How do religious groups reinvent themselves in order to attract new audiences? How do they rebrand their messages and recast their rituals in order to make their followers…
I have a piece in memory of Marshall Sahlins in the latest issue of the Journal de la Société des Océanistes . This is a more personal piece…
My August 2021 podcast at NBN was with Emalani Case on her book Everything Ancient Once Was New. Go check it out! credit: UH Press twitter
My July podcast over at NBN was with Tony Hazard about his book Boasians at War. Have a listen.
Adriana Petryn An almost vertical line showing an increase of atmospheric CO2 emissions captures the urgency of …
Amy Moran-Thomas I spent much of last May watching my husband try to breathe. Sitting up on the living room floo…
Nitzan Shoshan As the lights dim on another chapter of White nationalism, authoritarian- ism and climate change denialism with the indecorous departure of Donald J. Trump from the…
Laurence Ralph This article comprises excerpts from a conversation between Lucas Bessire and Laurence Ralph about the state of anthropology and the world now. Our discussion was wide…
by George Nicolas El-Hage, Ph.D. Poetry is the language of prophecy spoken by the angels and gods when they populated this earth before the fall. Hence, the poet…
How do migrants become ‘illegal’? How does their ‘illegality’ affect their position in the receiving countries? Ratna Saptari discusses the experiences of Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands and…
[no-caption] Vincent van Gogh/Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. Lee Gettler is hard to get on t…
by Keith Hart Why Study Gypsy Economy? Looking at the contributions to this volume, I would pick out four themes: … More
Stigma about mental illness makes life doubly hard for people suffering from mental or emotional distress. In addition to dealing with their conditions, they must also contend with…
Tanya Jakimow’s book Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia (Oxford UP, 2020) offers a novel approach to understanding power in development t… Visit New Books…
درباره «جام حسنلو»ی اصلانی آفرینش: بوم سپید،جام زرین ژیل دلوز در گفتمان خود درباره نقاشی و با تاکید بر کار «ژرار فرومانژه» ، سپیدی ِ بوم ِ سپید…
با ظهور رسانه‌ها و شبکه‌های اجتماعی امکان خلق و بازنمایی سبک زندگی، کنش‌ها و روابط مطلوب و دلخواه به‌آسانی برای همگان مهیا شده است. گویی زندگی به اثری…
بردِ نشانده و مسجد سلیمان ایران جنوب غربی از قرن هشتم قبل از میلاد تا قرن پنجم بعد از میلاد رومن گیرشمن ترجمه اصغر کریمی فصل سیزدهم شعاع…
روز هشتم در قلعه کوچی امروز باید از قلعه کوچی بیرون بروم و موزه منحصر به فرد Kerala Folklore Museum یا موزه فرهنگ عامه کرلا را که در…
Was steckt hinter den Unruhen in Südafrika, die im vergangenen Juni nach der Verhaftung des Ex-Präsidenten Jacob Zuma mit großer Heftigkeit ausgebrochen sind? Welche Rolle spielt dabei die…
My father tells a story about growing up in the hill country of Texas in the forties and fifties. The train station downtown had a drinking…
Archaeologists excavate a bog in Hatfield Moors, England, to uncover Late Stone Age structures. Henry Chapman In the southernmost tip of Sweden, just over an hour from neighboring…
Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States, and is now legally available to one in five…
“The world isn’t made up of good people and death eaters.” -JK Rowling The world isn’t made up of people who choose to vaccinate and those who are…
Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez to star in the new show Only Murders. Variety tells us that the new show called Only Murders and staring Selena…