozentrische Perspektive, auf der …
Walk with a linguistic anthropologist through the sounds, politics, and fabulosity of a kiki ball in Puerto Rico. Since its emergence in 1960s Harlem, the LGBTQ+ “ballroom scene”…
Claire Mercer‘s The Suburban Frontier examines African suburbanisation and the emergence of middle-class culture through a case study of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Drawing on ethnographic data col…
In the contemporary world, ruins, rubble, and decaying material have become increasingly iconic landscapes. They can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven…
Rene Gomez was one of the most renowned potato curators at the International Potato Center (CIP, Centro Internacional de la Papa in Spanish). [1] Potato curators provide reliable…
On the May 12th, 2025 cover of Time Magazine, you will see a picture of a white wolf below the bold word Extinct slashed through with a red…
Page 99 of my dissertation, “Language, Identity, and Belonging: An Ethnography of Deaf Immigrants in the Northeast United States,” falls towards the end of its first ethnographic chapter.…
Written and created by Priscilla Telmon, Vincent Moon, Adrien Goua The acacia can be found all over the world, but …
Although the history of Indonesian music has received much attention from ethnomusicologists and Western composers alike, almost nothing has been written on the interaction of missionaries with local…
The authors reframe the crime-terror nexus to gain a deeper understanding of recent trends in which jihadi organisations recruit from street culture and criminal en…
Politischer Protest im popkulturellen Mainstream – der Rapper Kendrick Lamar nutzte die Halftime Show des diesjährigen Super Bowl für einen sneak diss gegen Trump.
امید و ناامیدی دو همسایه و دو سرزمین همجوار با مشترکات زیاد هستند. فقط نوع نگاه است که انسان را در جایگاه یا در سرزمین امید ساکن می‌کند…
بزرگترین وظیفۀ تفکر فلسفی که در طول تاریخ، در قامت دانش متافیزیک بازتاب یافته است، همچون حفر چاه در سرشت واقعیت است. تفکر در چنین پویشی، به سمت…
سال جدید برای مردم ما با دغدغه‌ها و فشارهایی بیش از پیش و بی‌سابقه در چند دهه اخیر آغاز می‌شود. از یک سو، فشارهای اقتصادی که کمر طبقه…
عبدی جوادزاده، برگردان: آذر جوادزاده پست‌مدرنیسم و سیاست تکه‌تکه‌ها: از دهه ۱۹۸۰ به بعد، برای چندین دهه، جهان با کنش، جنبش اجتماعی و سیاسی انسان‌ها که سعی در ایجاد…
بخش چهل‌ویکم/ آدم‌خواری (Cannibalism)/ و. آرِنـس/ برگردان: مهرداد میردامادی این فرض که دیگران، [یعنی آن‌هایی که] مظهر زمان و مکانی متفاوت هستند، آدم‌خوارند فرضی رایج در تفکر اجتماعی…
On the podcast today I am joined by socio-cultural anthropologist, Tuomas Tammisto, who is an academy research fellow in Social Anthropology at Tampere University. Tuomas is joining me to…
How do individuals address serious challenges in a context where organized gatherings are subject to strict government control? This new edited volume brings together a diverse group of…
. For example—close the CIA Pine Gap secret spy base in Central Australia, recently expanded according to Denis Doherty in 2024: https://www.anti-bases.org/pine-gap-threatens-gaza-china-and-au…
Ark of Taste Kenya (2nd Edition). Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Dauro Zocchi and Charles Barstow eds. 2024 Vicolo de Pavone Editore, Italy. 292 pages. Jon Holtzman (Western Michigan University)…
SAR Now: An Artist’s Journey of Heritage, Storytelling, and Language Preservation …