Tim Brookes on his book, Writing Beyond Writing
https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/writing-beyond-writing/ Erik Shonstrom: Writing Beyond Writing is such a mind-blowing book. You took the most banal thing in the world, the letters that we …
https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/writing-beyond-writing/ Erik Shonstrom: Writing Beyond Writing is such a mind-blowing book. You took the most banal thing in the world, the letters that we …
Argentina is experiencing a fourth wave of the Latin American far right. High inflation pits society against the state; Javier Milei's success depended on the …
We have extended the deadline for abstracts for ISSH2024 by ten days. Though the deadline for text for the proceedings is still 1st May. Conference is 26-27 July.…
Richly decorated tables are the social centre of female economic chai networks in the Sino-Kazakh border town Zharkent (Photo: Verena La Mela). Verena La Mela (University of Zurich) proposes…
Democratic appraisal at a villagers’ group meeting in 2015, photo by Christof Lammer. China studies has suggested that the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) was originally designed as a…
Addressing practice-oriented questions, this handbook engages with both theoretical and political dimensions, unpacking the multidimensional nature of social movement research for new and established scholars alike and for…
Ethnographic research has long been cloaked in mystery around what fieldwork is really like for researchers, how they collect data, and how it is analyzed within the social…
Some video of the 1970 Moratorium in Melbourne . This starts with JIm Cairns setting out some rules of engagement for when the crowd reaches the intersection opposite…
https://aoe.fi/api/v1/download/tarasfedirko-1708106681693.m4a Abstract The post-Cold War moment saw global experiments in liberating the world through capitalist marke…
How can we use CLIR’s help to protect our cultural heritage during climate change? Could telling stories be a big help in keeping our culture alive? Why must…
In 1962 Djiguiba Camara asked his son Daouda to finish his manuscript of the region' history. Daouda dedicated his life to complete this politically highly sensitive manuscript, which…
So many came out to the exhibition – friends, colleagues, matsuri experts, former students, new students, new friends (including interested passersby) … Thank you so much! We are…
By Peter Versteeg – Have you ever wondered why something happened to you? I hope you haven’t because this question often arises when people are faced with something…
Object Lessons is a Bloomsbury series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book, Relic, by Dr. Ed Simon was published in 2024. Every culture,…
Mumbai is generally recognized as an environment of extraordinary religious diversity. The city is known at one and the same time for a habitual cosmopolitanism and a series…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Pain falls upon us, threatening to rob us of our language. It is destructive, leaving traceable scars on our bodies and minds; it confronts us with the…
The Familiar Strange · World Anthropology Day With Dr Noel Salazar The Strangers are Back… To celebrate this world anthropology day, we’re back with a very special interview.…
The Familiar Strange · World Anthropology Day With Dr Noel Salazar The Strangers are Back… To celebrate this world anthropology day, we’re back with a very special interview.…
Over 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by far-right leader Le Pen. They condemned this latest…
There has never been a better documented war than the one unfolding in Palestine at the moment. As Elshaik, Martinez and Shaer write in their contribution to Allegra’s…
Why do some of our identity-defining commitments resist reason and critical reflection, and why do we persist in them even when they threaten our happiness, safety, and comfort? Paul…
nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496235466/ Interview by Steven Feld Steven Feld: Congratulations on Sensing Others, which I found a thoroughly rich inquiry into how Batek “voice their ow…