پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ، جلسه نوزدهم، ترامپیسم و پیامدهای آن در جهان
مؤسسۀ انسانشناسی و فرهنگ نوزدهمین جلسه از پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ را با حضور ناصر فکوهی با موضوع «ترامپیسم و پیامدهای آن در جهان» برگزار میکند. دربارۀ موضوع…
„Dichtestress“ – Zur politischen Geschichte eines gegenwärtigen Gefühls
Vor kurzem noch ein politischer Kampfbegriff, bezeichnet „Dichtestress“ seit der Pandemie vor allem den Anstieg psychosozialer Belastungen im Privatraum. Die politischen Vektoren des Sprechens über Di…
5 Questions About Eating Like a Human
In this free live event, SAPIENS Media and Public Outreach Fellow Yoli Ngandali asks archaeologist, primitive technologist, and chef Bill Schindler about his new book, Eat Like a…
Learning Forensics, Applying Anthropology with Gabriella Campbell
It’s not everyday I get to talk with other anthropology podcasters, and even more infrequently that I get to talk with undergraduate anthropology podcasters. I’m joined on the…
New book chapter: ‚Place, the Locus of Alterity‘ by Marco Lazzarotti
Published in Space and Place as Human Coordinates: Rethinking Dimensions Across Disciplines, edited by Arianna Maiorani and C. Bruna Mancini, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Feral Atlas, a Review
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. 2021. Tsing, Anna L., Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. http://doi.org/10.21627/2020f…
Mourning Kin After the End of Cannibalism
Clockwise from top left: (1) Indigenous Wari’ dwellings in Amazonia, Brazil. (2) The author (middle) with her adopted father, Paletó (right), in 2012. (3) The author interviewing Wari’…
(Re)Understanding Human Need: Writing the Revised Edition
Hartley Dean discusses the intellectual journey that influenced the writing of his revised edition of Understanding Human Need. (Re)Understanding Human Need: Writing the Revised Edition I suspect that…
Don F. Selby, “Human Rights in Thailand” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Don F. Selby’s Human Rights in Thailand (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018) is a rich anthropological study of the emergence of human rights in Thailand at a national scale following the…
Andrew B. Kipnis, “The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China” (U California Press, 2021)
Today I spoke to Professor Andrew Kipnis about his book on social change in urban China from the perspective of funerals. In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on…
Maria Jose de Abreu, “The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil” (Duke UP, 2021)
In The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Duke University Press, 2021), Maria José de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemp… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Racismo sistémico, xenofobia y afrodescendencia en la República Dominicana. Particularidades de la provincia de La Romana Parte 1/3
Read Time:6 Minute, 32 Second En la presente investigación analizo el comportamiento marcadamente racista de amplios sectores de la…
Who Decides What We Measure in Health Tech?
At present, there are several problems in women’s health that still remain poorly characterized and understudied. In my research on one such issue, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), it is…
New Studies on History of Yemen
Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000–1600): Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds. Fabian Kümmeler, Judit Majorossy, and Eirik Hovden (Brill Publishing, November 20…
History, Historians, and Video Games
Caroline Wazer at Lapham’s Quarterly (via this on Metafilter), a discussion of three reviews of games in the Assassin’s Creed series in the American Historical Review, and video…
SAFN Student Awards!
2021 Award winners, Sucharita Kanjilal, Noha Fikry, Carolyn Mason, and Ileana Diaz Students! Have you been doing research or writing on food and nutrition? Would you like fame,…
Anna Tuckett on her book, Rules, Papers, Status
Interview by Dodom Kim https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29781 Dodom Kim: Rules, Papers, Status examines migration, legal citizenship, and the question of belonging in contemporary Italy….
Gravgårdsdidaktik
En disig eftermiddag i oktober var det dags att bege sig till Åbo begravningsplats för studenterna på kurserna Kulturanalys i teori och praktik och Etnografiska fältmetoder. Begravningsplatsen skulle…
Hannah Kirshner, “Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town” (Viking, 2021)
Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town (Viking, 2021) is memoir, ethnography, cookbook, and sketchbook rolled into one.” This is the Princet… Visit New Books…
HIV Letter
PIA KEELY-JOHNSON Dear Gavin Williamson, I am a queer woman living in London who, like more than 18.9 million people1 who sat down to watch Russell Davies’ hit show …
درگذشت مهلقا ملاح
عکاس: مهرداد اسکویی مهلقا ملاح مادر محیط زیست ایران درگذشت. او بنیانگذار جمعیت زنان مبارزه با آلودگی محیط زیست و پیشکسوتترین فعال محیط زیست کشور بود. از مهلقا…
درگذشت کامبیز درمبخش
کامبیز درمبخش طراح، کاریکاتوریست و گرافیست ایرانی و برندهٔ چندین جایزه بزرگ معتبر جهانی بر اثر ابتلا به کرونا درگذشت. وی برندهٔ جایزه از بزرگترین و معتبرترین مسابقات…
مصرف در مراکز خرید مدرن
مصرف در مراکز خرید مدرن؛ پژوهشی دربارهی پاساژ کورش در شهر تهران طرح موضوع در جامعهی مدرن، مصرف چگونه است؟ افراد جامعه بر چه اساس از یک کالا…
پارههای انسانشناسی جنگ و شهادت
انسان شناسی جنگ و شهادت، میثم مهدیار و سیروس ذوالفقاری، تهران، سوره مهر، ۱۳۹۸ این کتاب مجموعه مقالاتی است در حوزه فرهنگ شهادت و ایثار با نگاه انسان…