The Last Moon Village: A Proposal for a Multimodal Anthropology
You’ll see them in film, k-dramas, music videos, webtoons and video games: narrow Seoul alleys (골목길), old restaurants with peeling wallpaper, protagonists drown…
You’ll see them in film, k-dramas, music videos, webtoons and video games: narrow Seoul alleys (골목길), old restaurants with peeling wallpaper, protagonists drown…
El-Gedaref: A Vital Agricultural Hub Shaped by Migration Located in eastern Sudan, El-Gedaref State is an agricultural powerhouse serves as a critical crossroads for migration, particularly during regi…
The other day a friend asked me about recommendations for development-themed Substacks and rather than responding to him directly, I decided to share my favorite “blogs-send-out-as-newsletters” resour…
The interaction of toxins on the production end and consumer end of fashion consumption. Have we ever considered how our clothes could impact our health? Could something as…
In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced […] The post Pasts Cast in Concrete and…
How do our physical spaces shape the way we live, connect, and thrive? In this episode of This Anthro Life, we delve into how design and the built…
بلاسم استفانیو، مطالعات در اواخر باستان، برگردان: آزاده بی‌زارگیتی در سال ۱۹۸۴، رزماری رادفورد روتر سخنرانی سالانه‌ای را برای آکادمی دین آمریکا ایراد کرد. او به این پرسش…
هویت و مکان انسان بودن به معنای زیستن در دنیای سرشار از مکان‌های با اهمیت است. انسان بودن به معنای برخورداری از مکان و شناخت نسبت به این…
ژاک بوورس، ترجمه آزیتا نیکنام حال، این سوال طرح می‌شود که بوردیو تا چه حد معتقد بود که برای خدمت به محرومان کافی است حقیقت حوزه اجتماعی را کشف…
زهرا آخوندی جاده[۱] فیلمی نئورئالیستی، به کارگردانی فدریکو فلینی ساخته سال ۱۹۵۴ در ایتالیاست. فیلمنامه‌نویس و کارگردانی ایتالیایی که او را سینماگری نوآور و خلاق می‌شناختند و از…
An anthropologist who studies human-computer interactions explores how and why losing one’s smartphone feels so unsettling. ✽ David, an American cyborg, has lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,…
Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decade. The story of international migration…
Until the fairly recent turn towards therapy and mental health of educated middle classes in Turkey, talking with one’s neighbor, […] The post The Transformative Potential of Intimacy:…
This post is inspired by Naval Ravikant, whose words enlightened me during one of the most uncertain times in my life. Below I share a few insights I…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the seond part of our November edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
ناصر پاکدامن، استاد دانشگاه، اقتصاددان، جمعیت‌شناس، نویسنده و یکی از برجسته‌ترین چهره‌های روشنفکری معاصر ایران، سوم اردیبهشت ماه سال گذشته، ۲۳ آوریل ۲۰۲۳، پس از نود سال عمر،…
بخش بیست‌و‌هفتم/ امریکا: امریکای بومی جنوبی (منطقۀ کم‌ارتفاع) [Americas: Native South America (Lowland)] / استفان نیوجنت/ برگردان: اصغر ایزدی‌جیران نام «مردمان منطقۀ کم‌ارتفاع» امریکای جنوبی، در اصل …
۵. در بخش‌های پیشین، گفتیم که روانِ انسانی در بنیادِ هستیِ خود، واجد دو رانۀ متضاد است. یکی رانۀ زندگی که میل به گسترش و قدرت دارد و…
In the first part of the twentieth century in France, ethnology was a science in the making. Due to its low level of institutionalization relative to other social…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
New archaeological research reveals insights into the first-known seafarers to brave ocean crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands more than 50,000 years ago. This article was originally…
Meaningful Mealtimes Human and nonhuman lives may have first become closely entangled with the rise of agriculture as we raised both animals to eat and other animals that…
How are America’s family farms disappearing at such a rapid rate, and what does this mean for the future of our food, families, and rural identity? In this…
“El hombre no es un ovni venido de una lejana galaxia; el hombre es un poema tejido con la niebla del amanecer, con el color de las flores,…