Historien om det kontrafaktiske sjakkspråket – fra russisk til norsk
Det tok 20 år fra jeg oppdaget en kontrafaktisk imperfektiv verbbruk i russisk (og fransk) sjakkspråk til jeg kikket meg selv i speilet og fant en kontrafaktisk presens…
Karla Slocum, “Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West” (UNC Press, 2019)
Oklahoma’s Black towns aren’t just places of the past – they maintain an enduring allure, and look toward the future, argues Karla Slocum in her new book, Black Towns,…
Paul Shankman, “Margaret Mead” (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides…
Digital exclusions: mental health and digital life by Dörte Bemme
We are closing our series with a podcast that turns to the absences and missing voices emerging alongside Digital Psy; the lifeworlds&…
Ways of Looking: Alternative Encounters with Art and Artifacts
“When we encounter something beautiful, we usually experience two kinds of reactions. One may be moved by learning the background of the work or the artist, while the…
Can Indigenous Language Comics Save a Mother Tongue?
This comic book reimagines the oral traditions of Mexico’s Ñäñho people, introducing mischievous creatures called Tlaloques, which inspired the toy at left. María Gámez Tlaloc is a tempes…
El genocidio kurdo y la eterna resistencia como forma de vida
Read Time:14 Minute, 35 Second “De vez en cuando, la piedra perfora la piedra” Proverbio kurdo Este proverbio sirve como ejemplo …
Digital Psychedelia: Hidden Experience and the Challenge of Paranoia by Tehseen Noorani
Introduction Over the past 15 years, several groups of researchers have sought to use clinical trials to reintroduce psychedelics to mainstream society, reporting impressive efficacy from trials a…
5 Questions About Writing the African Diaspora
In this free live event, Yoli Ngandali, SAPIENS Media & Public Outreach Fellow, asks Justin Wright five questions about Lead me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora, a…
Cultivating Connections: ASFS/AFHVS Annual Conference CFP
See below for the CFP for the best annual food studies conference in North America, which will take place next May in Athens, GA. Note that SAFN will…
El neixement d’un monstre
La foto es de Juan Valgañón para El Periódico Publicat al dia Aram el 20 de maig de 2017 EL NEIXEMENT D’UN MONSTREManuel Delgado A la tardor de…
Activating the Torres Strait Archive: An Interview with Anita Herle and Jude Philp on Recording Kastom
We at HAR were very excited to learn about the recent publication of Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898.…
Mobility in the tundra: how to use the old snowmobiles in the summer
From my field notes: “It is still early morning, 4th of August, 2021. I am waiting for a telephone call from a Nenets woman whom I had met…
Book Forum: Reflections on Dána-Ain Davis’s Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Sameena Mulla
Dána-Ain Davis’s Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (NYU Press, 2019) is a vividly written ethnography highlighting how medical racism shapes birth outcomes for Black …
¿Por qué un Diseño web en clave SEO?
El diseño de un sitio web es esencial para el éxito digital de todo tipo de proyecto y negocio. Sin embargo, no todo en el diseño web tiene…
These Unheralded Workers Are Helping Prevent the Next Wildfire
The author’s late father, Juan Zárate (left), leads a weed abatement crew in Orange County, California. Jon Anderson/Orange County Weed Abatement Program A few months after the wildfire…
Genocidios y ritos funerario: el eterno limbo
Read Time:12 Minute, 15 Second Hay una línea simbólica que une los acontecimientos humanos y que se traza en el lienzo de la cultu…
سفرنامه جنوب هند (۳۳)
روز دهم در قلعه کوچی امروز روغن ها را از روی موهایم شسته و واقعا احساس سبکی خاصی در سرم کردم حالم خیلی خوب بود تصمیم گرفتم دوباره…
روایت و کنش جمعی
بررسی کنشهای جمعی، از مهمترین چالشهایِ جامعهشناسی معاصر است؛ ازاینرو اندیشمندان، در تلاشاند با تجزیهوتحلیل کنشهای اجتماعی، در پرتو تشریح مصادیق و نمونههای آن، به ویژگیهای کنش جمعی…
جمعه صبحهای رویایی من
عشق من به سینما از دوران نوجوانی آغاز شد. شاید از پانزده یا شانزدهسالگی. پاتوق همیشگیام، سینمای «شهر فرنگ» در خیابان «وزرا»ی آن زمان بود که به اصطلاح…
تندیس چوب پیلارام گویای چیست
فرهاد پیلان جواهریان بنام خداوند جان و خرد حجم و نقش و خط نویسی با سیگنال آهنگین در تصورات فرامرز پیلارام ساختن مجسمه با نوسانات موسیقی بنای فرمی…
Heimsuchungen am Heimplatz. Wie der Waffenfabrikant Emil G. Bührle in Zürich Kulturpolitik betrieb
Umbau in der Zürcher Kulturlandschaft: Ein Neubau für das Kunsthaus wird eröffnet, zugleich debattiert man über die Zukunft der gegenüberliegenden, altehrwürdigen Pfauen-Bühne des Schauspielhauses. Be…
2021 Resident Scholars Colloquium Series
2021 Resident Scholars Colloquium Series …
A Rat’s Journey There and Back Again
In early August of this year, my partner and I took a much needed vacation to South Padre Island. While visiting, we decided to go snorkeling in Laguna…