The Cosmic Serpent
Most Carnival celebrations in Brazil have been canceled again in 2022 due to the resurgence of COVID-19, though larger cities like Rio and São Paulo are holding scaled-down…
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Ethnographic Monographs – or now for something else?
By Herbert Ploegman; Didi Boldewijn, Maya Roettger and Lorenzo Horwitz; Alice Riva, Claudia Rapisarda, Elisabeth Jongmans and Jasper Schotte; Ashley Prather and Maira van Emden Two crumpled up…
Corey Landon Wozniak, “The Buddha at the Bellagio: (Teaching) Religion in Sin City” (Revealer, 2022)
Today I talked to Corey Landon Wozniak about his Revealer article (2022) “The Buddha at the Bellagio: (Teaching) Religion in Sin City.” As Wozniak points out, Las Vegas (for…
Jennifer Delfino, “Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children” (Lexington Book, 2020)
In Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children (Lexington Books, 2020), Jennifer Delfino explores the linguistic practices of African American children in an after school program…
Ep # 90: The First Year Special: This Month on TFS.
The Familiar Strange · Ep # 90: The First Year Special: This Month on TFS Welcome back to the Familiar Strange. We’re back with a special panel episode…
Plough in Tunisia
I am always intrigued by old photographs of traditional ploughs in the Middle East. The picture above is from a 1925 travel book by Norma Lorimer entitled By…
In the Name of Tradition. Female Genital Mutilation in Iran
In the Name of Tradition. Female Genital Mutilation in Iran See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343746311 Chapter · August 202…
THE CHANGING PARADIGMS OF FGM (Country Report on Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting (FGM/C) in Iran
THE CHANGING PARADIGMS OF FGM Country Report on Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting (FGM/C) in Iran With an introduction to Male Circumcision / Male Genital Mutilation (MGM/C) in Iran…
In the Name of Traditions: A Comprehensive Study on the Impact of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on Women and Girls An Overview of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Iran
In the Name of Traditions: A Comprehensive Study on the Impact of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on Women and Girls An Overview of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in…
A Peace-Oriented Investigation of the Ethnic Identity Challenge in Iran (A Study of Five Iranian Ethnic Groups with the GT Method)
A Peace-Oriented Investigation of the Ethnic Identity Challenge in Iran (A Study of Five Iranian Ethnic Groups with the GT Method) Kameel Ahmady Abstract In the contemporary era,…
Violation: Child Labour Rights in Iran – Analysis and Solutions
Violation: Child Labour Rights in Iran – Analysis and Solutions Kameel Ahmady Abstract Child-rights violations and child abuse have long histories in human society, taking on different conceptual…
Exploitation and Exclusion A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Child Labour in Iran
Exploitation and Exclusion A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Child Labour in Iran Kameel Ahmady Abstract Poverty and unemployment in families may produce child labour. These and other factors, such…
In Name Of Tradition – Documentary Film
In Name Of Tradition- Female Genital Mutilation In Iran https://kameelahmady.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2eca38ab1d60fc1525bc48130e6bcb163802077-360p.mp4 See This V…
A (Personal) Tale of Two Socialisms
Note from Allegra editors: We publish this video and transcript of EASA President Mariya Ivancheva’s talk from the annual conference Why the World Needs Anthropologists of the Applied…
María Elena García, “Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru” (U California Press, 2021)
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America Podcast, Kenneth Sánchez spoke with Maria Elena García about her wonderful new book Gastropolitics and the Spectre of Race:…
Jonathan Beller, “The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism” (Duke UP, 2021)
In The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2021) Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed…
Muda da Maré: Environmental Change, Ecological Grief, and the Fishers and Marisqueiras of Pernambuco
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2021 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
Martin Fotta: Towards Anti-War Anthropology: On EASA, CEE and NATO
One of the casualties of Putin’s war on Ukraine will be European critical social science. While the war has instigated important discussions about ‘US-plaining’, ‘Westplaining’ and about Russian…
Sixty may be the New Fifty but is Twenty Six the New Old?
Author: Sheba Mohammid In Trinidad and Tobago, we may not have Ponce De Leon’s fountain of youth, but we do have a pool. It’s technically an offshore sandbar,…
Athletics, IQ, Health: Three Myths of Race
Our recent book, Racism, Not Race, tackles a big lie: The idea that human beings have biological races. Biological races do not exist in humans. Why, then, do…
Powerpoint Karaoke, a Ph.D. Version
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Zhou Zhou “You win the lottery! You are a millionaire! You…
The First Census of the Coast and Grand Ronde Reservations: 1856
In 1856, Joel Palmer had some 4000 Natives removed from their homelands to the Coast and Grand Ronde Indian Reservations. Up to at least April of 1856 the…
Repatriation Is Our Future
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, or NAGPRA, is supposed to curb the illegal possession of ancestral Native American remains and cultural items. But…
Rituals to help us out, and beliefs one professes tongue in cheek – Part II
By Ton Salman This is part II of the blog “Rituals to help us out….” If you have not yet read part I, you can read it here.…