The Future of (Academic) Conferencing by Ayo Wahlberg
From the 4th to the 6th of March 2021, close to 500 medical anthropologists, sociologists, STS scholars and more participated in the Chronic Living conference, yet never at the…
Starving the Deschutes tribe into submission, 1856
Every day of research I stumble upon another act of federal officials to destroy the tribes. Here is a letter documenting the intentions of an Indian Agent to…
Cultureels ethnographic film festival 12-18 April 2021
Anthro students arrange an online festival of ethnographic films on 12-18 April 2021. More information from this web address: https://www.cultureels.com/
What’s Behind Match Day’s Algorithm?
The opening of Match Day letters at medical schools across the U.S., including Penn State College of Medicine (shown here), has become an annual rite of passage. Penn…
TradeFW – ¿Por qué deberías elegir esta plataforma?
Uno de los principales objetivos de muchas personas hoy en día es ser financieramente independientes y asegurar su futuro, para no tener que preocuparse por ello. ¿No sería…
Between Jab Lines and Pandemic Orientalism in Urban Sri Lanka
VICHITRA GODAMUNNE & RAPTI SIRIWARDANE-DE ZOYSA The global COVID-19 vaccination drive has been steeped in geopolitical rivalries, captured not in the least within mainstream Euro-America…
Between Jab Lines and Pandemic Orientalism in Urban Sri Lanka
VICHITRA GODAMUNNE & RAPTI SIRIWARDANE-DE ZOYSA The global COVID-19 vaccination drive has been steeped in geopolitical rivalries, captured not in the least within mainstream Euro-American med…
Kultur sucht ihre Identität – Eine Anregung zum Umdenken
von Julia Koop Grundsätzlich und insbesondere während der Corona-Pandemie dachte ich lange: Die Kultur – verstanden sowohl als Gesellschaftsreflexion als auch als Innovationsfunktion – könnte mehr…
La extrema izquierda
La condena al rapero Pablo Hasel ha provocado manifestaciones multitudinarias en ciudades como Madrid, Barcelona o Valencia, entre otras, a favor de la libertad de expresión y en…
Stephen Pihlaja, “Talk about Faith: How Debate and Conversation Shape Belief” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Religious people have a range of new media in which they can share their beliefs and reflect on what it means to believe, to act, and to be…
سفرنامه جنوب هند (۱۶)
نقاشی از قصر تیپو سلطان که جیمز هانتر در سال ۱۸۰۴ میلادی آن را کشیده و درموزه قصر تیپو سلطان نگهداری می شود ایالت کارناتاکا جنوب هند تصمیم…
Airbnb’s Location Ratings as Anti-Black Spatial Disinvestment in Washington D.C.
In 2016, Airbnb host Synta Keeling appeared on NPR’s Hidden Brain to share her story of hosting as a Black woman living east of the Anacostia River. She…
Abgeschaltet. Wie das neue Internetgesetz in der Türkei den Journalismus bedroht
Als das türkische Parlament im Juni 2020 einen Zusatz zum nationalen Internetgesetz verabschiedete, die darauf zielen, Anbieter Sozialer Medien zu regulieren, fühlten sich Journalistinnen und Journali…
Clampdown. How Turkey’s New Internet Law Threatens Journalists
Journalists in Turkey felt their anxiety surge in June 2020 as the country’s parliament passed amendments to its Internet Law which began regulating social media providers. According to…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now
Wendy Yared from Evolve.ag Picture of an open book with a person’s legs underneath of it on top of a cozy yellow blanket. Photo by Emily Rudolph. This…
آسیب شناسی رشته انسان شناسی در دانشگاه ایرانی
۱- با توجه به اینکه شما سال‌های سال با آکادمی در موقعیت‌های مختلف درارتباط بودید، چه آسیب‌ها و نقد‌هایی را متوجه انسان‌شناسی در مقام یک رشته‌ی دانشگاهی،در…
سیستم ایمنی ما می‌تواند با کووید ۱۹ مقابله کند این سیاستمداران هستند که نمی‌توانند
سیستم ایمنی ما می‌تواند با کووید ۱۹ مقابله کند این سیاستمداران هستند که نمی‌توانند. Angela Rasmussenبرگردان آذر اصغریان دهکردی تأثیر روانشناسی ویروس عمیق است امّا شواهدی دال بر…
Book Forum: Reflections on Li Zhang’s Anxious China by Priscilla Song
This book forum brings together eight anthropologists to discuss Li Zhang’s Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy (University of California Press 2020). Zhang examine…
Kate Eichhorn on her book, The End of Forgetting
Interview by Shuting Li https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976696 Shuting Li: In this book, you follow image-making technology’s trajectory, from Kodak film camera, h…
Stellenausschreibungen 11. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
Der Märzwinter ist im Anmarsch und für diese Woche müssen wir nochmal Winterjacke und Wollmützen aus unseren Kleiderschränken hervorholen. Auch wenn es draußen wieder ungemütlich wird, kann man…
Decálogo de dictadores: cuando el poder se ejerce desde la violencia
Hace un par de meses me llamaron la atención una serie de documentales del Discovery Channel, sobre cómo todas las dictaduras más férreas de la historia seguían un…
Juno Salazar Parreñas, “Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation” (Duke University Press, 2018)
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke University Press, 2018) presents a multi-species ethnography of orangutans and humans that probes the shared suscep… Visit New Books…
Dying from Despair in the USA: A Discussion with Anne Case
Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row—a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern…
Sudhir Chella Rajan, “A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent” (Harvard UP, 2020)
In contemporary policy discourse, the notion of corruption is highly constricted, understood just as the pursuit of private gain while fulfilling a public duty. Its paradigmatic manifestation… Visit…