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Sara Ahmed, “Complaint!” (Duke UP, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

In Complaint! (Duke UP, 2021), Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and…

  • Post date 7th October 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

#A future history of water: Strange thing full of water – Alberto Corsin-Jimenez’s comments

Allegra

Andrea Ballestero (2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. As I write these lines, my home city, Madrid, is covered in a thick blanket of snow.…

  • Post date 7th October 2021
  • Post author By Alberto Corsin-Jimenez
  • Post categories In English

The Best Laid Plans are not Birth Plans

Platypus

Childbirth has had a long and winding history. This is understandable since it has literally been happening since the beginning of human time. Prior to 1950, many births…

  • Post date 7th October 2021
  • Post author By Jennifer McIntosh
  • Post categories In English

#A future history of water: Maura Finkelstein’s comments

Allegra

Andrea Ballestero,(2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. I have an exercise I like to assign to my students, one that I have adapted from Donna…

  • Post date 6th October 2021
  • Post author By Maura Finkelstein
  • Post categories In English

#A future history of water: Rachel Douglas-Jones’ comments

Allegra

As I finished reading Ballestero’s A Future History of Water, the world observed World Water Day 2021. Organized by the United Nations, it has been observed annually each…

  • Post date 6th October 2021
  • Post author By Rachel Douglas-Jones
  • Post categories In English

“Take your skills to the streets”: Skateboarding and Social and Physical Urban Space

Standplaats wereld

by Luiza Fonini Reis and Luisa Voss / Images: Ella Bowler Anthropology is the study of intersections, of community and its inherent conflict between the self and the…

  • Post date 6th October 2021
  • Post author By standplaatswereld
  • Post categories In English

What Does It Mean to Decolonize Heritage?

SAPIENS

At the King’s Palace Museum in Nyanza District, Rwanda, tourists can visit coffee shops built in a traditional architectural style. GIZ/Martin Karenzi Most tourists visit the district of…

  • Post date 6th October 2021
  • Post author By Annalisa Bolin and David Nkusi
  • Post categories In English

Susanne Klien, “Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society” (SUNY Press, 2020)

New Books in Anthropology

Susanne Klien’s book Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society (SUNY Press, 2020) provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and e……

  • Post date 6th October 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

Milton Santos, “The Nature of Space” (Duke UP, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

The Nature of Space (Duke UP, 2021) is a translation (by Brenda Baletti) of pioneering geographer Milton Santos’ A Natureza do Espaço, originally published in Brazil in 1996. The book offer… Visit New…

  • Post date 6th October 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

سفرنامه جنوب هند (۳۶)

انسان‌شناسی و فرهنگ

تاریخ کولابا : در واقع این منطقه را پرتغالی ها در قرن ۱۶ میلادی بنا نهادند، پیش از ورود پرتغالی ها نام این جزیره کولابات Kolabhat بود. این…

  • Post date 6th October 2021
  • Post author By نسیم کمپانی
  • Post categories In Farsi

وقتی دوباره زاده شدم!

انسان‌شناسی و فرهنگ

سال‌ها پیش بود. شاید نزدیک به سی سال پیش. جوان بودم و امیدوار و خوشنود؛ تازه از اروپا بازگشته، مدرکی در جیب و مشغول به تدریس در دانشگاه…

  • Post date 6th October 2021
  • Post author By ناصر فکوهی
  • Post categories In Farsi

Angela Merkel. Eine andere Art der Autorität

Geschichte der Gegenwart

“Sie kennen mich”. Mit diesem Slogan gewann Angela Merkel 2013 den Wahlkampf. Sie hat ihr authentisches Auftreten stets geschickt in Szene gesetzt – zugleich hat sie mit althergebrachten…

  • Post date 6th October 2021
  • Post author By Jule Govrin
  • Post categories In German

Consideraciones sobre el seductor y la seducción

EL COR DE LES APARENCES

Ilustración para la edición de 1796 de ·”Les liaisons dangereuses” Consideraciones para Nicolás Alfaro, estudiante del Máster en Antropología y Etnografia de la UBConsideraciones sobre el seductor y…

  • Post date 6th October 2021
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado
  • Post categories In Spanish

Six Coffees

Tabsir

Check out this article on six different kinds of coffee in the Middle East on Middle East Eye.

  • Post date 6th October 2021
  • Post author By tabsir
  • Post categories In English

Did Aliens Build the Pyramids? And Other Racist Theories

SAPIENS

The Egyptian pyramids are a focal point for conspiracy theories about alien intervention. Sheilapic76/Flickr One afternoon in June, I found an email in my inbox from Atlantis Rising:…

  • Post date 5th October 2021
  • Post author By Stephanie Halmhofer
  • Post categories In English

Christian M. Anderson, “Urbanism Without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

New Books in Anthropology

Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and…

  • Post date 5th October 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

Gideon Fujiwara, “From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan” (Cornell UP, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Cornell UP, 2021) tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century… Visit New…

  • Post date 5th October 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

What makes the “ness” in Geel?

Arctic Anthropology

Distinctive doctrines of the Church, and their place in contemporary society, are at times, argued to bring about changes in the Arctic – the people, their land, and…

  • Post date 5th October 2021
  • Post author By ayongheakonwi
  • Post categories In English

“Orientalism alla Turca”: Evolutionary Desires, Imperial Nostalgias, and Western Anxieties in Ahmed Midhat’s Avrupa’da Bir Cevelân

Field Notes – History of Anthropology Review

Introduction On November 15, 1889,[1] Ahmed Midhat (1844–1912), a prolific Ottoman journalist and novelist, announced in his newspaper Tercümân–i Hakîkât (Interprete…

  • Post date 5th October 2021
  • Post author By Adam Johnson
  • Post categories In English

Culture: brought together, kept apart

CultureBy – Grant McCracken

brought together but kept apart I felt like I was being chased up the beach by a tidal wave. Run for your life, anthropologist, run for your life! I…

  • Post date 4th October 2021
  • Post author By Grant
  • Post categories In English

Alex Fattal on his book, Shooting Cameras for Peace

CaMP Anthropology

interview by Camilo Ruiz Sanchez https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780873658713 Camilo Ruiz Sanchez: It shook me to learn that the archive has almost disappeared and that what w…

  • Post date 4th October 2021
  • Post author By |
  • Post categories In English

Nuevo número: 8 de Noviembre

anthropologies

Happy …

  • Post date 4th October 2021
  • Post author By anthropologies
  • Post categories In Spanish

Mirjam Lücking, “Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims” (SAPP, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

Mirjam Lücking’s Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims (Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2021) explores the ways contemporary Indonesia… Visit New Books in Anthropology…

  • Post date 4th October 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

Panayotis F. League, “Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora” (U Michigan Press, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2021) explores the legacy of the Great Catastrophe—the death and expulsion from Tur… Visit New Books…

  • Post date 4th October 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English
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