Ethnographic Postcards: The Queen of Online Shopping
Online shopping platform Pinduoduo is gaining popularity in China among older adults, who are often overlooked as users of new technologies. The post Ethnographic Postcards: The Queen of…
Setting Traps: For an Insurgent and Joyful Science
While visiting the exhibition by the artist Xadalu Tupã Jekupé at the Museum of Indigenous Cultures in São Paulo, one of the works caught my attention. It was…
نیاز بشری منوط بر امیال و دستاوردهای او و راهکار مواجهشدن با احساسات وی
چکیده : مهمترین و اساسیترین منشاء فکری فلسفه در قرن بیست، مقولۀ پدیدارشناسی یا فنامنولوژی است. با توجه به دانش فکری یکی از بزرگترین فیلسوفان این قرن، مارتین…
A View of the End of the Semester…
This is a a view from the 4th floor window in the Center for International Education, a popular spot for students to watch the sunset. During the semester,…
دربارۀ جمالالدین مستقیمی: از این تخته بند تن!
جواد کزلان توسی- زهرا خان دکتر جمالالدین مستقیمی را «پدر آناتومی ایران» میدانند. او طی چند دهه فعالیت علمی، خدمات ارزندهای در حوزۀ بسط و گسترش دانش آناتومی…
معاصریت ملموس و روایت: معرفی کتاب «این یک گزارش نیست»
من نویسنده نیستم. حالا میتوانم ادعا کنم باستانشناس هم نیستم. راوی چیزها و زندگی انسانها، فارغ از دغدغههای زمانی و تخته بند مکان و موقعیت. شاید این معرفی…
Party
Sheila Liming talks about the party, social gatherings that occasion joy and dread and various emotions in between. The party is both a pause and an acceleration in…
Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken, “Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach” (Routledge, 2022)
Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken’s Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach (Routledge, 2022) explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on…
Cadenas globales de cuidados
Read Time:9 Minute, 39 Second Aracely S. Cruz Aracely S. Cruz Los últimos datos del 2020 muestran que en España el 14,44% de la pob…
The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse
To learn what conditions are really like for Amazon workers, an anthropologist has joined their ranks. ✽ My first day of work in an Amazon warehouse I was…
Der „Asylkompromiss“. Historische Verortung eines aktuellen Schlichtungsversuchs
Wieder einmal stehen Migration und das Asylrecht im Zentrum hitziger politischer Debatten. Deutschland und Europa suchen einen Kompromiss – just in den Tagen, an denen sich die Verabschiedung…
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…