Manure and Animal rights
We humans, the compassionate predator, entered into a contract with a large number of species in the course of the past twenty thousand years (some think longer), and…
Anthropology Day Photo Contest Winners!
David Beriss We are ready to reveal the big winners for the first ever SAFN Anthropology Day Photo contest. Before I make the big announcement, I want to…
La paz es un concepto práctico: Ahora es el momento de practicarla, con las mujeres de Afganistán al frente
El proceso de paz de Afganistán lleva casi dos décadas de intentos fallidos pero el pasado septiembre de 2020 las negociaciones oficiales empezaron entre los Talibanes y el…
Call for Abstracts: Ad-hoch Panel „Krisen und Chancen des Raums in der (Post-)Corona-Gesellschaft
Das Soziologiemagazin organisiert auf dem gemeinsamen Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) und der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (ÖGS) im August ein Ad-hoch panel zu…
Data Swarms Revisited – New Modes of Being
Editor’s Note: The new Platypus Thematic Series entitled “Data Swarms Revisited” will feature posts form computer science, philosophy and anthropology and connect to the Thematic Series Anthropos Tomo…
Human as the Ultimate Authority in Control
Illustration of algorithmically simulated flocking behavior (2021, created by Anna Lukina) With the growing size of historical data available to researchers and industrial practitioners, developing al…
سفرنامه جنوب هند (۱۴)
مینیاتوری از ابراهیم عادل شاه موزه بیجاپور دیگر مینیاتور از چاند بی بی Chand Bibi زنی شجاع و جنگجو که در برابر لشکر جلال الدین اکبر شاه گورگانی…
فراسوی تاریخ سلبریتی: به‌سوی تحکیم مطالعات شهرت (۳)
آدریان دی. وسولوسکی-مؤسسه انسان‌شناسی ماکس پلانک، برگردان: فردین علیخواه چه چیزی در شهرت وجود دارد؟ بنا نهادن مبنای سلبریتی در شهرت اغلب شکلی استعاری دارد، اما به‌عنوان یک…
توسعه آسیای شرقی
همگی ما تاکنون عبارت “معجزه آسیای جنوب شرقی”را بارها شنیده ایم ،توسعه اقتصادی کشورهای آسیای شرقی از دهه ۱۹۵۰ ،قطعاً یکی از مهمترین پدیده های تاریخ اقتصادی جهان…
6 Steps to Everyday Anthropological Research
Many Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) are allocating funds toward research to inform decisions on strategy. Studies often seek to understand the motivations, behaviors, interests, and …
6 Steps to Everyday Anthropological Research
Many Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) are allocating funds toward research to inform decisions on strategy. Studies often seek to understand the motivations, behaviors, interests, and …
Call for Pitches: Graphic Ethnography
Image description: A comic book style explosion with the words “graphic ethnography” at the center of it bursts from a back ground of radiating orange stripes. Stars and…
Good Tidings for Saudi Women?
Absher, which means “good tidings”, is a smartphone app that was released by the Saudi Ministry of Interior in 2015, available both in the Apple App Store and…
How to Improve Consumer DNA Tests
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests offer tantalizing yet speculative promises to connect us with our distant past and live a healthier life. Consequently, by February 2019, an estimated 26…
Ten Things Archaeology Tells Us about Neanderthals
Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist and author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art. An honorary fellow at the University of Liverpool,…
The Racial Thinking behind ALS Diagnosis
Beliefs about which bodies can and cannot develop certain diseases risk rebiologizing race in genomic research and care. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that typical…
Of Maps, Ancestors, and Genes
How the conceptual heritage of the new and old world pervades today’s racial economy of genetics. On a former occasion I wrote to you at some length…
The Next Piece of Our Big Genetic Puzzle
Around 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals contributed their DNA to modern humans. But the genes also flowed the other way, hundreds of thousands of years before. In 1856, in…
Bovine Bloodlines
Selective breeding for milk and muscle has corroded cattle health and genetic diversity. Heritage breed farmers are pushing back. That old cow out there, she’s 18, and she’s…
In the Journals, February 2021 by Anna Zogas
Here are some new articles published in February 2021. These are in addition to the special issue of Critical Public Health, “Beyond Biological Citizenship,” already highlighted for us…
In the Journals – Incarceration, Rehabilitation, and Recidivism
Josh Shapiro: Fair Commutation Not Mass Incarceration by joepiette2 via creativecommons Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that are often siloed…
Brad Wigger on his book, Invisible Companions
Interview with Laura Murry https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31306 Laura Murry: Please explain the main focus and argument of your book, Invisible Companions: Encounters with Imaginary Fr…
Trump’s attack on American “democracy” by Keith Hart – Part 1
Donald Trump and the Republican Party Donald Trump may not have expected to win the 2016 presidential election. Once he … More
Stellenausschreibungen 9. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
Am 1. März ist meteorologischer Frühlingsanfang. Bereits letzte Woche hatten wir schon einen kleinen Vorgeschmack auf Sonnenschein, angenehme Temperaturen und Pollenflug. Traditionell steht der Frühl…