GBAS Mexico 2023
Sesión plenaria de apertura. Foto GVC. Igor Ayora Diaz y yo estuvimos en el Global Business Anthropology Summit 2023, un congreso sobre antropología de negocios que tuvo…
Memorializing Eruption
Perched on a makeshift stage, a trio dressed in wool ponchos sings pirekuas, the region’s most acclaimed and loved musical genre in a mix of Purépecha and Spanish.…
Where did all the gyoza go?
The frozen gyoza vending machine that appeared in my neighborhood last year is now empty. No gyoza, no product descriptions. I inquired at the small, narrow izakaya to…
Amanda Apgar, “The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future” (U Michigan Press, 2023)
When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and…
Giving Winter a Funeral in Transylvania
In a village in Romania, residents maintain a centuries-old carnival tradition called farsang to mark winter’s death. ✽ As the morning sun ambles over blunted cliffs, whips break…
Social Inequality and Psychopharmaceuticals
Drugs as Multilayered Stabilizing Agents? Text by Saskia Sturm (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Pablo Dohms The following essay deals with an urgent aspect of the relation between…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Give a Hand To the Fallen, as Long as You Are Standing: Earthquake Disaster Relief among Afghans
Mullah Yaqub appeared in the doorway of his Quranic school, and smiled when he saw me, shaking my hand firmly. He looked tall in his long dark-blue felted…
A Love Letter to the Munay-Ki
A poet exuberantly gives thanks for the Munay-Ki rites enlivened across the ages and shared by the Q’ero people in the Peruvian Andes. “A Love Letter to the…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW23
Diese Woche gibt es viele Volontariats-Stellen, u.a. in den Bereichen Lektorat, Redaktion und Marketing. Der Rheinwerk Verlag in Bonn sucht außerdem einen Werkstudierenden und ECOVENTA sucht Q…
Jennifer Petersen on her book, How Machines Came to Speak
Interview by Joseph Wilson https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-machines-came-to-speak Joseph Wilson: The combination of legal discourse analysis and technology studies in this book is a fascinat…
Nutida förvaltning av estlandssvenskarnas historia- en reserapport från traditionsvetenskapliga nämndens resa till Hapsal och Tallinn.
För en 6-7 år sedan var jag på en föreläsning på Uppsala Universitet, jag kommer inte ihåg vad föreläsaren hette eller vilket universitet hon kom ifrån. Jag tror…
Sahlins biography June 2023 update
Here’s a quick update regarding my work on the Marshall Sahlins biography up to 1 June 2023. I spent most of May not actually writing the biography, but…
Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, “The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States” (Columbia UP, 2023)
Poor Black women who benefit from social welfare are marginalized in a number of ways by interlocking systemic racism, sexism, and classism. The media renders them invisible or…
آنجا، همینجاست: نگاهی به فیلمنامۀ تلقین نوشتۀ کریستوفر نولان
کریستوفر نولان در فیلمنامۀ تلقین غیرمستقیم به موضوعی میپردازد که این روزها بر خوان گستردۀ علوم مختلف نشسته است. نولان در این اثر، به مسئله روایت و روایتگری…
از مجموعه عکسهای مرتضی ودادی گرگری
این عکس در دهۀ سی در پل سفید گرفته شده است. سوژه و عکاس خود گرگری است، او خودش عکسها را با دوربینش میگرفت و در عکسهایی هم…
Arte y tiranía
Artículo publicado en el diario Levante, el 10 de junio de 2003, con motivo de la Bienal de Valencia, presentada bajo el título genérico de “La ciudad ideal”.…
#Umweltmanagement. Ökologie und New Public Management an deutschen Hochschulen
Klimaschutz als Managementaufgabe? Controlling, Leistungsanreiz und Budgetierung werden oftmals als Ausdruck der Neoliberalisierung der Hochschulen angeprangert, lassen sich aber auf die ersten Forder…
César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, “Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital (Duke UP, 2022), César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and…
Movimientos y movimientismo
La foto es de Andrea Coma Entrevista publicada en la página web beta.esedosuno.com, el 20 de julio de 2012. MOVIMIENTOS Y MOVIMIENTISMO ¿Cuáles cree que son los principales…
#nachgefragt – Das Podcastformat des Genderblogs
Folge 6: „Made in Chima“ – wie aus einer Dissertation eine Performance wird mit Yumin Li und Kira Jürjens https://genderblog.hu-berlin.de/wp-content/uplo…
Patrick Jory, “A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
If you’ve visited Thailand even for a short time you’ve probably been given, or have come across, some basic instructions on dos and don’ts — where to put,…
Elizabeth Reddy, “¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground” (MIT Press, 2023)
The Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world’s oldest public earthquake early warning system. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, the technology was designed to give the people…
Für eine konsequentere Modernisierung des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts
Der Rat für Migration begrüßt, dass eine Modernisierung des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts angegangen wird. Ein deutlich einfacherer Zugang zur deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft bietet für die (post-)migrantis…