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Lynne Goldstein
Lynne Goldstein has enjoyed a distinguished archaeological career, and numerous archaeological projects, publications, and committees benefit from her dedication and enthusiasm for the field. During h…
David V. Mason, “The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre” (Routledge, 2018)
To what extent may we say that religion is a theatrical phenomenon, and that theatre is a religious experience? Can making sense of one help us make sense…
David V. Mason, “The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre” (Routledge, 2018)
To what extent may we say that religion is a theatrical phenomenon, and that theatre is a religious experience? Can making sense of one help us make sense…
Jeremy Walton: Grave Matters
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1199/Jeremy%20Walton%20-%20Grave%20matters.mp3 Jeremy Walton (Max Planck Institut) gave a talk titled “Gr…
ICE LAW meeting ’Climate, fish and fisheries sector: Local and indigenous perspectives’
On April 16-17, 2019, Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland. (For more information please contact Anna Stammler-Gossamann) AGENDA: April 16, Thule room Session 1: 9:00 – 12.00 Prof. Koivurova Timo,…
Antisemitismus: “Wir erleben einen digitalen Neuaufbruch des Verschwörungsglaubens”
Superhelden, Superschurken, Verschwörung – viele populäre Mythen sind von antisemitischen Denkmustern durchzogen. Es geht um “Verschwörungstheorien”. Bzw. das, worum es geht, das sind gerade keine Th…
The Sacrificial Puppies of the Shang Dynasty
[no-caption] Kazuo Honzawa/Getty Images During the last centuries of China’s Shang dynasty, which lasted from 1600 B.C. to 1050 B.C., ritual sacrifice was a well-oiled cultural phenomenon…
Review: The Unending Hunger
Carney, M. A. (2015). The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN: 978-0520285477 Rachael McCormick Universit…
The Dawn of Digital Therapeutics
A techno-optimistic attitude tells us we’re living at an inflexion point where care practices are being transformed by technology. Monitoring and attending to health and well-being are no…
Business Anthropology: From the Trobriands to enterprises
Soon after I had established myself in Omarakana (Trobriand Islands), I began to take part, in a way, in the village life, to look forward to the important…
Katherine Verdery on her book, My Life as a Spy
https://www.dukeupress.edu/my-life-as-a-spy Interview by Tim Gitzen Tim Gitzen: You describe this book—and the process of reading your police file and writing the book—as part memoir. This is evident…
CFP: Studying Traditional Crafts: Goals and Methods in Higher Education
Here is a call for papers for an exciting conference in Estonia. The hosts are wonderful colleagues whom I met while visiting Viljandi last fall. Their call is…
(Un)Categorizing Albinism by Giorgio Brocco
“Everything started with a little spot in the head, right up [by] my right ear! I don’t even remember the precise day or week I discovered it. Instead,…
Book: Ritualisierung – Mediatisierung – Performance
Luger, M., Graf, F., & Budka, P. (Eds.). (2019). Ritualisierung – Mediatisierung – Performance. (Ritualization – Mediatization – Performance). Göttingen: V&R Unipress/…
Queering chemicals (EDCs): A bibliography
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) are a class of environmental toxicants that may impact sex, gender, and sexuality. Here is our bibliography on queering EDCs.
Der Krieg und seine Diskurse – 4. Sonderheft erschienen
Liebe Leser_innen, an dem Heft, welches Du gerade liest, arbeiten wir seit mehr als zwei Jahren. Es hat sich aus zwei von Thomas Scheffer geleiteten Master-Seminaren entwickelt, die…
Ep. #35: Loneliness, Positionality, ‘Person’ & Violence: This Month on TFS
This month Julia (0:59) starts us off with the relationship between loneliness and health after listening to an episode of ‘All in the Mind’, a podcast that explores…
The WikiLeaks Case: Democracy Dies in Empire
In the avalanche of news reports that have washed over the globe since the abduction of Julian Assange, this conversation struck me as containing numerous points of importance.…
Links & Contents I Liked 320
Hi all, We were saving the best for last this week and enjoyed Kate Wright’s keynote on Who’s reporting Africa now? today!Development news: UNHCR & asylum for sale…
Links & Contents I Liked 320
Hi all, We were saving the best for last this week and enjoyed Kate Wright’s keynote on Who’s reporting Africa now? today!Development news: UNHCR & asylum for sale…
Our ‘Fashion Fast’: Week 5
We are nearly to the end of our 6-week ‘6 items challenge.’ As eight undergraduates and one lecturer at the University of Sussex, we have committed to living…
Tax Season Woes Have Complex Roots
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, people’s acceptance of taxes owed varies widely. Miranda Sheild Johansson In the midsize Bolivian city of Cochabamba, informal work is the norm among the lowest-pa…
Restoring the balance: Living well with pain by Else Vogel
Like dementia, persistent pain comes with irreparable losses: physical restrictions, strained relationships, financial problems, perished dreams and ambitions. Both conditions require ethnographers an…