For this instalment, we had the pleasure of hosting Teri Silvio, who works as Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Ethnology. We chatted about Teri’s recently…
In this episode, we discuss Arve Hansen’s new book Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life (Springer, 2022). In this book, Hansen studies the dramatic changes…
Read Time:12 Minute, 42 Second «La lucha es fuerte, la labor es intensa, pero con el constante y perpetuo querer, única providenci…
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to send papers centering the analysis of political and/or…
On 2 March 2023, Juliane Müller presented her book “El comercio popular globalizado. Mercado, reciprocidad …
On a blustery fall morning back in 2019, RTB welcomed Christine Walley, anthropologist and author of Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago. In the early 1980s Chris’s father,…
Read Time:4 Minute, 45 Second Cualquier actividad humana que se prolongue en el tiempo puede identificarse y contextualizarse a tra…
La foto es de Rober Tomás Fragmento de La ciudad redimida. Las ciencias sociales como forma de caridad, publicado en Fundamentos de Antropología, 10-11 (2001): 99-113 La nueva izquierda…
Nature-loving volunteers in the Mexican state of Chihuahua gather weekly on the banks of the San Pedro River to collect trash. But their aims are bigger. ✽ If…
I’ve been hard at work recently with the new book on Shaligram interpretive tradition which is still on track to come out around the end of 2023. But,…
Photo by Gian Cescon on Unsplash The seminar “Digital Visuality and Popular Culture” for the MA program CREOLE at the University of Vienna provides an overview about digital…
The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age. Whether we interact with…
Read Time:8 Minute, 0 Second Recomendaciones para ir a la manifestación del 8M, sobre todo, si es la primera vez que asistes Busca…
In Berlin und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist der Internationale Frauen*kampftag Feiertag. Der VCD Nordost nimmt das zum Anlass einen neuen Podcast Verkehrsvisionen – der feministische Podcast zur Mobili…
In Berlin und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist der Internationale Frauen*kampftag Feiertag. Der VCD Nordost nimmt das zum Anlass einen neuen Podcast Verkehrsvisionen – der feministische Podcast zur Mobili…
Wenn Widerstand nicht als solcher anerkannt wird, um das etablierte Bild vom Nationalsozialismus nicht korrigieren zu müssen, läuft etwas schief in der historischen Forschung. Das ist der Fall,…
During my first semester of undergrad, I began my truly independent cooking journey—a path many have taken before me, but few survive. After weeks of failing to replicate…
Wir waren heute im Akshardham Tempel in Delhi. Versprochen worden war mir ein hindu-nationalistisches Disneyland. Nachdem die Sicherheitsanlagen überwunden sind. Reinnehmen darf mensch fast nicht…
Wir waren heute im Akshardham Tempel in Delhi. Versprochen worden war mir ein hindu-nationalistisches Disneyland. Nachdem die Sicherheitsanlagen überwunden sind. Reinnehmen darf mensch fast nicht…
In today’s episode of This Anthro Life, anthropologists Elizabeth Briody and Phil Surles join host Adam Gamwell to discuss their latest project: Anthropologists on the Public Stage, a…
In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews Dr Beatrice Zani, author of the book Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan. Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions, published…
Timothy Benedict’s Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan (U California Press, 2023) is an exploration of spiritual care in the context of the Japanese hospice. The book…
Read Time:3 Minute, 25 Second La teoría del crecimiento unificado, de Oded Galor, nos hace remontarnos a los albores de la humanida…
Shortly before the first Corona lockdown in spring 2020, I was busy preparing for fieldwork in Turkey on a much neglected topic in the scholarly literature on beauty,…