مرهمی بر زخمها: سه سناریو برای آیندۀ ایران
«رادیکالیسم» سیاسی را به چیزی جز «تندروی» نمیتوان برگرداند. و البته هرکسی مختار است چشماندازهای امید و آینده بهتر خویش را در اینگونه تندرویها و «از ریشه کندنها»…
نخستین نشانه از چنگ افقی راست گوشه بر روی پلاک گلی شهر سوخته
موسیقی دنیای باستان نیز مانند هر آنچه مربوط به دنیای باستان است جالب توجه است. این موضوع که در هزاران سال پیش سلیقه موسیقایی مردم چگونه بوده وکارکرد…
Neighborliness Matters to Your Health
Drawing from cross-cultural research, an anthropologist shows how neighborliness can lessen wealth-based health disparities. DOES GOOD HEALTH REQUIRE WEALTH? The poorest people in the U.S. spend their…
Project update: One Ocean Week
In this project update blog post, read about OceanStates’ participation in the One Ocean Week with partners from the University of the South Pacific who visited us in…
Hair Cutting Holland
By Fridus Steijlen – There are things in daily life that seem to always continue without notice. For me, one of them is going to the hairdresser, more…
Colin Hoag, “The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy” (U California Press, 2022)
Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world’s first “water-exporting country” when it signed a 1986 treaty with its…
Finding Ceremony for Ancestors Held in the Penn Museum and Other Colonial Institutions
An anthropologist and an organizer try to connect descendant communities with the remains of 20 Black Philadelphians slated for court-ordered burial. ✽ On February 13, 2023, a Pennsylvania…
Das Pendel schlägt zurück: Die zwei Verfassungsprozesse Chiles
Am 7. Mai wählten die Chilen:innen die Politiker:innen, die einen neuen Verfassungstext erarbeiten. Dieser zweite Verfassungsprozess wird anders verlaufen als der gescheiterte erste: Er wird stärker r…
Finding Mrs. Jackson
From your backyard to a hill by the ocean, you can come upon an archaeological find just about anywhere. But what happens when that object was a keepsake…
LAWNET workshop 2023: From Critique to Political Practice
You are warmly invited to the EASA LAWNET workshop in collaboration with Allegra Lab: From Critique to Political Practice The workshop will take place on 12 May 2023…
Stellungnahme der DGSKA zur Tagung „Migration steuern, Integration gestalten“
Die von der Direktorin des “Frankfurter Forschungszentrums Globaler Islam” organisierte Konferenz “Migration steuern, Integration gestalten” vom 28.04.2023 an der Goethe-Univer…
New publication from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission For Asia and the Pacific: 「Sign language, what is it? An ESCAP guide towards legal recognition of sign languages in Asia and the Pacific」
Abstract: Sign language is a distinct language. This recognition is enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. There are over 200 sign languages spoken…
“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?”: Food, Cooking, and Eating in Video games
Pixelated Paradise “Are you seriously telling me that this hot mash of mushrooms and fruit is going to completely heal his wounds?” (Gilbert 2019) It is summer 2020…
Doing Critical Racism Theory im deutschen Recht.
Ambivalentes Recht und spezifische Rechtsräume Rassifizierte Statuspositionen (Rasse/Ethnizität) und damit verbundene Hierarchisierungen (Rassismen) werden hergestellt und aufrechterhalten, in Frage g…
On the Poverty of Grand Theories
This boasblog discusses a feminist approach to the study of capitalism. At the center of our debate lies ‘Gens’, a seminal manifesto published in 2015. Proposing a research…
Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology
Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where inde…
Review: Glyphosate and the Swirl
Vincanne Adams. Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move. Duke University Press. 2023. Pp. 174. ISBN 9781478016755. Pablo Lapegna (University of Georgia) Welcome to …
Book Review: Beyond colonial futures – Ethnofuturism and World Beyond: An Anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction
By Christopher Marcatili McGavin, Kirsten (ed.). 2022. World Beyond: An anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction. Sydney, Aus: Hibiscus Three. In the remote mountains of Papua New…
Verkehrsvisionen
Im neuesten Podcast der Reihe “Verkehrsvisionen. Der feministische Podcast zur Verkehrswende spreche ich über Autonormativität.
Verkehrsvisionen
Im neuesten Podcast der Reihe “Verkehrsvisionen. Der feministische Podcast zur Verkehrswende spreche ich über Autonormativität.
Emily Aguiló-Pérez on her book, An American Icon in Puerto Rico
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Aguilo-PerezAmerican Interview by Julia Perillo Julia Perillo: How did you get the idea for this book? Emily Aguiló-Pérez: This was based on my doctor…
Book Review Essay: The Waste of the World
Writing almost 20 years ago, Nicky Gregson and her research partners claimed that “…(W)aste’s capacity as a theoretical vehicle is immense; like food it is good to think…
Book Review Essay: The Waste of the World
Writing almost 20 years ago, Nicky Gregson and her research partners claimed that “…(W)aste’s capacity as a theoretical vehicle is immense; like food it is good to think…
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, “Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia” (Fordham UP, 2022)
How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin’s New…