fellowship mit lücken
diese woche war (ungeplant) meine letzte woche in erfurt. anstatt zweieinhalb monate war ich im endeffekt nur vier wochen vor ort. erst zwei wochen corona. dann wie geplant…
fellowship mit lücken
diese woche war (ungeplant) meine letzte woche in erfurt. anstatt zweieinhalb monate war ich im endeffekt nur vier wochen vor ort. erst zwei wochen corona. dann wie geplant…
Personal Transformation in the Settler Experience – a tall tale.
I’ve been to meetings were settler folks talk about how transformative their First Nation community visit is for them. They share these experiences as a kind of validation…
Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry White, “Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture” (U California Press, 2023)
What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food. From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through…
Chetan Choithani, “Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines the role of migration as a livelihood strategy in influencing food access among rural households. Migration…
Cristina A. Pop, “The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania” (Rutgers UP, 2022)
In The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania (Rutgers UP, 2022), Cristina Pop examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological…
Wenn der Löwe brüllt. Zum Wahlsieg von Javier Milei in Argentinen
Javier Milei hat sich als Außenseiter bei der Präsidentschaftswahl in Argentinien durchgesetzt. Seine Agenda und sein politisches Umfeld sind stark rechtspopulistisch, „anarchokapitalistisch“ und weni…
Swift channelling Brion Gysin?
epigraph in Nancy’s book on Hegeland jokes: The Speculative Remark. 1973/2001.p. 73.
Scientists In Support of Palestine
We will not be silent in the face of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and we hope we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. As scientists…
Scientists In Support of Palestine
We will not be silent in the face of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and we hope we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. As scientists…
Scientists In Support of Palestine
We will not be silent in the face of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and we hope we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. As scientists…
Consumer Anthropology and AI: Teaching Business School Students
Robert J. Morais, Columbia Business School In the fall of 2023, I integrated generative artificial intelligence (AI) into my Columbia Business School course, Market Intelligence: The Art and…
David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, “Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies” (Cornell UP, 2023)
The essays in Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies (Cornell UP, 2023) address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan…
dialectic and teleology
“a methodological issue … to forestall one of the most notorious and inveterate stereotypes of Hegel discussion, namely the thesis-antithesis-synthesis formula. It is certain that there are ple…
¿De quién es el "problema" de la inmigración?
Foto de Javier Bauluz, tomada de elpais.es Este billete se publico en El Periódico de Catalunya, el 8 de mayo de 2000, poco después de la obtención de…
Anthropologists on Palestine
Amid the war on Gaza and long before, anthropologists have been speaking out against Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Here’s a curated list of their perspectives as scholars and…
یورگن هابرماس به غزه که میرسد، با عقاید خودش در تضاد قرار میگیرد
آصف بیات، ترجمه: سپیده پارساپژوه یادداشت سردبیر: یورگن هابرماس و آصف بیات متفکران برجسته جهانی هستند. کتابهای آنها به چندین زبان ترجمه شده است و در دانشگاههای سراسر…
تاریخ وادادگی، تاریخ واماندگی و ایده غایب: فقدان سنت دمکراتیک
همواره فکر میکنم، تاریخ داستانی خطی نیست. تاریخ روایتی است که میتوان آن را از انتها به ابتدا، در میان یک باغ خرم و یا از میانه یک…
Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance
One of the eight national dances of India, bharatanatyam, partly originates from the area around Tranquebar. During the time that Tranquebar was a Danish colony, devadasis, women who…
No Links I Liked 501-Why I am taking a break from my weekly #globaldev content curation
As I briefly mentioned in the 500th anniversary post at the beginning of December, my weekly Links I Liked post will take a break in the new year.I…
The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #2
Well, by now most of you have heard the news that this blog is closing down. That whole conversation was happening in the last couple of months, but…
Integrating Tribal Perspectives into an Oregon Trail history.
Recent work on correcting histories of settlers societies has been highly popular. The 2019 Exhibit at Five Oaks Museum, Washington County by Stephanie Littlebird Fogel
Can We Understand One Another?
The Mead-Freeman controversy draws to a close, with some answers to who was right and who was wrong. But, in the end, can anyone ever really understand cultures…