Alice Elliot, “The Outside: Migration As Life in Morocco” (Indiana UP, 2021)
The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco (Indiana UP, 2021) traces how migration has come to occupy a striking place in the lives of many Moroccans. A full 10 percent…
Manon Garcia, “We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives” (Princeton UP, 2021)
We are here today with Manon Garcia, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives, published this year, 2021, by Princeton University Press. The book…
SAR Press Top Reads: Place, Environment, and Change
When life seems to be changing day by day, if not hour by hour, we look to sources of information that we have come to know and trust.…
Sex in Sport: Men Don’t Always Have the Advantage
Many sporting events, like the Paris Marathon, have separate categories for men and women. Michel Stoupak/NurPhoto/Getty Images As the Summer Olympics gear up to kick off in Tokyo,…
The researchers that search engines make invisible
I went to the university’s article database but finding this paper again wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.
Call for a new Discard Studies Managing Editor
Starting in the early fall of 2021, we are looking for a new Managing Editor to oversee and carry out regular operations of Discard Studies and to create…
Book Review: What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Social Mobility? by Lee Elliott Major and Stephen Machin
In What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Social Mobility? Lee Elliott Major and Stephen Machin give an account of the long experience of social mobility in the…
Waking up to the politics of citation
I found myself shocked by the importance of citation, and particularly by my lack of awareness of the impact my citing could have on others.
Tae-Yeoun Keum, “Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought” (Harvard UP, 2020)
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought (Harvard UP, 2020) is an ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato’s basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his…
Talking Ethnographic Fiction with Alexandros Plasatis
What does ethnography look like when presented as fiction? In this episode, we talk with Alexandros Plasatis, author of the new book Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness (Spuyten…
Predicting Across Time and Space by Bettina Ng’weno
Every day for the month of March 2021, I watched the numbers of Covid-19 cases in Kenya climb and climb. Family and friends sent me messages that the…
Just Food: Because It Is Never Just Food
David Beriss Today was day one of this year’s best little food conference. Organized by the Association for the Study of Food and Society, the Agriculture, Food and…
Initiativbewerbungen
In den aktuellen Stellenausschreibungen findet Ihr Ausschreibungen zu Initiativbewerbungen. Und nun mögt Ihr denken: “Was soll das? Entweder gibt es eine Ausschreibung, oder ich bewerbe mich in…
La traición de las masas
Notas para la asignatura Antropologia de los Espacios Urbanos. Clase del 27/11/12. La traición de las masas Manuel Delgado Los desarrollos procurados desde las teorías democrático-liberales a…
How Migrant Filmmakers Practice Archival Activism
Participants of FunKino, a collaborative filmmaking laboratory in Italy, discuss ideas for storyboarding in 2019. FunKino—Cinema for Inclusion project promoted by Zabbara In the first sce…
Wednesday Round Up #53
Excerpt from Jack Gilbert’s Poem “Moreover” What we are given is taken away, but we manage to keep it secretly. We lose everything, but make harvest of the…
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “The Inheritance” (Duke UP, 2021)
Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not through blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adige—the region where family’s ancestral alpine village is…
David Skarbek, “The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible…
Cécile Fromont, “Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition” (Penn State, 2019)
Edited by Dr. Cécile Fromont, Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (Penn State University Press, 2019), demonstrate… Visit New Books in Anthropology for the…
Ryanne Pilgeram, “Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West” (U Washington Press, 2021)
What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in ……
Algunas apostillas sobre la génesis noucentista de la Plaça Catalunya de Barcelona
La plaza Catalunya de Barcelona en 1928, posiblemente el dia de su inauguración Correo enviado a los estudiantes del curso “Lo próximo, lo necesario. Un reto permanente Lugares…
نظریه شناختی درباره فرهنگ (۱)
از چند دهه پیش، دندراد اولین و تاثیرگذارترین نظریهپرداز در انسانشناسی شناختی بوده است. آثار او بهطور خاصی از مرزهای محدود این زیرشاخه فراتر رفته است. وی تا…
صفههای مقدس (۴)
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 توضیح تصویر: مسجد…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۹)
فصل اول: اقتدار، اتوریته و فرهنگ ۳. ساختار شکنی از اقتدار دولت، در جامعه شناسی پی یر بوردیو (ادامه از قبل) و اما در خصوص امری دیگر هم…