Agriculture in Human Evolution – by Keith Hart
In his Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1754) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was concerned, not with individual variations in …
Digging up the Dead
The Slavia Field School in Mortuary Archaeology in Drawsko, Poland, unearthed a 400-year-old cemetery. Joanna Pearce Excavating a 17th-century cemetery in the …
Immigration force
Some may wonder why Britain quite likes having a cheap labour force available for illicit work, yet politicians spend huge amounts of …
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Hi all, I just returned from Batumi and Kotaisi in Georgia and in addition to meeting wonderful academic colleagues from Armenia, Moldova, …
I antologien «Bysamfunn» ser vi på det bygde og det levde i sammenheng
av Gro Sandkjær Hanssen og Guri Mette Vestby, forskere ved NIBR, OsloMet Byene fremheves som løsningen på utfordringer knyttet til klimaendringer, omstilling …
The Unyielding First Secretary, translated by Balzhan Suzhikova (KIMEP)
Editor’s introduction: This special blog post, translated and shared with us by Kazakhstani Fulbright Scholar and Associate Director at KIMEP University Balzhan …
Transkriberingstankar
Oktober månad har gått i transkriberingens tecken, något som fått mig att fundera över transkriberingens betydelse. Redan här gör jag beslut som …
Special Issue: Ethnographic Explorations of the Right to Health in Practice by Anna Zogas
October’s issue of Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness is a themed issue, edited by Alejandro Cerón & Jessica Jerome. …
Meet Our Wadsworth International Fellows: Hone Mandefro Belaye
With the support of the Wadsworth International Fellowship Hone Mandefro Belaye will continue his training in sociocultural anthropology at Concordia University,
Fieldnotes on Bribes, Smiles, and Myths
This summer, a new billboard in Vilnius Old Town, caught my eye. A healthy-looking man was pointing his finger up and informing …
Does Tattooing Boost Health?
A Samoan schoolteacher receives a full pe’a, the traditional tattoo generally worn by males. Christopher D. Lynn This article was originally published …
In the Journals, October 2019 by Anna Zogas
Here are some highlights from journals with new issues published in October. Enjoy! Annual Review of Anthropology Physician Anthropologists Claire L. Wendland …
Perla Guerrero, “Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place” (U Texas Press, 2017)
Perla Guerrero is the author of Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place (University of Texas Press, 2017). Nuevo South …
Lynne Pettinger, “What’s Wrong with Work?” (Policy Press, 2019)
How should we understand work? In What’s Wrong with Work? (Policy Press, 2019), Lynn Pettinger, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University …
BONUS EPISODE: Faire une anthropologie multilingue, avec Monica Heller et Émilie Urbain: TFS in French
Monica Heller est professeure en anthropologie linguistique à l’Université de Toronto (Canada). Émilie Urbain est professeure adjointe de linguistique au département de …
Household Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights
Domestic labor in urban Latin American life takes center stage in the film, Roma. “Have you seen Roma?” This is perhaps the single …
Sex Sells: Female Athletes’ Use of Instagram
by Lucy Shepherd We have all seen it, female athletes being used as sex objects to sell products, pictured on billboards in …
Inxeba – Homosexualität, Männlichkeit und Ritual in Südafrika
Homophobie in afrikanischen Gesellschaften wird zumeist als Überrest unaufgeklärter Zeiten verstanden, eine Abwehr von Toleranz und Modernität. Auch der Film Inxeba wurde …
Portending the Posthuman on YouTube
During this most spooky time of year, it is apropos to explore our transmogrification into posthumanity—a concept that instills fear in the …
Public lecture of Esra Özyürek ‘Rethinking empathy: Emotions triggered by the Holocaust among the Muslim-minority in Germany’
On Wednesday evening 13 November 2019 prof. dr. Esra Özyurek (London School of Economics and Political Science) will deliver a lecture: ‘Rethinking …
Als Geisteswissenschaftlerin im Online Marketing durchstarten
Marta Fischer hat Geschichtswissenschaften studiert. Dann stellte ein Praktikum die Weichen – überraschend, zufällig, aber passt. In einem Gastbeitrag schildert sie ihren …
Bündnispolitiken in den Gender Studies – und wo sind die Studierenden?
Die Gender Studies sind zu einem „Objekt des Hasses“ geworden, wie auch Sabine Hark schreibt (Hark, 2017). In besonderer Weise sind davon …
Gary J. Adler, Jr., “Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so? In his new book Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of …
Space, Futures, Tech at “Changing Climates” — AAA/CASCA 2019
Space, Futures, Tech at “Changing Climates” — AAA/CASCA 2019 A list of space, futures, and tech related papers, panels, and roundtables, at the joint …