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Mobility and immobility during the pandemic: Experiences on a journey from Amsterdam to Semarang

Standplaats wereld

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…

  • Post date 12th March 2021
  • Post author By standplaatswereld
  • Post categories In English

Seminar: The Materiality and Visuality of Social Media

Philbu's Blog

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…

  • Post date 12th March 2021
  • Post author By philbu
  • Post categories In English, German

Jeremy DeSilva, “First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human” (Harper, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

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…

  • Post date 12th March 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

Asalariados de la guerra: identidad política del mercenario en el mundo antiguo

anthropologies

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…

  • Post date 12th March 2021
  • Post author By anthropologies
  • Post categories In Spanish

L’antropologia i el relativisme relatiu

EL COR DE LES APARENCES

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…

  • Post date 12th March 2021
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado
  • Post categories In Spanish

Wednesday Round Up #40

Neuroanthropology

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…

  • Post date 11th March 2021
  • Post author By dlende
  • Post categories In English

Skam/Smart

Kulturanalyser

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…

  • Post date 11th March 2021
  • Post author By Kulturanalyser
  • Post categories In Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Pains, pleasures, and a new electric wheelchair by Anna Mann

Somatosphere

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…

  • Post date 11th March 2021
  • Post author By Anna Mann
  • Post categories In English

The ‘chronic’ lives of failing organs: afflictions of ambivalent care in Mexico by Ciara Kierans

Somatosphere

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…

  • Post date 11th March 2021
  • Post author By Ciara Kierans
  • Post categories In English

Mucus Passports: Mobility in the Time of COVID-19

SAPIENS

[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.…

  • Post date 11th March 2021
  • Post author By Bhoomika Joshi
  • Post categories In English

10 Jahre mit »Fukushima«: Japanologin Lisette Gebhardt über den Umgang mit der »Dreifachkatastrophe«

Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften – Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

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…

  • Post date 11th March 2021
  • Post author By Redaktion
  • Post categories In German

Jonathan Herring, “Law and the Relational Self” (Cambridge UP, 2019)

New Books in Anthropology

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…

  • Post date 11th March 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

La asimilación cultural disfrazada de inclusión

anthropologies

¿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…

  • Post date 11th March 2021
  • Post author By anthropologies
  • Post categories In Spanish

The Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index – oil and gas better than mining?

Arctic Anthropology

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…

  • Post date 11th March 2021
  • Post author By fstammle
  • Post categories In English

Why “is this fascism?” is the wrong question: a foray into the everyday life of political concepts

anthro{dendum}

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…

  • Post date 11th March 2021
  • Post author By Guest Contributor
  • Post categories In English

Review: Meals Matter

FoodAnthropology

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…

  • Post date 11th March 2021
  • Post author By dsutton20
  • Post categories In English

Asians must be a part of our story, too

Culture & humanities – The Berkeley Blog

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…

  • Post date 10th March 2021
  • Post author By john a. powell

Are Hotels & Destinations Ready for Pet Travel Companions?

Anthropological Tourism

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…

  • Post date 10th March 2021
  • Post author By Dr. Justin Taillon - Highline College
  • Post categories In English

Are Hotels & Destinations Ready for Pet Travel Companions?

Anthropological Tourism

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…

  • Post date 10th March 2021
  • Post author By Dr. Justin Taillon - Highline College
  • Post categories In English

Coloring Persia

Tabsir

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”…

  • Post date 10th March 2021
  • Post author By tabsir
  • Post categories In English

What Problems Does Organic Cotton Solve?

SAPIENS

[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…

  • Post date 10th March 2021
  • Post author By Andrew Flachs
  • Post categories In English

Der Alpha-Mädchen-Frauen-Mythos

Ingrid Thurner

Gefangen in Geschlechtermustern: In Jahrzehnten beharrlicher Knochenarbeit erstürmten die Frauenbewegungen erfolgreich Männerbastionen. Die feminine Ertüchtigung hat allerdings auch die maskuline Wid…

  • Post date 10th March 2021
  • Post author By Ingrid Thurner
  • Post categories In German

Wie die Digitalisierung die weltweite Kulturproduktion aufmischt

Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften – Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

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…

  • Post date 10th March 2021
  • Post author By Redaktion
  • Post categories In German

Sesgo de género en la ciencia y en la medicina

anthropologies

“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…

  • Post date 10th March 2021
  • Post author By anthropologies
  • Post categories In Spanish
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