On Victor and Edith Turner’s “The Forest of Symbols”
In the mid-20th century, British anthropologists Victor and Edith Turner studied the Ndembu people of present-day Zambia. They wrote about their findings in their 1967 book The Forest…
Éxito mediático
Read Time:4 Minute, 7 Second Aristóteles dijo que el éxito tiene que ver con la excelencia y que ésta es un hábito que debemos trab…
Anthropology for Liberation assessments
Over the past few years I have been sharing the readings I assign for an undergraduate course I teach at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Anthropology for…
Selected Ho Chi Minh
Because I was looking for it online and could not see the contents pages, here are some rough snaps.
El pasado en el presente
La foto es de Amador Álvarez Final de Cultura de la violencia y violencia de la historia en Centelles, verano de 1936, Historia y fuente oral, 9 (1993),…
Alienated Labor, Sex Work, and Intimacy among Thai Sex Workers
I lived many years in Thailand where a subject of fascination for outsiders is the “sex industry.” I have of course known many people who were involved at…
Katy Highet takes the page 99 test
I wasn’t expecting my p. 99 – right in the middle of my methodology – to be particularly revealing. But as luck (or indeed Ford Madox Ford) would…
David McDermott Hughes, “Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity” (Duke UP, 2017)
In Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity (Duke University Press, 2017), David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the…
Mark D. Calder, “Bethlehem’s Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice” (Gorgias Press, 2017)
Mark D. Calder’s Bethlehem’s Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice (Gorgias Press, 2017) is anthropological study of Syriac Orthodox Christian identity in a time of displacement,…
Soluciones al problema de la vivienda
Read Time:5 Minute, 13 Second Por razones que no vienen al caso he tenido que dedicarme a la búsqueda activa de vivienda en alquile…
Mary E. John
Vor gut zehn Jahren habe ich mir für die Lehre in Berlin Mary E. John’s Reader “Women’s Studies in India” angeschafft. Jetzt habe ich sie hier in Delhi…
Mary E. John
Vor gut zehn Jahren habe ich mir für die Lehre in Berlin Mary E. John’s Reader “Women’s Studies in India” angeschafft. Jetzt habe ich sie hier in Delhi…
Broadening Demands for Reproductive Justice
An interview with anthropologist Dána-Ain Davis digs into abortion rights and reproductive justice after the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. ✽ On June 24, the…
Der lange Schatten fürsorgerischer Zwangsmaßnahmen in der Schweiz
Bis in die 1980er Jahre wurden in der Schweiz armutsbetroffene oder unangepasste Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene fremdplatziert und administrativ versorgt. Die psychischen, sozialen und finanzielle…
You Are What You Grow: Crops, Cultivation, and Caste in India
The allure of the onion Fieldwork can produce odd obsessions. As an anthropologist studying agrarian risk economies, mine was onions. In the central Indian region of Malwa where…
Megan Asaka, “Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City” (U Washington Press, 2022)
Seattle has a reputation as a city of Progressive values, but as Megan Asaka argues in Seattle From the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (U Washington…
Dígales a todos que he tenido una vida maravillosa
Read Time:7 Minute, 43 Second “Leemos mal el mundo, y después decimos que nos engaña” Rabindranath Tagore Son las 9:45 de la ma…
Do Mountains Have Souls?
An anthropologist explores the resurgence of “new Animism”—interest in spiritual practices that recognize the interrelationships among animals, places, plants, and people. This article was originally…
SAR Alumna Publishes Award-Winning Book on Community & Ethnic Change in South Central L.A.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (Sociology, USC), a 2017-2018 Weatherhead Fellow, was recently honored for a book written during her time at SAR. South Central Dreams: Finding Ho…
A Methodist in Palestine
In 1904 the proud D.D. Methodist Robert William van Schroik, at the age of 61, boarded a German steamer in New York for a 70-day trip to the…
Netta Avineri and Jesse Harasta on their edited volume, Metalinguistic Communities
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-76900-0 Last fall, we published a co-edited volume entitled Metalinguistic Communities: Case Studies of Agency, Ideology, and Symbolic Uses of …
Lecturers in Spanish, bioscience and educational science receive the 1822 University Prize for Excellence in Teaching
The 1822 University Prize for Excellence in Teaching was presented at Goethe University Frankfurt for the 21st time. A Spanish lecturer, a bioscience professor and an educational science…
Bubble
Ich bewege mich ganz vorwiegend in meiner Bubble rund um den Lodhi Garden. Ich wohne feudal, kann zur Arbeit durch den Park laufen, muss mich um nichts kümmern,…
Bubble
Ich bewege mich ganz vorwiegend in meiner Bubble rund um den Lodhi Garden. Ich wohne feudal, kann zur Arbeit durch den Park laufen, muss mich um nichts kümmern,…