Secrets Hidden in Ancient Teeth
Fossilized tooth crowns hold lots of information about past climates and life events. Tanya M. Smith This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative…
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LOEWE-Projekt an der Goethe-Universität geht in die Schlussrunde
Der LOEWE-Schwerpunkt „Prähistorische Konfliktforschung – Burgen der Bronzezeit zwischen Taunus und Karpaten“ kann seine Arbeit ein weiteres Jahr fortsetzen. Das geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche F…
Llerena Searle, “Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India” (U Chicago Press, 2015)
Few who have visited India in the past two decades will have failed to noticed the sudden and spectacular urban transformation that has taken place in many of…
Llerena Searle, “Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India” (U Chicago Press, 2015)
Few who have visited India in the past two decades will have failed to noticed the sudden and spectacular urban transformation that has taken place in many of…
Alireza Doostdar, “The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s 2018 Albert Hourani Book Award, Alireza Doostdar’s The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny (Princeton University Pres… Visit…
Alireza Doostdar, “The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s 2018 Albert Hourani Book Award, Alireza Doostdar’s The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny (Princeton University Pres… Visit…
Dear ICRC: We need to talk about Nas Daily & “the most undiscovered country”
Dear ICRC, Let’s start with the good news: Nas Daily’s video The Most Undiscovered Country (#undiscoveredcountry #ICRC #honor) has only been viewed about 2,600 times since it appeared…
Different Shades of White: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Albinotic Body – Conference Report
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Christopher Hohl Several phenomena have contributed to the increased attention paid to albinism in the past decade. The terrible atrocities inflicted on…
Migrant Caravan in Tijuana: Report from a volunteer lawyer
Tijuana is a city in the north of the state of Baja California in Mexico, close to the San Isidro Land Port of Entry, where wikipedia says 20,000…
Beth Comstock and Kara Swisher on Irritants and De-riskers (coming to a corporate culture near you.)
[This essay was published on Medium on Sunday (December 2)]. This is a wonderful interview. Two smart people expressing themselves at speed with power and precision. Swisher stops from…
Labour mobility for refugees and asylum seekers: Mending or eroding protection systems?
Caroline Schultz (corresponding author), Dana Wagner and Stefanie Allemann (The text reflects the personal opinion of the authors.) Several countries are implementing or exploring policies to…
Tweaking Narratives of War
Este contenido está disponible en español aquí. Stories of war and violence have permeated the daily life of Colombians for more than half a century. However, in the…
What’s the Cost of Quinoa?
SAPIENS host Jen Shannon goes on a mission to find out how quinoa travels from farmers’ fields in Huanoquite, Peru, to markets in Lima and the U.S. She…
One woman, three disciplines: Semiotics, design & anthropology.
With this entry, we are closing the series of interviews on Design Anthropology that we have published this year 2018 on the occasion of Why the world needs…
Jessica Marie Falcone, “Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built” (Cornell UP, 2018)
What can we learn from the anthropological study of projects that are never realized, or of dreams that are never fulfilled? In her new book Battling the Buddha…
Secular powers and heretic undercurrents in a God-fearing world. A Lecture
In this lecture – which you find as a transcript and an audio link below – I think together some of my fieldwork in Egypt, and a critical…
Jessica Marie Falcone, “Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built” (Cornell UP, 2018)
What can we learn from the anthropological study of projects that are never realized, or of dreams that are never fulfilled? In her new book Battling the Buddha…
Secular powers and heretic undercurrents in a God-fearing world. A Lecture
In this lecture – which you find as a transcript and an audio link below – I think together some of my fieldwork in Egypt, and a critical…
Changing Its Tune
Back in 2012 I blogged about MidEast Tunes (mideasttunes.com) one of the largest Arabic music sites in the world. I just updated my old post to fix the…
Yemen
There is near silence about the war on Yemen led by KSA and UAE and supported by US, UK and France indicating the success of public relations bought…
Sarah Shulist on her new book, Transforming Indigeneity
Interview by Shannon Ward https://utorontopress.com/ca/transforming-indigeneity-2 Shannon Ward: Your book demonstrates how children in São Gabriel actively respond to discourse that frames Indigene…
Science with heart
Conservation biologist Alex Bond on dealing with pollution, harm, and suffering as a scientist.
Different ‘Developments’: Japanese Anthropologists and Development
by Kazuki Horiuchi Non-western countries, such as China and India, have become in the last decades major actors of international development (Madwsley 2013). Yet, distinguishing between traditional an…
Eine „Kritik der Freiheit“ in Sachen Liebe und Sexualität, die notwendig sei. Eva Illouz‘ neues Buch Warum Liebe endet. Rezensiert von Mathias Beschorner
Aus dem Klappentext: „Unsere Kultur ist unendlich reich an Darstellungen und Geschichten, die vom Erscheinen der Liebe im Leben der Menschen handeln – von jenem magischen Augenblick, in…