Happy Holidays 2022
I am long overdue for an update here, and I hope to get to that in Q1. My health really took a serious downturn, and I haven’t had…
I am long overdue for an update here, and I hope to get to that in Q1. My health really took a serious downturn, and I haven’t had…
The tradition here at VAOJ to document the purchase of toshikoshi soba (“end of the year soba noodles”) on New Year’s Eve continues! Click here for previous new…
این مطلب در ۸ بهمن ۱۳۹۸ در همین وبگاه منتشر و اکنون در تاریخ ۱۰ دی ماه ۱۴۰۱ بازنشر میشود. تصویر: دبلیو یو اچ ریوورز نوشته فردریک…
تذکر نویسنده: این مقاله بازگردان یکی از سخنرانیهای نگارنده است که به دلیل نبود فرصت برای بازبینی آن پیش از چاپ، اشتباهات کوچکی در نمونه مکتوب آن راه…
«هویت» به سان سکهای است که یک روی آن را شباهتها و روی دیگر آن را تفاوتها رقمزده است. شباهتِ با «ما» و تمایزِ با « آنها»، اساس…
موضوع مواجهه اصحاب علوم اجتماعی ایران با نظریه ها یکی از مهمترین و شاید کلیدی ترین مباحث برای شناخت وضعیت علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدرن در ایران است.…
Foto presa de www.flickr.com/photos/an_untrained_eye/4891511937/in/photostream] Nota para Rocío Martinez, doctoranda, enviada el febrer de 2019 EL NORMAL I L’ANORMAL Manuel Delgado El que deia sobre …
I wrote my first book as a critique of charity work in Kolkata, India. I attempted a critique of western ‘charity’ workers helping those they saw as the…
Depression: I am no expert on depression, at all, but I also note that over the last two decades it has become a more visible topic of discussion…
Norskfaget er kanskje det viktigaste faget i skulen og har blitt kalla «alle fags mor». Faget er ein sentral møtestad for alle elevar frå det første året i…
In his new book, Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (MIT Press, 2022), Mathew Gandy explores urban nature as a multilayered material and symbolic entity. The book examines the…
For the office, a new second (curved) monitor; I bought it last year to use up university research funds. After my accident it was sitting in its box…
by Peter Versteeg “Apology” is another word for acknowledgmentAcknowledging the past, but not just any kind of pastIt is a formal word for a moral occasionNo emotion, no…
(June Fog, photo by Zoe Todd) 2 years and 11 months ago, I posted my last entry on this website: https://anthrodendum.org/2020/01/27/an-answer/ What I didn’t know then, on January…
Semana de Arte Moderna Poster, São Paulo, 1922 This year marks the centenary of São Paulo’s 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna (Week of Modern Art).[1]Funding for this article…
Rosa Luxemburg The Accumulation of Capital, ch 18 “Consequently, a stricter law was passed [by the Chinese] in 1833 which made every opium smoker liable to a hundred…
This episode looks at the main types and categories of nomads, how they live, and the similarities and differences between them. Music in this episode: Desert City by…
What roles do things play in the context of forced migration? How do things become a vital source in the constitution of a sense of (new) home? Which…
Det är den 21 december, årets mörkaste dag. Tanken på att julafton bara är tre dagar borta borde göra julstämningen påtaglig. Men så är det inte för barnen…
Like Canada, Brazil, the whole of Africa, and many other places in the world, Cameroon has the combination of indigenous people and a special fondness for big industry.…
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, automation, argues Munn, is ultimately…
Page 99 ends my verbatim account of broken dialogue in an anti-gentrification rally in Leimert Park, LosAngeles in 2017. This third of a page consists of three references…