CELEBRATING TRANSGRESSION
Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of CulturesA book in Honour of Klaus Peter Koepping Edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk 2005 rao_15hutnykDownload
2023 in Review
Image from https://stock.adobe.com/. Welcome to CASTAC 2023 in review! In this post you will read about the wonderful work that our CASTAC team and community has put together.…
The Path to Long-term Happiness: A New Theory on Mental Health and Neurodiversity
The traditional view of mental health often focuses on the absence of mental illness, but a new theory is emerging that emphasizes the importance of neurodiversity and individual…
Antti Lindfors Interviews Nicole Starosielski on Media Hot and Cold
This is a conversational interview between Professor Nicole Starosielski (UC Berkeley) and me, Dr. Antti Lindfors (University of Helsinki), discussing Nicole’s book Media Hot and Cold (2022, Duke…
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins on her book, Waste Siege
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27959 Hazal Corak: Waste Siege focuses on multiple forms of waste which accumulate and assume political status in Palestine. It introduces us to waste profe…
Jafari S. Allen, “There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life” (Duke UP, 2022)
In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life (Duke UP, 2022), Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what…
Sukhmani Khorana, “Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency” (Bristol UP, 2023)
Sukhmani Khorana’s book Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency (Bristol UP, 2023) unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around…
No existen paisajes naturales
La foto es de Edas Wong Consideraciones para Christianne Gomes, investigadora invitada de la Universidade Federal Fluminense No existen paisajes naturales Manuel Delgado Ya le comenté lo de…
Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #3: The Blogroll (plus)
As promised, here’s a list of the anthropology and archaeology blogs that are still active from Jason Antrosio’s archive from 2017. I found one site that’s actually not…
La polis es fálica; la urbs, uterina
La foto es de Mahdi Aridj, http://tinyurl.com/2dcbxphv Final de Memoria y lugar. El espacio público como crisis de significado, Ediciones General de la Construcción, Valencia, 2001. Es la publicac…
Nessette Falu, “Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2023) Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against…
Can the Palestinian speak?
It is sadly nothing new to argue that oppressed and colonised people have been and are subject to epistemic violence – othering, silencing, and selective visibility – in…
James Cummings, “The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) by Dr. James Cummings explores the everyday lives of gay men in Hainan, an…
Bunk is not Bunn: A Silly Claim about the Origin of Coffee
In a non-academic website called Atlas Obscura, there is an article with the entertaining title: “Before Drinking Coffee, People Washed Their Hands With It.” The article was written…
Grounded in Clay Reception at The Met, New York
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery Reception at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 10, 2023. …
اوپنهایمر: سفر به بیهودگی
آنچه می‌توان از یک فیلم ارزشمند انتظار داشت باید چیزی فراتر از صحنه‌پردازی‌ها، جلوه‌های ویژه، بازی هنرپیشگان، حرکات دوربین، دکوپاژ و نور‌پردازی باشد. دست‌کم این برای یک بیننده…
Neue Mapping-ReWi-Videos!
Wir freuen uns, zwei neue Videos auf der Mapping-ReWi-Webseite sowie dem Youtube-Kanal ankündigen zu können! Darin präsentieren wir zwei weitere Fachvertreter*innen, mit denen wir die Freude hatte…
نیم قرن در جستجوی حقیقت (گفتگو با دکتر مصطفی ملکیان)
هوشنگ پوررباب دکتر مصطفی ملکیان فیلسوف و استاد فلسفه و جامعه‌شناسی است. او بعد از تمام کردن دورۀ دبیرستان به دانشگاه رفت و در رشتۀ مهندسی مکانیک ادامه…
Creative Collective: Re-inventing Empikas — a photo essay
ByGabriella SantiniPhD Anthropology The ban on female circumcision in Kenya has put an end to Empikas — the only rite of passage ceremony for Maasai girls in Siria,…
Hemsökelser från Gaza
Jag har forskat om det palestinska samhället i olika omgångar under de senaste 20 år. Omfattande kränkningar av mänskliga rättigheter och direkt fysiskt våld har alltid förekommit, men…
Reconstructing the Anthro Blogosphere with RSS
To start, let me pour one out for Anthrodendum, the anthropology blog that may not have started it all, but which was for many the one pre-social media…
Family planning projects: unpacking the spectacle of women’s empowerment in Uttar Pradesh, India
Introduction Contraceptives are considered ‘the greatest life-saving, poverty ending, women-empowering innovation ever created’ (Gates 2019, 18). ‘Family planners’ – the global constellation of bi…
Accelerationist possibilities in an ecosocialist degrowth scenario
I want to make a brief intervention here to highlight an aspect of degrowth climate mitigation strategy that has so far been inadequately developed. It is widely…
Aushandlung unter Bedingungen von Ungleichheit?
Kommentar von Natascha Khakpour – Einreichung am 12. Oktober 2023 „Das war’s für sie“ sagt meine Kollegin mit bitterer Mine und schließt eine Mappe, nachdem die Frau weinend…