NAFA2022: Film Programme Out
The film screening programme for the 41st NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival has now been published on the festival website. The festival will be held in Romania, in…
PrEP on Trial: the Future of HIV in Indonesian Policy Worlds
In 2012, the first pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs, billed as a pill a day to prevent HIV, were authorized for use in the United States. Heralded as a…
Die Debatte über den Migrationshintergrund aus einer postmigrantischen Perspektive weitergedacht
Kommentar von Prof. Dr. Erol Yildiz, Universität Innsbruck – Einreichung am 10. August 2022 Alles in allem finde ich die Ideen, die Anne-Kathrin Will in ihrem Initialbeitrag entwickelt,…
Book Review: Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles
In Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London, Caroline Knowles takes readers on a journey through London to discover how it has become a haven for plutocrats and the super-rich. Full of…
Adrienne Edgar, “Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia” (Cornell UP, 2022)
Adrienne Edgar’s Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples—Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2021) is an outstanding study of the evolution of intermarriage practices in Kazakhstan and…
Peeling Back the Myth of a “White” Midwest
The popular image of the U.S. heartland as only a place of rural, hardworking white farmers has always been a larger-than-life myth. In a new book, Imagining the…
Magiska riter i isländska sagor: sånger, runor och en blå kappa
Vad tänker vi på när vi hör orden ”en magisk rit”? På svartklädda häxor som står i en ring av stearinljus och läser besvärjelser på ett obegripligt språk?…
Elliott Oring on his book, Joking Asides
Interview by Emily Bianchi https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/2920-joking-asides Emily Bianchi: I was wondering what brought you to write Joking Asides: The Theory, Ana…
Book Review: They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria by Daniel E. Agbiboa
In They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria, Daniel E. Agbiboa challenges simplistic understandings of corruption by offering a captivating study of Lago…
Tribe in the evolutionary scheme of social type
Tribe in the evolutionary scheme of social type Different words like French Tribu, English Tribe and Latin Tribus were used to designate social divisions among the…
Tribe as a Pre-political and pre-contractual society and in the evolutionary schema (Morgan and Maine)
Class lecture on the concept bilingual, meant for my students Introduction Different words like French Tribu, English Tribe and Latin Tribus were used to designate social…
Shrayana Bhattacharya, “Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence” (Harper Collins, 2021)
In this path breaking work Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh : India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence (Harper Collins, 2021), Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and…
Stellenbörse für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW34
pixabay: bernhard_schuermann Diese Woche haben wir eine stattliche Auswahl an geisteswissenschaftlicher Praxis in den Ausschreibungen abgebildet: Museen (Klassik Stiftung Weimar), Bildungsanbieter …
Life Last Week
When you’re too busy to blog… link! This week I was consumed by a desire to filter and sort ebook offerings at University of Chicago Press’s 75% off…
Ep#95: A Hex for My Ex: Witchcraft & AI Podmen: This Month of TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep#95: A Hex for My Ex: Witchcraft & AI Podmen: This Month of TFS Welcome back to the Familiar Strange! This week we welcome…
Darwin’s Political Wackiness
In the updated 1844 edition of the Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin offers his view on political systems (as indeed many do about the acephalous societies of South…
Theater ohne Handlung. Erinnerungen an Hans-Thies Lehmann und sein Buch »Postdramatisches Theater«
1999 veröffentlichte der kürzlich verstorbene Theaterwissenschaftler Hans-Thies Lehmann seine umfangreiche Studie »Postdramatisches Theater«. Sie eröffnete einen Zugang zum Theater der Gegenwart, der …
Nuremberg, Covid, and Anthropology: Never Again
Today, August 20, 2022, marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the trials of medical professionals at Nuremberg. Central principles and fundamental rights were enshrined as a…
جایگاه هویت در تدابیر الگوی اسلامی ایرانی پیشرفت
در مورد موضوع هویت، بخش از کار مربوط به تصویب اسناد و بخش دیگر در اجرای آنهاست. ایجاد سازوکارهایی که زمینه اجرایی شدن را تضمین کند، به اندازه…
جلسۀ پنجاه و سوم: انسانسوژه گونه، معرفی، نقد و بررسی کتاب «انسانسوژه گونه، بررسی جامعهشناسی روانی»
✍️ جلسه پنجاه و سوم مؤسسهٔ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ برای معرفی، نقد و بررسی کتاب «انسانسوژه گونه، بررسی جامعهشناسی روانی» برگزار خواهد شد. در این جلسه، نویسندۀ…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۴۰)
چهارشنبه فصل پنجم : روانکاوی فروید فروید، فرهنگ و تمدن مدرنیته چندین نظریه کلیدی دارد که یکی از آنها فرهنگ از دید زیگموند فروید است. وی در…
Hiring FT or PT research writer
CLEAR is hiring a research writer to aid in the write-up of academic articles and/or community reports and whitepapers on the following topics: plastic pollution monitoring and laboratory…
Hiring full-time & part-time research positions in Indigenous methodologies and feminist STS (fall 2022)
CLEAR is hiring one part-time (~10 hours/week) and one full-time (30-35 hours/week) research assistant position for the fall of 2022. The positions will start in September or October…
Modernizing the US Coast Guard’s Miscarriage Leave Policy
JULIEANN THOMAS March 1, 2022 Rear Admiral Eric Jones Assistant Commandant for Human Resources (CG-1) United States Coast GuardWashington, DC 20593 United States of America Dear…