sNAPAshots: Natalie Muyres
0:00[NAPA Logo] Natalie Muyres 0:00I think there’s just so much to learn about the human experience from anthropology. As an anthropologist, it’s important to be curious to ask…
Mayur R. Suresh, “Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts” (Fordham UP, 2022)
In Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts (Fordham UP, 2022), Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtrooms are made habitable. Where India’s…
Seriensommer, Folge 1: TV-Serien als politische Kunstform. Ein Gespräch mit der Kulturwissenschaftlerin Elisabeth Bronfen
Liegt die große Zeit der Quality-TV-Serien schon hinter uns? Und würde das heißen, dass heutige Serien ihre gesellschaftspolitische Brisanz eingebüßt haben? Ein Gespräch über die Geschichte der das…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Returning Home on the “Izakaya Shinkansen” (6/30/23)
This research trip has been in part driven by Japanese television media productions such as shows about izakaya/tachinomiya and meshi tero dramas. The influence that guided my last…
Sarah E. Vaughn, “Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation” (Duke UP, 2022)
Sarah E. Vaughn’s Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation (Duke UP, 2022) examines climate adaptation strategies that upend the neat divisions of linear temporality separate the past, present, and…
Irina Carlota Silber, “After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador” (Stanford UP, 2022)
After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador (Stanford UP, 2022) builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber’s nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow…
La religión como ámbito de los detritos clasificatorios
La foto es de Matt Weber Fragmentos del artículo “Religión”, incluido en Joan Prat y Ángel Martínez eds., Ensayos de Antropología Cultural. Homenage a Claudio Esteva Fabregat, Ariel,…
Malut dé, malut kita: trolleando a antropólogos.
“La gente tiene una manera descuidada de hablar de un ‘mentiroso nato’, tal como se habla de un poeta nato. Pero en ambos casos, están equivocados. La mentira…
Verleihung des DGSKA-Dissertationspreises 2023
(von links: Kurt Beck, Valerie Nur, Gerd Spittler, Joh Sarre, Erdmute Alber, Carsten Mildner) Im Rahmen der Mitgliederversammlung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA)…
Mitgliederversammlung: neuer Vorstand, neue AGs und AKs
Auf der Mitgliederversammlung vom 27. Juli in München wurde ein neuer Vorstand gewählt. Hier das neue Team vom Institut für Ethnologie an der Universität zu Köln: Vorsitzender: Prof.…
دربارۀ قمر آریان: قابهایی بر ذهن و دیوار
محمد شمخانی زندگی آریان با تمام هدفمندیاش، زندگی پراکندهای بوده که بیشتر آن در مسافرتهای طولانی و در کشورهای دیگر گذشته است و همین فرصت یک نگاه عمیق…
یک عمر تلاش فرهنگی: پیشگفتار ناصر فکوهی برای بهروز غریبپور
بهروز غریبپور زادۀ سال ۱۳۲۹ در سنندج است. مردی آرام، جدی پایبند به تبار کُرد خویش و عاشق فرهنگ ملی و کهن ایران. در نگاه نخست و دیدارهای…
Melissa Gatter, “Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency” (American University in Cairo Press, 2023)
Azraq refugee camp, built in 2014 and host to forty thousand refugees, is one of two official humanitarian refugee camps for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Time and Power in…
The Hidden Toll of the Pandemic: Adolescent Social Isolation and Its Relevance as of Today
FAYEZA AHMED To Professor Chris Whitty Chief Medical Advisor and Expert Advisor Department of Health and Social Care 39 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0EU Dear Professor Ch…
Puro odio
Read Time:5 Minute, 29 Second Susana R. Sousa Susana R. Sousa España está sufriendo una ola de censura cultural que no se veía desd…
Contra la ansiedad religiosa
La foto es de Matt Weber Reseña de Marc Augé, El genio del paganismo. Barcelona, Muchnik, 1993, publicada en Ajoblanco, 60 (febrero 1994) CONTRA LA ANSIEDAD RELIGIOSA Manuel D…
Grounded in Clay Exhibition Debuts in New York
Blog by Helen Brooks, Director, Leadership Giving, School for Advanced Research Ju…
27 words for elephant
In English, an elephant is an elephant. Ok, we have words for a group of elephants (a herd) and baby elephants (a calf), but these are general words…
Extinguishing the Idea That Hobbits Had Fire
Research has overturned earlier claims that a diminutive human relative, Homo floresiensis, lit fires—but big stories die hard. SMOKING HOT HOBBITS When you think “the hobbit,” a certain…
Brenda E. F. Beck, “Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures” (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Brenda Beck discusses her lifelong work on a Tamil folk legend, resulting in a graphic novel, an English translation and Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures (U Toronto Press,…
Va Pensiero: música para el nacimiento de una nación
Read Time:12 Minute, 37 Second Rodolfo Padilla Sánchez Rodolfo Padilla Sánchez A mediados del siglo XIX, en el contexto de las revo…
Ramon Karmen 1955 Vietnam
Magnificent colour film of Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, and others, including the heroic fighters of Vietnam before, leading to, and after the victory at Dien Bien…
Two (Satyajit Ray 1963) and Amar Lenin (Ritwik Ghatak 1970) [for ease of access]
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 and This is it.
What It Means to Design Technology That’s “Pass-Through”
Windows are the ultimate pass-through technologies. The best example of a technology interface is one you rarely notice — even if it’s powerfully enhancing your reading experience of these words…