Sapir and Goldenweiser, White and Redfield
Investigating the biographies of Leslie White, Robert Redfield, Edward Sapir, and Alexander Goldenweiser. White studied with Goldenweiser in New York. Goldenweiser and Sapir were exact contempora…
مرتضی ودادی گرگری: عکاس مستند ناشناس
مصاحبهکننده: فاطمه آقامیری مرتضی ودادی گرگری بیش از شصت سال در راهآهن خط تهران- شمال خدمت کرد. او اکنون ۹۰ سال دارد و ساکن ساری و بازنشسته است.…
یادداشت آزاد: خط سفید بین ما، روایتی از یک قرارداد اجتماعی
توضیح: خط سفید بین ما یک کتاب کودک است به قلم چیدم کاپلانگی، نویسندۀ اهل کشور ترکیه، و تصویرگری آن را سچیل چوکان انجام داده است. انتشارات میچکا…
Los soldados olvidados: participación y visibilización de las tropas afroamericanas en la Guerra de Secesión americana (1861-1865)
Read Time:9 Minute, 1 Second Jaime Campillos Cañas Al estallar la Guerra de Secesión estadounidense, junto a las polémicas que tenían …
«انسان» ناممکن میشود
امید علی نوری تبریک به کدامین انسان و از سوی که؟ تبریک از چه روی؟ در کدامین زمان و زمانه؟ اکنون که بیش از همیشه درمشتگنجاندنِ محدودههای انسان،…
Arbeitsfeld Sportgeschichte
Ein kleiner, feiner Seitenbereich der umfassenden Geschichtsschreibung und -wissenschaft ist die Sportgeschichte. Und sie bietet auch Jobperspektiven, v.a.: in den Einrichtungen rund um das k…
Twitter’s Blue Tick Is a Fake Signal
Evolutionary theory can help us better understand the recent debacle about social media platforms’ popular symbol as a signaling problem. This article was originally published at The Conversati…
Capitalism, Acts of Labor and their Contested Recognition
Questions about capitalism, labor and class are currently receiving new interest, especially as inequalities are on the rise – along with a sense of crisis of the world…
How Disability Teaches Us to Change the World with Brooke Ellison
People with disabilities often face accessibility issues in physical environments, such as a lack of ramps, narrow doorways, and inaccessible transportation. Every barrier is a reminder that designs…
زندگی در بحران، یا زندگی با بحران؟
برای پرسشی که مطرح شده، میتوان از یک سو، پاسخهای ساده و آسانپذیر پیش نهاد که بیشتر حاصل انگیزههایی عاطفی، فایدهگرایانه یا اخلاقی باشند. هیچکدام از این سه…
How to Resist Policing: The Practical Meanings of Towel Masks for Student Protesters in Late 1960s Japan by Shunsuke Tanaka
Masks have long been a symbol of resistance movements around the world, especially in East Asia. As early as the 1960s, protestors in Japan began wearing masks during…
Bracelets in Difficult Times: The Importance of Ordinary People’s Stories
– by Sigrid van Roode – The young man looked at me hesitantly. “Well, I don’t know….” he said. “I’ll have to ask my grandfather, but he’s praying…
Shannon Mattern on her book, A City is not a Computer
Interview by Elliott Montpellier https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208053/a-city-is-not-a-computer Elliot Montpellier: You write that you questioned how to write about “the…
Lecture: Von der Cyber Anthropologie zur Digitalen Anthropologie
On invitation of Christoph Bareither, I gave a lecture on the formations, the differences and similarities of cyber anthropology and digital anthropology for the colloquium “Digital Anthropolog…
De lo común y lo extraordinario. Recordando el 15M
Read Time:7 Minute, 47 Second Susana R. Sousa Susana R. Sousa Sigue sin haber tanto pan para tanto chorizo, sin embargo, los desmane…
Post-
An Indigenous poet-anthropologist writes to her daughter of the limits of her motherly protection. “Post-” is part of the collection Indigenizing What It Means to Be Human. Read…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW20
Diese Woche gibt es besonders viele Stellen im Bereich Volontariat & Trainee, u.a. in Köln, München und Berlin (ca. 20 Stellen!). Wie immer findet Ihr den Zugang zur…
نگاهی به کتاب انقلاب در نقطه صفر: تولید و بازتولید (کار خانگی) دو ستون اصلی بقای سرمایهداری
سیلویا فدریچی نظریهپرداز و فعال فمینیست ایتالیایی در کتاب «انقلاب در نقطه صفر؛ کارخانگی، بازتولید و مبارزه فمینیستی» به ارائه نوعی دیدگاه منحصربفرد در خصوص کار خانگی پرداخته…
Edgar Morin’s Leçons d’un siècle de vie by Robert Dingwall
Leçons d’un siècle de vie. Morin, Edgar. 2022. Paris: Pluriel. Edgar Morin is probably the most influential French sociologist that the English-speaking world has never acknowledge…
Workshop: Textile Arts and Heritage Practices in Southwest China
I am happy to be hosting a group of colleagues in Bloomington this week for a long-delayed (COVID…) writing workshop on “Textile Arts and Heritage Practices in Southwest…
Lots of pink at Koshien for Mother’s Day!
Screen shots from Sky A cable network. Hanshin Tigers vs. DeNA Yokohama Baystars. The umpires were wearing pink shirts and hats, the catchers were wearing pink chest protection,…
Nerina Weiss et al., “The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World” (Routledge, 2022)
Nerina Weiss. Erella Grassiani, and Linda Green’s book The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World (Routledge, 2022) focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within…
Allison Christine Meier, “Grave” (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Allison C. Meier takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour…
Sebanti Chatterjee, “Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality” (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sebanti Chatterjee’s book Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (Bloomsbury, 2023) is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality…