In search of papers for wellness panel at AAA. Tentative abstract below. If interested contact Lindsay.Bell@oswego.edu Of Bodily and Anthropological Matters: Self-Improvement in the Age of Wellness In…
Tower of Silence The Parsis people of India came from Persia over one-thousand years ago and brought with them their Zoroastrian religion and burial practices. These practices, similar…
Dieses Jahr ist es kalt an Ostern, der Osterhase trägt den Leomantel. Niedlichkeit gepaart mit Wildtierdesign. Essen oder streicheln? Kulturding wünscht Frohe Ostern!
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Teil 2 In dem „Post“ zuvor (Teil 1 Natürlich Schön!)haben wir uns ja bereits damit beschäftigt, dass Schönheitsoperationen schon lange keine Seltenheit mehr sind und welche Risiken…
One time a friend of mine, Mike Bishop, asked me an interesting question about the ethics of deviating from norms: “In what sense is deviance important for its…
The footnotes are getting the chop chop treatment too. It is a sad sad day. A bad bad way to relegate people to the acknowledgements. Is it just…
The famous catchphrase of the Trump campaign subtly taps into the United States’ spirit of making. But what does it actually mean? Alex Milan Tracy/Associated Press President Donald…
The Turkish referendum could extend President Erdoğan’s one-man rule. A piece of bicolored paper. On the left is printed EVET (YES), in black font over a white background,…
Kim de Rijke, The University of Queensland Australia´s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s response to the looming east coast gas shortage has been to secure a promise from gas…
An approach that experiments with a frame shift towards a political and allegorical register cannot keep up with that level of work, even as it relies wholly upon…
Hi all, If you are celebrating Easter you are probably looking for some good readings for the long weekend! Development news: AP investigates UN peacekeeping troubles in Haiti;…
Hi all, If you are celebrating Easter you are probably looking for some good readings for the long weekend! Development news: AP investigates UN peacekeeping troubles in Haiti;…
EUER WEH – German for ‘your woe‘, reads the car inscription on the bonnet. An unwitting meaning, residue of the former German fire truck, which had FEUERWEHR written…
Ashanté M. Reese, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College When I think about being a Black girl from the future, my mind goes to the contradiction that…
Nach 50 Jahren Kriegsgefangenschaft in Indien kehrt Wangqi in seine Heimat zurück. Um die Deutung seiner Lebensgeschichte entbrennt daraufhin eine engagierte Diskussion um die Frage: Ist Wangqi ein…
The slaughter of excess paragraphs and cul de sac ideas continues to leave this residue here in case I need to return… There are several admirable reasons for…
Schleim ist eine zähflüssige organische Absonderung, insbesondere von Schleimhäuten, die üblicherweise dem Schutz der Organoberfläche vor Austrocknung, Fremdpartikeln oder Abrieb dient. Schleim kann a…
Everyone has a story to tell. For anthropologists, such accounts can reveal as much about the people and societies we study as more conventional research. But the process…
The Pech, an Indigenous group in eastern Honduras, possess local knowledge, stories, and survival skills that are invaluable for knowing a place and its history. Christopher Begley We…