Yotsuya Kakuuchi「Suzuden」・ 四谷の角打ち「鈴傳」
My first visit to Suzuden in the Yotsuya neighborhood in the southeastern part of Shinjuku ward in Tokyo was in July, 2024, after I gave a guest lecture…
My first visit to Suzuden in the Yotsuya neighborhood in the southeastern part of Shinjuku ward in Tokyo was in July, 2024, after I gave a guest lecture…
It is the third of our four days at the 2026 ST&HV Science and Technology Studies (STS) School. We file past laboratories populated by white-coated researchers and take…
Photo and headlines on display at「Daruma」: Arnold’s 1985 Visit to Japan: During his visit, Arnold heavily promoted the premier of his action film Commando (1985)… a moment from…
Chorsingen und Blasmusik in ihren lokalen und nationalen Vereinigungen zählen – ebenso wie das Vereinswesen allgemein mit seinen 80-100′000 Vereinen – zur Schweizer Kulturerbe-Liste der Lebendigen Tra…
The admittedly slow, difficult, work of reading for the detail, while still critical – albeit of a ‘very heterodox Marxism’ – is still the criteria by which it…
برای بررسی اثرات مخرب استعمال دود بر وجود، در گام ابتدایی، میتوان پدیدارشناسی استعمال دود را با مراحل زیر نشان داد: ۱. از آنجائیکه تنفس ترکیب دم و…
در بحبوحه ناآرامیهای دیماه ۱۳۹۶ در ایران، آنتونی کوردزمن، تحلیلگر ارشد ارزیابیهای استراتژیک در ایالات متحده، گزارشی با عنوان «بحران در ایران: اکنون چه؟» در مرکز مطالعات استراتژیک…
Previous「Daruma」on VAoJ: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2019/08/izakaya-darumain-monzen-nakacho.html
“I just looked at the land and started building”. Our group of guests from Norway and Finland in our NAPA project “empowering green transition from the grassroots” sits…
“When we first met, we found ourselves working at the harbor’s edge—One cam gaffs the shirt. The swimmer beaches us: one arm free, the other digs.” Candy at…
Text and photos by Kara Nichols The Edwards Plateau Research Group’ Paint Rock Project is a collaboration between Native American communities and curious archaeologists. Since the first dig…
Food justice is defined as the understanding that our food system is unequal and that something needs to be done about it. But how can we create a…
Alternative Ending: Previous「Daruma」on VAoJ: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2023/07/vaoj-s2023rt-arc-arrival-in-tokyo.html
Author’s editorial prelude: In what follows, I open up insight into a micro-moment of everyday scholarly life which shows itself through the body; like that slightly deeper breath…
In Tribal Reawakening and the Future of State-Building in Kuwait and Qatar, Maryam Al-Kuwari challenges the assumption that modern state-building has diminished the relevance of tribal identities in…
La foto es de Gabriela Navas Comentarios para los estudiantes de Antropologia dels Espais Urbans del Màster d’Antropologia i Etnografia de la Universitat de Barcelona, enviados en septiembre…
Thirty years of this book. Reminded today that it’s circa 700 rupees from Bloomsbury India if you like that sort of thing (real life copies I mean): The…
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2026 SAFN Student Research Award winner is Patricia Mathu. Mathu is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Purdue University. Her dissertation foc…
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