Warum Fantasy?
Fantasy beschwört längst nicht mehr schwarzweisse Weltbilder. Das Genre ist heute zu einem Reflexionsraum von Gegenwart und ihren Geschichten geworden.
Daniel Ruiz-Serna, “When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories” (Duke UP, 2023)
In When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories (Duke University Press, 2023) Daniel Ruiz-Serna follows the afterlives of war, showing how they affect the variety…
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Leyla Jagiella, “Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey” (Hurst, 2022)
In the powerful book Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey (Hurst Publishers, 2022), Leyla Jagiella reflects on her story as a trans Muslim living among a third-gender community known as Khwajasira…
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Copious Free Time: Evans-Pritchard Edition
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Worried about the impact of AI? SAR was ahead of the curve.
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Pablo Semán and Ariel Wilkis: Rebellion of the bastards: the rise of the extreme right in Argentina
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INDERA PAUL SINGH: A LEGEND IN INDIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
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SAR Member Trip to Glorieta Pass and Pecos National Historical Park
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«رادیکالیسم» سیاسی را به چیزی جز «تندروی» نمیتوان برگرداند. و البته هرکسی مختار است چشماندازهای امید و آینده بهتر خویش را در اینگونه تندرویها و «از ریشه کندنها»…
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In this project update blog post, read about OceanStates’ participation in the One Ocean Week with partners from the University of the South Pacific who visited us in…
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Colin Hoag, “The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy” (U California Press, 2022)
Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world’s first “water-exporting country” when it signed a 1986 treaty with its…
Finding Ceremony for Ancestors Held in the Penn Museum and Other Colonial Institutions
An anthropologist and an organizer try to connect descendant communities with the remains of 20 Black Philadelphians slated for court-ordered burial. ✽ On February 13, 2023, a Pennsylvania…