When a person with dementia moves into a nursing home, he/she is not only physically transferred from one location to another; the relocation also involves a reconfiguration of…
Hi all, I think this week’s highlight is the ‘new reports’ section with so many great new readings to discover!There’re also links to old men, Sean Penn &…
“My grandmother does a lot of ‘study (gongbu)’. Those are just some activities, but we named them ‘study’. What motivates her [to engage in those activities] is her…
Weil sie sich um die Förderung der Georgischen Sprache verdient gemacht haben, sind zwei Wissenschaftler der Goethe-Universität von der georgischen Präsidentin geehrt worden. Dr. Zakharia Pourtskhvani…
Copyright: Ognjen Kojanić Theory from the Peripheries: What Can the Anthropology of Postsocialism Offer to European Anthropology? published in the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures wa…
TAL Correspondent Sara Schmieder brings us an all new interview about the power of cemetery restoration, race in the American South, and bringing legacy to light. Dr. Ryan…
Letztes Jahr, zu Beginn des ersten digitalen Sommersemesters, regte unser Praktikant Vincenz Schmarsow an, ein Workbook zu Motivation zu verfassen. Das war in zweifacher Hinsicht vorausschauend: Er h…
María José Garrido Mayo es Doctora en Antropología, con especialización en Etnopediatría y Antropología de la maternidad y la infancia. También es Licenciada en Antropología Social y Cultural,…
One particularly warm morning in September 2020, I am looking at photographs and videos in the media depicting the aftermath of medicane (Mediterranean hurricane) Ianós that just rampaged…
Si algo caracteriza la maternidad en nuestra cultura[1] es la soledad que sienten las madres. La maternidad en nuestra sociedad es invisible, no se considera importante, no se…
Guest post by SAR members Russ and Diane Kyncl. This is our fifty-year …
Figure 1: Sebastjan’s philosophy notebook and writing space in Ljubljana, Slovenia “Curiously, our letters turned out to be not a mere sum of (theoretically discrete) elements but a…
Introduction Mónica, a 44-year-old woman, wakes up every morning thinking about the challenges ahead. Today, like every other day, she will prepare soup with noodles and rice for…
BySidali SidMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology Virtual reality was once a dream confined to science fiction and futurism, promising endless worlds at the touch of our synapses. These…
Back in 1990, when I was in my third year of graduate school, then-President H.W. Bush signed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) into law:…
La foto es de James Maher Fragmento del artículo “De la ciudad concebida a la ciudad practicada”, publicado en la revista Archipiélago, 62 (2004): 7-11 EL URBANISMO COMO…
Recognizing the absence of a God named Yahweh outside of ancient Israel, this study addresses the related questions of Yahweh’s origins and the biblical claim that there were…
ARIEL BINETH HUNGARY. The country has one of the highest death rates of COVID-19 globally.1 Hospitals are filled with ICU patients at some places outnumbering staff 5:1.2 Nurses…
Al hablar de patrimonio todos solemos imaginarnos aquellos monumentos y tesoros emblemáticos de nuestras ciudades, pueblos o países. En ellos se proyectan los discursos y el orgullo patrio…
What happens when film leaves the cinema and becomes available everywhere – out and about on mobile devices, or in the living room at home? The Graduiertenkolleg (Research…
La foto es Reuters Fragmento de Tomar las calles. La manifestación como ritual político, prólogo para Jofre Padullés y Joan Uribe, eds. La danza de los nadie. Pasos…
The author leads a teacher training seminar as part of a genocide education project run by the Documentation Center of Cambodia, a local nongovernmental organization heavily involved in Cambodia’…
An introductory note: In the short space of time that has elapsed since I first drafted this essay – in the last week of March 2021 – and…