Friendship is Kinship from Another Mother
Friendship is kinship by another mother. (This was originally published on-line as a guest blog in the International Culture and Cognition Institute. ) Why is this so important…
Everyday War: How Small Intimate Moments Shape Wartime Realities in Ukraine with Greta Uehling
How do civilians strategically engage with conflict while seeking everyday peace? How do power dynamics and asymmetries impact the ability of civilians to strategically engage with conflict while…
Treasure Hunters Pose Problems for Archaeologists
Two scholars discuss the challenges of accurately studying underwater archaeological heritage—among them, unauthorized acquisitions. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has …
Authorship in the post-academic, post-human age
In 1964, when describing the threshold for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said that while he couldn’t define precisely what constituted…
Reflectie op de Nederlandse verkiezingen: Links snurkt en navelstaart – net als antropologen
Door Wiebe de Jong – Een aardverschuiving in de Nederlandse politiek, radicaal-rechts krijgt voet aan de grond in de polder, Nederland neemt een ruk naar rechts. Dit zijn…
Karrieretag an der Uni Bonn
Jeweils im Wintersemester läd der Career Service der Universität Bonn im Rahmen des Dies Academicus zum Karrieretag Studierende, Absolvent*innen und alle Interessierten ein, sich mit den Theme…
Medical anthropology: Global health and social inequalities
The Covid-19 pandemic showed how closely connected health issues are to global contexts and social inequalities. Medical anthropologists study these connections and examine the impact on individual a…
محکومکردن خشونت
نویسنده: جودیت باتلر، ترجمه: سپیده پارساپژوه سوالاتی که بیشترین نیاز را به گفتگو عمومی دارند، سوالات اضطراری، موضوعاتی هستند که به سختی میشود در چارچوبهای موجود در موردشان…
خردهفرهنگهای «اقلیتی» و سبک زندگی: روندها و چشماندازها در ایران (بخش۲)
خردهفرهنگهای اقلیتی در جهان در حال توسعه موقعیت در کشورهای در حال توسعه هر چند به دلیل فرایند جهانیشدن در همان مسیر پیش میرود، اما بنا بر کشور…
#Stoffwechsel. Eine proto-ökologische Kategorie der Energie- und Materialwende in der Architektur
Die aktuellen Diskussionen zur Energie- und Materialwende in der Architektur bilden Themenfelder, die als Stoffwechselprobleme des 21. Jahrhunderts verstanden werden müssen. Zeit, sich auf die Anfänge…
AABA Statement supporting Trans Lives
The AABA, along with several other organizations, has just released a statement in support of trans lives. Here’s an excerpt: The American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the American…
Sex, Lies, and Science Wars
The Mead-Freeman controversy reaches its climax. Scientists, scholars, and Samoans debate the nature of sexuality, culture, and truth. After anthropologist Derek Freeman publishes Margaret Mead and S…
teilnehmende beobachtung
ungeplant habe ich gestern teilnehmende beobachtung im gesundheitswesen gemacht. fahrradsturz am vormittag. abends noch schmerzen, also zum kassenärztlichen notdienst im lokalen krankenhaus. und …
teilnehmende beobachtung
ungeplant habe ich gestern teilnehmende beobachtung im gesundheitswesen gemacht. fahrradsturz am vormittag. abends noch schmerzen, also zum kassenärztlichen notdienst im lokalen krankenhaus. und …
Charlotte Al-Khalili, “Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023)
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023) by Dr. Charlotte Al-Khalili explores the Syrian revolution through the experiences of citizens in exile.…
Memorial de futuro
La fotografía procede de http://radiodx.es/ Artículo aparecido en El Pais el 25 de marzo de 2008, con motivo del estreno de la película de Jesús Garay “Mirant al cel”. …
Algorithmic Imaginations in Agriculture: Automation?
In 2022, I was conducting my doctoral dissertation research on data-driven, automated digital farming technologies (drones, autosteering, sensors, GIS, smartphones, Big Data) in Turkey. Amidst the glo…
A Walla Walla Band Visits the Oregon Institute: A Battle Creek Story
Recently, I was made aware of another alternative story of the Battle of Battle Creek. Previously, I published an essay about stories of Klamath and
Brücken bauen, Netze spannen
Vernetzung in der deutschsprachigen Religionswissenschaft — das Projekt „Mapping Religionswissenschaft: Vernetzen, Vertiefen, Sichtbarmachen“ Wissenschaft lebt von kritischer Auseinandersetzung. D…
Matthew Wolf-Meyer discusses his book, Unraveling
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/unraveling Toni Nieminen: First of all, thank you! Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age is a brilliant and a profound piece of w…
Carl Gösta Widstrand 1928-2023, in memoriam
NOTIS. I november dog Carl Gösta Widstrand i Ottawa, Canada. Han var född i december 1928, ochblev alltså nästan 95 år gammal, skriver Ulf Hannerz i en kort…
Sayan Dey, “Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean” (Anthem Press, 2023)
Usually, discourses on the planetary evolution and the movements of slaves remain restricted within the narratives and scholarships of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and hardly engage with the…
Ceri Houlbrook, “‘Ritual Litter’ Redressed” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Ritual deposition is not an activity that many people in the Western world would consider themselves participants of. The enigmatic beliefs and magical thinking that led to the…