Eswatini, Belarus och Myanmar – att byta namn på en nation
Utrikesdepartementet i Sverige har lanserat en ny upplaga av Utrikes namnbok. Där finns mycket att hämta om man behöver veta namn på svenska myndigheter också på några av…
Preserving the Voices of the Antioch Colony
[no-caption] Maria Franklin The chronicles of ordinary Black Americans who lived and labored in Texas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are largely unheralded. That’s especially…
Vaccinating vaccines: Ethnography and the info-politics of public health
DAN ARTUS What exactly can an ethnography of vaccination hope to achieve? And how could one be undertaken? Although any given individual is likely to have received multiple…
Vaccinating vaccines: Ethnography and the info-politics of public health
DAN ARTUS What exactly can an ethnography of vaccination hope to achieve? And how could one be undertaken? Although any given individual is likely to have received multiple…
A. Gandhi et al., “Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Modern markets and exchange, compared with other social and political spheres, are seen through technical abstractions. This intellectual compartmentalization has political consequences: if c… Visit New Books in…
Deborah A. Thomas, “Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair” (Duke UP, 2019)
How can ethnographers use multimedia presentations of their work to reach new audiences, build different relationships with their participants, and promote new practices of witnessing and rep… Visit…
Chronic living: ethnographic explorations of daily lives swayed by (multiple) medical conditions by Ayo Wahlberg
On the 12th of January 2020, the World Health Organization confirmed that the “mystery virus” which, according to reports from China, had infected some 50 people in the…
The Fire This Time: Black and Indigenous Ecologies
In the past year, the world witnessed devastating fire seasons in Australia and the U.S. West, an Atlantic hurricane season with a record thirty storms, and a global…
Africa, the Cutting Edge for Health Care: Lessons from The Continent for the U.S. during COVID-19 by Emma Bunkley
While the United States is often celebrated as a global leader in health expertise, it currently leads the world in COVID-19 infections and deaths. African countries, often considered…
Bernhard J. Stern, an American Apologist for Stalinism
The June 1944 issue of the American Sociological Review featured an article by Bernhard J. Stern entitled “Soviet Policy on National Minorities” (Stern 1944). In it the author argued that…
Genealogia de la intolerancia sexual
Grabado anónimo de principios del siglo XVI Reseña del libro de John Boswell, Cristianismo, tolerancia social y homosexualidad. Barcelona: Muchnik Editores, 1993, publicada en Babelia, suplemento de li…
Citational politics bibliography
A bibliography on the politics of citation and references
What Does the American Dream Have to do With the COVID-19 Vaccine?
Protestors gather outside Dodger Stadium, a mass vaccination site in Los Angeles, in January. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images On January 30, protesters disrupted a mass…
Fünf Jahre „Sprachentdecker“: Wie Kinder in Kita und Grundschule nebenbei Deutsch lernen
Das Modellprojekt „Sprachentdecker“ unter wissenschaftlicher Federführung der Goethe-Universität zeigt, wie Deutschförderung im Alltag gelingen kann. Die Evaluierung des Projekts bestätigt: Die Method…
GameStop, the Platform-Democracy-Complex and the Promise of Crypto
The trading platform Robinhood tried to wiggle itself back into the heart of the masses with a prime-time ad during the Super Bowl break the first weekend of…
What is Business Anthropology?
What is business anthropology? Business anthropology is the discipline that applies the theories and methodologies of social anthropology in the investigation of (or for) organizations and their ecosy…
Joseph Osgood in Aden: 1
Joseph Osgood was a Black American sailor who visited the Yemeni port of Aden about a dozen years before the start of the American Civil War. He offers…
Wednesday Round Up #38
Toward Clinically-Viable Brain-Machine Interfaces – Krishna Shenoy Shenoy’s talk starts around 3:25, and the first part really is about dynamical approaches to understanding neural functions. S…
ENERPO Workshop: Russian Arctic: At the Other End Of the Pipeline
Stephan Dudeck – Arctic Fieldwork Now my lecture at the Enerpo programm of the European University at Saint Petersburg is available online. klick here for the video on…
Lettre à Madame la Maire
Le 4 janvier 2021 English Version Madame la Maire, Si je vous écris aujourd’hui, c’est pour vous faire part de ma tristesse, et de mon indignation.…
Sutton Hoo’s Story Goes Deeper Than The Dig
The Sutton Hoo archaeological site revealed a treasure trove of Anglo-Saxon artifacts, including this iron helmet featuring a flying bird with dragon heads. Gary Todd/Flickr I first saw…
The Arroyo Hondo Pueblo Collection Finds a New Home
An aerial photo of the Arroyo Hondo Pueblo excavation. Guest post by Lisa Hunter, SAR’s Arroyo Hondo collections move assistant. …
Academic Fictions: Lettre à France
English Version Paris, le 22 Décembre 2020 Chère France, Comme tu[i] le sais, j’ai assisté, sur tes recommandations, au Congrès International des Capitales du monde. Je dois admettre…
میراث ناملموس ایرانی، ثبت شدهی جهانی (۲)
برگردان : آذر جوادزاده ۵- مهارت سنتی قالی بافی در فارس سنت قالی بافی در فارس در سال ۲۰۰۹ توسط سازمان میراث فرهنگی ، صنایع دستی و گردشگری…