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Toine van Teeffelen, “The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir” (Wipf and Stock, 2024)

New Books in Anthropology

The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir (Wipf and Stock, 2024) is a narrative of a Christian family in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Based on diary…

  • Post date 24th May 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Camilla Annerfeldt, “Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome” (Bloomsbury, 2025)

New Books in Anthropology

Camilla Annerfeldt joins to discuss Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome (Bloomsbury, 2025). This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides…

  • Post date 24th May 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

The Anthropologist’s Summer (Non?)Travel Toolkit

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

The academic year is finally winding down and many of us are hoping to travel— for research, fun, or a … More

  • Post date 23rd May 2025
  • Post author By heathcabot325c327e63
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Refreshing Conversation

The Quartux Journal

Too often these days our world, or community, is horribly divided and divisive. And not just by the actions of the present administration, but it seems everything and…

  • Post date 23rd May 2025
  • Post author By David G. Lewis, PhD
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

SAR Moments: Revisiting the Skeletons of Roopkund Lake

School for Advanced Research

SAR Moments: Revisiting the Skeletons of Roopkund Lake AI Summary with minor edits by SAR Team …

  • Post date 23rd May 2025
  • Post author By Meredith Schweitzer
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Michelle H. S. Ho, “Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies” (Duke UP, 2025)

New Books in Anthropology

In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo…

  • Post date 23rd May 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Ethnography, Ethics and the GDPR: Three Misconceptions and One Concern

Leidenanthropologyblog

Since 2018, personal data collected, stored, or otherwise processed in the European Union must comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). I would like to share some…

  • Post date 22nd May 2025
  • Post author By Leidenanthropologyblog
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

The Haunting of Man: George Floyd and the Struggle for Breath

Genderblog

George Floyd, an African American man, was murdered by a white police officer on May 25, 2020, after being suspected of using a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. This incident…

  • Post date 22nd May 2025
  • Post author By Redaktion
  • Post categories In Dutch, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Reclaiming Collective Life in a Fractured U.S.

SAPIENS

After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides. In the new book Something Between Us, he…

  • Post date 22nd May 2025
  • Post author By Anand Pandian
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

New Book Announcement: Mark Bookman’s “Disability Publics: Making Accessibility in Modern Japan”

Visual Anthropology of Japan - 日本映像人類学

A personal note: Dr. Mark Bookman was an incredible scholar, the foremost expert on historical and contemporary disability issues in Japan, a wonderful and caring person any my…

  • Post date 22nd May 2025
  • Post author By Unknown
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

جلگۀ گیلان در سپیده دم تاریخ

انسان‌شناسی و فرهنگ

اشاره: یکی از پرسش‌های اساسی در بررسی‌های تاریخی گیلان این است که در سپیده دم تاریخ یعنی زمانی که انسان در نواحی کوه‌پایه و کوهستان حضور داشت و…

  • Post date 22nd May 2025
  • Post author By ناصر عظیمی
  • Post categories In Farsi, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

What really worries the world? Q&A with Danny Dorling on The Next Crisis

Sociology/Anthropology - LSE Review of Books

In this interview with LSE Review of Books Managing Editor Anna D’Alton, Danny Dorling discusses his new book, The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future which…

  • Post date 21st May 2025
  • Post author By Dalton,A
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

International Joking Relationships

Public Anthropologist

What can soldier humour tell us about international relations? To begin with, humour is a universal social practice …

  • Post date 21st May 2025
  • Post author By Eva Johais
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Milpa for the Future

SAPIENS

As the influx of processed foods threatens traditional diets in rural Mexico, an intergenerational community is forming to keep people healthy. Milpa is an ancestral way of farming…

  • Post date 20th May 2025
  • Post author By Chip
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Gibt es ein Recht auf Migration?

Ingrid Thurner

„Barcelona oder sterben“, so lautet die Devise auswanderungswilliger junger Leute in Senegal. Die Positionen Westafrikas und Europas zu Migration könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Die einen forder…

  • Post date 20th May 2025
  • Post author By Ingrid Thurner
  • Post categories In German, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba” (U Michigan Press, 2025)

New Books in Anthropology

In Transformismo, M. Myrta Leslie Santana draws on years of embedded research within Cuban trans/queer communities to analyze how transformistas, or drag performers, understand their roles in the social…

  • Post date 20th May 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Andrew Ofstehage, “Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado” (Cornell UP, 2025)

New Books in Anthropology

Following a group of US Midwest farmers who purchased tracts of land in the tropical savanna of eastern Brazil, Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado (Cornell University Press,…

  • Post date 20th May 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

What if We’ve Been Thinking About Wildfire Smoke the Wrong Way?

Platypus

Helping on a prescribed fire as a volunteer firefighter sometime in September, I felt the anticipation that had been building in our team dissipate as we learned that…

  • Post date 20th May 2025
  • Post author By Arielle Milkman
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Review: Performing State Boundaries

FoodAnthropology

Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China by Christof Lammer (Berghahn 2024), 272 pages, ISBN  978-1-80539-651-2 Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College) Several …

  • Post date 19th May 2025
  • Post author By foodanthro
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Luis Felipe Murillo on his book, Common Circuits

CaMP Anthropology

https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/common-circuits Biella Coleman: Drawing from fieldwork in three global cities and three hacker spaces, Common Circuits examines how hackers in these coll…

  • Post date 19th May 2025
  • Post author By |
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How gender, labour and tech intersect in Bangalore’s startup culture

Sociology/Anthropology - LSE Review of Books

Hemangini Gupta‘s Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…

  • Post date 19th May 2025
  • Post author By Dalton,A
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Navigating Online Misogyny in the Incel Subculture

RightNow! - Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet

Having interviewed incels, Jan Christoffer Andersen highlights variations in their ideologies and forms of subcultural involvement.

  • Post date 19th May 2025
  • Post author By Jan Christoffer Andersen
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Kai Shmushko, “Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics” (Leiden UP, 2024)

New Books in Anthropology

In the past decades, various forms of Buddhism have emerged in-between, above, and beyond conventional conceptions of religious and spiritual life in China. Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in…

  • Post date 19th May 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Trump und der Noah-Komplex. Eine Relektüre von Roland Barthes’ „Über Racine“

Geschichte der Gegenwart

Roland Barthes’ 1963 veröffentlichte Monografie über den französischen Theaterklassiker Jean Racine beinhaltet eine Theorie absolutistischer Macht. Mit dem Umschwenken der USA unter Trump hin zu einem…

  • Post date 18th May 2025
  • Post author By Thomas Nolte
  • Post categories In German, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish
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