Contexts for Distraction
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…
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…
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. ✽…
Mainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women often frame their faith as oppressive: they are empowered only when they leave their community. For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy…
If ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as it appears to be today then, Jason Blakely argues in his new…
There are Birds on the Wire In Mexican slang, “hay pájaros en el alambre” (there are birds on the wire), is an expression used to imply that a…
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…
If you aren’t following behavioral designer Nir Eyal, I highly recommend you do. He has written several books, and blogs regularly at ” the intersection of psychology, technology,…
ByFelix StephensBSc 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…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/incommunicable 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…
Written by Keith Hart CLR James and the idea of an African revolution Events in Tunisia and Egypt have brought …
Prof Nikos Papastergiadis ISSH2024 4 parts – keynote presentation to ISSH2024, the 3rd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities, at Ton Duc Thang University…
Dr Ken Fero ISSH2024 Session B12 An Obstinate Memory. Presented at Ton Duc Thang University on 27 July 2024, 3rd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences…
The time is finally (FINALLY!) upon us! Outward Spirals, the guide to Shaligram interpretive traditions, will go on pre-order from TLS Press starting August 31st! As soon as…
This episode is the first of two episodes this season on Muslims in China. Here Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talk to Darren Blyer about his book Terror Capitalism:…
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…
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Beginning in 2016, the Turkish government accused anyone with the messaging application ByLock of terrorism. An anthropologist investigates the risks of this kind of digital evidence. ✽ Summer…
“Camming” and “Beot-bang“[1] With the development of digital technologies, online spaces have transformed many aspects of individuals’ lives by creating infrastructures t…
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That’s right, after six and a half years of toil (and fun) spread between a rainforest in Cameroon and a library and office in London, the thing is…
In Significant Emotions, Ashley Frawley critiques the trend of pathologising distress caused by socio-economic problems (like cost-of-living pressures and insecure, low-paid employment) as “ment…
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies. In Cameroon, French Polynesia, Papua…