Planting Seeds for a More Ethical Future
Three contributors to a special series reflect on why slowing down and building trust between community partners is fundamental to decolonizing anthropology—and our shared future. This contribution is…
Centering Black Lives in the Study of Human Remains
A contributor to a special series on decolonizing anthropology reckons with bioarchaeology’s racist past by focusing on Black women’s creativity and everyday lives in her work. This contribution…
Embracing the Poetry of Being Human
A contributor to a special series on decolonizing anthropology rejects the discipline’s colonial and racist roots and instead pursues ways of doing science that center human liberation and…
Can Anthropology Be Decolonized?
In recent years, anthropology has increasingly reckoned with its colonial and racist roots. In a special forum, scholars weigh in on what “decolonizing” means—and share their visions for…
Lois Presser, “Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences” (U California Press, 2022)
Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. Unsaid: Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences (U California Press, 2022) is a guide to understanding and uncovering…
Gillian Tan, “Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet” (Springer, 2018)
Tibetan nomads have developed a way of life that is dependent in multiple ways on their animals and shaped by the phenomenological experience of mobility. These pastoralists have…
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, “Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing” (U Texas Press, 2022)
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her…
Mourning as Resistance. On a Symbol of the Revolutionary Movement “Woman Life Freedom”
The protests in Iran began with a revolutionary act of mourning that became a symbol of the movement: cutting off the hair. The protesters are responding to a…
Freizeitstress
Nachdem ich die ersten Monate in Delhi fast nichts gemacht habe, ausser zur Arbeit zu gehen. Und für die Kolloquien in den Norden Delhis zu fahren. Hat sich…
Freizeitstress
Nachdem ich die ersten Monate in Delhi fast nichts gemacht habe, ausser zur Arbeit zu gehen. Und für die Kolloquien in den Norden Delhis zu fahren. Hat sich…
Platypus in 2023
Welcome to Platypus in 2023! We’re excited for another year of anthropological and social thinking around science and technology. Last year we had over forty-five posts on topics…
Review: Making Levantine Cuisine
Anny Gaul, Graham Ajman Pitts, Vichi Valosik, eds. Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean. University of Texas Press. Austin: 2021. ISBN: 9781477324585 Noha Fik…
Jessica Storey-Nagy takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation falls in Chapter 1, “A ‘Viktator’ in the Making: Gaslighting Democracy, Telling Lies, and Evoking Histories,” which describes political culture in Hungary after…
Alasita: La feria aymara
Enero es un mes de intensa actividad en los talleres artesanales de las ciudades de El Alto y La Paz…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW4
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. die Möglichkeit sich im Bereich Geschlechtergerechtigkeit im ASA-Programm zu bewerben (internationale Standorte), eine Stelle als Volontär*in im Rohwolt-Verlag (Hambur…
Goofy was a plant.
“one half of them who perish in London, dye of Phthisical and Pulmonic distempers; that the inhabitants are never free from Coughs” John Evelyn 1661 The biggest trick…
Zensur
Die BBC hat einen Dokumentarfilm über die Rolle des jetzigen indischen Premierministers Modi bei den Pogromen in Gujarat im Jahr 2002 veröffentlicht (kann nur in Großbritannien angesch…
Zensur
Die BBC hat einen Dokumentarfilm über die Rolle des jetzigen indischen Premierministers Modi bei den Pogromen in Gujarat im Jahr 2002 veröffentlicht (kann nur in Großbritannien angesch…
Namita Vijay Dharia, “The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction” (U California Press, 2022)
What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold stories of the people, politics, and production chains…
Trauer als Widerstand. Über ein Symbol der revolutionären Bewegung „Frau Leben Freiheit“
Die Proteste im Iran begannen mit einem revolutionären Akt des Trauerns, der zu Symbolbild der Bewegung wurde: das Abschneiden der Haare. Sie antworten auf ein Regime, das nicht…
Investigando el sonido
Este semestre estoy enseñando un curso sobre la antropología del sonido. Murray Shafer, un compositor y director de orquesta canadiense, quien desafoftunadamente nos dejó en 2021, ha sido…
Mut zu Multitalenten in der Arbeitswelt
Die Chancen auf einen attraktiven Job stehen gut, nicht nur für junge Absolventen, sondern auch für Quereinsteiger, Aufsteiger, Umsteiger oder ältere Semester. Also nichts wie los, schreibt Initiativb…
David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck, “Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this…