نقش هنر در توسعه شهری (بخش پایانی)
مالکوم میلز برگردان ملیحه درگاهی چنین تعریفی از مکان که به کلیت عمومی اشاره دارد بیشتر اجتماعی است تا جغرافیایی یا زیبایی شناختی. از این اجتماعات گروه…
ساختمان دانشگاه کوپر یونیون در نیویرک
ساختمان دانشگاه کوپر یونیون در نیویرک: تام مین، برساختن یک زیست ماشین شهری کامل و فتح پارادایم پیچیدگی[۱] نوشته ی جین مرکل[۲] برگردانی از آرش بصیرت[۳] از…
میراث فرهنگی ناملموس و توسعه پایدار
برگردان و افزوده آذر جوادزاده درآمد بیش از چهاردهه از زمانی که یونسکو سال های۱۹۷۸-۱۹۸۸ را به نام “دهه‌ی فرهنگ و توسعه” نام‌گذاری کرده می‌گذرد. از آن زمان…
Hush-Hush, a Pale-Horse Cometh: Mirabilis Manducat
[no-caption] PhotoTalk/Getty Images “O res mirabilis! Manducat Dominum …” —Saint Thomas Aquinas, 13th Century I did not know well my Uncle-Cousin Ron. He was my mother’s cousin. He…
Films & videos on media activism & more
This is a selection of films and videos on mediated activism, anthropological perspectives on media and culture, and globalization and (de)colonization in relation to media.Compiled by Philipp Budka…
COVID-19 and The Lessons Anthropology Learned from HIV/AIDS by Merrill Singer
On April 24, 1980, Ken Horne, a San Francisco resident, was reported to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) as a young man suffering with an old man’s…
Scandal, Blame, and the Politics of Contamination in Peru’s Quinoa Bust
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline…
Violence, corruption, and false promises: Conservation and the Baka in Cameroon
Originally published by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Simon Hoyte & Catherine Clarke University College London & Forest Peoples Programme Spending time with the Baka, as…
Violence, corruption, and false promises: Conservation and the Baka in Cameroon
Originally published by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs; Written by me and Catherine Clarke Spending time with the Baka, as we have both done over several…
Pepper Glass, “Misplacing Ogden, Utah” (U Utah Press, 2020)
Pepper Glass’s new book Misplacing Ogden, Utah: Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputation (University of Utah Press, 2020) evaluates the widely held assumption that d… Visit New…
PrEP in Thailand in the time of COVID-19
In 2012, the first PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) drugs came onto the market, poised to revolutionize the field of HIV prevention. ‘The Pill’ promised to usher in a kind…
Me, My Data and OK Google
Photo by @charlesdeluvio A genderless gendered listening device in a ‘modern’ Norwegian home Introduction In this essay I will explore a conversation that I had with Google Home…
Quaran-Teens 2020: Reflections on Teaching Auto-Ethnography to Quaran-Teens 2020
By Dr. Rebecca Hodges Photo by the author of her classroom in March 2020, emptied by coronavirus quarantine. When the coronavirus epidemic response made us close campus, we…
بخش بندی بازار گردشگری: چرا و چگونه؟
مفهوم بخش بندی برای نخستین بار توسط اسمیت[۱] در سال۱۹۵۶ مطرح شد. مقصود وی از بخش بندی، در نظر گرفتن بازار ناهمگن، به صورت تعدادی از گروه های…
شهرهای بی‌صفا، شهرهای بی‌رونق
«اصلاح‌طلبان همواره مردم شهر را در حال پرسه‌زدن در گوشه‌ای شلوغ یا پلکیدن در مغازه‌های شیرینی‌فروشی و بارها یا در حال نوشیدن نوشابه در رواق‌ها دیده و درباره…
آزمون اندیشه‌های انتقادی معاصر
اطلاعات کتاب‌شناختی: آزمون اندیشه های انتقادیِ معاصر؛ زهره روحی ، انتشارات دنیای اقتصاد ، ۱۳۹۷ مقدمه بازخوانی یا بازنگری نقشی اساسی در اندیشه مدرن دارد؛ و گاه حتی…
انتشار کتاب بیست سال در ایران؛ روایت یک زندگی در دوران سه پادشاه قاجار
اطلاعات کتاب‌شناختی: بیست سال در ایران؛ روایت یک زندگی در دوران سه پادشاه قاجار، جان ویشارد، ترجمه: علی پیرنیا، ۳۰۸ صفحه، نوبت چاپ: ۱، سال انتشار ۱۳۹۹، قیمت: ۵۸۰۰۰ تومان توضیحات: سال‌های سال زن…
Special Issue: The Global Psyche (Open Access) by Eliza Williamson
Medical Anthropology Quarterly has published a special issue, edited by Dominique P. Béhague and Kenneth MacLeish, featuring articles that “examine diverse incarnations of what might be called …
Special Issue: Framing “Post-AIDS” and Global Health Discourses in 2015 and Beyond by Eliza Williamson
The Journal of Medical Humanities has released a special issue, edited by Gráinne O’Connell, that “analyses the relevance, or possible critiques, of ‘post-AIDS’ rhetoric and global health…
Special Issue: Behind the Measures of Maternal Health by Eliza Williamson
Social Science & Medicine has published a special issue called “Behind the Measures of Maternal Health, Ethnographic Accounts of Inventory and Intervention,” edited by Jan Brunson and…
In the Journals, June 2020, Part 2 by Eliza Williamson
American Anthropologist (Open Access) Machine Sky: Social and Terrestrial Engineering in a Chinese Weather SystemJerry C. Zee This article explores Chinese environmental politics as a complex s…
Mapping Covid-19 and the unconscious dimensions of the pandemic
One of the most important moments in the development of cartography occurred when an obscure doctor, John Snow, produced his so-called ghost map of the cholera outbreak in…
William Leap on his book, Language Before Stonewall
Interview by Brian Adam-Thies https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030335151 Background The Stonewall “Riots” occurred from June 28th-July 3rd, 1969 in New York City, Greenwich Village. These event…
5 Years of LGBTQ Marriage
It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that LGBTQ persons have the right to marry. There was a really nice article…