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Jag sitter på balkongen och drar ett djupt andetag, det är vår i Vasa och man märker att träden på bakgården blir allt grönare för varje dag som…
Bryce Henson, “Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil” (U Texas Press, 2024)
Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population’s African roots. Yet…
Legacy Of a Legendary Field Anthropologist
Professor Samita Manna, Former Vice-Chancellor, SKB University, Purulia, West Bengal, India Department of Sociology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal Email: samita.manna@gmail.co…
Youjin B. Chung, “Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania’s New Enclosures” (Cornell UP, 2024)
During the “global land grab” of the early twenty-first century, legions of investors rushed to Africa to acquire land to produce and speculate on agricultural commodities. In Sweet Deal,…
Hedwig Amelia Waters, “Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands: A Proportional Share” (UCL Press, 2023)
In the early 1990s, Mongolia began a transition from socialism to a market democracy. In the process, the country became more than ever dependent on international mining revenue.…
If someone falls, you help them get up
By Dilara Yentür – At 04:17 on February 6th, 2023 an earthquake ravaged the lands of southern Turkey and northern Syria. Buildings crumbled like sandcastles, roads tore apart,…
Review: ‘Reclaiming the discarded: life and labour on Rio’s garbage dump’ (2018)
by Holly Cawsey In June 2012, Rio de Janeiro saw the close of Jardim Gramacho, one of the largest landfills in the world. At its height, Jardim Gramacho…
Safety Dance: Covid Harm Reduction for the Rave Scene
No one wants to talk about this. We all hate it. We’re tired. Believe me, I feel that tiredness in my bones. And I know you’re busy and…
Spuren am Land: Ein Themenweg in Retzbach (Weinviertel)
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 5 Minuten Text: Johanna Resel & Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber Alle Bilder: © Matthias Klos Die hügelige, kaum bewaldete Landschaft des nordwestlichen Weinviertels in Öst…
Jonas Tinius on his book, State of the Arts
Interview by Matthew Raj Webb Matthew Webb: Against the contemporary backdrop of right-wing nationalisms and populist sentiment across the world; in a country steeped in authoritarian state hi…
Henrietta Clive
A friend is in India and I am vicariously planning tours that would take more time than anyone has… I recently – well 3 years ago – read…
Dustin Kiskaddon, “Blood and Lightening: On Becoming a Tattooer” (Stanford UP, 2023)
Any tattoo is the outcome of an intimate, often hidden process. The people, bodies, and money that make tattooing what it is blend together and form a heady…
Ciudades postizas. El “centro histórico” como falsificación
Foto de autor anónimo, publicada en https://www.tripadvisor.es/Attraction_Review-g304559-d2386847-Reviews-Centro_Historico-Olinda_State_of_Pernambuco.html Artículo publicado en g …
سلبریتی و قدرت: شهرت در فرهنگ معاصر
سوآپنیل رای[۱]؛ دانشگاه براون، آمریکا – برگردان: سمانه کوهستانی سلبریتی همواره یکی از مؤلفههای سیاست آمریکا بوده است… دونالد ترامپ را در نظر بگیرید: ماهیت شهرت او با…
توهم فرهنگها (گفتگو با آدام کوپر)
برگردان: ناصر فکوهی آدام کوپر(Adam Kuper) انسانشناس و مورخ انگلیسی در این گفتگو دربارۀ مفهوم فرهنگ و استفاده بیش از اندازه سستی که از آن در ادبیات کنونی…
اعتصاب «مرکز فرهنگی ژرژ پمپیدو»
«مرکز ملی هنر و فرهنگ ژرژ پمپیدو»[۱] بزرگترین مرکز هنرهای مدرن و پست مدرن دنیاست که در سال ۱۹۷۷ به افتخار «ژرژ پمپیدو»، نویسنده و سیاستمدار مشهور، که نوزدهمین رییس جمهوری فرانسه نیز بود؛ چنین…
Paul Stoller, “Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Wisdom From the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times (Cornell University Press, 2023) describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (قسمت ۵۱)
فصل ششم؛ مدرنیته : مارکس، وبر و هاروی مدرنیته، مارکس و وبر: چرا درسالهای اخیر گرایشی به بازخوانی برخی از آثار فلسفی و جامعهشناسی متفکران کلاسیک عصر مدرن…
حقّ بازگشت در نظام بینالملل حقوق بشر
چکیده: اصل «حقّ بازگشت» داوطلبانه (Right to Return) همچون «حقّ تَرک» یک خواهش عاطفی نیست، بلکه در مقررات بینالملل پایه مُحکمی دارد. به طور معمول در بسیاری از…
The Indian Struggle
“The ethnic diversity of India has never been a problem – for tgroughout her history sge has been able to absorb different races and impose on them one…
The Discovery of India
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Book Review: In Mediation with Difficult Kin: Bishnupriya Ghosh’s The Virus Touch
The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media, by Bishnupriya Ghosh (Duke University Press, 2023) In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and with various forecasts predicting likelihoods of a…
Merin Shobhana Xavier, “The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada” (U Toronto Press, 2023)
The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–1273) is a popular spiritual icon. His legacy is sustained within the mystical and religious practice of Sufism, particularly…
Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
Is Kiribati in the American lake, Indo-Pacific or Chinese Pacific? In this Episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to Rodolfo Maggio, a senior researcher at the University of Helsinki…