Call for Posts: Disputed Water Worlds
Chorros Blancos Waterfall, Cajamarca, Colombia. Photograph by Ángela Castillo-Ardila, 2019. How do people and other beings relate to water across its multiple forms and scales? Water exists in…
Podcast on Gulf Almanac Lore
My podcast with Ahmed AlMaazmi and Tamara Fernando is posted online on the New Books Network.
Three New Mexico Organizations Join Together to Host the Twelfth Annual Pueblo Fiber Arts Show Memorial Day Weekend
Photo courtesy: Louie Garcia (Tiwa/Piro), the artist of this traditional Pueblo weaving. The New Mexico Pueblo Fiber Arts Guild, in collaboration with the Poeh Cultural Center and School…
Why Are People Afraid of Multicultural Children’s Books?
A look at the situation in the U.S. shows that the warning about leftist Cancel Culture and Wokism, has in fact prepared a massive wave of bans on…
Daniel Martin Varisco, “Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is the first in English to survey indigenous knowledge of seasonal, astronomical, and agricultural information in Arab…
Islandia y el consumo de drogas
Read Time:6 Minute, 41 Second Ibai Otxoa (Psicodrogo) Desde hace unos años en Islandia se viene produciendo una especie de milagro en …
The Rebellion Recorded on the Rosetta Stone
An archaeologist explains how recent archaeological finds in Egypt expand our knowledge of a violent revolt discussed on the now-famous Rosetta Stone. This article was originally published at…
Lehrer*in Deutsch/Englisch gesucht
Die Rudolf-Steiner-Schule Schloss Hamborn in Borchen bei Paderborn sucht zu sofort Fachlehrer:in (m/w/d) Deutschfür Sek. I/II gesucht! | Schloss Hamborn Fachlehrer:in (m/w/d) Englisch für …
An Infinity of Traces
I have spent the last few years studying the financialization of water utilities in Europe and the insurgencies that often accompany them. These insurgencies tend to arise from…
A New Precipice in Time: Maria Beatrice Di Brizio’s History of Tylorian Anthropology
Maria Beatrice Di Brizio Histoire du concept de couvade: Edward B. Tylor et l’ethnologie victorienne Histoire des sciences humaines (series) L’Harmattan, 2021 636 pages …
Anat Rosenberg on her book, The Rise of Mass Advertising
Interview by Astrid Van den Bossche, Kings College London Oxford University Press Astrid Van den Bossche: One striking focus of your book is the presence and treatment—legally, culturally,…
Culture and Personality with special emphasis on Margaret Mead
Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to…
Selcen Küçüküstel, “Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia” (Berghahn, 2021)
Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia (Berghahn Books, 2021), focuses…
Samantha Nogueira Joyce, “Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities” (Lexington Books, 2022)
In Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities (Lexington Books, 2022), Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations of Blackness on Brazilian TV, interrogating the role of mass media in developing…
Cuando el clima altera tu vida
Read Time:7 Minute, 11 Second Amaia Castresana Palma Amaia Castrexana El clima influye en nuestro organismo, tanto a nivel físico com…
When I See Spring in Your Eyes/yeli bU’ vuċh canen Ạċhen mnz nō bhar
A poet-anthropologist from Indian-occupied Kashmir speaks of hope as inherited through memories of resilience in the past and present. “When I See Spring in Your Eyes” is part…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW21
Diese Woche gibt es Stellen für Vordenker*innen der Geisteswissenschaften bei Agora Digitale Transfortmation (Berlin), eine Stelle im Bereich Projektadministration beim deutschen Volkshochschu…
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, “We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism” (Bristol UP, 2023)
The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring…
Waqas Butt, “Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan” (Stanford UP, 2023)
Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state institutions and informal economies. What do these…
Wer hat Angst vor multikulturellen Kinderbüchern?
Ein Blick in die USA zeigt, dass die Warnung vor linker Cancel Culture und Wokeism in Wirklichkeit eine massive Verbotswelle von Kinder- und Jugendbüchern vorbereitet hat, die über…
Handens kunskap
Jag krattar och rensar ett trädgårdsland inför odlingssäsongen. Med mig har jag emellanåt tre minderåriga hjälpredor som behöver instruktioner för att kunna vara delaktiga i verksamheten. Det får…
El amanecer de todo: sobre cómo ver la historia humana con un caleidoscopio.
“Nuestra especie, de hecho, no pasó la mayor parte de su historia en pequeñas bandas; la agricultura no marcó un umbral irreversible en la evolución social; las primeras…
مجموعه گفتارهای عمومی ناصر فکوهی(۱): دانشگاه و آیندۀ آن در علوم اجتماعی
پیادهسازی: زهرا آخوندی زیر نظر ناصر فکوهی نخستین گفتار عمومی ما دربارۀ «دانشگاه و آیندۀ آن به ویژه در حوزۀ علوم اجتماعی و انسانی» است. این موضوعی…
Book forum: Todd Meyers’s All That Was Not Her by Eugene Raikhel
This book forum brings together seven scholars and artists to discuss Todd Meyers’s All That Was Not Her (Duke 2022). A profoundly introspective and original book, All That Was…