Temporary Marriage an Approved Way of Submission
Research Article Temporary Marriage-An Approved Way of Submission Kameel Ahmady www.kameelahmady.com Kameel.ahmady@gmail.com Abstract Temporary marriage is a multi-dimensional topic. It allows Mus…
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The Nexus between the Temporary Marriage and Early Child Marriages
Research Article The Nexus between the Temporary Marriage and Early Child Marriages Kameel Ahmady www.kameelahmady.com Kameel.ahmady@gmail.com Abstract The present study is a step towards d…
Elizabeth Ferry and Stephen Ferry, “La Batea” (Red Hook, 2017)
La Batea is an unconventional book. A collaboration between anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry and her photographer brother Stephen, it combines text and images to paint a picture of the…
Sam van Schaik, “Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and Enchantment through the Ages” (Shambala Publications, 2020)
As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic…
#Failures: Failed to belong – (Re)Negotiations of care in a Tanzanian social welfare office
Every day, women, men, and children sit on the wonky wooden benches in front of the social welfare office, patiently waiting to present their matters to one of…
3-2-1 Launch! Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory
The pandemic slows all work beyond bare necessity, but good things can happen amid the difficulties of the present. Over the summer, with a small but mighty crew…
Abstract for a paper-in-progress: quarantine and sentiment analysis.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: sentiment analyses of new connections and communities in a COVID world. Quarantine re-makes the city around u…
Call for Reviews: Black Lives Matter
The brutal murder of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 has once again revealed the terrifying fissures that cut across our societies and the hashtag Black Lives Matter…
Action Needed: COVID-19 Pandemic
The HCW Hosted team of healthcare workers & family members, public health professionals, and health social scientists has launched an advocacy campaign to encourage the public to stay…
On The Social Life of TBI
A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a common injury that occurs when a physical blow or force to the head damages the brain inside the skull—full stop. As…
The ‘truth’ about ALS: Reconciling bias, motives, and etiological gaps by Chelsey Carter
In February of 2019, I was giving a talk in New Haven, Connecticut. My paper was an overview of my research, titled “Is It a ‘White Disease’? ALS,…
Water #Failures and Social Housing
Public and media discourses about housing estates are replete with highly problematic narratives of failure, riddled with classed and racialised tropes that cast estates, and especially modernist high…
Robert M. Geraci, “Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in South Indian Science” (Lexington, 2018)
What is the relationship between science, religion and technology in Hinduism? We speak with Robert M. Geraci about his research into religious ideas and practices in Indian science…
Ruben Enrique Campos III takes the page 99 test
Destiny again. It had to be El Legendario Bombay. It had to be page 99. Upon entering, I immediately saw why the place was called legendary. It oozed…
Atmospheric Failure
Fog catchers (atrapanieblas) are fairly simple constructions. They consist of large plastic or nylon nets stretched between two vertically positioned poles, perpendicular to the direction of the incom…
Ronit Ricci, “Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names…
Fabio Rambelli, “Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
In Japan, a country popularly perceived as highly secularized and technologically advanced, ontological assumptions about spirits (tama or tamashii) seem to be quite deeply ingrained in the c……
The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
Shit’s getting real in more than one language
Back in March, I wrote a short piece analyzing the COVID-driven toilet paper hoarding phenomenon from an anthropological perspective. Since then, it’s become my most visited post, and…
Called to the Torah: Navigating Feminism and Jewish Law in Modern Orthodox Communities
The synagogue – a deeply symbolic cultural space – is a place where feminist congregants are increasingly seeking equality. These women wish to read from the Torah (a…
The Power of Photography: The Miracle of Survival
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Slap “Here you see the mourning family of two brothers who died…” Slap “This is a real mass grave…” Slap “In this mass grave you can see…
Adventures with Peccaries pt. 2
I spent time out in the Hill Country, north of San Antonio ,Texas. The clan that I worked with on this trip was made up of 8 total…
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Black and Indigenous Futures in Archaeology
Widespread protests against police violence and anti-Black racism have recently swept the globe. In the wake of protests in May and June, specifically, many citizens and communities looked…