The Allowable Limit of Disability
This browser does not support HTML5 audio The Allowable Limit of Disability read by the author, Gabrielle Hanley-Mott In February 2022 a court in Norway …
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KulturTransfer – Wie fast alles, was uns vertraut ist, eigentlich einen Migrationshintergrund hat (Buchprojekt)
Michael Toggweiler Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. „…
What Klingon and Other Constructed Languages Reveal
At a Comic-Con, or comic book convention, in Los Angeles in 2010, the trolley signs were in Klingon. Doug Kline/The Pop Culture Geek Network/Flickr This article was originally…
What Klingon and Other Constructed Languages Reveal
This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished with Creative Commons. Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some…
The Noise of Russian Silence
By Ekaterina Thor, second-year Bachelor student of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Opening our daily news feed on the 24th of February, most of probably needed a second…
Resurrecting a wolf for conservation?
Many herders, especailly in the Sub-Arctic, are threatened by the increased number of wolves, eating entire reindeer herds. In Australia they go the opposite way now: they try…
Jonathan Crary, “Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World” (Verso, 2022)
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digital age’ is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation…
Michael Heneise, “Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India: The Life and Landscapes of Dreams” (Routledge, 2018)
The Nagas of Northeast India gives great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict…
Agustín Fuentes, “Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature” (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022)
There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are wholly different in behavior, desires,…
On the Lives of Spiritually Fluid People
Dr. Duane Bidwell works to reduce suffering and promote abundant life in all of his teaching, writing, and research. Experiences as chaplain, pastor, spiritual director, pastoral counselor, HIV/AIDS…
Ida Susser: Melenchon: the creation of a left political bloc
On June 19, 2022, the united left party, NUPES (New Ecological and Social Popular Union), cobbled together by Jean-Luc Melenchon in less than two months, won enough seats…
Global shipping
sometimes these maps are so pro-capital its embarrassing. This one is of course, but its also informative. Here are the paths of need and greed, crime and time…
Perception test. Who can…?
I approached the bookseller to ask for 50% discount on this book because of its major flaw. Can you see it? Would you pay full price for this,…
Not yet lit Stalin
I’ve not yet lit the Stalin candle. #trinketization
Captain Cook chased a chook…
… all around Australia, he lost his pants in the middle of France and found them in Tasmania. Or: Captain Cook rode a chook down the Murray River.…
Mark Fathi Massoud, “Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different story: for nearly 150 years, the…
If Santa Claus’ reindeer can fly, what about other reindeer?
It was more than ten years ago during our first visit to Santa Claus village – a tourist attraction in Rovaniemi in the north of Finland. My 6-year-old daughter asked…
Baird Campbell takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation falls in the middle of the second chapter, “Historia: Social Media as a Tool for Counter-Memory.” Each chapter takes a salient concept from…
Stop Projecting Nationalism Onto Stonehenge
English Heritage beamed eight portraits of Queen Elizabeth II onto Stonehenge, sparking controversy among archaeologists and the general public. Raj Valley/Alamy In late May, eight images…
Stop Projecting Nationalism Onto Stonehenge
In late May, eight images of the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II were projected onto the megaliths of Stonehenge to celebrate the monarch’s 70 years on the throne.…
Writing the “perfect” application letter for our MA in Communication for Development–insights from the first 2000 letters
As part of our application process for our MA in Communication for Development program we encourage applicants to submit a short application letter together with all the other…
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson, “Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted” (NIAS Press, 2022)
What is the relationship between Spirit Possession Rituals and Buddhism in mainland Southeast Asia? How has modernity transformed Spirit Possession cults in the 21st century and what has led…
Brian Kulick, “The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation” (Routledge, 2019)
Unlike many books that examine the how of making theater, Brian Kulick’s The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation (Routledge, 2019) examines the why. Using Jorge Luis…
Responsibility for refugee education: Education by the state but not for the state?
Monday 20 June is World Refugee Day. Sarah Dryden-Peterson draws from her recent book, Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of…