Austerity: An Economy of Words? Pt. 2
Written by Keith Hart The originality of Keynes Commerce waxed and waned throughout the agrarian era, until the market became …
Wissenschaftliche Laufbahn
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…
Wissenschaftliche Laufbahn
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…
The mental tangles of classification
Citational politics often means citing a diverse group of authors, but often that will bring up the political and practical problems of categorization.
Links & Contents I Liked 477
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…
Ioannis Gaitanidis, “Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?” (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Ioannis Gaitanidis’ book Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (Bloomsbury, 2022) critically examines the spirituality phenomenon in contemporary Japan by looking at the main actors involved in the discourse:…
Det sociala arbetets marknadsplats – en flanerande professors betraktelser
Magnus Dahlstedt: Innan föredraget flanerar jag med etnografens blick runt, tittar på folk, följer deras rörelseschema. Så småningom går det alltmer upp för mig. Det jag under lång…
First SAR Centennial Medal Presented to N. Scott Momaday
On February 25, SAR President Michael F. Brown, Ph.D., presented SAR’s first ever Centennial Medal to author N. Scott Momaday for distinguished service to SAR and the world.…
Laurah E. Klepinger, “Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots” (Lexington Books, 2022)
Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots (Lexington Books, 2022) is an ethnography about local wageworkers in the Indian branches of a transnational yoga institution and…
The Good Enough Life
Today’s book is: The Good-Enough Life (Princeton UP, 2022) by Avram Alpert. We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest,…
Can Digitizing Gravestones Save History?
An anthropologist is digitizing gravestones at Burial Hill, a historic cemetery in Plymouth, Massachusetts, that holds the remains of some of the first Pilgrims. Documenting these unique records…
Els violents són els altres
La foto es de Lídia Carbonell i està presa de beteve.cat. Publicat a Capçalera, maig-juny 2003 Els violents són els altresManuel Delgado Comencem establint que violència no és…
Editorial Note: Introducing the new Engagement team
The Sierras in California. Photo by: Ángela Castillo Engagement is happy to announce a new editorial team starting in 2023! Ángela Castillo-Ardila, Colin Hoag, Jia Hu…
Tomaso Ferrando: Beyond Speculation
On May 21, 2022 the cover of The Economist left no space to the imagination: a set of skulls replaced the grains of a wheat straw, and the…
All balls have colors but some balls are more colorful than others
By Peter Versteeg – The opening images of the documentary “White Balls on Walls” show us an ivory tower: a huge building, shining white, almost sterile, a stronghold…
Paper: Relational infrastructures
Budka, P. (2023). Relational infrastructures: Transportation and sustainability in the Subarctic town of Churchill, Canada. Paper at Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Rovani…
materialism and truth
Do we spend too much time worrying about truth and its manipulation of the senses, priority of matter etc., Rene Descartes owes us much as the destructive consequences…
Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Alex Hinton, “Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side” (Stanford UP, 2023)
Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations,…
Who Pays the Price When Cochlear Implants Go Obsolete?
Some cochlear implant users can’t afford to keep up with compulsory technology upgrades. After becoming dependent on the devices, they’re losing their hearing and feel abandoned by manufacturers.…
Unter Tunneln. Zur Aktualität und Geschichte des terrestrischen Protests
Die Proteste gegen den Kohleabbau bei Lützerath haben den Tunnel als Protestform ins Licht der Öffentlichkeit gerückt. Tunnel sind mehr als nur Mittel des Widerstands: Sie entwerfen ein…
sNAPAshots: Mohini Mehta & Chad Morris
We have two exciting episodes in store for viewers this month, as we begin Season Two of sNAPAshots and NAPA’s 40th year! Hear from Mohini Mehta a PhD…
Adventures in chatGPT #2: A conversation with Nick Seaver
After writing my last post about chatGPT, I got in touch with Nick Seaver to see what he had to say about some of these issues. Here’s our conversation:…