Scented Entanglements
Shortly before the first Corona lockdown in spring 2020, I was busy preparing for fieldwork in Turkey on a much neglected topic in the scholarly literature on beauty,…
Happy Birthday to Us + Stuff We Want To Do
There is something beautiful that lies within repetitive actions; something inventive and creative that emerges through doing things again and again. The way musicians or dancers learn step-by-step…
Should Paviland’s Red Lady “Come Home”?
Two archaeologists explore the complicated story of 33,000-year-old human remains—and calls for their repatriation to Wales. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been rep…
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in Sweden
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our third podcast episode explores how Swedish anthropology departments hire. Every … More
Yaina Stainova on her book, Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela
Interview by Ahona Palchoudhuri https://www.press.umich.edu/11698102/sonorous_worlds Ahona Palchoudhuri: I’d like to begin with a particularly moving ethnographic instance from your book in…
Demokratie
Bei der Vorstellung des neuen Buches von Rajeev Bhargava Between Hope and Despair. 100 Ethical Reflections on Contemporary India hat unter anderem Romila Thapar gesprochen. Sie sagte, dass…
Demokratie
Bei der Vorstellung des neuen Buches von Rajeev Bhargava Between Hope and Despair. 100 Ethical Reflections on Contemporary India hat unter anderem Romila Thapar gesprochen. Sie sagte, dass…
Claudio E. Benzecry, “The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry (The University of Chicago Press, 2022) shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women’s shoes.…
Ulrike Krause, “Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains difficult there. Building on empirical research with refugees…
El cine y el miedo III
Read Time:15 Minute, 12 Second Lee la primera parte aquí Lee la segunda parte aquí Todas estas películas de asesinos en serie han…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW10
Diese Woche gibt es ein Praktikum im Bereich Klimapsychologie und -kommunikation (remote!), eine Volo-Stelle als Projektmanager*in im Bereich Kultur und eine Stelle als Referent*in für Antiras…
Nominations Open: 2023 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2023 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition.
Seeker of Life/Kawsay Thawiq
A Quechua poet and linguist speaks to the conflicting feelings some Indigenous groups experience when non-Native paleoarchaeologists and others visit their communities for research projects. “Se…
Hugh Raffles Named 2023 Winner of J.I. Staley Prize
SAR is pleased to announce that Hugh Raffles, Professor and Anthropology Department Chair at the New School for Social Research, has been named winner of the 2023 J.…
Ep#103 Handwraps & Hijabs: Dr Jasmijn Rana on Kickboxing & Piety in the Netherlands
Welcome back to the Familiar Strange. We’re kicking off 2023 with an interview with Dr Jasmijn Rana from Leiden University. Dr Jasmijn’s research interests include, gender, race-ethnicity, relig…
Car-user paid model for funding bike-transportation infrastructure; a cheeky proposal reconsidered for 2025
I wrote this first in 2023, when Edmonton’s city council failed to fully budget for completion of the planned bicycle-as-transportation infrastructure. Mine was an audacious, madcap response to…
Blog Post: “Have you seen a polar bear?”
Budka, P. (2023). “Have you seen a polar bear?” – Transportation during “bear season” in Churchill, Manitoba. InfraNorth – Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infra…
Kyama M. Mugambi, “A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya” (Baylor UP, 2020)
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, Africa has generated unique expressions of Christianity that have, in their rapid development, overtaken older forms of Christianity represented by…
Nicola Rollock, “The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival” (Penguin, 2022)
Why do racial inequalities persist? In The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival (Penguin, 2023), Nicola Rollock, a Professor of Social Policy & Race at King’s College London, examines the often hidden and…
Lisa M. Johnson and Rosemary A. Joyce, “Materializing Ritual Practices” (U Colorado Press, 2022)
Materializing Ritual Practices (U Colorado Press, 2022) explores the deep history of ritual practice in Mexico and Central America and the ways interdisciplinary research can be coordinated to illuminate…
La oscuridad
La foto es de Rober Tomás y está tomada de https://robertomasfoto.com/ Comentarios para el espacio “El rincón y la esquina”, del “Hoy por hoy” de la Cadena SER.…
No es mi circo, no son mis monos: expresiones divertidas en todo el mundo.
“No es mi circo, no son mis monos”, así lo expresan en Polonia (y ahora en todo el mundo, en realidad) un “me importa un bledo”, “un comino”,…
Terra(re)forming. Urbanistische Deutungsversuche eines zukunftsträchtigen Begriffs
Mit der Herausforderung einer Stabilisierung des globalen Temperaturanstiegs erlangen historische urbanistische Projektideen zu einer aktiven Transformation des Klimas eine neue Bedeutung – jenseits d…
Jennie E. Burnet, “To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide” (Cornell UP, 2023)
In To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide (Cornell UP, 2023), Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi…