تخیل در موسیقی و شعر فارسی
توضیح تصویر: تخیل در نقاشی – آخرین دعاخوانی مسیحیان در کُلزیوم رُم، اثر ژان لئون ژروم نقاش فرانسوی (۱۸۳۴- ۱۹۰۴) دو ستون اساسی که اندیشه انسانی را می…
ترویج مصرف‌گرایی در فیلم و سریال
سریال «سکس و شهر»، بر اساس کتابی با همین نام از سال ۱۹۹۸ تا سال ۲۰۰۴ در شش فصل ارائه شد. سازندگان آن، پیرو شهرت جهانگیر این سریال،…
Fragments of Reparation & Recognition in the Golden State
Aerial image of Bruce’s Beach park (highlighted in color), Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles. Adapted from Google Earth, 2021. On September 30, California Governor Gavin Newsome signed Senate Bill…
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Hi all, It’s really starting to feel like autumn as all of my favorite pet/animal/zoo social media accounts feature mammals munching on pumpkins…groundhogs, otters, red pandas, beavers, possums,…
Are We So Different?
“Are We So Different?” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. Her piece was…
The only lesson is that there aren’t enough jobs
Every so often something happens that perfectly encapsulates the consumptive death rattle that is the job market in higher education. A few weeks ago, the department of anthropology…
El multiculturalismo bien temperado
Reseña de Repensar el multiculturalismo, de Joe L. Kincheloe y Shirley R. Steinberg, prefacio de Mary Nash, traducción de José Real, Octaedro, Barcelona, 2000. Publicado en Cuadernos de Ped…
Rethinking Food Justice After Hurricane Ida
Headlines, August 28, 2021, the day before Ida. Photo: David Beriss David Beriss Back toward the end of August, I posted some thoughts here about food justice. That…
Keith Brown: “Whose gun is this? Notes from the North American-Ottoman arms trade”
https://aoe.fi/api/download/keithbrownhelsinki210917-1633597822679.m4a This paper takes a microhistorical approach to explore the U.S. role in the decline of the Ottom…
Sara Ahmed, “Complaint!” (Duke UP, 2021)
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…
#A future history of water: Strange thing full of water – Alberto Corsin-Jimenez’s comments
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.…
The Best Laid Plans are not Birth Plans
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…
#A future history of water: Maura Finkelstein’s comments
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…
#A future history of water: Rachel Douglas-Jones’ comments
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…
“Take your skills to the streets”: Skateboarding and Social and Physical Urban Space
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…
What Does It Mean to Decolonize Heritage?
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…
Susanne Klien, “Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society” (SUNY Press, 2020)
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……
Milton Santos, “The Nature of Space” (Duke UP, 2021)
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…
سفرنامه جنوب هند (۳۶)
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…
وقتی دوباره زاده شدم!
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…
Angela Merkel. Eine andere Art der Autorität
“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…
Consideraciones sobre el seductor y la seducción
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…
Six Coffees
Check out this article on six different kinds of coffee in the Middle East on Middle East Eye.
Did Aliens Build the Pyramids? And Other Racist Theories
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:…