Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising The story of a boy caught up in the forgotten war for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979. During the Iranian revolution,…
A House on Water – A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran
A House on Water – A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran Kameel Ahmady Published May 16, 2022 This fieldwork study supports the view…
A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran
A House on Water A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran 978-620-5-49696-1 The religious and traditional stratum of the Iranian society performs sigheh /…
Ethics, Utopia and Materiality: Glimpses of Everyday Creativity and Hope in Indonesian Papua
The Asmat are an indigenous people of Indonesian Papua and are renowned for their artistic carving flair and complex life-cycle rituals. They also have big ambitions that reach…
Sanjeev Routray, “The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi” (Stanford UP, 2022)
In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city…
Deniz Yonucu, “Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul” (Cornell UP, 2022)
In Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022), Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual…
Unsung Native Collaborators in Anthropology
Anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Margaret Mead could not have achieved success without their local assistants’ insider knowledge and extensive labor. ✽ Growing up a Brown girl…
See You Later, Thick Data – Part 5
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”.…
Three guest lectures
This semester we are proud to host two cutting-edge anthropology scholars as visiting professors here at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, Lapland: Hiroki Takakura, Center for Northeast Asian…
Camilla Hawthorne, “Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean” (Cornell UP, 2022)
Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022) is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there…
Vibha Joshi, “A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India” (Berghahn Books, 2012)
‘Nagaland for Christ’ and ‘Jesus Saves’ are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, north-east India. They express an idealization of Christian homogeneity…
Alan Warde et al., “The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change” (Manchester UP, 2020)
Dining out used to be considered exceptional. However, the Food Standards Authority reported that in 2014, one meal in six was eaten away from home in Britain. Previously…
Why AI Will Never Fully Capture Human Language
Researchers in artificial intelligence have made extraordinary strides in mimicking human language—but they still can’t capture the parts that truly make language human. ✽ The story begins with…
Espacios otros
La foto es de Elena Panzetta y está tomada de http://www.elenapanzettaphotography.com/2012/02/las-transformaciones-de-poble-nou.html Prólogo para Stavros Stavrides, Hacia la ciudad de umbrales, Ak…
Mit Hauskatzen den „Orks“ standhalten. Ein Gespräch über die Hilfe für Überlebende in der Ukraine
Der russische Angriffskrieg und jüngst die Raketenangriffe gegen städtische Zentren bedrohen Hunderttausende in der Ukraine. Wie kann man den Menschen helfen, die auf der Flucht im Nirgendwo leben…
SAFN in Seattle at AAA 2022!
Join SAFN at AAA this November in Seattle! We look forward to welcoming Dr. Mythri Jegathesan as our invited speaker at the SAFN + C&A reception on Friday night at Zaika restaurant just…
Über Jazz
I’ve argued (in Pantomime Terror) that Adorno wrote ‘Über Jazz’ as a way to talk about Nazi marching music. People forget that – even though by then he…
China – do we care?
Some of us Arctic anthropologists may not have China on the immediate radar of their interest. However, China has become an increasingly important player in the Arctic, through…
LGBTQ
Heute morgen beim Frühstück sassen am Nachbartisch zwei Freund_innen und unterhielten sich wohl über ihre Kinder. Auf einmal höre ich “eine echte Frau” und “lgtbq”. Da habe ich…
LGBTQ
Heute morgen beim Frühstück sassen am Nachbartisch zwei Freund_innen und unterhielten sich wohl über ihre Kinder. Auf einmal höre ich “eine echte Frau” und “lgtbq”. Da habe ich…
Der Weg ist das Ziel: Huberta Weigls Geschichte von wissenschaftlichem und unternehmerischem Erfolg jenseits der Universität
Huberta Weigl ist studierte Betriebswirtin und promovierte Kunsthistorikerin. Nachdem sie zunächst eine Laufbahn als Wissenschaftlerin eingeschlagen hat, ist sie heute Unternehmerin. Nach mehrfac…
Discovering wellbeing traditions in the Czech Republic
ByJosephine PlattMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2021–2023 A limp, plastic sack is waiting for me on a therapy bed, and I’m being gestured to strip off and climb…
Research Assistant positions in natural and social sciences
CLEAR is hiring multiple part-time (8-30 hours/week, flexible) research assistant positions to work on a variety of projects in the natural and social sciences.