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?
Attacks on justice-oriented research (rather that valid criticism of research) is escalating. What is your plan if it happens to you?
What aspects of Natural History Museum samples contribute to the perpetuation of colonialism? And how can we conduct anti-colonial research with them?
What aspects of Natural History Museum samples contribute to the perpetuation of colonialism? And how can we conduct anti-colonial research with them?
In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country’s lawyers are female, but…
How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph…
I. Introduction In 2010 India found itself mired in a medical crisis of diplomatic proportions. The crisis was precipitated by a paper (Kumaraswamy et al 2010) published in…
Written by Neil Turner The study of Maroon sites is a rich and virtually untapped area that can advance our …
Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland (Routledge, 2024) explores ways in which queer families from Central and Eastern Europe complicate the mainstream picture of queer kinship…
In a reference within Trần Gia Thảo Vy’s essay on Malinowski I notice that old Bronio’s volume “The Sexual Life of Savages” (on kinship systems and beliefs, so…
January: The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hilarious – this book was nothing short of a fantastic way to launch 2024. As we transition into a new…
La foto es de Jaime Vedres En José María García-Pablos, ed. Nombrando lo urbano, Escuela de Arquitectura, Ingeniera y Diseño, Universidad Europea, Madrid, 2016, pp.…