And You Watch as We Make Woodwater Again
[no-caption] Arterra/Universal Images Group/Getty Images and you wonder how we remember our culture of traumatization our body beings tied to a land we were told was not ours…
What we tweet about when we tweet about the weather
ByIsabelle CottonMSc Digital Anthropology alumnus If you’ve spent any amount of time with a British person you’ve heard it: weather-talk. It permeates any and all conversation; “Lovely day,…
Writing Life No. 13: An interview with Matthew Wolf-Meyer by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
From the bottom left, clockwise: my writing board (which currently has a note from my kids and a note about a future paper to be written), a stack…
Laura Moran, “Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World: Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity” (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Children and youth are front and center in the context of global mass migration and the social discord around questions of multicultural inclusion that it often ignites. Imprecise…
Jon Keune, “Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India” (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jon Keune’s book Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India (Oxford UP, 2021) is about the deceptively simple question: when Hindu devotional or bha… Visit…
Suzanne M. Hall, “The Migrant’s Paradox: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain” (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
In this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal contradictions of sovereignty and capitalism in the formation…
Heather Berg, “Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism” (UNC Press, 2021)
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what…
Maps as Cultural Objects
In the Digital Age, maps are closer to us than ever before—a quick tap on a smartphone and you’re off to the nearest Starbucks for a quick coffee…
Do You Want to Write for SAPIENS?
In this free online webinar, SAPIENS’ editor-in-chief Chip Colwell explains the ins-and-outs of writing for the magazine and its peer publications. Learn who is behind the SAPIENS editorial…
El Delirio Virtual Campus Tour
In the winter of 2020, the Historic Santa Fe Foundation named SAR’s 1920s campus a site worthy of preservation (read the announcement). We …
Wednesday Round Up #52
Heat Listed McDaniel was both a potential victim and a potential perpetrator, and the visitors on his porch treated him as such. A social worker told him that…
How Many People Lived in the Angkor Empire?
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. How big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first…
Bangkalan: dari Suramadu hingga Komunalitas Masyarakat Madura
Berbicara tentang Madura. Orang lebih mengenal dengan sate. Pulau garam yang identik dengan kegigihan orangnya termasuk masalah mempertahankan harga diri. Pulau Madura ada banyak pulau kecil sam…
Eva Rosen, “The Voucher Promise: ‘Section 8’ and the Fate of an American Neighborhood” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Eve Rosen’s The Voucher Promise: ‘Section 8’ and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Princeton UP, 2020) examines the Housing Voucher Choice Program, colloquially known as “Section 8,” and … Visit New…
صفه‌های مقدس(۳)
بردِ نشانده و مسجد سلیمان ایران جنوب غربی از قرن هشتم قبل از میلاد تا قرن پنجم بعد از میلاد رومن گیرشمن، برگردان اصغرکریمی توضیح تصویر: بردِ نشانده.…
یادداشت‌های پایان قرن (۸)
فصل اول: اقتدار، اتوریته و فرهنگ ۳. ساختار شکنی از اقتدار دولت، در جامعه شناسی پی یر بوردیو (ادامه از قبل) بدین ترتیب اقتدار دولت در جوامع اروپایی…
فضای شهری و سازوکارهای هویت جنسی-جنسیتی دختران نوجوان (۴)
۱- جنس، جنسیت و سکسوالیته در زمینه مفاهیم جنسیت و سکسوالیته، دیدگاه‌های معاصر به دوگانه ذاتی/برساختی می‌پردازند. دیدگاه ذات‌گرایانه که اغلب به تفاوت‌های بیولوژیک به عنوان علت…
مسائل اجتماعی (۱۳): خدمات وام
جفری ویتنی برگردان ملیحه درگاهی در این مدخل از دانشنامه مسائل اجتماعی خدمات وام (debt service) به معنای بازپرداخت سرمایه اصلی و سود به صورت قرضه به قلمروهای…
چرا درونگراها می‌توانند در جمع بهتر سخنرانی کنند؟
نیل گوردون برگردان آذر اصغریان چرا درونگراها می‌توانند در جمع بهتر سخنرانی کنند؟ این را خودشان نگفتند بلکه از عکس‌العمل مخاطبان معلوم است. یکبار به پادکستی گوش می‌کردم…
Priester, Katechismen und Häretiker. Einige Gedanken zum vieldiskutierten Essay von Dirk Moses
In einem geistreichen, aber auch provokativen Essay kritisierte Dirk Moses hier auf Geschichte der Gegenwart vor ein paar Tagen die „Hohepriester“ der deutschen Erinnerungskultur dafür, dass sie ein…
From Tulsa, Texas, to Turkey: The Price of Denial
This week features commemorations of one of the worst atrocities on American soil during the twentieth century, the so-called Greenwood Massacre, also known as the Tulsa Race Riot.…
Bataille and anti-fascist politics.
Pretty happy to see this taken seriously. Its like I was waiting for someone to reach for the falling penny. When it happens, its come with a whole…
When “Voluntary” Return Is Not a Real Option for Asylum-Seekers
Wrestling with the themes of violence, hope, and resilience, Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi often makes delicate use of red—the color of blood. Imran Qureshi “Love Me, Love Me…
Drahtseilakt mit Ahnengeschichte: Objekte ziehen ins Humboldt Forum
Im Mai 2021 sind die letzten Großobjekte des Ethnologischen Museums Berlin ins Humboldt Forum eingebracht worden – u.a. ein rund 600 kg schwerer und fast neun Meter langer…