La sospecha académica y los ambientes digitales
Docentes de la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de laUniversidad Autónoma de Yucatán en un taller de Turnitin.Foto G. Vargas Cetina, 2023. Engaños en la academia Quizá desde…
دربارۀ «پدرم و علیاکبر داور»؛ یک خاطرۀ منتشرنشده از همایون کاتوزیان
هشتم خرداد ایمیلی از طرف دوست و استاد عزیزم همایون کاتوزیان به دستم رسید واجد خاطراتی از ایشان و با این توضیح: «این را برای چند تن از…
Markus Balkenhol: Apologizing for slavery: notes on a Dutch surprise
On 1 July 2021, 148 years after slavery ended in the Dutch West Indian colonies, Femke Halsema, the Mayor of Amsterdam, said: ‘For the active involvement of the…
پدرم و علی اکبر داور
همایون کاتوزیان پدرم در جوانی ارث پدری قابل ملاحظهاش را در عراق و هند در راه سیاست بر باد داده بود و در سی سالگی باید برای نخستین…
LEST WE GFORGET!!!
ENTANGLED NARRATIVES OF COIVD-19 PANDEMIC AND MISERY OF MANY Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember Reni Eddo-Lodge SHALINA MEHTA Professor of Social and Cultural…
وقتی چراغ هنر خاموش میشود
از شهریور ۱۴۰۱ و آغاز ناآرامی و اعتراضها و مطالباتی که بسیاری از جوانان ما را به خیابانها کشاند، گروههای زیادی از مردم و کنشگران محافل هنری و…
What Indiana Jones Gets Right About Archaeology
As Dr. Jones returns to the big screen, a real archaeologist acknowledges the movie franchise’s shortcomings while espousing its merits. DR. JONES RETURNS Pop culture’s most famous archaeologist…
SECTION TWO: DESTABILISING CONCEPTS
In a reflection of and paying respect to the collective nature of thinking, we have chosen to cite central aspects of the reviewers comments in each section. We…
Markus Virgil Höhne, “Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Vision” (Rift Valley Institute, 2023)
On February 6, 2023, fighting erupted around Las Anod, a city in the eastern parts of the de facto independent state of Somaliland. This still-ongoing conflict has been subject to recent…
Daniel R. Smith, “The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945” (Manchester UP, 2023)
Who are the English upper class? In The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945 (Manchester UP, 2023) Daniel Smith, a lecturer in sociology at…
Von serbischen Opfern und kroatischen Tätern: das ehemalige KZ Staro Sajmište als Austragungsort nationalistischer Diskurse
Das ehemalige Konzentrationslager „Staro Sajmište“ in Belgrad ist derzeit Austragungsort serbischer nationalistischer Geschichtsdeutung, die nicht nur andere Opfergruppen marginalisiert, sondern Serbe…
How X Became a Religion
Many people don’t believe me when I tell them ‘religion’ is not a cross-cultural phenomenon and that it was mostly in the 19th century when white people (i.e.…
Discussing Yemen, Transnationalism and Peacebuilding in the Netherlands
By Ewa Strzelecka and Marina de Regt. This June will be remembered as a month of celebrating Yemeni studies and dialogue in the Netherlands. The so-called forgotten war…
Indigenous Collections Care (ICC) Guide
By Laura Elliff Cruz, Collections Manager Historically, museums and academic insti…
Collaborating So a 200-Year-Old Pipe Can Continue Its Work
A museum curator and a First Nations leader explain how a treaty pipe, sold at auction, exemplifies a new path for repatriations in Canada. A PIPE’S HOMECOMING In…
SECTION ONE: WRITING HUNDREDS, EXERCISING THOUGHT
In a reflection of and paying respect to the collective nature of thinking, we have chosen to cite central aspects of the reviewers comments in each section. We…
Indigenous Water Steward positions (PT, Saskatchewan)
The Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) is seeking to hire 3-4 youth researchers as part of the ‘Cleaning our Land and Water: Community Shoreline Cleanups Initiative’.
Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Entropy: Internet and Synthetic Biology Pioneer Randy Rettberg’s Story on How Information Was Forged
Our first encounter with Randy Rettberg was somewhat surreal. Not that the others weren’t—the sui generis atmosphere is always present—but that first meeting was set in a scenario…
‘Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science’ by Patrick L. Schmidt
Editor’s note: This newest addition to HAR Reviews pairs a review essay with a brief author Q&A. Our reviewer, Karen Field, drafted the essay first and then brought…
Summer anthropologies: beaches and baseball
Mid to late 1990s beach scene. North San Diego County, CA. Photo: Ryan Anderson All the grades are in, summer is here, and we can all start ‘relaxing’…
Toward A Happy Lab: Biology Neophytes’ Adaptation to Research Logic
ByLiang QuiyanMSc Biosocial Medical Anthropology, 2022-23 The complexity of biological life poses a challenge to the study of its mechanisms: in lab contexts, the interpretation requires at le…
It matters how Automobility and Violence are thought – an Interview with Dr. Robert Braun
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 11 Minuten Interview by Carolina Gusenleitner Dr. Robert Braun is a Senior Researcher on Science, Technology and Transformation at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna….
Katrina Daly Thompson on their book, Muslims on the Margins
Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim https://nyupress.org/9781479814350/muslims-on-the-margins/ Ben Ale-Ebrahim: Muslims on the Margins is an ethnography of “nonconformist” Muslims living primarily…
Introduction: Building Bodies for Thought
While academic thinking increasingly shapes itself along the structure of the scientific journal article, compelling steadfast arguments that smoothly steer readers from question to conclusion (Grünfe…