The Human Roots of Japan’s Cherry Blossoms
Most cherry blossom trees planted in Japan today are the iconic pale-pink somei-yoshino variety—but its reign may be coming to an end. SAKURA FEVER I was in Japan…
Verunmöglichte Forschung? Internationaler Wettbewerb versus transnationale Solidarität im Wissenschafstbetrieb
Auch die Wissenschaft ficht Arbeitskämpfe aus. In Deutschland wurde das Reformvorhaben zum Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (WissZeitVG) zurecht von den betroffenen Wissenschaftler:innen abgelehnt. Abe…
Dissertation Manuscript Outline: Human-Javelina Relations in Texas
Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of…
The Power of Criminal Prosecutors
“Criminal.” It’s a label that can follow someone around for much of their life. But how does a person become a criminal? Anyone who is in prison has…
Hindi-Englisch
In der Metro in Delhi werden alle Ansagen in Englisch und Hindi gemacht. Auch die Anzeigen gibt es in Hindi und Englisch. Mein Hindi ist mies, aber ich…
Hindi-Englisch
In der Metro in Delhi werden alle Ansagen in Englisch und Hindi gemacht. Auch die Anzeigen gibt es in Hindi und Englisch. Mein Hindi ist mies, aber ich…
Paleoanthropology: The Ancestor Worshipping Death Cult
Firstly, this is satire. I love all of my paleoanthropologist friends. Paleoanthropology is a scientific discipline dedicated to illuminating our evolutionary history. However, it is also a low-k…
Universal public services: the power of decommodifying survival
One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition. Capitalism…
Akiko Takeyama, “Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club” (Stanford UP, 2016)
Welcome to Tokyo’s Kabuki-chō red-light district, where Professor Akiko Takeyama started her ‘affective ethnographic’ fieldwork to explore the host clubs in which ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling…
Catherine Wanner, “Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine” (Cornell UP, 2022)
Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine (Cornell UP, 2022) reveals how and why religion has become a pivotal political force in a society struggling to overcome the…
Virus: nuestros pequeños aliados
Read Time:6 Minute, 32 Second Los virus afectan a la vida de millones de personas en el mundo provocando enfermedades. Pero tambié…
The Use of Patent Information to Investigate Algorithmic Systems
During my master’s degree, I wanted to study the idea that some social media platforms had tools for guiding users’ behavior in a certain direction. Even though this…
Nick Bartlett on his book, Recovering Histories
Interview with Yun Chen https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344136/recovering-histories Yun Chen: Recovering Histories is an ethnography of the entanglements between individuals’ lived expe…
Dimitris Xygalatas, “Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living” (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
Ritual is one of the oldest, and certainly most enigmatic, threads in the history of human culture. It presents a profound paradox: people ascribe the utmost importance to…
Breve crónica de la esclavitud y el racismo en España
Read Time:8 Minute, 49 Second Te invitamos a este recorrido por la historia de la esclavitud en las colonias españolas de los sigl…
In the Event of Flooding
An Indigenous poet-anthropologist speaks to the survivance of Native communities in the face of colonialism and genocide. “In the Event of Flooding” is part of the collection Indigenizing…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW15
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. Aushilfsstellen auf der ECOVENTA in München und Köln, eine Stelle im Bereich Projektmanagement/ redaktionelle Prozesse beim Ernst Klett Verlag und eine Stelle als…
Sobre el menyspreu de l’Església catalana envers la religiositat popular andalusa a Catalunya
Processó de la Virgen de la Soledad al barri de Llefià a Badalona. És de Silvia Llamas i està pressa de lavanguardia.com. Missatge enviat als estudiants de l’assignatura…
Una cultura andalusa a casa nostra?
Romería del Rocío a l’ermita de Loreto, a Tarrgaona, el 2014. Foto de Lluís Millán Article publicat a El Periódico de Catalunya el 13 de març de 1997.…
Anthro Boycott 2.0
Supporters of academic boycott during the annual business meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Denver, Colorado, November 21, 2015. Photo by Alex Shams. Responding to the petition…
Jennifer Lynn Kelly, “Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine (Duke UP, 2023), Jennifer Lynn Kelly explores the significance of contemporary solidarity tourism across Occupied Palestine. Examining the relationships among race,…
Gwen Burnyeat, “The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy Amid Disinformation in Colombia” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society…
Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst und das ist blau. Was uns Fotos von der Erde über uns sagen
Verdankt sich Umweltbewusstsein dem gekränkten Ego US-amerikanischer Militärpiloten? Vor sechzig Jahren sorgte ihr Protest dafür, dass Raumkapseln Sichtfenster bekamen. Die geschossenen Bilder formten…