Massimiliano Mollona: Authoritarian Brazil redux?
On Sunday, 7 October, the Brazilian people will go to the polls to elect their next president. There has never been such a dramatic election since 15 January…
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Social Stratification
Stratification. 1 Approaches: 1 Functionalist perspectives: 2 Talcott Parsons. 2 Kinsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore. 2 Marxist perspective: 2 Weberian perspective: 3 Stratification in contemporary usage. 3…
Social Fact
Social Fact In Durkheim’s sociology, a social fact is a social phenomenon that has a coercive effect upon the individual. Thus, although, social facts may originally be…
Are We All Going Crazy?
The Peace Wall, Belfast (Photo by Paul Stoller) Belfast, Northern Ireland. I have a confession: I’m not sleeping well these days. I used to sleep well, but recently…
Confronting the Specter of Cultural Appropriation
[no-caption] kokouu/Getty Images Humans celebrate many things—from rites of passage to religious events to groundhogs. One of the most intriguing, anthropologically speaking, is Halloween…
Links & Contents I Liked 295
Hi all, Let’s just say it was a long week, the link review is quite extensive & there’s also a new book review-so check things out, enjoy your…
Learning service (book review)
Stories about bad volunteering experiences, voluntourism and things that go wrong when predominantly young people yearn for meaningful experiences in the global South are regulars in my weekly…
Oktoberfest Munich – is it all about human-horse relations?
Why would we write about the Oktoberfest on this blog? It turns out that there is an aspect of it that is closely related to the interest in…
Travel log – Exploring Shanghai and its neighbourhood
Nachdem ich im letzten Blogeintrag ausschließlich meine ersten Eindrücke von Shanghai geschildert habe, soll sich dieser meinen bisherigen Erkundungen in Shanghai und meinen Ausflügen ins Umland von …
Thomas Schmidinger, “Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds” (Pluto Press, 2018)
Thomas Schmidinger‘s Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds (Pluto Press, 2018) is an exploration of the history and present of Syrian Kurdistan. It is an excellent…
No Paninis for Poverty Pay
by Rebecca Prentice Throughout the UK yesterday restaurant and food delivery workers walked off their jobs to protest low wages, zero hours contracts, and unpredictable work schedules—including those…
Marx in Calcutta, 2018, CITY, Vol 22 (4); 490-509.
Marx in CalcuttaCITY2018 Just click on the page to read the whole thing.
Why Can’t Most Humans Drink Milk?
[no-caption] Axel Schmidt/Getty Images This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. A solid white mass found in a broken jar …
Reclaiming a Broken Future for the Past
The revolution in information and communications technologies, which had so much promise for broadening access and participation in scholarship, certainly seems much darker and more ominous now. Socia…
Susan Squier’s Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor by Rebecca Rahimi
Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor Susan Merrill Squier Duke University Press, 2017. 280 pages Susan Merrill Squier’s Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor is positioned at t…
Dis/ability to do Fieldwork
Rine Vieth is a PhD candidate at McGill University in Tio’tia:ke/Montréal, Canada. They are currently researching how UK asylum tribunals consider religion and conversion, with a focus on…
Real-time rituals of elite male privilege
The late September 2018 public testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh before the US Senate Judiciary Committee gave the world an opportunity to observe the real-time…
Peter Harries-Jones, “Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson’s World of Difference” (Fordham UP, 2016)
The work of polymath Gregory Bateson has long been the road to cybernetics travelled by those approaching this trans-disciplinary field from the direction of the social sciences and…
WE NEED YOU! Fundraising campaign
Allies, friends, colleagues, It’s this time of the year again… and we’ve had to make essential maintenance on the website. As the repairs were somewhat more extensive than…
Encoding Value: What is cryptocurrency, and what does it mean for society?
Author: Stephanie Betz, PhD candidate at the Australian National University and a digital anthropologist researching the intersections between people and technology. Her doctoral research is an ethno…
Time, Regained by Kevin Karpiak
The following is taken from the forthcoming book, The Police Against Itself: Reassembling French Liberalism “After the Social,” an ethnography of French police administrative reform, the vicissitudes …
Why Don’t Westerners Eat Off One Plate?
The Hadzabe share food and daily tasks. Ryan Jarvis “Why don’t your students love each other?” asked Kaunda, a Hadza hunter, as we sat around the campfire overlooking…
What Makes the Human Foot Unique?
Adding a chapter in the story of what makes us human. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Selfhood in flames? Imprisonment and Cauterization in Arizona’s Prison Wildfire Program
By Lindsey Raisa Feldman, PhD The United States, self-mythologized for centuries as a paragon of freedom and liberty, now serves as an ironic…