Stones and Minerals beyond the nature culture divide Berg
Geologists read different material aspects of stones to understand the Earth’s history and specific environmental conditions…
Geologists read different material aspects of stones to understand the Earth’s history and specific environmental conditions…
In Jewish Odesa, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum explores Jewish identity in Odesa over the course of Soviet history, Ukrainian nation-building and global Jewish revivals. Combining oral histories, anthropolo…
In this interview, Anna Gopsill asks Oliver Bakewell and Kiya Gezahegne about their research on Ethiopia.
CITU – 1988 West Bengal
What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves (University of Chicago Press, 2024) is a history of…
In spring 2024, several students in my Wicked Science (or “Transdisciplinary Problem-Solving”) course made zines as a final project to illustrate a wicked problem of their interest. These…
Comentari per als estudiants d’Antropologia Religiosa de la UB, enviat el març de 2016 L’intel·lectual com a frau Manuel Delgado M’agradaria que reparéssiu en la pertinència del que…
Amsterdam, like other European cities, hosts growing populations of non-native parakeets. An anthropologist unpacks what shifting attitudes toward these birds reveal about humans. ✽ When I came to…
Zum Initialbeitrag von Sina Arnold und Juliana Karakayali Kommentar von Marina Chernivsky und Friederike Lorenz-Sinai In der Forschung zu aktuellem Antisemitismus überwiegen historische, sozialpsychol…
Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos, draining the lifeblood of…
Utav blommor skapas en vacker kvinna; hon är lösningen på förbannelsen som lagts på hennes blivande make av hans egen mor, om att han aldrig kommer att få…
明けましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願いします。 Happy New Year! VAoJ hopes for a wonderful, peaceful and meaningful 2025 for all! Please forgive the lateness of our New Year’s greetings. These photos span the…
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet Shannon Ward: Your book deals centrally with the biopolitics of language oppression, charti…
In Policing Patients, Elizabeth Chiarello examines the role of prescription drug monitoring programmes (PDMPs) in the opioid crisis in the US, arguing that they transform healthcare into patient…
Door Ton Salman – Oudjaar…. En dan begint zomaar een heel nieuw jaar! Spiksplinternieuw! En we wensen elkaar geluk, en moois en gezondheid, en vrede. Da’s ons ritueel.…
After an amazing match… in which Xuan Son bent his leg way out of shape, and that final rolling goal… I’d watched the second half of the game…
Article numbers and rejections are ‘up’. I tried to explain what I see as the current trend in journal-editor-land and wrote this to reassure a colleague that ‘its…
Santo Domingo, Iglesia catedral de Oaxaca. Foto GVC 2024. El 30 de diciembre pasado, en 2024, mi esposo y colega Igor Ayora Diaz y yo estuvimos en un…
What are faculty thinking about generative AI? In my role at our faculty center, I speak to faculty often on the problems they face teaching in the…
Queerfeindlichkeit spielt im rechten Wahlkampf eine zentrale Rolle, auch bei der AfD. Und dennoch schliessen Homosexualität und Rechtextremismus sich nicht aus. Zwei Jahre lang hat der Kulturanthropol…
La foto es de Elena Rostunova Fragmento de “De la ciudad concebida a la ciudad practicada”, Archipiélago, 62, 2004, pp. 7-12. Espacio público y orden político Manuel Delgado…
Nara Milanich’s Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (Harvard University Press, 2019) explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological…
Cuban resourcefulness is on full display in Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke 2020), as sociologist Sujatha Fernandes presents an array of strategies not just for survival but for the invention…
Attacks on justice-oriented research (rather that valid criticism of research) is escalating. What is your plan if it happens to you?