Issues of Power, Not Bathrooms
***Note: Originally published on EFH in 2017*** INTRODUCTION On February 22nd, 2017 Agent Orange’s administration revoked the transgender protection guidelines on Title IX in a “Dear Colleague” letter…
***Note: Originally published on EFH in 2017*** INTRODUCTION On February 22nd, 2017 Agent Orange’s administration revoked the transgender protection guidelines on Title IX in a “Dear Colleague” letter…
***Note: Originally published on EFH in 2017*** INTRODUCTION On February 22nd, 2017 Agent Orange’s administration revoked the transgender protection guidelines on Title IX in a “Dear Colleague” letter…
Natsuko Tsujimura. Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways. Lexington Books. New York. 2023. ISBN: 9781498571333. pp. 287. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State Universi…
By Romy de Vos – For my bachelor’s thesis, I conducted research among individuals and groups who are involved in initiatives to grant posthumous rehabilitation for people who…
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was…
Ingrid Piller speaks with Piers Kelly about a fascinating form of visual communication, Australian message sticks. What does a message stick look like? What is its purpose, and how has the…
Author: Sean Heath is a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at KU Leuven. His work examines the relationship between water policy strategies, water stewardship, the…
The juxtaposition between reliance on Noah’s anthropological skills and the presumed lack of relevance this discipline has to broader society ultimately makes for good comedy. Reading the subtext…
In Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk about War Crimes, Denisa Kostovicova considers how best to achieve reconciliation in post-conflict societies, focusing on case studies from the Balkan…
From Navvyman by Dick Sullivan via www.victorianweb.org What do you think about when you hear the name Primrose Hill? Good pubs, celebrity-residents, the view over London? For me…
NASA’s homepage is as glitzy as you would expect of the U.S. Government’s sexiest administration. Glossy pictures of nebulas, astronauts, and asteroids float across the top of the…
by Shormila Akter Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh examines the lives of female garments workers, shaped by “a state that colluded with…
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12.02.2024 Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer, President of the Max Planck Society Old Town, 80539 Munich, Germany CC: Dr. Ursula Rao, Dr. Biao Xiang, Dr. Marie-Claire Foblets MPI for…
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…
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…
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…
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…