Land Acknowledgments Are Not Enough
The installation “Never Forget” by Nicholas Galanin, a Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist and musician, speaks back to California’s “Hollywood” sign and is a call to action for return…
Jenseitsvorstellungen, Kulturen
Lustgärten und Totenstädte: Paradiesvorstellungen jenseits des Garten Edens Wenn wir sterben, kommen wir ins Paradies, jenen mythischen Ort, „wo Milch und Honig fließt“. So zumindest der Glaube in…
Protected: The Advent of the Adversary: Negative power in certain religio-therapeutic systems
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Rebecca L. Stein, “Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine” (Stanford UP, 2021)
In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots:…
انقلاب داروینی
کتاب انقلاب داروینی، نشر ۲۰۱۹ کمبریج، نوشتۀ پروفسور مایکل روس است که با ترجمه معصومه شاه‌گردی در نشر علم در سال ۱۳۹۹ منتشر و اکنون چاپ مجدد آن…
کریستف بالایی و داستان‌کوتاه فارسی
معرفی کتاب «سرچشمه‌های داستان‌کوتاه فارسی» نوشته‌ی کریستف بالایی و میشل کویی پرس به ترجمه‌ی: احمد کریمی حکاک. نوشته‌ی شایان صانعی آنچه پژوهش تحلیلی در شاخه‌ی ادبیات داستانی را…
سفرنامه جنوب هند (۳۷)
تصویر: دنسک خوراک مخصوص پارسیان هند عثمانی بیسکویت Osmania Biscuit نوعی بیسکویت در شهر حیدر آباد در جنوب هند به شکل گرد که نخستین بار پادشاه حیدرآباد معروف…
Anthropology in the Service of the Criminal Justice System and the Society
Dr J. R. Gaur Director and Professor School of forensics, Risk Management and National Security Rastriya Raksha University Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat India Email: jrgaur@gmail.com Crime free society is…
Humans = ecologicalengineers
Check out this painting. Kungkarrangkalpa Tjukurrpa, 2015 by Australian indigenous artists Exhibition opens at The Box, Plymouth * Did humans evolve in a cultural ecology that was successful…
Die EU, der Balkan und transnationale Geschichtspolitik
Die Aufnahme der Republik Nordmakedonien in die EU ist schon einmal am anhaltenden Veto Griechenlands gescheitert. Nach einem erfolgreichen Kompromiss bringt sich nun das politische instabile Bulgarie…
Call for Films: Riga Pasaules Film Festival
Healing If the documentary’s vocation towards the truth is not merely to represent it, but in engaging the viewer beyond the film frame, what formal strategies make such…
Al-Jallad on Pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions
One of the foremost scholars of the pre-Islamic languages and inscriptions of the Arabian Peninsula is Dr. Ahmad al-Jallad. Here is a Youtube video of a lecture he…
Scholar, Mentor, Trailblazer: Linda Cordell’s Influence on Contemporary Archaeology
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray Intern 2020–2021 Women in archaeology have come a long way. They now comprise half of al…
El inmigrante como viajero que nunca llega
La foto es de Shailendra Pandey/Tehelka Comentario acerca de la “Disgresión sobre el extranjero”, de Georg Simmel, para Adela Nursi, doctoranda. EL INMIGRANTE COMO VIAJERO QUE NUNCA LLEGA…
Allying With Parasites to Fight Industrial Oil Palm
A Ganoderma fungus epidemic attacks oil palm trees at a plantation in Indonesian-controlled West Papua. Sophie Chao In October 2019, I traveled through an oil palm monocrop with…
Thomas Bierschenk: On Graeber on bureaucracy
David Graeber was certainly one of the most cited anthropologists of the early 21st century. More than a year after his untimely death, a substantive conversation about his…
Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale, “The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the…
Susanna Fioratta, “Global Nomads: An Ethnography of Migration, Islam, and Politics” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Countering the traditional narrative of “migration as crisis,” Global Nomads tells the story of a group of people for whom migration is not a symptom of a disordered…
Understanding blind running through participant sensation
The organization Running Blind matches people with visual impairments to a sighted runner. They run while both holding the ends of a tether. Marit Hiemstra explains how being…
West African Migration: The Dangers of a Single Story
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” Chimamanda Ngozi…
Baghdad in the 19th Century
A richly illustrated book in French from 1887 on Iraq and Persia has an incredible number of illustrations. The book can be downloaded here. I attach some of…
The Baraka of Wheat
This is a great idea. Back to the human roots of agriculture… Read about it here.
Brent Luvaas on his book, Street Style
Interview by Matthew Raj Webb https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/street-style-9780857855756 Matthew Raj Webb: Not so long ago, fashion showed up in anthropologists’ writing largely as a pejorati…
معرفی نظریه فرهنگ فقر اسکار لوییس
اسکار لوییس در سال ۱۹۱۴ در نیویورک متولد شد. او از دانشگاه کلمبیا در رشته‌ی مردم شناسی فارغ‌التحصیل شد و در بروکلین کالج و در دانشگاه واشنگتن به…