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Letters always, according to Lacan, reach their destination. We all write with others, even or especially when we sit down to make work that is classified as a…
Letters always, according to Lacan, reach their destination. We all write with others, even or especially when we sit down to make work that is classified as a…
In this forum, five scholars from different but intersecting fields of historical research engage with Hannah Zeavin and Jeremy Greene’s recent books on telehealth and telemedicine. As all…
Replik von Judith Purkarthofer (Universität Duisburg-Essen) und Christoph Schroeder (Universität Potsdam)[1], Februar 2024 In unserem Initialbeitrag haben wir versucht, die Anforderungen an mehrsprach…
Read the final part of “Seu and the ruffled bird catcher”, translated into German.
Philosophical concepts are influential in the theories and methods to study the world religions. Even though the disciplines of anthropology and religious studies now encompass communities and cultures…
Read Time:7 Minute, 43 Second Cuando escuché Bijou por primera vez, tenía nueve años y apenas conciencia de quién era Queen ni de su re…
Neni PanourgiáJustice-in-Education Initiative, Heyman Center for the HumanitiesColumbia University The Beginning My father would cut the bread against his chest. Winter or summer, dressed for d…
Top Prize in Scholarship and Writing in Anthropology Awarded for Book That “Shows How Faith Is ‘Kindled’, or Intentionally Brought into Being” Santa Fe, New Mexico—The School for…
Subhash Walimbe Rtd. Faculty, Deccan College PGRI, Pune 411 006 subhashwalimbe@gmail.com Preamble Sometime back I was invited by an old age home in their monthly lecture program to…
Anthropology is a personal journey for many. Students learn to see society and their own lives in a different light, reflecting on many things that before were taken…
In a brief documentary, an anthropologist provides a glimpse into the precarious lives of poor older Peruvians whose experiences mirror those of countless elders around the world. ✽…
Religious Minorities Online (RMO) is the premier academic resource on religious minorities worldwide, reflecting the state of the art in scholarship. It is written by leading scholars and is…
In der vergangenen Woche ließ uns eine Pressemeldung aufhorchen: Rolf Wiese, Vorsitzender des Museumsverbandes für Niedersachsen und Bremen, sagte dem Evangelischen Pressedienst: „Wir benötig…
Read Time:4 Minute, 13 Second – En 2022, un artículo publicado en Fuera de Serie, “la revista más sofisticada para los amantes de…
Photo from Japan Today, 3/13/24. “Good Manners” Picture of the Day at Japan Today (3/13/24). Caption reads: A poster on the wall of a subway station in Tokyo…
در مقالۀ «غرامت جنگی ایران از عراق؛ نگاه تاریخی، موانع و راهکارهای حقوقی» به شکل مستند و قابل اعتنا تر به دلایل تاریخی و معاصر وقوع جنگ میان…
Der mit einem Oscar preisgekrönte Film „The Zone of Interest“ erzählt das Alltagsleben des KZ-Kommandanten Höß und seiner Familie, die direkt neben dem Konzentrationslager Auschwitz wohnten. Doch lass…
The course “Digital Visuality and Popular Culture” for the MA program CREOLE at the University of Vienna provides an overview about digital visuality as a key phenomenon of…
On a visit to feline-friendly Turkey, an anthropologist considers what long-standing practices of caring for cats reveal about human societies. ✽ While visiting eastern Turkey to climb Mount…
Vad är det första du tänker på när du hör orden ”akademisk årsfest”? Kanske du tänker på årsfestmarskalker som bankar sin stav i golvet? Kanske de otaliga reglerna…
In Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013:: An Anthropological Approach (Routledge, 2023), Emilie Le Febvre takes us to the Naqab Desert where Bedouin use photographs to make, and…
Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed…
Bedtime stories are stories narrated by adults to children before they fall asleep. As an essential parenting skill, the storytelling scene is infused with love and trust. These…
Door Thijl Sunier – De recente ongeregeldheden in Den Haag waarbij Eritrese demonstranten slaags raakten met de politie, leidden in de media en aan de talkshowtafels tot verhitte…