Seriensommer
TV-Serien boomten in den letzten Jahren, jetzt heisst es: “Streaming-Boom vorbei”, “Ära des Peak TV” zu Ende. GdG hat für Sie Texte über Serien aus dem eigenen Archiv…
Shaping Bubbles of Time: Crossing Temporalities Through VHS, DVDs, and Gigabytes
ByDamian Andres SabatiniMA Material and Visual Culture, 2022-23 1998 marked a pivotal moment in the world of cinema, with the iconic sci-fi filmmaker from the 1970s, George Lucas,…
Roluah Puia, “Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Roluah Puia’s book Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India (Cambridge UP, 2023) illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics.…
Jenna Grant, “Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh” (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist from the University of Washington and author of Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh, published by University…
#nachgefragt: Das Podcastformat des Genderblogs
Episode 7 (engl.): Transcendance, Time, and Feminism – An Interview on Simone de Beauvoir with Kate Kirkpatrick and Martina Bengert https://genderblog.hu…
Sommerpause
Sommerpause Nach einer erfolgreichen ersten Phase verabschiedet sich der boasblog Researching Capitalism in die Sommerpause. Wir sind im Oktober 2023 mit neuen Beiträgen zum Gens Manifest und der…
Goethe, Deine Forscher: Rüdiger Krause, Archäologe
Rüdiger Krauses Sprache verrät viel. Nicht nur über seine schwäbische Herkunft, sondern vor allem über seine Einstellungen. Das ist zu hören, wenn er von der Faszination berichtet, die…
Sarah Federman and Ronald Niezen, “Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Individuals can assume—and be assigned—multiple roles throughout a conflict: perpetrators can be victims, and vice versa; heroes can be reassessed as complicit and compromised. However, accepting this more…
Links & Contents I Liked 487
Hi all,Me & the blog are officially on our summer break, but some interesting readings have been piling up so I want to share them as well as…
Temporal Recalibrations: Learning to See in the Liminal Spaces of Post-Wildfire Landscapes
By Maya Daurio, University of British Columbia § “Welcome to another day in paradise,” said the man introducing that week’s visiting pastor to the congregation at the Poudre…
Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity
In Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity, Wei Yu Wayne Tan considers what it meant to be blind in Tokugawa Japan (from 1600 to 1868), including how a strong guild structure p…
A Goodbye to Suburban Summers
by Pia Kristine Raahauge Beiermann – In recent years, I have come to collect a particular kind of encounter. Whenever someone casually asks about my plans for the…
جامعه‌شناسی زندگی روزمره(۲-آخر)
دِوورا کالکین-فیشمن، برگردان: فردین علیخواه مطالعات تجربی: با توجه به تنوع رویکردهای نظری به زندگی روزمره، مشخص است که این عرصۀ مطالعاتی فاقد جهت‌گیری تجربی واحدی است. درحالی‌که بسیاری…
یادداشت آزاد: آیا احساسش می‌کنی؟
ترکیب سخنرانی «من رویایی دارم» از مارتین لوترکینگ، با موسیقی «آیا احساسش می‌کنی» از لری هرد، یک تلفیق نمادین است. ادی ریچاردز میان این دو آوا، که به…
مروری بر مفهوم قانون و واقعیت (شکاف الهیاتی قوه و فعل)
مقدمه هربرت هارت در مفهوم قانون پرسشی حاشیه‌ای اما کلیدی می‌پرسد: «اگر شطرنج را بدون وزیر بازی کنیم آیا هنوز شطرنج است؟» این پرسش بی‌درنگ همان مساله‌ای را…
RUNDGANG: Studierende der Kunstpädagogik laden zur Werkschau
Erstmals wird das neue Gebäude der Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften mit den künstlerischen Arbeiten des kunstpädagogischen Instituts bespielt. Die Ausstellung auf drei Stockwerken ist noch bis morgen …
The Urgency of Envisioning a World Without Police
An anthropologist working in Baltimore argues that safety for Black communities requires an end to policing. That also means taking a hard look at how policing intersects with…
Summer Break
We have been fighting to make it to the summer break and, look, there it is, the summer holidays are within reach! Allegra has rolled down the shutters,…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Izakaya「Kōshū Kaidō: Uosada」as seen on the Meshi Tero Drama, “Wakako Zake” (6/28/23)
Wakako Zake (ワカコ酒, or “Wakako’s Sake,” BS-TV Tokyo) is one of the longest running (now in its 7th season) and my favorite meshi tero (loosely translated “food terrorism”…
On Starships and people: Can we rescue the liberatory potentials of technology?
On April 20th, 2023, SpaceX attempted the first integrated flight of its biggest rocket called Starship. SpaceX is a private American aerospace company that was founded in 2002…
#Inflationstrauma
Immer wieder ist in Deutschland von einem „Inflationstrauma“ die Rede. Dabei bezieht sich der Begriff nicht auf Erfahrungen, sondern auf Narrative, die ihrerseits eine Geschichte haben. In den…
Sahlins biography July 2023 update
After third months of research for my biography of Marshall Sahlins, I have finally arrived at an important milestone: Sahlins’s birth! I’ve done a lot of work on…
A Call for Anthropological Poems From Within “Zones of Conflict”
SAPIENS is seeking poetry submissions for a curated collection that will publish in early 2024. Deadline September 15, 2023. SAPIENS magazine invites creative works for the upcoming poetry…
What Happens When Catholic Medals Become Mainstream Jewelry
Retailers are selling medallions cherished by Catholics who favor conservative gender roles. Are secular buyers sporting anti-feminist symbols? ✽ The online retailer Awe Inspired Jewelry offers a God…