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Senast i februari börjar jag tänka på när jag och min man ska kunna åka till sommarstugan igen. Vår sommarstuga är inte isolerad för vinterbruk, men senast till…
This is the second part of the conversation our assistant editor Emilie Thévenoz had with Nika Dubrovsky (Read part 1 here). They chatted about some of the…
Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an ‘acting at a distance,’ an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the mediality of transmission. Action at a…
Rebecca Bryant, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, and Mete Hatay, the Senior Research Consultant at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, co-authored Sovereignty Suspende… Visit New Books in…
Dan Hicks, Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University has written a terrific book. The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and … Visit…
A new community of YouTube creators are using video to give audiences a close-up view of antique garments and accessories. Can they inspire museums to invest in new…
In this final webinar of the series, archaeologists, artists, and cultural theorists turn to questions of what’s next in the struggle for the recognition and promotion of Indigenous…
La fotografía es de César Ordóñes y se titula “Tokyo” Fragmento de la charla pronunciada en el CSO Barrilonia, en la Rambla del Raval de Barcelona, el 6…
The image above, a drawing from the 1850s, epitomizes how the camel has been imagined for everyone in America, the West and just about everywhere outside the area…
Among the ethnically Mosuo community in China, some groups are matrilineal, meaning inheritance passes from mothers to their children rather than from fathers to sons. Patrick Aventurier/Gamm…
El Patrimonio Cultural es el conjunto de bienes muebles, inmuebles e inmateriales, resultado de la obra humana, heredado del pasado y que la propia Sociedad considera que son…
Omri Grinberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Haifa) will talk about “Vernacularizing Bureaucracy and Quantifying Violence: The Writing of Palestinians’ Testimonies in Israeli …
The Anthropology 4 Kids book “What is a nation?” begins like this: This book is a game. We are going to invent a new nation together and, at…
Take a look at a globe. Europe is there in big letters, and, to us, this hardly merits a passing thought. But Europe is a concept, a construct,…
Phil Zuckerman’s book, Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment (2nd ed.) (New York University Press, 2020), points out that religious conservatives… Visit New…
Living Nations, Living Words, SAR Welcomes Joy Harjo …
The Greek mathematician Pythagorus, considered the founder of mathematics, left his home in Samos for Egypt in 535 BCE. A decade later he was captured and taken prisoner…
With a new congress and president the federal government will once again become the focus of advocacy and attention for advancing a racial equity agenda. The question before…
Contemporary anthropological praxis sits at the intersection of two ethical traditions. Many anthropologists are equipped with both a sophisticated understanding of the ethics and politics of rep…
El capitalismo de vigilancia un capitalismo que cada vez tiene más poder político y económico. Ya sabemos que todo lo que toca el capital lo destruye, lo transforma…
Door Peter Versteeg Veranderen, verandering – waarom willen we dat eigenlijk? Weten we werkelijk waarom we soms ons leven om willen gooien of zijn onze motieven ten diepste…
Born in Mexico, Rosario (a pseudonym) has worked as a cleaner in the Los Angeles public hospital system for more than three decades. But despite meeting California state…
This round up brings research papers, but first a taste of sublime. Chasing the Sublime The video features one of the better definitions of human agency I’ve heard…
Introducción Juan Antonio Alcántara Hernández es un nombre que puede sonarnos como otro cualquiera dentro de nuestro diverso bosque nominal peruano. Pero si pronunciamos Víctor Andes, la cosa…