Social Anthro#2: Kinship – Given or Made?
When you start to reflect upon the meaning of this blog's title, I would like to invite you to first think about the following questions: Why is it…
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اگر نگوییم همه، اکثر ما انسان‌ها نخست، علی‌رغم میل و خواسته‌هایمان در طول زندگی به‌خصوص در دوران کودکی، دچار محرومیت‌ها، بعضا خشونت‌ها و یا تروما‌هایی کوچک یا بزرگ،…
Seriensommer, Folge 3: Gespenstisch transparent
Mit dem Coming Out einer pensionierten Professorin rückt die Serie „Transparent“ (2014–2019) das Thema Transgender ins Zentrum. Angesichts der Auflösung fester Geschlechterrollen sowie aktueller Versc…
La gran astucia de lo social consiste en hacernos creer que no existe
La foto es de Mahdi Ardij Párrafos finales del prólogo para Simbolos naturales. Estudios en cosmología, de Mary Douglas (Alianza Editorial, 2023) La gran astucia de lo social…
زیست – سیاست بدن: اشکال جدید سبک زندگی انسان مدرن
در سال ١٩٩۴ الکساندرا ینی، یکی از نویسندگان مشهور دنیای سبک زندگی و مد آمریکا در یکی از مجلات معروف مقاله‌ای را با این عنوان نوشت: «آیا وقتی…
Satsuki Takahashi, “Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape” (U Washington Press, 2023)
Both before and after the 2011 “Triple Disaster” of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, anthropologist Satsuki Takahashi visited nearby communities,…
Sophie Bjork-James, “The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family” (Rutgers UP, 2021)
The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family (Rutgers University Press, 2021) provides an account of how a theology of the family came to dominate a white evangelical tradition…
Karen E. Rignall, “An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis” (Cornell UP, 2021)
Karen E. Rignall’s book An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis (Cornell UP, 2021) details the fraught dynamics of rural life in the arid periphery of…
Exploring Pedagogy and Teaching for a Post-Racist Imagination
In this episode, Janine de Novais discusses her new publication on Brave Community and teaching for a post-racist imagination. The episode is about the role of pedagogy in…
NEW article on Urban Reconstruction in Xinjiang by Madlen Kobi
This article investigates the relatively little explored urban development in China’s Northwestern Uyghur homeland of XUAR (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). Based on 12 months of ethnographic field…
NEW article on thermal practices to cope with summer heat in Chongqing by Madlen Kobi
Until the 1990s and the spread of air-conditioning, cooling down during the hot, humid, and windless summers in the city of Chongqing (Southwest China) was mainly practiced outdoors:…
Links & Contents I Liked 488
Hi all,I hope many of you are still on or about to leave for Global Northern summer holidays and I hope even more so that you are in…
Sarah Muir, “Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Argentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a long history of economic volatility. In 2001–2002, a financial crisis led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating…
Paying more attention to long-term caregivers in contemporary China
CHENGYUE PENG (to No. 57 An Ding Men Wai Da Jie, Dong Cheng District, Beijing) Dear Ms Sun: I am writing to advocate more concern for long-term caregivers,…
Colonizing Mars or Colonizing the Earth? A Reflection on Landscape and SpaceX in Texas
By Robert Kopack, University of South Carolina § I was startled awake by a faint voice announcing something across the humid, coastal air. Maybe it was a shift…
ثنویت و بدنمندی در قالب اسطوره و موسیقی جوامع کهن
روایت مردمان کهن از خلقت، دارای باور و اعتقادات ماوراءالطبیعه است که در قالب اسطوره بیان و به صورت نمادین در زندگی اجتماعی آنان سایه می‌افکند. خدایان و…
What Pots Say—and Don’t Say—About People
Archaeologists long abandoned the simple notion that “pots are people”—that people’s identities directly correspond with the pottery they made and used. What, then, can ceramics reveal about past…
Xenia A. Cherkaev, “Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice (Cornell UP, 2023) is a historical ethnography of the property regime upon which Soviet legal scholars legislated a…
Esra Özyürek, “Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany” (Stanford UP, 2023)
At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country’s Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets…
In the House that Jack Built
The heat promised to be oppressive in the courtyard of the house that Jack built. Yet there was hope as guests…
Writing Indigenous Oral Tradition to Fight a Dam
In the northern Philippines, the Isnag are documenting their Traditional Stories to sustain their culture and fight a legal battle against dams that would inundate their homelands. ✽…
Taken Rapanui Heritage project
In 2020, amidst the COVID pandemic, the tourism industry came to a complete halt, leaving Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) almost entirely isolated from the rest…
Michael Roper, “Afterlives of War: A Descendants’ History” (Manchester UP, 2023)
Afterlives of War: A Descendants’ History (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Michael Roper documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain…
Letter of concern regarding the UK’s Criminal Justice System and its handling of Rape and Serious Sexual Assault cases, with regards to Operation Soteria’s one year review.
MACKENZIE DEARSLEY Letter Directed To: The Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP, Home Security & MP for Fareham Government representative of Home Office’s Operation Soteria initiative. T…