In the Journals, September 2021, Part 1 by Anna Zogas
Rounding out September’s In the Journals compilation, here are several more articles of interest. See also these Special Issues on “Island Imaginaries” and “Beyond the Product…
Call for Films: CULTUREELS Ethnographic film festival
CULTUREELS – Ethnographic Film Festival focuses on anthropological and ethnographic documentaries. The aim of the film festival is to promote awareness of anthropological themes to a wider audi…
Anthropological Speculative Fiction: The Ice of Thalassis
By Esther Stoppani 001897 The first thing I feel upon waking is the cold; the freezing-hot sensation of blood rushing in my veins. My head feels gummy, and…
RG China(s) Colloquium: Winter Semester Program
Next up: February 25, 2022: Cheryl Schmitz (MPIWG Berlin) – “Indebtedness, Predation, and Mistrust in Chinese-Angolan Transactions” – More info in the post!
Preserving Black Women’s Stories as a Labor of Love
Irma McClaurin holds up her first book, Women of Belize: Gender and Change in Central America. Ray Carson/University of Florida Photographic Services, 1996. Used with permission of University…
Podcast Episode: Lena Kaufmann on rural migration and agro-technological change
NEW! A new TechnoViews podcast with anthropologist Lena Kaufmann discussing her new book on rural migration and agro-technological change in contemporary China. Available on major streaming platforms …
29. Oktober / Symposium an der Goethe-Uni beschäftigt sich mit Prozess gegen Sokrates
Der Prozess gegen Sokrates hat die Menschheit immer schon fasziniert. Allerdings ist die fast einzige Quelle für das mit der Hinrichtung des Philosophen endende Verfahren die Apologie Platons.…
Emma Dowling, “The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?” (Verso, 2021)
What is the future of care? In The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? (Verso, 2021), Emma Dowling, an associate professor at the Institute for Sociology…
66 On Multi-Species Community: A Critical Conversation with Patricia Alvarez Astacio (Gina T, John P)
Octopus month has morphed seamlessly into Multispecies month here at RtB, bringing with it not only last week’s piece on chimpanzees, but also this sparkling conversation about all sorts…
Cheikh Anta Babou, “The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making” (Ohio UP, 2021)
The construction of collective identity among the Muridiyya abroad is a communal but contested endeavor. Differing conceptions of what should be the mission of Muridiyya institutions in the…
Katherine Young, “Turbulent Transformations: Non-Brahmin Śrīvaiṣṇavas on Religion, Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu” (Orient Blackswan, 2021)
Katherine Young, Turbulent Transformations: Non-Brahmin Śrīvaiṣṇavas on Religion, Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu (Orient Blackswan, 2021) studies the interlinking of religious, social and p… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Alex E. Chávez, “Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño” (Duke UP, 2017)
In Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño (Duke UP, 2017), Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression m… Visit New…
PoLAR Book Reviews Editor
Incoming Co-Editors of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) journal, Sindiso Mnisi Weeks and Georgina Ramsay, are inviting…
Therapeutic looking glass
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Therapeutic practice exposed society in its many facets to health practitioners providing treatment to women survivors of the Kosovo War. Like a mirror, it provided an image…
Co-signature Event Context: Toward a Participatory Electronic Health Record
Stacks of paper records. Photo credit: Wesley Tingey, Unsplash The days of doctors scratching illegible notes in charts fated to hide in obscure files never read by another…
Sobre las políticas urbanísticas de dispersión de pobres
La foto es de Tanvi Misra para CityLab Final de “El miedo al gueto (o por qué se procura evitar la concentración excesiva de pobres en la ciudad)”.…
Egypt in 1876
The British diplomat Sir Valentine Chirol (1852-1929) wrote a memoir entitled Fifty Years in a Changing World (New York: Harcourt and Brace, 1928). Among the areas in the…
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…