El espacio público y otras modalidades pastorales del poder
Espacio público en Medellín. La foto es de Zaida Muxí/Josep Maria Montaner Fragmento de la intervención en las Jornadas Marx siglo XXI, celebradas en la Universidad de la…
حبابی شدن جامعه محصول دوره کروناست
۱- کرونا حالا دیگر نقریبا به یک بخش شناخته شده و ملموس زندگی ما حداقل در شرایط عمومی تبدیل شده است. مردم از مرحله انکار و شایعه…
دستگاه‌شناسی: برداشتی تئوریکی – تاریخی
موسیقی دستگاهی ایران پدیده‌ای است جاندار و جاندار بودن آن در پرتو پیوستگی‌اش با اندیشه ایرانی است که آن را آفریده و به حرکت درآورده و این حرکت…
مروری بر فصل آخر «جهانی‌شدن، فرهنگ، هویت» (۱)
بازسازی فرهنگی خویشتن نویسنده در این فصل، تمرکز خود را بر مسأله‌ی هویت و هویت‌یابی در دوره‌ی پیشامدرن و دوره‌ی تجدد متمرکز می‌کند. ویژگی‌ها، مکانیسم‌ها و اقتضائات هر…
پیکرک‌های ربوبی؛ از زایش تا مرگ
در طول هزاره ها پرستش پیکرک های خدایان در معابد، روشی برای اظهار خلوص و بندگی از جانب مومنان در میانرودان بوده است. مومنانی که بنا بر…
شهر، دین و خشونت
نشست یک صد و شصت و یک یکشنبه های انسان‌شناسی و فرهنگ با همکاری اداره کل مطالعات اجتماعی و فرهنگی شهرداری تهران یکشنبه ۵ اسفند ۹۷ ساعت ۱۶…
On Taking Credit: Textile Traditions and Fashion Rip-Offs
Below find a guest post by Carrie Hertz, Curator of Dress and Textiles at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. –Jason Baird…
It takes two to tango by Miriam Verhage
This post draws on findings from a phone-based qualitative interview project in the Netherlands. During April 2020, we interviewed 59 seniors about their experiences during the COVID-19 crisis…
Asian Medicines, COVID-19 and the Politics of Science: An Unpublished Letter to the Editor of Nature by Sienna Craig
We are sharing below a ‘Letter to the Editor’ submitted to Nature. On May 6, 2020, an article titled “China is promoting coronavirus treatments based on unproven traditional…
Black Masculinity in the United States
What a passionate exchange at a protest for civil rights tells us about the performance of Black masculinity as sincere investment in the Black community. In a viral…
Wednesday Round Up #10
The Big Melt As Serreze makes clear, the Arctic climate system is now entering uncharted territory, with the computer models no longer providing a reliable guide to the…
Insecurity on Both Sides of the Line of Control
Although Prime Minister Modi’s revocation of Article 35A and Kashmir’s Special Status on August 5, 2019 has…
“The Kashmirization of India”: Comparison, Solidarity, and “Paranoid” Reading
What happens when the state of…
El Islam en sus pliegues
Foto de Edward Grazda Reseña de Observando el Islam. de Clifford Geertz (Paidós), publicada en La Esfera, el suplemento de libros de El Mundo, el 10 de septiembre…
What Many Don’t Know About Welfare
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. When Americans talk about people receiving public assistance—food stamps, disability, unemplo…
Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie-Upper Umpqua
There are two areas of Oregon with athapaskan speaking tribes. Southwest Oregon has a large number of athapaskan speaking tribes that extend as far north as the Upper…
Outsides and insides: Covid-19 seen from the first floor of a house in Mirpur, Dhaka by Hasan Ashraf
In this contribution to Somatosphere’s Dispatches from the Pandemic we attend to practices of boundary making, of separating outsides from insides. The new coronavirus appeared on the global…
The WEconomy (book review)
As you may have heard if you are interested in Canadian #globaldev discussions, the Toronto-based WE charity has been involved in a bit of a political controversy. In…
What Scars Say About Sex and Stereotypes
[no-caption] Dean Krakel/Getty Images I recently noticed a curious phenomenon playing out on various television series. In Outlander, Scottish heartthrob Jamie Fraser’s back is seared wit…
Abolishing Immigration Detention: A Conversation with Deborah Boehm
Banner from a rally at the California State Capitol building in the fall of 2019. Photo by Deborah Boehm. …
Dekoloniales Flanieren. Mit Anton Wilhelm Arno durch…
Freitag, 21.8.2020, 17:00-19:00 Uhr Treffpunkt: U-Bahnstation Möhrenstrasse (Berlin) Wir stellen uns vor: Was würde der afrodeutsche Aufklärungsphilosoph Anton Wilhelm Arno wahrnehmen,…
Dekoloniales Flanieren. Mit Anton Wilhelm Arno durch…
Freitag, 21.8.2020, 17:00-19:00 Uhr Treffpunkt: U-Bahnstation Möhrenstrasse (Berlin) Wir stellen uns vor: Was würde der afrodeutsche Aufklärungsphilosoph Anton Wilhelm Arno wahrnehmen,…
Maile Arvin, “Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania” (Duke UP, 2020)
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white, and speculated that they were of Mediterranean or Ary… Visit…
Ed Bruner: In Memoriam
August 8, 2020 Ed Bruner at his home in Illinois (2005) Ed Bruner passed away yesterday, at 95–peacefully, at home. I wish my daughter and I could have…