Five new books in series on Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
From Humans and Nature and Co-edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer We live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties…
Introducing the Other “AI”: Anthropology Intelligence
[no-caption] DrAfter123/Getty Images “The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.” —attributed to anthropologist Ralph Linton I sat in a drab Soviet hotel room in…
Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner, “Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
It’s hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation.…
Mark Bevir, “How Social Science Creates the World” (Open Agenda, 2021)
How Social Science Creates the World is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and UC Berkeley political scientist Professor Mark Bevir. Mark Bevir is an…
Harnessing Indeterminacy: The Technopolitics of Hydrocarbon Prospects
A drillship in the sea. Resource: Unsplash. Amidst an international crisis sparked by the scandalous confessions of a mafia boss and a pollution and climate change-triggered marine disaster…
Mathew Gagne take the page 99 test
While page 99 of my dissertation (see below) seems far from its focus on sex apps and digital media among queer men in Beirut, the connection is palpably…
Culture—Not Genetics—Was More Salient for Anglo-Saxons
An Anglo-Saxon burial mound rises in Taplow Court, England. Shutterstock This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Scholar…
Book Forum: Therapeutic Politics of Care in Asia by Nicholas Bartlett
The six review essays in this collection emerge from a joint launch of five books and one dissertation/ book-in-progress and a panel at the recent annual meeting of…
Schutz von geflüchteten Frauen und Mädchen in Deutschland unzureichend
„Schattenbericht“ unter Mitarbeit der Universität Göttingen kritisiert Umsetzung der Istanbul-Konvention durch die Bundesregierung Eine Pressemitteilung von Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess (pug) Deutschland kom…
Megan D. McFarlane, “Militarized Maternity: Experiencing Pregnancy in the U. S. Armed Forces” (U California Press, 2021)
The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United States. Yet,…
Nicholas Thomas, “Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific” (Apollo, 2020)
In Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Apollo, 2020), the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas tells the story of the peopling of the Pacific. In clear, accessible language Thoma… Visit New Books…
Stellenausschreibungen 29. KW – Green Jobs und Jobs mit Sinn
Bild von Free-Photos auf Pixabay Mit Entsetzen haben wir die Bilder aus den Hochwassergebieten gesehen und fragen uns natürlich, was wir tun können – unmittelbar zur Unterstützung der…
Caricaturas
Read Time:3 Minute, 24 Second El pasado lunes aparecía la noticia de un pueblo asfixiado que clamaba por su libertad, sesenta y dos…
Verano y Positivad Tóxica
No hay nada mejor que pasar una tarde calurosa de Julio escribiendo sobre positividad tóxica en mi blog abandonado de la mano de… Si no lo sabes, este…
Soziologiemagazin 01/2021 — Nichts als die Wahrheit? — ist erschienen
Konspirationistisches Denken gewinnt seit Beginn der Covid-19-Pandemie an gesellschaftlicher Relevanz und medialer Aufmerksamkeit: Auf „Hygienedemonstrationen” zweifeln selbsternannte „Querdenker*inne…
Newly Published: “Camp at the Salon: Anthropological Sense-Making with a Wink”
To camp is a mode of seduction – one which employs flamboyant mannerisms susceptible of a double interpretation; gestures full of duplicity, with a witty meaning for cognoscenti…
Calles en danza
La foto es de Tim Waterhouse Comentario enviado a Iris Romero y Aline Stonkinger sobre el trabajo entregado para la asignatura “Antropología urbana” en el Máster de Artes…
Intellektuelle des Alltags. Die afro-deutsche Frauenbewegung – ein Gespräch
Die afro-deutsche Frauenbewegung wirkte seit den 1980er Jahren mit neuem, de-kolonialistischem Wissen auf die deutsche Gesellschaft ein – und ist dennoch bis heute kaum bekannt. Die Historikerin Tiffa…
King Tut’s Tomb in Color
Nice site with photos of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb in 1922.
#BookReview: Being a parent in the field
Ethnographic fieldwork resembles a dance on the wire between distance and closeness, seesawing between participant immersion and analytical retreat that turns the anthropologist into a tool of data…
Arctic climate amplification and Siberia’s burning forests
Usually Arctic amplification is referred to as the reason why the Arctic is warming faster than the earth’s average, as the Arctic’s surface gets darker (due to less…
Transforming Market Research with Qualitative Consciousness in post-liberalization India w/ Dr. Meena Kashuik and Madhuri Karak
Dr. Meena Kashuik takes us through her story from the revolutionary idea in the late 1970s of applying semiotics to brand and market research to founding Quantum, which…
Stepping into the hospital side room: a place for death in England by Erica Borgstrom
I hovered in the doorway as the palliative care nurse who I was shadowing that day indicated I should. She entered the darkened side room to check on…
Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich’s Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health by Delaney Glass
Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 288 pages. Background Dr. Alexandra Br…