No es mi circo, no son mis monos: expresiones divertidas en todo el mundo.
“No es mi circo, no son mis monos”, así lo expresan en Polonia (y ahora en todo el mundo, en realidad) un “me importa un bledo”, “un comino”,…
Terra(re)forming. Urbanistische Deutungsversuche eines zukunftsträchtigen Begriffs
Mit der Herausforderung einer Stabilisierung des globalen Temperaturanstiegs erlangen historische urbanistische Projektideen zu einer aktiven Transformation des Klimas eine neue Bedeutung – jenseits d…
Jennie E. Burnet, “To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide” (Cornell UP, 2023)
In To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide (Cornell UP, 2023), Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi…
Ben Davies et al., “Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic” (Oxford UP, 2022)
Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Oxford UP, 2022) provides a snapshot of…
آیا مدرسه جسارت ساختن نظم اجتماعی جدید را دارد؟
نگاهی به کتابِ آموزش و پرورش و قدرت اپل در این کتاب با اشاره به زندگی شخصی خودش –بزرگ شدن در خانوادهای کارگری در شهری بینهایت فقیر- از…
عکس فوری (۲۶۷)، تاملی درباره حمله شیمیایی به مدارس دخترانه: چرا داعشیها در ایران راه به جایی نمیبرند؟
دستاندرکاران کشور، اگر نگوییم در چند دهه اخیر، دستکم در چند هفته و چند ماه اخیر، مورد پرسشهای مشروعی قرار گرفتهاند که هرگز نخواسته یا نتوانستهاند به…
Riotinto – multi-scalar defeat, yaay!
This one is a welcome defeat for the mining corp… See more on riot Tinto on this blog here: https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/?s=Riotinto (note, reposting this article is not meant to…
SAFN AAA Networking!
This just in from the SAFN program committee. Please read the previous posting with the full call for panels and papers for the annual AAA/CASCA meeting in Toronto.…
Links & Contents I Liked 474
Hi all,This week’s link review is almost a double-feature: New #globaldev readings, but also a longer section on gender & feminism right in time for next week’s International…
Gavin Smith: Peru: the Uncertain State
Zavaleta: “[Apparent states] appear to be Western… in all respects but somehow they are not. What misfires here is a structural concept of sovereignty that is ultimately incompatible…
Språkprat til skolen
Språkprat har mange lesere – og en del av disse er lærere og skoleelever. Likevel tror vi at mange av tekstene har et didaktisk potensial som til nå…
Seema Golestaneh, “Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran” (Duke UP, 2022)
In her new ethnographic study Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran (Duke University Press, 2023), Seema Golestaneh guides her readers through processes and praxes of mystical experience…
Addendum to Normalising the Abnormal
In our last blog post, the second of our series on the return of the skulls from Inishbofin, Ciarán Walsh continued the story of the struggles to repatriate…
A Claxonomy of Mexico City’s Traffic
Anyone who spends time in Mexico City will spend much of it in traffic. One of the most clogged cities in the world, residents will lose on average…
Ethnographic Postcards: Porch small talk
Suvi Rautio’s writer’s block developed over the years, making it difficult to narrate close relationships with her fieldwork interlocutors. The post Ethnographic Postcards: Porch small talk appeared f…
Greta Lynn Uehling, “Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine (Cornell UP, 2023) provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes…
Invisible Labor of Health and the Spell of Productivity
When I talked with Jia, who works for an e-commerce company in Shanghai, China, she was trying to finish a “Perfect Month Challenge” on her Apple Watch. That…
Dissertation Update: “On Anthropomorphism”
I’ve sent off the first section of my dissertation to my advisor. This section is going in the introduction around the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study.Next…
El curso de antropología del sonido 2023 en la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la UADY
Este semestre he estado enseñando un curso de antropología del sonido como curso optativo en la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. En otros…
Introducing Anthropolitan Magazine – Winter 2022/23
ByLewis DalyEditor, Anthropolitan Read the Issue We are delighted to present this special issue of Anthropolitan—UCL Anthropology’s annual departmental magazine—on the theme of Race, Raci…
Who tells your story? The politics of recounting Ukraine
by Anastasiia Omelianiuk – There is a striking contrast between significant attention to Ukraine after the 2022 re-invasion and the pre-February abstinence of Ukraine in the global cultural…
Austerity: An Economy of Words? – Pt. 1
By Keith Hart This essay starts with a personal account of the near starvation of Europe after the Second World …
♀ ♂ ♂ ♂ Glücklich verheiratet zu dritt oder zu viert?
Es ist bekannt, dass einige Länder Polygynie erlauben, vulgo Vielweiberei. Aber wie steht es mit Polyandrie – dem Recht einer Frau auf Mehrfachehen? Der Essay ist in Der…