Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
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Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising Witness History The story of a boy caught up in the forgotten war for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979. During the…
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising The story of a boy caught up in the forgotten war for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979. During the Iranian revolution,…
A House on Water – A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran
A House on Water – A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran Kameel Ahmady Published May 16, 2022 This fieldwork study supports the view…
A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran
A House on Water A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran 978-620-5-49696-1 The religious and traditional stratum of the Iranian society performs sigheh /…
Deniz Yonucu, “Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul” (Cornell UP, 2022)
In Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022), Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual…
Sanjeev Routray, “The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi” (Stanford UP, 2022)
In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city…
Ethics, Utopia and Materiality: Glimpses of Everyday Creativity and Hope in Indonesian Papua
The Asmat are an indigenous people of Indonesian Papua and are renowned for their artistic carving flair and complex life-cycle rituals. They also have big ambitions that reach…
Unsung Native Collaborators in Anthropology
Anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Margaret Mead could not have achieved success without their local assistants’ insider knowledge and extensive labor. ✽ Growing up a Brown girl…
See You Later, Thick Data – Part 5
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”.…
Three guest lectures
This semester we are proud to host two cutting-edge anthropology scholars as visiting professors here at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, Lapland: Hiroki Takakura, Center for Northeast Asian…
Alan Warde et al., “The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change” (Manchester UP, 2020)
Dining out used to be considered exceptional. However, the Food Standards Authority reported that in 2014, one meal in six was eaten away from home in Britain. Previously…
Vibha Joshi, “A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India” (Berghahn Books, 2012)
‘Nagaland for Christ’ and ‘Jesus Saves’ are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, north-east India. They express an idealization of Christian homogeneity…
Camilla Hawthorne, “Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean” (Cornell UP, 2022)
Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022) is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there…
Why AI Will Never Fully Capture Human Language
Researchers in artificial intelligence have made extraordinary strides in mimicking human language—but they still can’t capture the parts that truly make language human. ✽ The story begins with…
SAFN in Seattle at AAA 2022!
Join SAFN at AAA this November in Seattle! We look forward to welcoming Dr. Mythri Jegathesan as our invited speaker at the SAFN + C&A reception on Friday night at Zaika restaurant just…
Über Jazz
I’ve argued (in Pantomime Terror) that Adorno wrote ‘Über Jazz’ as a way to talk about Nazi marching music. People forget that – even though by then he…
China – do we care?
Some of us Arctic anthropologists may not have China on the immediate radar of their interest. However, China has become an increasingly important player in the Arctic, through…
Discovering wellbeing traditions in the Czech Republic
ByJosephine PlattMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2021–2023 A limp, plastic sack is waiting for me on a therapy bed, and I’m being gestured to strip off and climb…
Research Assistant positions in natural and social sciences
CLEAR is hiring multiple part-time (8-30 hours/week, flexible) research assistant positions to work on a variety of projects in the natural and social sciences.
Thomas Baudinette, “Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Shinjuku Ni-chome is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city’s gay male community. Typically understood as a “safe space” where same-sex attracted men…
Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki, “Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying” (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki’s edited volume Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying (Berghahn Books, 2021) explores…
Nadine Weidman, “Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America” (Harvard UP, 2021)
A historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why a polarized discourse about nature versus nurture became so entrenched in…