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Johanna O. Zulueta, “Okinawan Women’s Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei” (Routledge, 2022)

The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed a…

  • Post date 30th September 2022
  • Post author By New Books Network

The politics of nerves

The politics of nerves “All of us are nervoz since the war.” “How can we not feel nervoz after what we went through?” Women who had survived the…

  • Post date 30th September 2022
  • Post author By Hanna Kienzler

Nuchatlaht First Nation fights to reclaim territory in landmark court case

 Global BC reporter, Kylie Stanton, interviewed me for her story on the Nachatlaht rights and title case. Here is her story.    The full transcript of my comments,…

  • Post date 29th September 2022
  • Post author By Charles Menzies

Paper: Infrastructural sustainability?

I did prepare the paper “Infrastructural sustainability?” for the Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2022 and the session “Infrastructure and the Built Environment in the Anthropocene…

  • Post date 29th September 2022
  • Post author By philbu

Study Study Study – then read like Bhagat Singh

Most interesting post of the day, and by far, has been this attached article on Bhagat Singh and anarchism, shifting to socialism. A few points fist though. I…

  • Post date 29th September 2022
  • Post author By john hutnyk

Sliding through life

On a chilly afternoon in April of 2016, Lana and I were about to embark on a ride through Saint Petersburg’s bustling downtown, so she was instructing me…

  • Post date 29th September 2022
  • Post author By Tatiana Rabinovich

Merrick Daniel Pilling, “Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

In Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice (Palgrave Macmillan), Merrick D. Pilling urges those invested in social justice for 2SLGBTQ people to interrogate the biomedical model of mental…

  • Post date 29th September 2022
  • Post author By New Books Network

Robinson Crusoe – 1902

This version of Robinson Crusoe, by the immortal Georges Méliès, was made 1902. This 12 and a half minute hand-coloured nitrate print was rediscovered and restored in 2011.…

  • Post date 29th September 2022
  • Post author By john hutnyk

With So Few Farmers, Why Are Video Games About Farming So Popular?

An archaeologist considers what farming simulators reveal about humanity’s ancient and evolving relationship with agriculture. ✽ “I hate when I have to harvest at night,” my husband complained…

  • Post date 29th September 2022
  • Post author By Keridwen Cornelius

El habitus como participación en la gracia del Espíritu Santo

“Apoteosis de Santo Tomás de Aquino”, de Francisco de Zurbarán (1631) Comentario para Marta Vencesalo, en el marco de un proceso de elaboración teórica compartido. EL HABITUS COMO…

  • Post date 29th September 2022
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado

Devotas astucias

Propuesta de comunicación para el II Congreso de la AIBR  DEVOTAS ASTUCIAS La piedad religiosa como resistencia a la dominación masculina en la obra de Galdós Manuel Delgado …

  • Post date 29th September 2022
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado

Domestication and the new mythology of human “perfectibility”

In 2007, a psychiatrist, Martin Brüne, wrote an essay “On human self-domestication, psychiatry, and eugenics” published in the journal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, in which he…

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By Helga Vierich

CFP: Visual Anthropology panel on Photography at RAI 2023 (deadline: 31 October)

It is with great pleasure that conveners Richard Fraser, Christian Vium and Peter I Crawford invite you to submit a paper to the upcoming RAI 2023 Film Festival…

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By Peter I. Crawford

The dark humor of PhD life

Dark humor internet memes on Twitter show some of the emotions PhD students experience during their trajectory. This digital ethnographic blog reflects on these memes and what they…

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By Leidenanthropologyblog

Reflecting on misconceptions about conservation

21 September 2022. It was an intensive day at the storage facility of the Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt…

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By Blog - IndiGen - LMU Munich

Neubau für Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Goethe-Universität eingeweiht

In einem Festakt weihten heute Universitätspräsident Prof. Enrico Schleiff, der hessische Finanzminister Michael Boddenberg und Ayse Asar, Staatssekretärin im Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft u…

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By -

Wendy Simonds, “Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization” (Routledge, 2016)

In Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization (Routledge, 2016), Wendy Simonds analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalization: the dynamic processes by which medical authorities, institutions, and ideologies impact our everyday…

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By New Books Network

Zachary Levenson, “Delivery As Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City” (Oxford UP, 2022)

In Dispossession as Delivery: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City (Oxford University Press; 2022), Zachary Levenson explains why post-Apartheid South Africa continues to evict land occupations. Levenson shows…

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By New Books Network

Was Our Skin Meant for the Sun?

An anthropologist examines the history of human skin under the sun, revealing how evolution and culture conspired to shape our outermost organ. This article was originally published at…

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By Marlaina Martin

Life Last Week

via Wikimedia Commons Happy new year everyone! Here are Things That Happened in the last week or so: Celia Tichi is writing the history of the US through…

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By Rex

Ausweitung der Subjektzone. Ein Gespräch über Selbstgestaltung und Schönheit-OPs

Fettabsaugen und Brustvergrößerung lassen sich als Ausdruck von Selbstbestimmung betrachten, aber ebenso als Unterwerfung unter Geschlechternormen. Körper-Selbst-Gestaltung, sagt die Soziologin und Ge…

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky

25th anniversary of TDTU. Honoured to get an appreciation trophy

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By john hutnyk

Platypod, Episode Three: Disability, Toxicity, and the Environment

Platypod In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Elizabeth Roberts (the University of Michigan) and Sophia Jaworski (the University of Toronto). They discuss the complexities of corp…

  • Post date 28th September 2022
  • Post author By Elizabeth Roberts

What Is Cultural Anthropology?

Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the dizzyingly diverse ways people live today, including how they think, act, create, struggle, make meaning, and organize their societies. WHAT IS CULTURAL…

  • Post date 27th September 2022
  • Post author By Emily Sekine
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