Matthew Wolf-Meyer discusses his book, Unraveling
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/unraveling Toni Nieminen: First of all, thank you! Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age is a brilliant and a profound piece of w…
Carl Gösta Widstrand 1928-2023, in memoriam
NOTIS. I november dog Carl Gösta Widstrand i Ottawa, Canada. Han var född i december 1928, ochblev alltså nästan 95 år gammal, skriver Ulf Hannerz i en kort…
Sayan Dey, “Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean” (Anthem Press, 2023)
Usually, discourses on the planetary evolution and the movements of slaves remain restricted within the narratives and scholarships of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and hardly engage with the…
Ceri Houlbrook, “‘Ritual Litter’ Redressed” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Ritual deposition is not an activity that many people in the Western world would consider themselves participants of. The enigmatic beliefs and magical thinking that led to the…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW48
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als Mediendokumentar*in für das Konsortialprojekt “Digi-Kunst” bei der Hochschule Detmold, ein Praktikum bei der Kunstmesse ArtDüsseldorf und e…
Sahlins biography update: September to November
The past few months have been very busy ones, but I wanted to write a quick update on my progress just to keep myself honest and provide a…
Let’s Agree . . .
That the deaths of civilians killed by the IDF targeting Hamas leaders, command centers, and weapons caches are tragedies. That the continuing occupation of the West Bank and…
Episode 9: The humanness of humanity has a history
In the 9th episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews anthropologist Mark Goodale on the history of human rights. The humaneness of humanity has a history. And…
Verwandtsein als Mythos und Modell. Zur Geschichte und Kritik des Clan-Begriffs
Noch nie wurde so viel über Clans gesprochen. Doch die politisch verengte Debatte verstellt den Blick auf die tieferliegenden Probleme des Begriffs. Was kann er heute noch erklären?
American Anthropological Association 2023 Talk: Making Pigs Dirty: Conflicting Perspectives on Javelinas and Hogs in Texas
I co-chaired a panel at the 2023 meeting of the American Anthropological Association titled “The America Animal.” Abstract: Other-than-human animals comprise a large part of the so…
Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) 2023 Conference at Meiji Gakuin University Shirokane Campus, December 2-3
Subtitle: アレ！VAOJ@AJJ 2023… Once again, the AJJ is meeting with a wide range of interesting participants, research topics and presentations. Of special note is a two panel first…
Die Anfänge von REMID e.V. – Zeitreise mit Steffen Rink (Teil 2)
Steffen Rink ist eines der Gründungsmitglieder von REMID e. V. und blickt mit uns zusammen zurück in die Anfänge von REMID, Höhepunkte und Herausforderungen. Er hat Politikwissenschaft, VWL…
How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Some recent data
Here is a list of studies, surveys and polling results that shed some light on popular perceptions of post-growth and post-capitalist ideas. I will seek to update…
Dealing with the Dutch Elections
by Freek Colombijn – Few people will have missed the fact that the PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid, Party for Freedom) has been the big winner of the…
Paper: Infrastructural disruption, entanglement, and change in Northern Manitoba, Canada
Budka, P. (2023). Infrastructural disruption, entanglement, and change in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at American Anthropological Association (AAA)/Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Annual M…
Anger on the move
24 November 2023. Gaza: at least 14,854 people killed, including 6,150 children and 4,000 women; and at least 36,000 injured. At least 6,800 missing. The Al Jazeera ‘Israel–Gaza…
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Hi all,Capitalism suggests that today is Black Friday in connection with another holiday in the US, so why not treat yourself to some free readings instead 
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From Despair to Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism
Allegra Lab · From Despair To Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism TRANSCRIPT OF THE AUDIO ESSAY (listen if…
عروسی اجباری: نگاهی به شیوۀ خواستگاری در جامعۀ ایرانیِ عصر قاجار
منصوره اتحادیه (نظاممافی) نگارنده در حال حاضر به تدوین «روزنامۀ خاطرات حسین قلی میرزا عمادالسلطنه سالور»۱ و نگارش زندگینامۀ محمدعلی نظاممافی تحت عنوان «در اندیشۀ عمر» (زمانه و…
نقدی بر فیلم آثاری بینویسنده (Werk ohne Autor)
کارگردان: هنکل فون دونرسمارک (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)، محصول: ۲۰۱۸ آلمان تبلیغات هیچ کاری با حقیقت ندارد. ما با خدمت برای پیروزی آلمان است که به حقیقت خدمت…
رابطه منسوجات چین و ایران در دورۀ حاکمیت مغولان
دانشگاه ایندبورگ مجموعه کتابهایی دربارۀ «هنرهای اسلامی چینی» منتشر ساخت که یک مجلد آن مربوط به «هنر دوران مغول» در ایران به قلم یوکا کادوی (Yuka Kadoi) در…
خردهفرهنگهای «اقلیتی» و سبک زندگی: روندها و چشماندازها در ایران (بخش۱)
چکیده: جهانیشدن روند متناقض مدرنیته را تشدید کرده و آن را درون فرایندی متقابل از همگنسازیها و ناهمگنسازیهای هویتی – جماعتی وارد نموده است. اثر مشخص این امر…
How to Dismantle Liberal Democracy: The Dutch Case and the PVV
In the aftermath of the landslide electoral victory of the far-right Party for Freedom, Postdoctoral fellow Iris B. Segers argues that Geert Wilders’s electoral gai…