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CALL FOR PAPERS – 3rd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities ISSH2024 (26-27 July 2024)
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Giacomo Loperfido: Austerity, Charisma, and the Attacks on Reason
I do not want to focus too much on the definitions of social phenomena because I find it more interesting to look at the structures (synchronic and diachronic)…
Cleopatra had a Jazz Band
There are quite a few songs from the early 20th century Vaudeville Days that feature the Middle East. Did you know that Cleopatra had a jazz band? Feel…
Care Without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine – review
In Care Without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine, Christoph Hanssmann explores the evolution of trans therapeutics and health activism through ethnographic fieldwork conduc…
Sudan: cessation of war appears long way off
Written by Jehron Muhammad “If this war (in Sudan) last for several years… the country that we knew as Sudan, …
Dove sei, Europa?
Il 26 gennaio 2024 la Corte di Giustizia dell’Aja ha accolto la denuncia presentata dal Sudafrica e ordinato a Israele di prendere misure immediate per evitare il genocidio…
The Culture Trap, with Sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)
In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, which explores “ethnic expectations” for Caribbean schoolchildren…
Black Grief, White Grievance: Power, Loss, and Political Mobilization in America
Why does democracy inherently involve loss, and how do black grief and white grievance shape the intricate landscape of contemporary racial politics in the United States? In this…
Celebrity Status Almost Ruined Ancient DNA Research
An evolutionary anthropologist draws lessons from paleogenetic’s journey from Jurassic Park fiction to Nobel Prize reality. ✽ The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible…
Myanmar’s civil society in turbulent times: outside-in and inside-out
Ten years ago I published an article on my research with civil society actors from Myanmar, in which I described the sudden changes in ideological and physical positioning…
Maryam Kashani, “Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival” (Duke UP, 2023)
From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival (Duke UP, 2023) examines how multiracial Muslim…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
「Matsuri」 Photo Exhibition Accessibility and Barrier-free Information 「祭り」 写真展 アクセシビリティ・バリアフリーについて
Matsuri 「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」 祭り 「多視点からの写真を通して」 2024 February 10 (Sat) ~ 13 (Tues) 2024年2月10日(土) ~ 13日(火) 11:00 – 18:00 (last day / 最終日は 11:00 – 16:00) JARFO Art…
Outward Spirals: A Guide to Shaligram Stones (Cover Reveal)
It’s taken over a decade of work to get here but Outward Spirals finally has a release date for October, 2024. When I met my first Shaligram on…
N. Scott Momaday, 1934–2024
N. Scott Momaday at SAR. Undated but probably mid-1990s. Navarre Scott Momaday, the nation’s most celebrated Native American writer, died at his home in Santa Fe on January…
More marsten mats
Just a few of a growing collection to accompany the article here – these are the ones that did not fit in the article in Inter Asia Cultural…
Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond – preprint
This is a postprint of the article – The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2024, at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/1…
Anthropology’s Seen and Unseen
In 1866, Alfred Russel Wallace sent a breathless letter to his friend and colleague, Thomas Huxley, inviting Huxley to join him in exploring a “new branch of anthropology”:…
Understanding Humans: How Social Science Can Help Solve Our Problems – review
In Understanding Humans: How Social Science Can Help Solve Our Problems, David Edmonds curates a selection of interviews with social science researchers covering the breadth of human life and society,…
Water Scarcity, Hydropolitics, and the Importance of Materiality at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains
How is growing water scarcity experienced by livestock producers? And to what extent does the materiality of water and the infrastructures on which users rely influence social relations…
Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber: The Return of Fascism?
This discussion paper offers two contributions to our collective discussion on the theme of fascism: (a) an integrated set of elements comprising our definition of the concept; and…
Strange Future
A Nigerian eco-activist and poet wonders what future lies ahead in the face of climate change impacts and resistance to large-scale emission reductions. “Strange Future” is part of…
Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict
Anthropological poems from around the globe speak to people’s creative will, resistance, and resilience—and the significance of our shared humanity. ✽ In July 2023, SAPIENS put out a…