فراخوان انتشار ویژهنامه نوروزی ۱۴۰۴ و نوزدهمین سالگرد انسانشناسی و فرهنگ
انسانشناسی و فرهنگ همچون هر سال قصد دارد ویژهنامهای به مناسبت سال نو و سالگرد تأسیس این مجموعه منتشر کند. این ویژهنامه با بهرهبرداری از نقاشیهای استاد علیاکبر…
انسانشناسی و فرهنگ همچون هر سال قصد دارد ویژهنامهای به مناسبت سال نو و سالگرد تأسیس این مجموعه منتشر کند. این ویژهنامه با بهرهبرداری از نقاشیهای استاد علیاکبر…
Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine. ✽ We are honored to have collaborated with dozens…
In 2011, while conducting fieldwork for my master’s thesis in the South Wollo area of Ethiopia’s Amhara region, I came across a striking paradox that has continued to…
Aziz put down the newspaper and sighed. “This is bad, the situation is bad”. Sitting in his small tea shop, he had just finished his routine practice of…
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In 1980, Charles Wetli—a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions—identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly…
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War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself. In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom.…
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https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/between-self-and-community/9781978831384/ Hyemin Lee: Your book wonderfully illustrates the encounters between globally dominant socialization ideologies…
Read Time:8 Minute, 6 Second «Nunca me había sentido tan sola y humillada. Esa noche mientras mi empleadora dormía hui de su casa, pasé…