Zur Ästhetik des Miteinander-Lebens (im muslimischen Indischen Ozean) (rechts: E. Hsu) | Elisabeth Hsu Frau Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Hsu ist Professorin am Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology…
Mumbai is in many ways the paradigmatic city of India’s celebrated economic upturn, but the city’s transformation went hand-in-hand with increasing water woes. In Pipe Politics, Contested ……
Over the past quarter-century, scientists have been mapping and exploring the human genome to locate the genetic basis of disease and track the histories of populations across time…
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Zoë H. Wool, who is a medical anthropologist and assistant professor at Rice University in…
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
By Asmeret Ghebreigziabiher Mehari As a non-native learner and speaker of Amharic, English, and Swahili, I have taken several journeys between these languages and my mother tongue, Tigrinya.…
Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg (Editors). The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908. 320 pp., illus., bibl., index, apps. New York and Oxford:…
[Note: Ramadan is long over, but due to some technical difficulties, our weekly entries were interrupted. With this entry on not fasting during Ramadan, we pick up where…
This is the fourth post in our blog series designed to help you link your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery. The series offers relevant teaching resources…
Listen to the data: Police in the U.S. fatally shoot more blacks than whites Source: Creative Commons, Lorie Shaull The Chronicle of Higher Education carried an article describing…
Portrayal – a depiction of someone or something in a work of art or literature; a picture Trail – a mark or a series of signs or objects…
There is now only one path to the White House for Donald Trump. There has to be a Brexit-type surprise in November. This is the hope of the…
In his highly original work, Birth of the Clinic, Foucault focuses his attention on the human experience and the rational for its continued homogenous reality. He discusses…
Adnan Hossain asks who the best fast bowlers are, and why race matters in West Indies cricket. In the Caribbean, cricket is not only a sport but…
This personal essay published in the Washington Post’s Parenting section, provides a lot of insight into the powerful norms and ideals of masculinity in (North) American society. In…
Since discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the…
Vor rund siebzig Jahren lebten tausende Europäerinnen und Europäer in afrikanischen Flüchtlingslagern. Im Folgenden gebe ich einen Überblick über diese Fluchtbewegungen und erzähle vor allem die Gesch…
Hello everyone! Please check out our roundup for the second half of the month. Also, the current issue of Hau has a symposium on Webb Keane’s Ethical Life: Its…
Against the Labouring Classes: Identity Politics in the New Victorian Age The New Victorianism serves to not only divert politics into issues of morality and identity, it works…
Paul Roquet’s wonderful new book begins with an offering of jellyfish and proceeds to teach us how to read the air. Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self (University…