Every January, government officials, urban dwellers, and rural families across the state of Ceará, Northeast Brazil anxiously await the rainy season forecasts from Funceme, the Research Institute for …
After 22 years, the social-democrat majority in the Berlin Senate has come to an end. At the election in February, the conservative party (CDU) received 28% of the…
Read Time:5 Second Yo no hablo de cine porque sepa, yo le declaro mi amor. Sevillano exiliado en el Pirineo. …
This is a mere 20 meters from my home; I walk past it twice a day. I walked past the septic cleaner truck around 8:30 this morning. There…
Interview by Alana Mazur https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KummelsTransborder Alana Mazur: One of the main themes running through your book is Indigenous audiovisual media and mediatized …
Read Time:11 Minute, 6 Second Baebia, Turpa y Secundilla fueron mujeres que desempeñaron un oficio en la Cádiz de época romana imp…
Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. Brian Villmoare’s book The Evolution of Everything:…
Polyester is widely considered an unsustainable fabric polluting our environment but in Ghana, it is seen as a sustainable, good material. The post Ethnographic Postcards: The Good Polyester…
A poet-anthropologist who is a Passamaquoddy tribal member lights a path toward healing both within the field of archaeology and in reflecting on the voices and presence—past, present,…
Einleitung Seit seiner Entstehung in den 70er Jahren hat sich HipHop seit dem Ende der 90er Jahre zur einflussreichsten jugendkulturellen Strömung in Deutschland und der Welt entwickelt (Farin,…
Hier ein Hinweis für alle Abonent*innen des Newsletters: Der Newsletter wird diese Woche am Dienstag, den 4ten April versendet. Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Praktikum beim Clett-Cotta-Verl…
Shalina Mehta Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology (retd.) Department of Anthropology Panjab University Chandigarh Shalinamehta137@gmail.com Many a doctrine is like a windowpane. We see trut…
We are excited to announce our very first “Editors’ Forum.” As part of this initiative, we are calling for blog submissions on the fascinating topic of “Popular Culture…
Antifeminismus ist ein Kernanliegen reaktionärer Politik – und richtet sich aktuell massiv gegen trans Menschen. Wie ist der Kampf gegen die Gleichberechtigung von Frauen und Queers – unter…
In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for marks…
https://practicinganthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023.04.01_Mohini-Mehta-sNAPAshot.mp4 0:10[On Screen Text – Scrolling] sNAPAshots Interviewer 0:10 Welcome back to season two of sNAPAshots….
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Pañuelada en las fiestas de Lizarra. Tomada de http://www.estella-lizarra.com/estella-lizarra/fiestas/ Fragmento de “Estella: entre el poder y la fiesta”, publicado en los Cuadernos de Etnología y Etno…
What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern…
Written by Keith Hart The originality of Keynes Commerce waxed and waned throughout the agrarian era, until the market became …
Mein erster Weg nach Rückkehr nach Deutschland war heute ein Ausflug zu meinem Arbeitsamt, um mich zum 01.04.23 wieder arbeitslos zu melden. Das bin ich diesmal seit dem…
Mein erster Weg nach Rückkehr nach Deutschland war heute ein Ausflug zu meinem Arbeitsamt, um mich zum 01.04.23 wieder arbeitslos zu melden. Das bin ich diesmal seit dem…
Citational politics often means citing a diverse group of authors, but often that will bring up the political and practical problems of categorization.
Hi all,Any weekly review post that features a link to Robert Chambers’ work is a good post ;). More seriously, lots of new research, reflections & reporting from humanitarian…