Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and…
Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and…
“Im Fall des überwertigen Realismus kann davon gesprochen werden, dass Werte, Anpassungsforderungen bzw. der Status quo lediglich aufgrund ihrer bloßen (als unerschütterlich wahrgenommenen) Existenz …
Nihad M. Farooq. Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830–1940. 280 pp., 9 halftones, notes, index. New York: New York University Press, 2016. $30 (paper) In…
Women are having a moment. At President Trump’s State of the Union address, Democratic women wore white as a nod to suffragists and female leadership, and Nancy Pelosi’s backclap went…
Eva Bartlett, reporting from Venezuela, is a freelance journalist with extensive experience in the Gaza Strip and Syria. See her website, In Gaza, for more of her work,…
The Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice at Clemson University has a new certificate program in business anthropology and … More
“A lot of what individual white anti-racists, as I called them, but also the broader policy frameworks are struggling with is the question of how do we enact…
Im heutigen Interview mit mit der Religions- und Islamwissenschaftlerin Assia Harwazinski (Tübingen) geht es um die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und Zugänge von Islamwissenschaft und Rel…
Jag ägnar mig inte bara åt sociala experiment och practical jokes. Det jag ska berätta om nu är en variant som ytterst lite angränsar till de mer typiska…
Life got away from me last week and I still have more “Exhibition Week” posts to share, but today I turn attention to the new issue of MAR.…
Here are some highlights from the journals in March 2019, including a special issue of Medical Anthropology dedicated to Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology. Enjoy! American Anthropologist…
Reinhard Bernbeck presents the entrance of a shelter at an archaeological site on the premises of a former concentration camp and forced-labor camp in Berlin, Germany. Stephanie Pilick/Getty…
Apart from employing German Nazi scientists, and adopting the methods, principles, and science of the Nazis in developing modern warfare, for what other purposes were Nazis sought after…
Hi all, Welcome to this week’s link review!(Just a quick technical note: As I will be traveling to Moldova next week the next link review will most likely be…
Hi all, Welcome to this week’s link review!(Just a quick technical note: As I will be traveling to Moldova next week the next link review will most likely be…
Fra engelsk har vi fått en rekke allmennord som børne og chille og fagtermer som controller. Men mange lån omfatter ikke enkeltord, men fraser, slik som «business as usual» og «å gjøre…
Internationale Konferenz in Berlin Der Rat für Migration lädt am 7. und 8. November 2019 zur Jahrestagung Sprache · Macht · Bildung ein. Sprache und Bildung spielen im…
Medico-legal borderlands? What is this nebulous sounding compound concept, “medico-legal borderlands”? How has it been used by social scientists whose ethnographic studies scratch at itches in the…
The concept of the “medico-legal borderland” commonly refers to the discursive intersection of medical and legal knowledges in the constitution of a new knowledge regime (McClelland, 2013). The…
Presently, there is an apology bill being considered in the Oregon State Senate for the Modoc Indian War of 1872-1873. This apology is long past due to the…
by Alfred Lewis **Read about the first and second week of our ‘fashion fast’ here and here. If you can, please donate to our efforts to raise money for the labour rights…
Edible Insects part 1. Will crickets ever catch on as an alternative source of protein in the United States? How about cockroach “milk”? Why do people in so…