Aaron Kappeler: On the Kidnapping of a President
Anyone who knows Venezuela knows that things happen fast there. It is a function of the hectic pace of urban life in a society that is highly subject…
Anyone who knows Venezuela knows that things happen fast there. It is a function of the hectic pace of urban life in a society that is highly subject…
Ching Kwan Lee’s Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Decolonization Struggle combines history, ethnography and sociological analysis. According to Lucas Tse, the author’s account of political tra…
A best yet marston mat helicopter landing pad from the stranded bunnies section of Apocalypse Now Redux (2001 edition). Not in any of the other editions, for reasons…
This is a (hopefully) weekly update about events in Porgera. A few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley…
This year I used StoryGraph to track my reading daily, and then I went back to LibraryThing to track my reading over time. LibraryThing is great: fully featured…
Montag, 26.01.2026, 18.00 Uhr Buchpräsentation mit Kommentaren von Christin Jänicke (WZB) und Anne-Kathrin Will (Zittau/Görlitz) sowie einer Diskussion mit Autor*innen und Herausgebend…
Montag, 26.01.2026, 18.00 Uhr Buchpräsentation mit Kommentaren von Christin Jänicke (WZB) und Anne-Kathrin Will (Zittau/Görlitz) sowie einer Diskussion mit Autor*innen und Herausgebend…
Mit der neuen National Security Strategy kehren die USA zu einer Politik offener Machtdemonstration in Lateinamerika zurück. Doch die Wiederbelebung der Monroe-Doktrin offenbart weniger Stärke als vie…
Joshua Farrell-Molloy elucidates how masculinity helps explain performances of militant republican aesthetics by Irish far-right actors, who bind a revolutionary past to conte…
by Sophie Leegwater – A few minutes before 4:30 pm on a Monday afternoon in early January 2024, I hop into the yellow cab that takes me to…
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 2 Minuten Von Emilia Kraus Im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung „Kulturwissenschaftliche Werkstatt“ haben wir, die Teilnehmenden des Seminars, uns im Sommersemester 2025 mit d…
Essays written in preparation for my Comprehensive exams, nearly 20 years ago. Anthropology and Government Policy Part of the government’s role regarding Indian people was to figure out…
Sylvester Woodbridge, a Presbyterian pastor, may have been one of the first to suggest a plan for the initial California Reserves. This certainly helped the effort for writing…
Hewett, E. L. (n.d.). Edgar L. Hewett points in the distance while giving an archaeological tour of the southwest (PAAC.056.0047a) [Photographs, photographic prints]. New Mexico History Museum. …
فیلم «چهارصد ضربۀ» فرانسوا تروفو، که در سال ۱۹۵۹ اکران شد، نهتنها یک اثر سینمایی ماندگار، بلکه یک مانیفست هنری پیشرو است که در جایگاه یکی از ستونهای…
بخش شصتوهشتم/ اشاعهگرایی (diffusionism)/ هنریکا کوکلیک/ برگردان: ناصر فکوهی یکی از مسائل اساسی در پژوهشهای انسانشناسی در اواخر سدۀ نوزدهم توضیح این مسئله بود که چرا میان عادات…
هفتۀ پیش برای نخستین بار به ساختمان جدید «بنیاد هنرهای معاصر کارتیه» (Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain) رفتم. مجموعۀ نمایشگاهی بزرگی که میتوان گفت با نوآوریهای خاص، روایت…
Like a kaleidoscope, popular culture reflects a fast-changing colourful world, combining many pieces, representations, meanings and emotions depending on both its structure and how you view it. With…
Warum der Berufseinstieg gerade wirklich schwierig ist (und nicht nur gefühlt) In der FAZ nannte Dietrich Creutzburg gestern die Arbeitsmarktsituation beim Namen: 2,95 Millionen Arbeitslos…
At the 2025 AAA Meetings in New Orleans, APLA demonstrated its vitality as a section committed to both critical scholarship … More
For technology leaders and founders, a perspective on people is something you want in the room every step of the way. Anthropology – and human-centered design more broadly…