Current Reads – July 2019
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Crawford (2005) – Book Chapter Annotation
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A Review of Feminism without Borders (Mohanty)
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Blakey 1998 – Book Chapter Annotation
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Making the Other: Racism/Racialization as an Alternative Exchange System
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Towards Anti-Colonial Knowledge Production
INTRODUCTION Sociology has a history of being a tool in the repertoire of colonial regimes. While some sociologists are very critical of systems of domination, their critical work…
Knowing Food: SAFN at the 2023 ASFS/AFHVS Meeting
Jennifer Jo Thompson The 2023 joint meeting of the Association for the Study of Food in Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (ASFS/AFHVS) was held…
Marine Anthropologist, Man, Who Lived With Fishermen And Temple Gods: Life And Works Of PRG Mathur
Contributed By: Prof. P.K. Misra Patron, UIAF pramodkumarmisra@gmail.com PRG as I affectionately called him is no more, this was the saddest news for me. We were colleagues at…
The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the…
Laokoongruppe kommt nach Frankfurt
Die originalgetreue Kopie des antiken Meisterwerks wird am 25. Juni im Skulpturensaal der Goethe-Universität vorgestellt. Der Skulpturensaal der Goethe-Universität hat prominenten Zuwachs bekommen: ei…
Book Review | Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants by Donghyun Danny Choi et al.
In Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants, Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner and Nicholas Sambanis present the results of field work experiments conducted in Germany to understa…
El silencio de la sirena
Read Time:2 Minute, 16 Second Susana R. Sousa Susana R. Sousa Adelaida García Morales escribió un relato titulado ‘El Sur…
How Power Pervades Portrayals of Human Evolution
An evolutionary scholar examines racist and sexist depictions of human evolution that continue to permeate science, education, and popular culture. This article was originally published at The Conver…
Becoming a Socialite: How Virtual “Fakeness” Produces Material Realities among Urban Chinese Gay Men
Real, Unreal, and Whatever Else In-between On Chinese gay dating apps, “fake profiles” are a constant concern: photos might have been altered or biometrics might have been fabricated.…
Infrastructuring Gens
The Gens Manifesto gracefully opened a new debate in economic anthropology, a field that since the financial crisis of 2008 had been dominated by studies of financialisation. There,…
The Museum – a play
What follows is a fictionalised play that draws on actual events, conversations, and incidents that we have witnessed or experienced working inside museums. Museums are in a bit…
Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity
Prehension is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we take for granted: the importance of…
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are off-topic, or even topic-less. In Reading the…
Alessandra Ciucci on her book, The Voice of the Rural
Interview by Nicco La Mattina https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo141940160.html Nicco La Mattina: In The Voice of the Rural, by attending to competing aesthetic disco…
Paper: Digital & transport infrastructures in remote Canada
Budka, P. (2023). Digital and transport infrastructures in remote Canada: Notes on ownership and control. Paper at InfraNorth Workshop “Ethnographies of Infrastructure”, Vienna, Austria: …
Sexualidad y diversidad funcional, el tabú dentro del tabú
Read Time:5 Minute, 49 Second Susana R. Sousa Susana R. Sousa A pesar de todos los avances, aún hoy la sexualidad de las personas con…
Book Review: Citizen Designs: City-making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand by Eli Elinoff
In Citizen Designs: City-making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand, Eli Elinoff explores citizenship struggles and the political engagement of residents living in Northeastern Thailand. Unlike tra…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW25
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein wissenschaftliches Volontariat im Bereich Kommunikation und Museumspädagogik in Stuttgart (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde), eine Stelle als Assistent*in bei Lok…