El Alto. Indigeneity in an Aymara city
I am from El Alto, one of the youngest cities in Bolivia, not only because of its recent creation (1985), but also because at least 45% of its…
Women Have Hair, Men Have Nicknames: Remembering Jay Dautcher
When I first created this blog ten years ago, I had trouble deciding on a name for it. So I called Jay Dautcher, my multi-talented polyglot musician-climber-anthropologist friend…
Links & Contents I Liked 425
Hi all, Happy Friday, weekend & reading! From India’s farmers to Beijing Olympics, unequal partnerships between ‘North’ & ‘South’ and Singapore’s surveillance state we have another week of…
26.11.: Der chinesische Dichter Yang Lian zu Gast am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
Yang Lian zählt zu den renommiertesten chinesischen Dichtern der Gegenwart. Seine Werke, die Gedichte, Prosagedichte und Essays umfassen, sind innerhalb und außerhalb Chinas bekannt; sie wurden in vie…
Reconceived Values and Debilitating Village Forest Councils in Himalayan India
BySahib SinghPhD Anthropology ‘We will not give our Jal, Jangal, Zameen [water, forest, land]!’, the reverberations of which trailing off from an initially rising crescendo infectiously permea…
Lessons We Learn
“Lessons We Learn” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. The past flashes like…
The (Im)Possibility of Decolonizing Anthropology
When it comes to “decolonizing” Anthropology, diversity or decolonial initiatives often change very little or nothing at all. I suggest that anthropology is currently facing the dilemma of…
Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
On Atheists and Bonobos is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and primatologist Frans de Waal, Emory University, who is renowned for his work on the…
Ross Kane, “Syncretism and Christian Tradition” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Syncretism, even though, is an unavoidable phenomenon of religion, has a range of connotations. In Christian theology, the use of syncretism shifted from a compliment during the Reformation…
Att hålla tummarna på olika språk
Under läsningen av en spännande projektrapport stöter jag på företeelsen ”att hålla tummarna” och får veta att man gör detta på olika vis i grannländerna Finland och Sverige.…
Influencia del cambio climático en la salud humana
Read Time:10 Minute, 39 Second Los ecosistemas y la salud humana están en peligro a escala mundial a causa del cambio climático. Co…
What Industrial Societies Get Wrong About Childhood
[no-caption] ER Productions Limited Each year across the world, kids of roughly the same age are packed into classrooms and confined to desks with the intent of learning…
Aaron J. Jackson, “Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities” (U California Press, 2021)
Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the…
Gabriella Lukács, “Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy” (Duke UP, 2020)
In the wake of labor market deregulation during the 2000s, online content sharing and social networking platforms were promoted in Japan as new sites of work that were…
Haga vida sana: tírese por un barranco
Artículo publicado en El Periódico de Catalunya el 9 de agosto de 1993, a raíz de la fotografía que aquí reproduzco de Marta Ferrusola, esposa del presidente de…
Book Prize in Critical Anthropology!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to announce the 2021 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology!
Las espadas están en alto: posibles consecuencias de una guerra abierta entre Marruecos y Argelia
Read Time:2 Minute, 16 Second En el norte de África se encuentran las espadas en alto. Marruecos y Argelia conviven con una tensión…
International Development and Poetic Practice: An Online Classroom Activity
Anne Schiller – George Mason University Cultural anthropology courses frequently satisfy world cultures requirements, attracting enrollments from across the university. My 150-seat online introduct…
Making #2021AAABaltimore Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 25
What? November already? We cannot believe how the last two years have flown by. At the same time, it feels like a lifetime since we gathered in Vancouver…
Secrets of Power and other leadership lessons from Elizabeth I
Marissa Shrum and I talk from time to time. Today, we got talking about Elizabeth I. Today is November 17 and that makes it the anniversary of Elizabeth’s…
El marketing ama a los animales pero la humanidad los está perdiendo
El marketing ama a los animales pero la humanidad los está perdiendo. Frase muy cierta, nada irónica, y algo paradójica. En el consumo y la publicidad de los…
Enigmas of Corporeal Justice: Surrogacy and Legality in India
Over the last two decades, India has become a popular global destination for what is commonly referred to as reproductive tourism, wherein clients travel from one part of…
Book Review: Veganism: Politics, Practice and Theory by Eva Haifa Giraud
In Veganism: Politics, Practice and Theory, Eva Haifa Giraud examines current vegan practice to unpack the emerging and complex forces at play for the vegan movement. The book’s navigation of…
From Things and Stuff to Radically Optimist Multi-Modal Platform
On May 20, 2021, Felix Girke, a member of our editorial collective, gave a presentation in the framework of the workshop “Multimodal Digital Publishing” hosted by the Working…