
Happy new year Yamal style
First of all, happy new year to all our readers, followers, and a big thank you to all those who contribute to making this blog a success. This…
First of all, happy new year to all our readers, followers, and a big thank you to all those who contribute to making this blog a success. This…
2021 wasn’t quite the year we anticipated, nor does the conclusion of the year feel like it does justice to the warped sense of time, distance, and stasis…
Africa’s year 2021 was perplexing, horrendous, dramatic but also inspirational. It can be summed in the “two-ness” of the sojourn … More
A Contradiction in the Pluralist Approach of Marriage عشق و ازدواج، عشق و ازدواج، مثل اسب و کالسکه با هم میروند… ترانهای از سامی کان و جیمی…
در همهمهی فناوری پیشرفتهی تولید فیلم که پرشمار و پرمخاطباند، برخی فیلمها با مضامین اجتماعی و بیان بسیار ساده، همچنان خوش میدرخشند. «بلفاست» محصول کمپانی فیلم ایرلند شمالی…
انسان و حیوان: مردمشناسی انسان و حیوانات اهلی نوشته ژان پیر دیگار، ترجمه اصغر کریمی چه نسبتی میان زندگی ما آدمها و حیوانات و گیاهان پیرامون ما…
نادر انتخابی Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide. Hans-Lukas Kieser. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2018. 552 pp. کتاب هانس- لوکاس کیزر، پژوهشگر…
As another year draws to a close, it is hard not to think in larger terms of the course of the last century. The world has seen two…
Estos son los comentarios previos que mandé para preparar el espacio “El rincón y la esquina” que hago con Marta Sanz en el “Hoy por hoy” de la…
It has been 70 years since a life-size Father Christmas doll was burned in Dijon in protest against the “paganization” of Christmas. A year later, Claude Lévi-Strauss published…
By Danny Miller and Laura Haapio-Kirk 2021, despite its difficulties, has been a key year for the ASSA project. The high point for us was in May with…
Welcome on my annual overview of the most read posts on Closer. It was another year with COVID19 and lots of discussions on race, security and Salafism. Here…
A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City (NYU Press, 2020), edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca, is a collection of essays examining…
I get a lot of emails asking how I started the lab, how junior scholars might start labs, and how to transform existing labs. This post outlines how…
It sometimes happens that you just know…You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number of levels – obviously visual…
La foto és de David Suñol Consideracions per Alicia Santamaría, estudiant de Belles Arts de la UB, enviades el desembre de 2014. Les subcultures juvenils. Dissonància o ressonància?…
Read Time:1 Minute, 52 Second Decir que en España hay una democracia burguesa al estilo de aquellas que surgieron tras la revoluci…
The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of…
Have you ever stopped to think about your local grocery cooperative and what makes it different than, say Safeway or Giant or Whole Foods? That is, if you…
La fotografia prové de la pàgina reservedatalltimes.com/ Nota destinada als estudiants de Introducció a l’antropologia social per una presentació de l’etnozoologia com a disciplina. Enviada el 12/…
Interview by Irit Dekel Irit Dekel: Your recent book Defiant Discourse helps readers understand the relations between speech and action, revisiting important questions concerning the performat…
One tweet asks for help finding a hospital bed in Delhi, India’s capital. Another asks where to find oxygen. These tweets joined a sea of similar pleas for…
In Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (Duke UP, 2022), Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India’s microfinance industry, which in the past two decades has come to saturate the everyday ……
انسانشناسی اشیاء یکی از زیرشاخههای انسانشناسی است که اشیاء را از منظر انسانشناختی بررسی میکند. توجه به هویت و حافظهی اشیاء در بستر تاریخی، فرهنگی، دینی و… اهمیت…