Sufi Performance as Political Intervention
Rafique Wassan Feminist activist artist Sheema Kermani performing in the Sufi shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sindh, Pakistan, 2019 Sufism, the mystical, spiritual tradition of Islam has…
Rafique Wassan Feminist activist artist Sheema Kermani performing in the Sufi shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sindh, Pakistan, 2019 Sufism, the mystical, spiritual tradition of Islam has…
Understanding the meanings we give to objects and the way in which we associate them with attitudes, emotions, and memories, can be highly useful when creating a new…
By Freek Colombijn Every Sunday morning from 6 to 10 a.m. part of the main street of Surabaya is closed for all motorized traffic for an event that…
Visiting Budapest, late April 2019, I had a chat with the Hungarian Scandinavianist Dávid Veress about anthropology, writing and the role of the intellectual. His Észak podcast (in…
Visiting Budapest, late April 2019, I had a chat with the Hungarian Scandinavianist Dávid Veress about anthropology, writing and the role of the intellectual. His Észak podcast (in…
Hace dos años mi esposo (Igor Ayora Diaz) y yo fuimos invitados por nuestra colega y amiga Encarnación Aguilar Criado a Sevilla para disfrutar de la Semana Santa…
[This is the second installment of Moon Monogamy (And Other Things That Are Bound to Go Wrong) by Savannah Mandel. The first installment is here.] You would think that…
With all the violence in the world and the ever growing movement of mankind toward more violence, it appears there is always a war somewhere…
The April 30, 2019, coup attempt in Venezuela has come and gone. The coup has failed. “Failed state” theory just got a lot more complicated. No longer can…
On Thursday, April 25, 2019, I had the honour of participating in two separate radio interviews concerning the case of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. The first was with…
Kids in the middle Recognizing the important role of children as cultural translators By Kendall Powell 04.02.2019 Originally published: https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2019/kids-mid…
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Ampson Hagan. Ampson Hagan is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is…
Carolina Schneider Comandulli Extreme Citizen Science Research Group Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability Indigenous and environmental rights are under threat in Brazil from Jair Bolso…
What does it mean to be famous on the Internet? How do people become Internet celebrities, and what can that celebrity be used to do? Dr. Crystal Abidin…
What does it mean to be famous on the Internet? How do people become Internet celebrities, and what can that celebrity be used to do? Dr. Crystal Abidin…
**Republished with permission from Tossed Observations Inc.** by Jonathan Craig Suspenseful, cinematically impressive, and majestically scored, Jordan Peele’s latest feature-length effort is, on balan…
Think you could eat a cricket? What about a spider? In this episode of TAL Adam Gamwell and guest host Andrea Eller are chatting with Julie Lesnik about…
Think you could eat a cricket? What about a spider? In this episode of TAL Adam Gamwell and guest host Andrea Eller are chatting with Julie Lesnik about…
Ett av historiens mest kända sociala experiment är Stanfordexperimentet eller Stanford Prison Experiment. Det arrangerades av Philip Zimbardo (professor i psykologi) 1971. Syftet var att bättre förstå…
My latest paper is now out entitled, The Moral Geography of the Earth System. It is currently free access here (thanks Wiley!). And it is permanently open-access here,…
During the debate about global poverty that erupted earlier this year, one fact kept getting repeated: maybe poor people’s incomes haven’t increased enough to lift them out…
In her new book, American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Press, 2019), Ann Gleig makes a major contribution to scholarship on American Buddhism. Gleig focuses on meditation-based…
Drawing from Sylvia Wynter’s call for rethinking our category of “human”, Melissa Johnson‘s ethnography Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize (Rutgers University Press, 2018) demonstrates how ent……
Drawing from Sylvia Wynter’s call for rethinking our category of “human”, Melissa Johnson‘s ethnography Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize (Rutgers University Press, 2018) demonstrates how ent……