Contra la ansiedad religiosa
La foto es de Matt Weber Reseña de Marc Augé, El genio del paganismo. Barcelona, Muchnik, 1993, publicada en Ajoblanco, 60 (febrero 1994) CONTRA LA ANSIEDAD RELIGIOSA Manuel D…
Grounded in Clay Exhibition Debuts in New York
Blog by Helen Brooks, Director, Leadership Giving, School for Advanced Research Ju…
27 words for elephant
In English, an elephant is an elephant. Ok, we have words for a group of elephants (a herd) and baby elephants (a calf), but these are general words…
Extinguishing the Idea That Hobbits Had Fire
Research has overturned earlier claims that a diminutive human relative, Homo floresiensis, lit fires—but big stories die hard. SMOKING HOT HOBBITS When you think “the hobbit,” a certain…
Brenda E. F. Beck, “Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures” (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Brenda Beck discusses her lifelong work on a Tamil folk legend, resulting in a graphic novel, an English translation and Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures (U Toronto Press,…
Va Pensiero: música para el nacimiento de una nación
Read Time:12 Minute, 37 Second Rodolfo Padilla Sánchez Rodolfo Padilla Sánchez A mediados del siglo XIX, en el contexto de las revo…
Ramon Karmen 1955 Vietnam
Magnificent colour film of Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, and others, including the heroic fighters of Vietnam before, leading to, and after the victory at Dien Bien…
Two (Satyajit Ray 1963) and Amar Lenin (Ritwik Ghatak 1970) [for ease of access]
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 and This is it.
What It Means to Design Technology That’s “Pass-Through”
Windows are the ultimate pass-through technologies. The best example of a technology interface is one you rarely notice — even if it’s powerfully enhancing your reading experience of these words…
El no-lugar según Michel de Certeau
La foto es de Jason Parnell-Brookes Del artículo El no-lugar más allá del lugar común, Anthropos, 252 (2019). El no-lugar según Michel de Certeau Manuel Delgado El único autor…
MDI-Expertise: Repräsentation von Menschen mit Einwanderungsgeschichte in deutschen Parlamenten
Von den Kollegen Andreas Wüst und Henning Bergmann Die komplette Expertise finden Sie hier. Es wurden Daten zur parlamentarischen Repräsentation in allen deutschen Landesparlamenten für den Zeitraum 2…
Piecing Together the Puzzle of Oman’s Ancient Towers
In recent years, the Omani government has invested in archaeology and heritage tourism to boost its economy—renewing interest in mysterious 4,000-year-old stone towers that dot the Southeastern Arabia…
Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova
In Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova, Eleanor Knott presents a comparative study of how people living in Crimea and Moldova identified with Russia and Romania, respectivel…
تبیین سنت ها: رفتار عامیانه در فرهنگ مدرن، نوشتۀ سیمون برونر (۲۰۱۱)
سیمون برونر در این کتاب به معنا و تعریف سنت پرداخته و هدفش این است که به مقابله با رویکرد آکادمیک شتابزده نسبت به سنت بپردازد. در دوران…
چگونه می‌توان مفهوم «اقتصاد چرخشی» را با کودکان تجربه کرد: تجربۀ موسسه طبیعت گران برنا (البرز-کرج)
توجه به اقتصاد چرخشی[۱]، یکی از مهم‌ترین اقدامات در مسیر بهبود شرایط محیط زیست در آیندۀ جهان است. شایان ذکر است که بدون آگاهی و تمرکز بر نسل…
Rahil Roodsaz, “Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging” (Berghahn Books, 2022)
Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Western societies. While the acceptance of…
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, “The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become” (NYU Press, 2023)
For decades, parents across America have asked their kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” The answer is, “Duh, yes.” Peers, as parents well know,…
Anthony Russell Jerry, “Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica” (UP of Florida, 2023)
Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica (UP of Florida, 2023) delves into the ongoing movement toward recognizing…
Does Data Really Save Lives? Considerations in Digitising Health
SERENE LIM To: Simon Bolton, CEO of NHS Digital Boar Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 6AE Dear Mr. Bolton, “Data saves lives” has played a central role in…
Escapar del “bla, bla, bla”. La nostalgia de Paolo Sorrentino.
Read Time:12 Minute, 34 Second Jaime Campillos Cañas Sorrentino utiliza recurrentemente la soledad y la melancolía en su filmografía….
یادداشت‌های پایان قرن (قسمت ۴۵)
فصل پنجم: روانکاوی فروید زندگی با اشتباهات لپی (ادامه از قبل): یکی دیگر از نمونه‌های قابل بررسی از سوی فروید موردی است که در ترکیب لغزش زبانی و…
Warnstufe Weimar. Historische Analogien in Israel
Schon seit längerem kursieren in Israel Analogien zum einstigen Übergang Deutschlands von einer Demokratie zu einer Diktatur. Diese Vergleiche zeigen ein erschreckendes Bild der israelischen Gesellsch…
New Standards for Museums with Native American Collections (SMNAC) Now Available
Image: SMNAC Core Group meeting in 2019. Photo by Elysia Poon, courtesy School for Advanced Research …
A New Take on an Old Fossil Hints at Ancient Migrations
Two anthropologists explain how an enigmatic human fossil jawbone—and its 3D-printed reconstruction—may evidence an early Homo sapiens presence in Europe and shed new light on evolutionary diversity a…