The ISIS Flag Hoax
A fascinating commentary by Ahmed El Shamsy on the ISIS flag logo as a hoax from a 19th century forged letter attributed to Muhammad. Check it out here.
“Of Peccaries and People: Perception and Politics in the Texas Hill Country” RAI Anthropology and Conservation Conference Talk 2021
On October 27, I presented some of my preliminary research at the Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2021 Anthropology and Conservation conference at the “Living with Diversity in a More-t…
Unvoreingenommener Blick auf die arabische Welt
Der Kartograph und Mathematiker Carsten Niebuhr beteiligte sich Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts an einer beschwerlichen Expedition in den arabischen und vorderasiatischen Raum. Seine Erkenntnisse und Erfah…
Paper: Anthropological notes on digital & transport infrastructures in remote communities
Budka, P. (2021). Anthropological notes on digital and transport infrastructures in remote communities. Paper at Anthropology of Technology Conference, Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University, 4-5 Novembe…
Riot
“The Voice of Diaspora” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. Her arm is…
Chia-Rong Wu, “Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-Cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan” (Cambria Press, 2020)
In the past four hundred years, the cultural position of Taiwan has been undergoing a series of drastic changes due to constant political turmoil. From the early seventeenth…
Jovan Scott Lewis, “Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
There is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change when those perceived rich are elderly white North Americans and…
Ny bog ude!
Hvem er vi? Vi ved ikke, før vi ved!SÅDAN ER DET BARE – antropologiske perspektiver på oplevelser og reaktioner på racialisering i Danmark “Sådan er det bare” er…
Lo urbano como desacato
La foto es de Francesc Melcion, para www.ara.cat Reseña de La producción del espacio, de Henri Lefebvre (Capitan Swing, 2013), publicado en Babelia, suplemento cultura de El País, el…
SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
Sucharita Kanjilal, 2021 Student Research Award Winner SAFN is pleased to award the 2021 Student Research Award to Sucharita Kanjilal for her project, “A homemaker’s diary: Caste, clas…
Anthropologies Of Truth And Deception: Forward To The Past!!
Prof. Anand Singh Anthropology, School of Social Sciences University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus singhan@ukzn.ac.za As we approach the date set for the IUAES 2023 Congress questions contin…
Editorial Número 8/Noviembre/2021
Read Time:1 Minute, 52 Second El nuevo número arranca con un noviembre que nos indica que ya estamos en pleno otoño, camino del inv…
Skadet skrift – om misbruk av runer
Runer er historiske skrifttegn som vekker kulturhistorisk interesse og kreativt engasjement, nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Opprinnelig var runer et felles alfabet for germanske folkeslag, skapt ved be…
Five Breakthrough Signs of Early Peoples in the Americas
A lot of ink has been spilled in archaeological debates about the human occupation of the continents known today as North and South America. When did people arrive?…
Carlos M. Piocos, “Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration” (Routledge, 2021)
In Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration (Routledge, 2021), Carlos M. Piocos explores the politics of gendered labor migration in Southeast Asia through the stories and… Visit New Books…
Doing an Ethnography of Policing: In Conversation with Sarah Brayne
How has the use of big data and algorithms changed policing and police surveillance? On this episode, we speak with Dr. Sarah Brayne, Assistant Professor of Sociology at…
Learning from Desert Dwellers: Patty Limerick and C. J. Alvarez on Life in a Desert Nation
Drought is now a way of life. As a result, argue Patty Limerick and C. J. Alvarez in their recent Washington Post article, people throughou…
Cultura urbana i cultura urbanística
La foto es de Jenxi Resum de la classe del dia 3/10/2017 de la asignatura Antropología de los Espacios Urbanos del Máster de Antropología y Etnografía de la…
The Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right 2021 Award Winner!
Ileana I. Diaz, 2021 Thomas Marchione Award Winner SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2021 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Ileana Diaz, of the University…
Del espectáculo como sustituto de la realidad
Read Time:2 Minute, 24 Second Hace un par de días viví, no sin asombro, cómo alguien amenazaba con tirarse desde un cuarto piso. No…
Why English Might Let Go of “He” and “She”
Pronouns are giving us trouble. English speakers face a dilemma. The current structure of our language is exclusionary with regard to gender: The personal pronouns “she” and “he”…
Bernard Scott, “Cybernetics for the Social Sciences” (Brill, 2021)
On this episode, I have the great pleasure of finally getting to talk with one of the “unsung heroes” of cybernetics, whose work has finally begun to receive…
واژگان تخصصی دریدا
مقدمه در مراجعه و مطالعۀ کتب مربوط به دریدا، دائماً احساس میکردم که ایکاش کتابی وجود داشت که تمام اصطلاحات و واژگان تخصصی این حیطه را پوشش میداد؛…
نگاهی به بیرون از ژرفا؛ بازنگری جایگاه اجتماعی زن
خانواده زن را «میسازد» چگونه میتوان جولیت میچل، نویسنده و روانکاو مارکسیست فمینیستی را که بیست سال پیاپی است نسبت روانکاوی و فمینیسم را مورد پژوهش و فعالیت…