What Ancient Goat Teeth Reveal About Animal Care
Unraveling a mystery around millennia-old goat bones, an archaeologist reflects on the harm people can cause their most cherished animals. ✽ Animals were harmed in the making of…
Gilberto Rosas, “Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
On August 3, 2019, a far-right extremist committed a deadly mass shooting at a major shopping center in El Paso, Texas, a city on the border of the…
A Better Way to Buy Books
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview, Andy…
Cuatro Lindas y un funeral
Read Time:8 Minute, 45 Second Pablo Martínez Tobía Pablo Martínez Tobía Lo único que podemos asegurar sobre la identidad es que no …
“Blooming Biomes Mean Blooming Profits”: ‘Nature-based’ Industrial Farming and the Politics of the Industrial Animal Microbiome
Industrial trade shows are curious places. Potential customers milling around more than 500,000 square feet of exhibit space; technoscientific exuberance and hype; snappy names and enticing displays; …
Plato’s cave regrets to inform you it will be raising its rent
Xu Mason at McSweeney’s: As the costs of maintaining a cave meant to trap you in your ignorance increases year after year, we want you to know, from…
Sahlins biography update: Work in August 2023
August of 2023 was a milestone for my biographical research. I spent two weeks in New York conducting archival research. First, I spend a week and a half…
Sahlins biography update: Work in July 2023
I’m renaming these posts so that they are less confusing. This update was written in August, published in September, but is about work I did in July, so…
Anticlericalismo y proceso de politización
Fusilamiento del monumento al Sagrado Corazón en el Cerro de los Ángeles de Madrid, julio de 1936 Fragmento de Anticlericalismo, espacio y poder. La destrucción de los rituales…
Michael Silverstein’s last book, Language in Culture
Ilana Gershon interviews Summerson Carr, Susan Gal, and Constantine Nakassis https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/language-in-culture/3D4F3FF1DE52DC7CDC5A5B34D21B8AF1#overview Il…
CFF: German International Ethnographic Film Festival (early bird deadline: 25 November)
The German International Ethnographic Film Festival (GIEFF) is celebrating its 17th edition from May 8th- 12th 2024 in Göttingen. We are pleased to announce the new call for…
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions – review
In The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions, Adam Kuper interrogates the history of anthropological museums and considers questions of colonialism, race, and …
Neglect of vaginal health in US health education
CAROLINE MOORE Dear Dr. Miguel Cardona, RE: Neglect of vaginal health in US health education I am writing as someone who was educated in the US through high…
Pole Dance: un viaje de ida y vuelta al mejor deporte del mundo
Read Time:10 Minute, 13 Second Naima Muñoz En este artículo abordaré brevemente la historia del pole dance desde sus inicios, desconoc…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW37
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Praktikumsstelle im Bereich Deutsche und Europäische Klimapolitik bei Germanwatch e.V. (Berlin & Bonn), ein wissenschaftliches Volontariat im LVR-Landesmuseum…
Attacks By Civilized Whites on the Natives
In the years following the Oregon Indian wars of the 1850s, there were continuous claims by settler for losses due to Indian depredations. The claims
سلبریتی
جاشوآ گامسون – دانشنامه بینالمللی علوم اجتماعی و رفتاری، برگردان: سمانه کوهستانی در کاربرد عامیانه، «سلبریتی» معمولاً به فرد مشهور یا بدنامی است که وجود و فعالیتهایش برای…
معرفی «مستند کاریز؛ تداوم حیات»
کاریز؛ تداوم حیات؛ کارگردان: محمدرضا مقدسیان، پژوهش: سهراب فرسیو، تهیهکننده: ابراهیم حسنخانی، مجموعۀ دوم از مجموعۀ چهار قسمتی آب و آبیاری سنتی در ایران، ۱۳۶۱-۶۳ «هر چه از…
Nicole Fabricant, “Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore” (U California Press, 2022)
Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods,…
Tiantian Zheng, “Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China” (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Based on ethnographic research with victims of intimate partner violence since 2014, Tiantian Zheng’s Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China (Bloomsbury, 2022) brings…
Isabel Machado, “Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile” (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a…
If commodities could speak… Amatav Ghosh drops a penny in his new book “Smoke and Ashes”
It is amazing to see the trinketization penny drop – more than 150 years after Marx had called it out – here is trinketization coming to consciousness, in…
#MeToo-Literatur? Sexualisierte Gewalt und die Antworten der Literatur
Handelt Gegenwartsliteratur von Machtmissbrauch, Sexismus und sexualisierter Gewalt, gilt sie als „#MeToo-Literatur“. Diese Bezeichnung hat ihre Fallstricke. Man kann sich aber fragen: Was leistet Lit…
Centro, periferia y margen en territorios urbanos
La foto es de Oriol Duran para El punt avui. Prólogo a Martin Lundsteen, La mezquita contestada. Islamofobia, racismo y capitalismo. Bellaterra, 2022. Centro, periferia y margen en territorio…