Carola Lentz ist neues Ehrenmitglied der DGSKA
Auf der Zweijahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie in München hat die Mitgliederversammlung am 27. Juli 2023 Carola Lentz zum Ehrenmitglied gewählt. Die Ehrenmitgl…
Through Film, Discovering Hope in the Face of Environmental Destruction
In the midst of acute eco-anxiety, can community-based filmmaking help young people imagine a different future? FILMMAKING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE A group of 12-year-olds enters a decrepit building…
Why positive thinking won’t end loneliness
NOEMI CASSIN House of Lords London SW1A 0PW Dear Lady Barran, I am writing to you to discuss your latest Campaign to End Loneliness report, titled “The Psychology…
Michèle Lamont, “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works-And How It Can Heal a Divided World” (Atria, 2023)
How can we challenge and change inequalities? In Seeing Others: How Recognition Works— and How It Can Heal a Divided World (Atria, 2023), Michele Lamont, Professor of Sociology and African and African…
Resistencia a lo largo de los tiempos
Read Time:3 Minute, 28 Second Manuel Carmona Manuel Carmona Los libros, desde la aparición de la imprenta, ha acompañado a la socieda…
“That is not a place to sit on the bus…”
I usually do not take photos on the bus or train. But I could not help myself this morning. As the fall semester started this week, the buses…
Brasiliens ungewisse Zukunft. Von Bolsonaro zum „Bolsonarismo“
Jeir Bolsonaro hat 2018 mit einem schmutzigen Wahlkampf die Präsidentschaft gewonnen und dann wie keiner vor ihm den Staat demontiert. 2022 verlor er knapp gegen Lula, und jetzt…
Nietzsche’s Bataille
‘On 21 January 1936, a prospectus presenting the Cahiers de Contre-Attaque was published; this leaflet announced the forthcoming issue of a Cahier devoted to Nietzsche with the following…
“Every Second Counts”: Thoughts on Richie’s Redemption in Season 2 of The Bear
F/X Studios David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) After this summer’s release of season 2 of The Bear on Hulu, it seems that anyone interested in the world of…
What Ancient Goat Teeth Reveal About Animal Care
Unraveling a mystery around millennia-old goat bones, an archaeologist reflects on the harm people can cause their most cherished animals. ✽ Animals were harmed in the making of…
Gilberto Rosas, “Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
On August 3, 2019, a far-right extremist committed a deadly mass shooting at a major shopping center in El Paso, Texas, a city on the border of the…
A Better Way to Buy Books
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview, Andy…
Cuatro Lindas y un funeral
Read Time:8 Minute, 45 Second Pablo Martínez Tobía Pablo Martínez Tobía Lo único que podemos asegurar sobre la identidad es que no …
“Blooming Biomes Mean Blooming Profits”: ‘Nature-based’ Industrial Farming and the Politics of the Industrial Animal Microbiome
Industrial trade shows are curious places. Potential customers milling around more than 500,000 square feet of exhibit space; technoscientific exuberance and hype; snappy names and enticing displays; …
Plato’s cave regrets to inform you it will be raising its rent
Xu Mason at McSweeney’s: As the costs of maintaining a cave meant to trap you in your ignorance increases year after year, we want you to know, from…
Sahlins biography update: Work in August 2023
August of 2023 was a milestone for my biographical research. I spent two weeks in New York conducting archival research. First, I spend a week and a half…
Sahlins biography update: Work in July 2023
I’m renaming these posts so that they are less confusing. This update was written in August, published in September, but is about work I did in July, so…
Anticlericalismo y proceso de politización
Fusilamiento del monumento al Sagrado Corazón en el Cerro de los Ángeles de Madrid, julio de 1936 Fragmento de Anticlericalismo, espacio y poder. La destrucción de los rituales…
Michael Silverstein’s last book, Language in Culture
Ilana Gershon interviews Summerson Carr, Susan Gal, and Constantine Nakassis https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/language-in-culture/3D4F3FF1DE52DC7CDC5A5B34D21B8AF1#overview Il…
CFF: German International Ethnographic Film Festival (early bird deadline: 25 November)
The German International Ethnographic Film Festival (GIEFF) is celebrating its 17th edition from May 8th- 12th 2024 in Göttingen. We are pleased to announce the new call for…
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions – review
In The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions, Adam Kuper interrogates the history of anthropological museums and considers questions of colonialism, race, and …
Neglect of vaginal health in US health education
CAROLINE MOORE Dear Dr. Miguel Cardona, RE: Neglect of vaginal health in US health education I am writing as someone who was educated in the US through high…
Pole Dance: un viaje de ida y vuelta al mejor deporte del mundo
Read Time:10 Minute, 13 Second Naima Muñoz En este artículo abordaré brevemente la historia del pole dance desde sus inicios, desconoc…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW37
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Praktikumsstelle im Bereich Deutsche und Europäische Klimapolitik bei Germanwatch e.V. (Berlin & Bonn), ein wissenschaftliches Volontariat im LVR-Landesmuseum…