The essays in Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies (Cornell UP, 2023) address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan…
“a methodological issue … to forestall one of the most notorious and inveterate stereotypes of Hegel discussion, namely the thesis-antithesis-synthesis formula. It is certain that there are ple…
Foto de Javier Bauluz, tomada de elpais.es Este billete se publico en El Periódico de Catalunya, el 8 de mayo de 2000, poco después de la obtención de…
Amid the war on Gaza and long before, anthropologists have been speaking out against Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Here’s a curated list of their perspectives as scholars and…
آصف بیات، ترجمه: سپیده پارساپژوه یادداشت سردبیر: یورگن هابرماس و آصف بیات متفکران برجسته جهانی هستند. کتابهای آنها به چندین زبان ترجمه شده است و در دانشگاههای سراسر…
همواره فکر میکنم، تاریخ داستانی خطی نیست. تاریخ روایتی است که میتوان آن را از انتها به ابتدا، در میان یک باغ خرم و یا از میانه یک…
One of the eight national dances of India, bharatanatyam, partly originates from the area around Tranquebar. During the time that Tranquebar was a Danish colony, devadasis, women who…
As I briefly mentioned in the 500th anniversary post at the beginning of December, my weekly Links I Liked post will take a break in the new year.I…
Well, by now most of you have heard the news that this blog is closing down. That whole conversation was happening in the last couple of months, but…
Recent work on correcting histories of settlers societies has been highly popular. The 2019 Exhibit at Five Oaks Museum, Washington County by Stephanie Littlebird Fogel
The Mead-Freeman controversy draws to a close, with some answers to who was right and who was wrong. But, in the end, can anyone ever really understand cultures…
“He llegado a lo más alto, pero cuando miro hacia atrás me doy cuenta de lo lejos que estoy. Oh madre, cada vez que te recuerdo siete lluvias…
درخت گلابی درست گواه آن عزیمت فکریِ مورد اشارۀ خود مهرجویی است: وانهادن پرداختن و تصویرگری از طبقۀ سابقا محروم و مطرودی که حالا خود بر اریکۀ قدرت…
Social medicine, an approach that centres the social conditions of life as the cause of health and illness, can be thought of as an effort to ‘resocialize’ medicine.…
„Die Rache ist vielleicht die radikalste Spielform des Hasses, somit das ultimativ Verpönte […]“ (Kurt, 2023) – zumindest im Rahmen eines staatlichen Strafmonopols, wie Şeyda Kurt in ihrem…
Wie heißt du? Und was machst Du jetzt? Ich heiße Carmen Mateo Gallego und arbeite als angestellte Projektmanagerin für digitale Entwicklung beim Ernst Klett Sprachen Verlag in Stuttgart.…
Kommentar von Dita Vogel – Einreichung am 30. November 2023 In ihrem Initialbeitrag fragen Purkarthofer und Schroeder unter Bezugnahme auf Bude (2020), wie es gelingen kann, Anforderungen an…
چکیده: در سالهای بعد از انقلاب در ایران، حرکتی که حتی پیش از این فرایند دگرگونی عمیق جامعۀ ما آغاز شده بود، یعنی ورود گستردۀ زنان به عرصۀ…
Natasha Roth-Rowland is a writer and researcher at Diaspora Alliance, a former editor at +972 Magazine, and an expert on the Jewish far right. She joins anthropologists Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian midway…
In another year of exceptional challenges and hardships, anthropologists tackled a range of issues and questions about what it means to be human. Here are some of SAPIENS’…
In the episode of This Anthro Life, the dialogue investigates waste transformation and how waste can be converted into useful energy and materials. Dan explains his work with…
Photo by Jason Blackeye via Unsplash Dear readers, We are sorry to say that after eighteen years, we are going to be shutting down this blog at the…
Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador (University of California Press, 2023) explores how, in the early to mid-twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and…