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Old beardo takes a bath

Trinketization

Two editions 1953 and 1983 of the same book in pursuance of the Schlegel investigatons. Thank you, Enis Oktay, of Bookhafen, Berlin. [:de]Startseite[:en]Home[:]

  • Post date 28th June 2025
  • Post author By john hutnyk
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Moral Philosophy and Riotinto. What??

Trinketization

I am not sure there isn’t a major disconnect here. The global mining comglommoabberation Riotinto have the worst record, morally, ethically, and with their dirty-mucky-fingers inside the struct…

  • Post date 28th June 2025
  • Post author By john hutnyk
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Practicing slow scholarship in a hard world

Allegra Lab

I feel surrounded by a special sense of gratitude, one that I’m unsure I have ever felt before, exactly like […] The post Practicing slow scholarship in a…

  • Post date 27th June 2025
  • Post author By Marika Sosnowski
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Shayna M. Silverstein, “Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria” (Wesleyan UP, 2024)

New Books in Anthropology

A vivid and intricate study of dance music traditions that reveals the many contradictions of being Syrian in the 21st century Dabke, one of Syria’s most beloved dance…

  • Post date 27th June 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Syria in the Moment

Allegra Lab

While thinking optimistically about politics is never wise, it is impossible not to share in the euphoria of Syrians for […] The post Syria in the Moment appeared…

  • Post date 27th June 2025
  • Post author By Lisa Wedeen
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

The Emotional Toll of Death in Syria: Revolution to Toppling

Allegra Lab

After more than eight years of no contact, I conducted a video call with a former non-influential officer from an […] The post The Emotional Toll of Death…

  • Post date 27th June 2025
  • Post author By Nerouz Satik
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Ethnography and journalism in times of war

Mats Utas

This text is a slightly adapted keynote/film introductory note I gave at a conference when the Department of Media and Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger celebrated…

  • Post date 27th June 2025
  • Post author By Mats Utas
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

She braids, I listen

Allegra Lab

I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair […] The post She braids, I listen appeared…

  • Post date 26th June 2025
  • Post author By Xianyun Jiao
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Neues Video auf dem REMID-YouTube-Kanal: Moderne Hexerei in Boulder

REMID Blog - REMID

Die zweite Folge unserer Videoreihe „Vlogging Religion(s)“ ist ab sofort auf YouTube verfügbar. Diesmal geht es um alternative religiöse Praktiken in den USA – genauer gesagt: um moderne…

  • Post date 26th June 2025
  • Post author By Mona Stumpe
  • Post categories In German, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama

SAPIENS

An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to retake it. THE GREATER UNITED STATES The United…

  • Post date 26th June 2025
  • Post author By Charlotte Williams
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Rumänien hat gewählt: Wohin nun für queere Menschen?

Genderblog

Der Aufstieg des Faschismus erfasst ganz Europa wie in einem Sturm: Eins nach dem anderen geraten die Länder des alten Kontinents in die Falle, rechtsextreme, populistische, demokratiefeindliche Mensc…

  • Post date 26th June 2025
  • Post author By Redaktion
  • Post categories In Dutch, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Forever no more? Between new and old words

Allegra Lab

The fall of Asad’s state of eternity on December 8th, the liberation of his regime’s prisons and security centres, the […] The post Forever no more? Between new…

  • Post date 26th June 2025
  • Post author By Saphe Shamoun
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Inheriting a Dislocatory Moment

Allegra Lab

On December 8th, 2024, Syria – my country of birth and the place where I lived for twenty-four years – […] The post Inheriting a Dislocatory Moment appeared…

  • Post date 26th June 2025
  • Post author By Zoya Masoud
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Smart Wallets and the Shifting Boundaries of Trust in Decentralized Finance

Platypus

Over the past decade, decentralized finance (DeFi) has emerged as a blockchain-based alternative to traditional financial systems—promising open access, automation, and the removal of institutional mi…

  • Post date 26th June 2025
  • Post author By Kate Zogaj
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Recalibrating Political Islam? The Syrian Revolution in Global Narratives

Allegra Lab

In the shifting political landscape of post-Asad Syria, global narratives surrounding political Islam are undergoing a recalibration, blurring engagement with […] The post Recalibrating Politica…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Zeina Al-Azmeh
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Why Do Swallows Fly to the Korean DMZ?

SAPIENS

An anthropologist discovers diasporic flights—including her own—that begin at and return to the waters of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. ✽ WITHIN A FEW HOURS…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By T. Yejoo Kim
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Maya J. Berry, “Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons” (Duke UP, 2025)

New Books in Anthropology

In Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons (Duke University Press, 2025), anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry examines rumba as a way of knowing the embodied…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Do walls still have ears?

Allegra Lab

How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and […] The post Do walls still have ears?…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Omar Al-Ghazzi
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

On Volte-Face (Takwi’)

Allegra Lab

Speaking was very risky during the fifty-four years long Asad family domination of the republic.[1] By speaking, I am not […] The post On Volte-Face (Takwi’) appeared first…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Fadi Bardawil
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Seeing Sednaya: Echoes of a Fallen Regime

Allegra Lab

Sednaya Prison, long cloaked in secrecy and fear, has stood as a stark symbol of the Asad regime’s repression. For […] The post Seeing Sednaya: Echoes of a…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Eylaf Bader Eddin
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

Allegra Lab

Maya Wind. 2024. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. London: Verso. In Towers of Ivory and […] The post Towers of Ivory and Steel:…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Maria Ionițǎ
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Primate Evolution and Behavior Syllabus / FALL 2025

Anthrop 365

ANTH 3313-001 SyllabusDownload

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Anthropology365
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Introduction to Anthropology Syllabus / FALL 2025

Anthrop 365

Syllabus ANTH 1306Download

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Anthropology365
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Avowing Revolution

Allegra Lab

Khaldoun al-Mallah, a Palestinian-Syrian medical doctor and writer, journeyed south from exile in Idlib Province two days after the fall […] The post Avowing Revolution appeared first on…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By Stefan Tarnowski
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish
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