Darnise C. Martin’s Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church (NYU Press, 2005) draws on rich ethnographic work in a Religious Science church in Oakland, California, to illuminate…
Drawing on the extensive empirical field research of six scholars of religion and politics, Vera Lazzaretti and Kathinka Frøystad’s Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence: Rethinking Religious Offence and Its…
Read Time:10 Minute, 10 Second El grado de satisfacción de una relación sexual depende, en gran medida, de la generación y mantenimient…
A biological and anthropological researcher explains how humans’ diverse ways of mating might have evolved. ✽ Marrying more than one person constitutes a crime across most of the…
Read Time:9 Minute, 48 Second La primera víctima de la guerra es la verdad, dijo presuntamente Esquilo en los tiempos en que vivió y te…
Die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention von 1951 steht heute als vermeintliches Relikt unter Beschuss. Oft vergessen wird dabei, dass sie als Lehre aus der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs entstand, als…
Prólogo para el libro Edmon Roch, “Películas clave del cine bélico”, publicado en 2009 por Man Non Troppo. TODAS LAS PELÍCULAS SON DE GUERRA Manuel Delgado No debería…
The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is honored to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $900,000 from the National Endowment for the…
Meet me at CES 2024! I’m helping launch the latest product from mui Lab, an award-winning creator of home devices based on Calm Technology principles. I’ve been advising…
Two biological anthropologists analyze archaeological and physiological evidence to debunk enduring assumptions about the gendered division of labor in ancient times. This article was originally publ…
Read Time:8 Minute, 55 Second Juan Vegazo, descubridor de la “ciudad ibero-romana de Ocuri”, dejó constancia en su cuaderno del hallazg…
Stefan George Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten.Mir blassen durch das dunkel die gesichterDie freundlich eben noch sich zu mir drehten. Und bäum und wege die ich liebte…
Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu (Kanaka ʻOiwi/Native Hawaiian) is a fifteen-year veteran of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, where she developed scores…
A poet-anthropologist conveys her life when she was coming of age under the increasing mobilization of military forces in Indian-occupied Kashmir. If you missed the introduction to “This…
SAPIENS’ 2023 poet-in-residence sketches the history she speaks to in three poems from Indian-occupied Kashmir. “Speak up for your lips are not sealed, and your words are still…
There is a growing industry of far-right comedy. What role does humour play in the mainstreaming and normalisation of the far right?
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-globally-familiar Eléonore Rimbault: Much of the energy of The Globally Familiar derives from your candid and involved focus on the young b-boys and rappers …
Read Time:8 Minute, 5 Second Las películas de Studio Ghibli, en especial las dirigidas por Hayao Miyazaki (Tokio, 1941), han dejado una…
Rita Kesselring’s important book Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Stanford University Press, 2017) seeks to understand the embodied and everyday effects of…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in bei der Universität Bielefeld (Literaturwissenschaft) – insbesondere interessant für Menschen mit einem Wunsch nach …
Totgesagte leben länger. Nach jahrelangem Streit um das Humboldt Forum hat die Macht des Faktischen gesiegt. Eine historische Bestandsaufnahme.
La foto es de Forrest Walker Notas para el espacio “El rincón y la esquina”, del “Hoy por hoy” de la Cadena SER, con Marta Sanz, del día…
2023 was, iirc, the second year I’ve set the goal of reading a book a week — and this year I managed to do it again! It was…
