Black Japanese: the African Diaspora in Japan
Written by Neil Turner Almost three decades ago, while at graduate school in California studying anthropology, I had a colleague …
Piers Kelly on his book, The Last Language on Earth
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-last-language-on-earth-9780197509913 Carolina Rodriguez Alzza: Could you tell how was your first approach to the Eskaya language, and how did Eskaya…
Benjamin Lorr, “The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket” (Penguin, 2020)
This episode of the New Books in Economic and Business History is an interview with New York writer Benjamin Lorr. Benjamin Lorr is the author of Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain,…
Here’s to a better 2024…
I arrived at Ubusuna Jinja shortly after midnight. On my way I could smell the smoke from the two blazing barrel fires at the shrine. The rain had…
There and back again
The East Cape road heading to Cabo Pulmo. Around 2012. Photo: Ryan B. Anderson. It’s fitting that I’m writing my last post for this site in Cabo Pulmo,…
Arabian Nights: abriged too far (longest-kept trinket-exotica)
The 1821 Galland version of the Thousand and One Nights. “slightly abridged” with eight full colour drawings by Joan Kiddel-Monroe. 1965 reprint, Dent & Sons. …
Kathleen Klaus, “Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Kathleen Klaus, Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco has written a terrific book, Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making published in 2020…
Anaïs Nin to Edgard Varèse.
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Last post of the year 2023
By the SpW editorial team – Tidings When the dead call at your doorGive them sweets and presents,Candlelight and hot chocolateDon’t be afraid butWish them goodwillThey will pass…
Brazil is going to eat you up! {part 5}: trying to not eat myself
This is not an academic text. Wow. It has been several months since I last posted something here in AD. It’s kinda weird trying to survive a pandemic…
محیط‌شناسی زبان‌ها
لویی ژان کالوه / برگردان ناصر فکوهی لوی – ژان کالوه (Louis-Jean Calvet) استاد زبان‌شناسی دانشگاه پرووانس است آخرین اثر او: مقالاتی دربارۀ زبان‌شناسی: آیا زبان یک ابداع…
آخرین پناهگاه فرهنگ است (گفتگو با دکتر قطب‌الدین صادقی)
زهرا اسماعیل‌زاده دکتر قطب الدین صادقی نیاز به معرفی ندارد او نویسنده و کارگردان تئاتر – بازیگر و استاد دانشگاه و عضو فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی و…
نقد مارکسیسم ارتدکس در تحلیل پدیدۀ انقلاب
تاریخ عبارت است از وقوع و خودآگاهی از وقوع، و پدیدۀ انقلاب به مثابۀ بنیادی‌ترین و عمیق‌ترین وجه خودآگاهی انسان از خود، دیگری، جامعه و طبیعت حدوث می‌یابد…
فراسوی تکنولوژی؛ فشارهای پنهان بر بدن زنان در لقاح مصنوعی
تکنولوژی‌های تولید مثل نقش مهمی در زندگی زنان و بهترشدن آن دارند؛ معمولاً در دفاع از تکنولوژی گفته می‌شود که آن‌ها به جنبه‌های پرخطر در به دنیا آوردن…
Religion und Vorurteil: Islamophobie
Islamophobie bezieht sich auf eine negative oder feindselige Haltung, Vorurteile, Diskriminierung oder Feindseligkeit gegenüber dem Islam und gegenüber Muslim*innen als Individuen oder als Gruppe. Di…
Healthcare in the age of inequality
I had just begun my year of social service when I met a patient I will never forget. Let’s call her María. She was around 50 years old…
CELEBRATING TRANSGRESSION
Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of CulturesA book in Honour of Klaus Peter Koepping Edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk 2005 rao_15hutnykDownload
2023 in Review
Image from https://stock.adobe.com/. Welcome to CASTAC 2023 in review! In this post you will read about the wonderful work that our CASTAC team and community has put together.…
The Path to Long-term Happiness: A New Theory on Mental Health and Neurodiversity
The traditional view of mental health often focuses on the absence of mental illness, but a new theory is emerging that emphasizes the importance of neurodiversity and individual…
Antti Lindfors Interviews Nicole Starosielski on Media Hot and Cold
This is a conversational interview between Professor Nicole Starosielski (UC Berkeley) and me, Dr. Antti Lindfors (University of Helsinki), discussing Nicole’s book Media Hot and Cold (2022, Duke…
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins on her book, Waste Siege
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27959 Hazal Corak: Waste Siege focuses on multiple forms of waste which accumulate and assume political status in Palestine. It introduces us to waste profe…
Jafari S. Allen, “There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life” (Duke UP, 2022)
In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life (Duke UP, 2022), Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what…
Sukhmani Khorana, “Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency” (Bristol UP, 2023)
Sukhmani Khorana’s book Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency (Bristol UP, 2023) unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around…
No existen paisajes naturales
La foto es de Edas Wong Consideraciones para Christianne Gomes, investigadora invitada de la Universidade Federal Fluminense No existen paisajes naturales Manuel Delgado Ya le comenté lo de…