SAR Receives Major Grant from National Park Service to Achieve Compliance with North American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Blog by Melinda Sue Robbins, Grants Manager, School for Advanced Research SAR Rece…
Robinson Crusoe special issue by Claire Reddleman nearly out.
In the meantime, Nicole and my articles are free to read – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2023.2244204 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.20…
Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context
Happy to share that the article collection from the GHI special issue of Social Identities is now live at the following URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csid20/collections/Migration-Logis…
Raising My Children in an Ableist World
In a new book, an anthropologist and father of three, including a daughter with Down syndrome, reflects on the pressures of parenting. Excerpted from An Ordinary Future: Margaret…
Anne Allison, “Being Dead Otherwise” (Duke UP, 2023)
In contemporary Japan, death isn’t what it used to be. Anne Allison’s Being Dead Otherwise (Duke UP, 2023) examines the changing realities of death as a personal and social phenomenon and…
DUE TO FALLING ENROLLMENTS, WE WILL NO LONGER OFFER COURSES IN ROMULAN AT STARFLEET ACADEMY
Inspired by things linked in these recent posts, I wrote something for McSweeney’s.
Rodanthi Tzanelli – New Spirit of Hospitality: Designing Tourism Futures in Post-Truth Worlds
Tzanelli disturbs the normative premises on which much tourism and hospitality research are predicated to make space for imaginations whereby the represented can manage their representations, a…
What Ancient Egyptians Knew About Meteorites—Long Before Modern Astronomers
An Egyptologist’s study of hieroglyphic texts has revealed that ancient Egyptians likely understood the celestial origins of iron-rich meteorites. ✽ “(The king) Unis seizes the sky and splits…
The Wild Pantry
Plants and Their Stories Finally, it’s time. As a team we have arrived in Cambodia—a geographer and an anthropologist embarking on a journey that we have joyfully planned…
Naisargi N. Davé, “Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being (Duke UP, 2023), Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal…
Introduction: Metabolic thinking and the predicaments of growth in Africa
Metabolic thinking deals in bounded organisms, regulated systems, and the calculated (self)-optimisation of responsible, profitable, and healthful nutritive and energetic transactions. But critical s…
The toxic imperial metabolism of Senegalese peanuts
The identification of aflatoxin in the 1960s troubled plans for Senegalese peanuts. Blamed for the acute poisoning of English poultry fed with Brazilian peanut meal, this fungal metabolite…
Estudiar a distancia; pantalla fría y conexión individual.
En este post te voy a contar porque estudiar a distancia puede se frío y un recorrido individual en el que cada alumna se enfrenta a ella misma…
Dillon Ludemann takes the page 99 test
The subject of my dissertation, the anonymous image-board forum called 4chan, is a space that, while many who know of it often have a very strong, negative reaction…
El mundo encoge: algunas perlas lingüÃsticas.
Ã�ngela Loij (1900-1974) “Cuando vuestro perro dice GRRR, posiblemente querrá decir GRRR, ahora mismo, porque no parece ser capaz de comunicar GRRR, ayer por la noche en el…
„Den Kompost feststampfen. Diskurse und Praktiken des Kompostierens in zwei Portraits.“
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 3 Minuten Interview mit Tabea Söregi Bild von Tabea Söregi Worum geht’s in deiner MA-Arbeit? Wie bist du darauf gekommen?In meiner Masterarbeit habe ich Praktiken des…
Rik Peels, “Life without God: An Outsider’s Look at Atheism” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
In Life without God: An Outsider’s Look at Atheism (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rik Peels explores atheism from a new perspective that aims to go beyond the highly polarized debate about…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW40
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als Mitarbeiter*in im Projekt Mobile Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus bei der Stadt Köln, ein Praktikum im Bereich Training und Wissensvermittlung bei Voda…
Bobarhetsworkshop i Oravi
Arbets- och näringsministeriet har genom Egentliga Finlands förbund beviljat Skärgårdsinstitutet vid Åbo Akademi finansiering för åren 2022–2023 för att skapa temanätverket Habitability. Nätverket fun…
sNAPAshots: Erica Hawvermale
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript 0:00[NAPA Logo] Interviewer 0:11Welcome to sNAPAshots, conversations with prac…
Gleich, gleicher, Expert*in? Die Verantwortung für Expertise in der Demokratie
Die Klimakrise ebenso wie die Corona-Pandemie zeigen, dass die Politik auf den Rat von Expert*innen angewiesen ist. Aber wie kann verhindert werden, dass damit das demokratische Gleichheitsgebot unter…
زوج های جدانشین
جرج ریتزر، برگردان: حمیده محمدزاده زندگی جدا از هم (LAT[i]) به طور گسترده به زوجهای دگرجنسگرا یا همجنسگرایی اطلاق میشود که رابطۀ زوجی بدون زندگی مشترک دارند. برخی…
Daniel R. Reichman, “Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Progress and development have long been important issues in anthropology and social sciences. Based on extensive archives and ethnographic fieldwork, Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos,…
La fama
La foto es de Henri Cartier-Bresson Notas para el espacio “El rincón y la esquina”, con Marta Sanz, en “Hoy por hoy”, Cadena SER. Emisión del 15 de…