درباره دائره‌المعارف [روشنگری] (۱۷۵۱– 1772)/ زمینۀ شکل‌گیری دائره‌المعارف (بخش ۲)/ گردآوری: کریستیان دنی/ برگردان: مهرنوش غضنفری روح عصر روشنگری؛ قرنی پرشور و خروش دانش در خدمت؛ از مرگ…
Susan Greenhalgh. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. University of Chicago Press, 2024. 352 pages. Christy Spackman (Arizona State University) I recently returned from a tri…
بخش سی‌وششم/ انسان‌شناسی زیستی (Biological anthropology)/ س. س. استریکلند/ برگردان: مهرجهان جهانبانی نزدیک‌ترین پستانداران خویشاوندِ گونۀ انسان، میمون‌های انسان‌نما (شمپانزه، گوریل، اورانگوتان، و گیبو…
https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/monuments-decolonized Sultan Doughan: There is so much material to mine and ask questions about in this wonderful book, Monuments Decolonized: Alg…
Saw a young lad today dressed in the full spiderman kit that seems to be a constant, yet one part of the cannon/lore/cult that I always think of…
A poet-anthropologist offers an “anti-glossary” to contest ways of knowing in social science that objectify people(s) into categories. “Emic/Etic” is part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and…
Sorry, had put this on youtube but not on here – multisocialmediafail# – but what a good talk!
Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Magdalena Buchczyk delves into the history and the changing…
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland, interview Gabriella…
In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean Island of Guanahaní to find an Edenic scene that was soon mythologized. But behind the myth of paradise, the Caribbean…
Mediated Lives is a careful, deeply reflexive, and ethnographically rich study of Iraqi urban refugees living through legal, social, and […] The post Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope…
Von Anna Lemke und Mareike Menne Heute weisen wir auf eine Seite hin, die sich auf Karriere-Chancen in Teilzeit für hochqualifizierte Menschen in München, Berlin und remote konzentriert:…
I published this paper at the Convergence Culture Consortium at the Department of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, March 8, 2011 under the title “Assumption hunters: a new…
It’s so easy to see our enemies as — well, enemies. What does it take to re-see them as human? Late in life, Erika Jacoby and Ursula Martens…
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Der Reisebericht ist erschienen in OÖ Nachrichten vom 8. 2. 2025, Reise S. 4 Dakar rast, Saint Louis schläft, Touba betet, Banjul fließt – so nehmen wir die…
What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the…
1997 wurde die eheliche der nichtehelichen Vergewaltigung gleichgestellt. Eine kleine Minderheit von Abgeordneten war dagegen – unter ihnen auch der heutige CDU-Vorsitzende Friedrich Merz.
As of 2018, only about one in ten Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx (MMAX) students graduate with a college degree. Drawing on in-depth interviews, participant observations, pláticas, document analyses, and literature…
I am happy to announce the opening of a small exhibition titled Shoulder Bags and Ethnic Identity in Southern Yunnan, China. For such a small exhibition, the project…
RAAF Squadron Leader Keith “Bluey” Truscott taxiing his P-40E Kittyhawk along the Marston Mats at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Sep 1942. Some slightly…
Read the full announcement from the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center February 6, 2025 — Pueblo pottery has long been exhibited and interpreted in the academic and museum…
Miranda Sheild Johansson is an academic at UCL anthropology who has just published a book with Cambridge University Press and was asked to sign a new generative licensing…
Many museums are reckoning with the colonial legacies of the human remains and cultural objects in their collections. Now anthropologists are advocating to pay similar respects to primates.…