Avatar 2 indulgences
Avatar 2 seems like its channeling every Hollywood Vietnam War fantasy ever – what is up with that? Western cowboy military in the delta and includes an apocalypse…
Geisteswissenschaften und Sport
Seit einigen Wochen können diejenigen, die Brotgelehrte auf Instagram folgen, Anteil an der “Olympiade” nehmen; eine Idee, die Ilija Trojanow folgt. Insbesondere bei den Ausdauersport…
Mark [Bookman] – A Call to Action (Trailer) FINAL
Mark – A Call to Action (Trailer) FINAL from Anchor Media Group on Vimeo. Source: https://vimeo.com/815400131?fbclid=IwAR3QXITgvcS_FgUybR3IHJ5ktQJFuvXVz35nkHbSmKARrC7YiCFpAd3X25A
Über die Nakba sprechen lernen
Um eine stabile jüdische Mehrheit zu sichern, vertrieb Israel bei seiner Gründung hunderttausende Palästinenser:innen. Das Geschehen von 1948 ist wie ein Brennglas für aktuelle Fragen: nach der Zukunf…
La antropología en un México complicado
Sé que no he escrito mucho en mi blog estos últimos tres años. Esto se debe a que en Yucatán, que es parte de México, he vivido los…
“The LGBTQ+ coming-out photo project “OUT IN JAPAN” will hold a 2023 Spring photo exhibition at Shibuya Cat Street “X8 Gallery” for a month from Saturday, April 15th!”
Photo and text from PR Times, 4/15/23. The certified NPO Good Aging Yells has been working with world-famous photographer Leslie Kee since 2015 with the aim of positively…
Mina Roces, “Gender in Southeast Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Gender in Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022) examines how gender norms are constructed and contested in a region the book describes as ‘a fertile place for analysing gender differences that…
Giorgos Poulimenakos & Dimitris Dalakoglou: Disaster Infrastructures and the Inverted Shock Doctrine in Greece
On March 1st 2023, an impromptu protest rally took place outside the headquarters of Greece’s only railway company, Hellenic Trains (HT). HT is the passenger carrier of the…
Links & Contents I Liked 478
Hi all,As many Easter breaks are wrapping up, I’m happy to share the usual eclectic mix of food for thought, discussion & re-discovery – from the Peace Studies…
Another neighborhood shop closes…
This is was a tako yaki shop that was open for 23 years. The owner turned 80 and seemed to be having health problems. I went there a…
Se min kjole, den er blå som gresset
Hva heter tak eller rips på engelsk? Tak heter vel roof, men også ceiling er tak, uten at roof og ceiling er det samme. Og rips heter vel…
Cinegogía: An Open Access Resource for Teaching and Studying Latin American Cinema
Cinegogía is an open-access website devoted to the teaching and study of Latin American cinemas. Bridget Franco, an associate professor of Spanish at College of the Holy Cross, founded…
Slum Tourism and Affective Economy in Delhi, India
In Delhi, former street children guide visiting tourists around the streets that they used to inhabit and show how the NGO they work for tries to resocialise the…
Freddy Foks, “Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain” (U California Press, 2023)
Freddy Foks’s Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain (U California Press, 2023) is a novel new history of the role of social anthropology in…
Antropologi, humanekologi och pengarnas magi
Alf Hornborg: Vår kollektiva rörelse mot katastrof är i sista hand inte en konsekvens av hur ekonomer tänker utan av hur de pengar är utformade som formar deras…
More on communications and media professionals.
A while back campus and community planning tweeted out a praise tweet on their campus vision 2050 plan. In it they mentioned a community connectors program. When I…
Board protocols coming down
When one is a public academic there are many pitfalls one might encounter. This is compounded by being an elected member of the board of governors. Here is…
Bräunen oder nicht
An einem der letzten Tage in Delhi bin ich barfuß gegangen. Da konnte die indische Kollegin sehen, dass meine Füsse ganz schön Sonne bekommen haben und gebräunt waren.…
Bräunen oder nicht
An einem der letzten Tage in Delhi bin ich barfuß gegangen. Da konnte die indische Kollegin sehen, dass meine Füsse ganz schön Sonne bekommen haben und gebräunt waren.…
¿Por qué conformarse con la Cooperación cuando podemos vivir en Sinergia?
Read Time:17 Minute, 49 Second En este artículo, el autor presenta algunas de las grandes contradicciones de la sociedad occidental, c…
The Illness Experience of a Forty-year-old Hispanic Woman
Different cultural upbringings can determine a person’s illness experience. The relationship between the experience of a patient, and in turn, a course of treatment is inherently valuable to…
The Astounding Origins of Chaco Canyon Timber
In a nearly treeless desert, Ancestral Puebloans built Great Houses with more than 200,000 massive log beams. Where they got the wood has long puzzled archaeologists. THE QUESTION…
David Baumeister, “Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race” (Northwestern UP, 2022)
While Immanuel Kant’s account of human reason is well known and celebrated, his account of human animality (Thierheit) is virtually unknown. Animality and reason, as pillars of Kant’s…
Dominación a través de la represión y la violencia. Análisis sobre la vulneración de los derechos humanos en el territorio ocupado del Sáhara Occidental
Read Time:6 Minute, 8 Second La violencia como modo de dominación es una tónica habitual en los territorios ocupados por fuerzas e…