Sahlins biography update: Work in July 2023
I’m renaming these posts so that they are less confusing. This update was written in August, published in September, but is about work I did in July, so…
Anticlericalismo y proceso de politización
Fusilamiento del monumento al Sagrado Corazón en el Cerro de los Ángeles de Madrid, julio de 1936 Fragmento de Anticlericalismo, espacio y poder. La destrucción de los rituales…
Michael Silverstein’s last book, Language in Culture
Ilana Gershon interviews Summerson Carr, Susan Gal, and Constantine Nakassis https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/language-in-culture/3D4F3FF1DE52DC7CDC5A5B34D21B8AF1#overview Il…
CFF: German International Ethnographic Film Festival (early bird deadline: 25 November)
The German International Ethnographic Film Festival (GIEFF) is celebrating its 17th edition from May 8th- 12th 2024 in Göttingen. We are pleased to announce the new call for…
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions – review
In The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions, Adam Kuper interrogates the history of anthropological museums and considers questions of colonialism, race, and …
Neglect of vaginal health in US health education
CAROLINE MOORE Dear Dr. Miguel Cardona, RE: Neglect of vaginal health in US health education I am writing as someone who was educated in the US through high…
Pole Dance: un viaje de ida y vuelta al mejor deporte del mundo
Read Time:10 Minute, 13 Second Naima Muñoz En este artículo abordaré brevemente la historia del pole dance desde sus inicios, desconoc…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW37
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Praktikumsstelle im Bereich Deutsche und Europäische Klimapolitik bei Germanwatch e.V. (Berlin & Bonn), ein wissenschaftliches Volontariat im LVR-Landesmuseum…
Attacks By Civilized Whites on the Natives
In the years following the Oregon Indian wars of the 1850s, there were continuous claims by settler for losses due to Indian depredations. The claims
سلبریتی
جاشوآ گامسون – دانشنامه بینالمللی علوم اجتماعی و رفتاری، برگردان: سمانه کوهستانی در کاربرد عامیانه، «سلبریتی» معمولاً به فرد مشهور یا بدنامی است که وجود و فعالیتهایش برای…
معرفی «مستند کاریز؛ تداوم حیات»
کاریز؛ تداوم حیات؛ کارگردان: محمدرضا مقدسیان، پژوهش: سهراب فرسیو، تهیهکننده: ابراهیم حسنخانی، مجموعۀ دوم از مجموعۀ چهار قسمتی آب و آبیاری سنتی در ایران، ۱۳۶۱-۶۳ «هر چه از…
Nicole Fabricant, “Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore” (U California Press, 2022)
Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods,…
Tiantian Zheng, “Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China” (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Based on ethnographic research with victims of intimate partner violence since 2014, Tiantian Zheng’s Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China (Bloomsbury, 2022) brings…
Isabel Machado, “Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile” (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a…
If commodities could speak… Amatav Ghosh drops a penny in his new book “Smoke and Ashes”
It is amazing to see the trinketization penny drop – more than 150 years after Marx had called it out – here is trinketization coming to consciousness, in…
#MeToo-Literatur? Sexualisierte Gewalt und die Antworten der Literatur
Handelt Gegenwartsliteratur von Machtmissbrauch, Sexismus und sexualisierter Gewalt, gilt sie als „#MeToo-Literatur“. Diese Bezeichnung hat ihre Fallstricke. Man kann sich aber fragen: Was leistet Lit…
Centro, periferia y margen en territorios urbanos
La foto es de Oriol Duran para El punt avui. Prólogo a Martin Lundsteen, La mezquita contestada. Islamofobia, racismo y capitalismo. Bellaterra, 2022. Centro, periferia y margen en territorio…
Jeanne K. Firth, “Feeding New Orleans: Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice” (UNC Press, 2023)
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many high-profile chefs in New Orleans pledged to help their city rebound from the flooding. Several formed their own charitable organizations, including the…
Zdenka Sokolickova, “The Paradox of Svalbard: Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic” (Pluto Press, 2023)
The town of Longyearbyen in the high Arctic is the world’s northernmost settlement. Here, climate change is happening fast. It is clearly seen and sensed by the locals;…
Kenney sensei…
Kenney sensei and two of her students 1998 Elizabeth Kenney was my teacher, colleague and dear friend. She supported me in so many ways since I met her…
Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities
Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclin…
Links & Contents I Liked 491
Hi all,Last week I received a very nice message on LinkedIn from a reader whose Masters thesis research was inspired by something she read in my weekly #globaldev review-a…
Menus without calorie information should be available in all restaurants in the UK
NINA DYNE Neil O’Brien MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Primary Care and Public Health), House of Commons,LondonSW1A 0AA Menus without calorie information should b…
Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler, “Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science” (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Where does morality fit into contemporary social science? In Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science (U Chicago Press, 2023), Shai Dromi, an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and Samuel Stabler Associate…