On an abyssal edge: a streak of blood, and absence
The murdered is carried on the shoulders. In haste, a cadaver shrouded in white is slipped into an indoor mass grave. War’s soundtrack echoes in the background, tearing…
蜜香屋 / みっこうや / Mikkouya: A sweet potato shop located in the Tengo Nakazakicho shopping street (I like the logo…). I will have to return to sample the sweets…
Shop website: http://mikkouya.com/
¿Qué tiene que ver el amor con esto?
“¿Crees que la tierra también te ama?” Fue la pregunta que lanzó Robin Wall Kimmerer a sus alumnos. Ella es botánica norteamericana, de la nación potawatomi, y escribe…
Global Language Justice – review
In Global Language Justice, Lydia H. Liu and Anupama Rao bring together contributions at the intersection of language, justice and technology, exploring topics including ecolinguistics, colonial legac…
AnthroKino: Spring Program
This spring, Allies meet (online) to watch ethnographic films and discuss with their makers. We have a line up of movies that explore the effects of urban infrastructures…
Platypus in 2024
Welcome to Platypus in 2024! We look forward to continuing to publish content on science and technology from anthropological and social science perspectives. We remain grateful to all our readers,…
Annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
The Pies are Back, New Orleans. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day (February 15). If you have food anthropology…
Our Edited Volume is Out:
Nurturing Alternative Futures: Living with Diversity in a More-than-Human World I am pleased to announce that Nurturing Alternative Futures: Living with Diversity in a More-than-Human World is cur…
The Kobane Generation
In September 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) laid siege to the town of Kobane in the Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria. For the next…
Indigenous ways of knowing in auditing practice
Currently the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) has one of their worldwide working group meetings in Rovaniemi, the working group of environmental auditing (WGEA). At …
This weekend I am going to Tokyo to meet with a sake expert; I want to give him a bottle of high quality sake from Osaka. So I went to Inada Sake Shop and not only found a great present but also the Foo Fighters sake that I have looking for since its debut in 2021!
Katano Sakura Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu Super Dry and Foo Fighters×TATENOKAWA JUNMAIDAIGINJO HANSHO Blue Inada Sake Shop is over 90 years old and has a great selection of…
Matt Rosen on his book, Tirana Modern
https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826504814/tirana-modern/ Shinjung Nam: Your representation of everyday life in Tirana Modern felt surprisingly close to my current home, here in S…
Earlier I Had Nightmares, Now I Have Insomnia
A Kashmiri poet-anthropologist records the restless despair many feel under Indian occupation. If you missed the introduction to “Earlier I Had Nightmares, Now I Have Insomnia,” you can…
Alternativen zum Lehramt
Impulsworkshop, 2.2.24, 14-15:30, online Mitunter ist die Entscheidung, „auf Lehramt” zu studieren, keine, die dem Berufswunsch „Lehrer*in” geschuldet ist. Oft steht das fachliche Interesse im…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW04
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als Fundraiser*in bei PRIMAKLIMA e.V. in Köln, ein Volontariat im Bereich Kultur bei der Stadt Borken und eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche*r…
کتابهای جراحی «موزۀ روآن»
«روآن»[Rouen] شهری صنعتی در شمال غربی فرانسه است. این شهر تاریخی که قدمت آن به پیش از قرون وسطی میرسد، مرکز «نُرماندی» و نزدیکترین شهر آن منطقه، به…
Joseph C. Russo, “Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas (Duke UP, 2023), Joseph C. Russo takes readers into the everyday lives of the rural residents of…
「Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body 」There’s nothing like holding the real book for the first time…
Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body Editors: Kaori Fushiki, Ryoko Sakurada (2023) Book information: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5724-8 See also: h…
Ernährung im Zeichen der Reinheit: Verflochtene Debatten über Vegetarismus in Europa, den USA und Indien (ca. 1850–1957)
Der Siegeszug vegetarischer und veganer Lebensweisen im Westen seit Mitte des 19 Jahrhunderts geht auf recht freie Übernahmen indischer Esskulturen zurück, deren westliche Interpretationen sich zwisch…
30 Minute Methods – Ned Rossiter
Tuesday 23 January 2024 at 4pm HCMC time: online – all welcome Topic: 30 Minute Methods TDTU – Title: Reflections on Organized Networks and Collective Research Methods Join Zoom…
فرهنگ جامع انسانشناسی اجتماعی و فرهنگی / بهزودی در وبگاه ناصر فکوهی و انسانشناسی و فرهنگ
ویراستاران کتاب اصلی: آلن بارنارد و جاناتان اسپنسر / انتشارات راتلج/ ۲۰۰۰، ترجمۀ ناصر فکوهی و همکاران فرهنگ جامع انسانشناسی و اجتماعی و فرهنگی، به سرویراستاری بارنارد و…
Tigers, Animality, and Dignity: A Journey Through the Central Indian Landscape
Amit Kaushik, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia In 2008, a somber event unfolded in the heart of India as the local tiger population faced extinction in the…
Do these two visual images have anything in common? (subtitle: Coincidence?)
In「KOREA ENCOUNTERS: Experimental artists challenge ‘suffocating’ conformity in 1960s Seoul」(The Korea Times January 14, 2024), the caption for Image 1 reads, “Chung Chan-seung prepares an installa…
Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage – review
In Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage, Michael Herzfeld considers how marginalised groups use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state a…