By Pamungkas (Yudha) Dewanto As a response to the global corona crisis, authorities all over the world set strict health protocols for travelers. Focusing on the case of…
This online course for the summer semester 2021 at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna gives a critical overview about the material…
Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species. Humans are…
Como todos sabemos, podríamos definir al mercenario –de manera reduccionista– como aquel “asalariado de la guerra”. En el presente artículo abordaremos de manera sucinta las cuestiones políticas que…
Aldea kwakiutl fotografiada el 1880 Ressenya del llibre de Franz Boas, Els mètodes de l’etnologia. Edició i traducció d’Angel Martínez. Icaria, Barcelona, 1996. 119 pàgines. Publicat a Q…
Neural prosthetics: understanding reach planning First understanding the task to then be able to help people with paralysis have functional prosthetics. What Popular Culture Misunderstands About Addi…
En obligatorisk beståndsdel på de akademiska festerna f.C-19 var snapsvisor. En av de populäraste visorna att sjunga då det kom folk från Sverige på besök heter ”Minne” och…
A Wednesday in May 2017, Vienna, Austria The door opens. Behind it is Frau Schöbel, a tiny woman in her early seventies.[1] Through her glasses, her eyes are…
Life has always been difficult, Maria del Rosario told me, but she coped. That was before all the sickness. When her mother’s kidneys began to fail, she felt…
[no-caption] Bim/Getty Images GUARANTEE “Have you gotten your COVID-19 test result already?” Vijay (a pseudonym) asks me while ringing up my bill at his salon. “Yes,” I answer.…
Die sogenannte Dreifachkatastrophe in Nordostjapan jährt sich am 11. März 2021 zum zehnten Mal. In den Medien war zuletzt kaum mehr von „3/11“ die Rede – so bezeichnet…
The concept of the individual self – a being that is autonomous, rational and largely without vulnerability – shapes current legal frameworks, the power dynamics between individuals, and…
¿Es el hecho de llevar hiyab o burka en público un atentado contra los Derechos Universales? Así parece afirmarlo un manual de ética contemporánea que he tenido hace…
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bse.2698 This has been a long journey and a lot of work several years: jointly with a number of interdisciplinary colleagues, we published our arti…
Street art, Oaxaca City, Mexico. 2007. Photo: Ryan Anderson. By Louis Philippe Römer Activists, politicians, and public intellectuals have turned to the word “fascism” to analyze the intensified…
Michael Symons, Meals Matter: A Radical Economics Through Gastronomy Columbia University Press, 2020. 376 pp. ISBN 9780231196024. Raymond D. Boisvert (Siena College) In 1947 the American p…
But the bottom line is that we have to reject the hate crimes and attacks on Asian Americans. Not because there is complete agreement on all issues, but…
COVID has forced many of us to work from home while limiting social interactions and travel. To fill social and travel voids, many people have welcomed pets into…
COVID has forced many of us to work from home while limiting social interactions and travel. To fill social and travel voids, many people have welcomed pets into…
In 1928 my mother, who was 6 years old at the time, received a coloring book from a neighbour. It was called “Big Circus Painting and Crayoning Book”…
[no-caption] Andrew Flachs One warm afternoon several years ago, I was walking with Korianna,* a farmer in Telangana, India, when I smelled something bad. The scent of diesel…
Gefangen in Geschlechtermustern: In Jahrzehnten beharrlicher Knochenarbeit erstürmten die Frauenbewegungen erfolgreich Männerbastionen. Die feminine Ertüchtigung hat allerdings auch die maskuline Wid…
Wenn eine koreanische Boygroup weltweit von Millionen Fans gehört wird, wenn also Filme und Musik digital rund um den Erdball kreisen: was bedeutet dies für die Produktion von…
“El buen médico trata la enfermedad, el gran médico trata al paciente que tiene la enfermedad” William Osler 1849-1919 Las mujeres y los hombres no enfermamos igual, biológicamente…