Best of SAPIENS 2023
In another year of exceptional challenges and hardships, anthropologists tackled a range of issues and questions about what it means to be human. Here are some of SAPIENS’…
The Trillion Dollar Plan to Transform Waste: Dan Nienhauser’s Vision for a Cleaner Future
In the episode of This Anthro Life, the dialogue investigates waste transformation and how waste can be converted into useful energy and materials. Dan explains his work with…
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Photo by Jason Blackeye via Unsplash Dear readers, We are sorry to say that after eighteen years, we are going to be shutting down this blog at the…
David Carey, Jr., “Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador” (U California Press, 2023)
Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador (University of California Press, 2023) explores how, in the early to mid-twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and…
Nettrice R. Gaskins, “Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom” (MIT Press, 2021)
Today I talked to Nettrice R. Gaskins about Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom (MIT Press, 2021). The growing maker movement in education has…
New Book Announcement: A LONG time in the making! “Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body”
Finally! The new book edited by Kaori Fushiki and Ryoko Sakurada has been published! The origins of this book go back to May, 2014 and the panel “Anthropology…
Border Porosities: Movement of People, Objects, and Ideas in the Southern Balkans
Petroleum engineering may seem like an odd place to find metaphors for the field of border and borderlands studies. Yet, in her new book Border Porosities: Movement of…
Die Erfolge der Rechten – und die Fehler der anderen
Der Wahlsieg von Geert Wilders in den Niederlanden ist nur die neueste Episode einer rechtsextremen Erfolgsserie in Europa – und er zeigt, dass daran nicht zuletzt die Konkurrenz…
30 Minute Methods Prof Brett Neilson 12.12.2023
PHƯƠNG PHÁP TRONG 30 PHÚT Trường Đại học Tôn Đức Thắng, Ban Công tác phía Nam Hội Xã hội học Việt Nam và Transit Asia Research Network, 2023-3024…
Arpan Roy: “Is this Narrow Coastal Strip Worth All this Blood?” Bassel Al-Araj on Armed Struggle in Palestine
By taking control of 22 Israeli military bases and localities, sequestering over 200 hostages, and killing more than 1,000 civilians and soldiers (although many details remain ambiguous), Hamas…
White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route
Rexhepi’s White Enclosures is an insightful book exploring the co-construction of race and borders along the Balkan route. It puts racial exclusion in the Balkans in conversation with…
Platypod, Episode Eight: CASPR 2023
Download the full transcript of this episode. CASTAC in the Spring 2023 The 2023 edition of CASPR: CASTAC in the Spring discussed digital ethnography and its multiple facets.…
“Character for tax (税) picked as kanji of 2023” – and I my salary is less than it was two years ago…
Photo and story from Japan Today, 12/12/23. I would have actually voted for “(Hanshin) Tigers” as the kanji of the years. But… The money that I now actually…
Nishaant Choksi on his book, Graphic Politics in Eastern India
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/graphic-politics-in-eastern-india-9781350159587/ Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway: Your fascinating book argues that script serves as a “critical semiotic modality thro…
Einpassen oder Aushandeln – eine falsche Alternative: Für eine integrierte mehrsprachige Sprachbildung, inklusive des Deutschen
Kommentar von Dr. Peter Rosenberg[1], Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften – Einreichung am 19. September 2023 Dieser Kommentar bezieht sich auf den Init…
Vorschrift oder Bedarf – eine falsche Alternative: Für eine integrierte mehrsprachige Sprachbildung, inklusive des Deutschen
Kommentar von Dr. Peter Rosenberg[1], Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften – Einreichung am 19. September 2023 Der folgende Kommentar bezieht sich auf de…
Learning needs not be fun
by Tamara Soukotta “This will be fun.” Perhaps you have heard a similar promise made at the beginning of a course or a workshop. I certainly did hear…
Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman, “Capitalism and the Senses” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman’s Capitalism and the Senses (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday…
Jesse Dart, “Feeding the Hustle: Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry” (Lexington Books, 2022)
Food is increasingly a subject of interest in social sciences: how we cook, consume, and share food is relevant to our social lives. In Feeding the Hustle: Free Food…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW50
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in am Germanistischen Institut an der Universität Münster, ein Volontariat im Bereich Bildende Kunst bei der Stadt Mönc…
PHƯƠNG PHÁP TRONG 30 PHÚT // 30 Minute methods at TDTU
Link cho zoom meeting của cả ba seminar:https://us05web.zoom.us/j/ 89191284691?pwd= G8Vsvybn0dycwjVtpeIEliPPAZppgv .1 Meeting ID: 891 9128 4691 Passcode: nTfap7 Tuesdays 4pm in Vietnam…
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wenn frau plötzlich einarmig durch den alltag kommen muss, ist das ganz schön anstrengend. mit jedem tag lerne ich dazu. und der arm kann auch schon mehr. aber…
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wenn frau plötzlich einarmig durch den alltag kommen muss, ist das ganz schön anstrengend. mit jedem tag lerne ich dazu. und der arm kann auch schon mehr. aber…
Sahana Ghosh, “A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands” (U California Press, 2023)
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in the borderlands of northern Bangladesh and eastern India, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands (U California Press, 2023)…