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Hi all,Can Andrew Mitchell save UK #globaldev?Can we engage with the Taliban?Can AI empower marginalized people?Can economic development deliver in the future?And what about Sollywood?!?Answers to the…
Hen – vårt korte og kontroversielle kjønnsnøytrale pronomen
Man kan ikke se tilbake på språkåret 2022 uten å stoppe opp ved 16. juni: dagen da det kjønnsnøytrale pronomenet hen offisielt ble tatt inn i norske ordbøker.…
Aspired Communities, Contested Futures: Long-Term Recovery after the 3.11 Disaster in Japan
On March 11, 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan triggering a massive tsunami and shifting the earth on its axis. Nearly 20,000…
Foreigners and (merely trifling … criminal) ideology in poetry: Note for a future appreciation of Aragon that will likely never appear…
From Louis Aragon’s epic History of the USSR 1962 (1964) “Although it may have been necessary to remind creative artists and writers of the national context of art…
Joan of Arc in Germany: (Trans)National Adaptations in German-Language Texts and Films
Jeanne d’Arc, the fifteenth-century Maid of Orleans who led France to victory against England during the Hundred Years’ War, was burnt at the stake as a heretic on…
Slow Death by Volcano
A biocultural anthropologist shares new research on the surprising long-term hazards of volcanoes in Iceland—and how to address them. THE RISE OF ICELANDIC VOLCANOES In the fall of…
David Shulman and Heike Oberlin, “Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Kūṭiyāṭṭam, India’s only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually performed in Kerala for at least a thousand years. David Shulman and Heike Oberlin’s Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam (Oxford…
Sospecha y elegancia. El caso Patricia Heras
Fragmento del artículo “Sospecha y elegancia. De la distinción al estigma: el caso de Patricia Heras”, incluido en el libro colectivo Ciutat morta. Crónica del caso 4F (Capirote,…
Döden, livet och de smutsiga krigen genom tid och rum – en intervju med Sverker Finnström
INTERVJU. Årets SANT-konferens har ”taking care” som tema, vilket fick Sverker Finnström att återvända till sitt första fältarbete och en begravning i inbördeskrigets Uganda. Några berusade äldre män…
The Household’s Basket: Households in a basket
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a 2 part essay. Like most EU countries during the past year Greece has been faced with…
Returning to UNC-Charlotte Approaching the 4th Anniversary of a Mass Shooting in My Class
Tomorrow, I get on a plane to fly to Charlotte, NC to attend the unveiling and dedication of a new memorial for Reed, Riley, and the other victims…
Richard Bauman on his book, A Most Valuable Medium
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://iupress.org/9780253065186/a-most-valuable-medium Ilana Gershon: What inspired you to study early commercial sound recordings? And what problems did these …
‘Everything shifted.’ On the impact of studying anthropology and the value of bringing those skills to work
By Barbara van Male – ‘When it came to major issues such as migration, climate crisis, inequality, I often felt a sense of unease. How could I to…
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بهمن معتمدیان مجموعهداران موسیقى به اندازۀ موسیقیدانان و گاهی بیش از آنان، در ترویج و فرهنگسازى این هنر نقش آفرین بودهاند. در ایران زمینۀ شناخت انواع موسیقى…
عکس فوری (۲۶۹): موقعیت گروتسک، موقعیت عادی، نگاهی به ماجرای «ماستپاشی»
پدیدۀ به آتش کشیدن کتابهای ممنوعه، پیشینۀ تاریخی طولانی دارد و جملۀ «این آغاز کار است، آنجا که کتابها را بسوزانند، روزی انسانها را خواهند سوزاند» را هم…
Una forma andaluza de ser catalanes
Artículo publicado en El Periódico de Catalunya el 18/8/1997 UNA FORMA ANDALUZA DE SER CATALANES Manuel Delgado Catalunya es un excelente e…
On Flores Island, Do Ape-Men Still Exist?
Islanders have long claimed ape-like humans, remarkably similar to the fossil species Homo floresiensis, survive in secluded forests of Indonesia. An anthropologist investigates why. Excerpted from Be…
Hermenéutica y conspiración
La fotografía és de Daniellks Comentario para Cecilia Vergnano, enviado el 26 de agosto de 2022 Hermenéutica y conspiración Manuel Delgado Toda lectura de un texto sagrado es…
Worüber wir reden, wenn wir „Identitätspolitik“ sagen (und worüber nicht)
Identitätspolitik – das machen immer nur die anderen. Das suggerieren zumindest die einschlägigen deutschsprachigen Feuilleton-Debatten. Es hilft daher zu wissen, woher der Begriff kommt, wofür er zu …
Adorno on youth and discipline – whats not to love here
“There is absolutely no question that productive thinking today can take the form only of one that works through breaks and fractures, whereas any thinking which is simply…
Stepan Georgevich Shaumian – not to be forgotten.
Besides the usual wiki stuff, I would welcome any recommendations on Shaumian. Or Shaumyan as Louis Aragon spells his name in The History of the USSR (1962) –…
What Day is It? Depends on whose Calendar You Consult
Just when you think you know what day it is, along comes this research on the ancient Mayan calendar. By fifth grade, most schoolchildren know that a week…
Birding in Ruins: Multispecies Encounters and the Ecologies of Evidence
As we walked by some of the former shrimp ponds in an abandoned aquaculture farm, we approached a scene I easily overlooked until Julian asked me to document…
2023 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Fellow Janna Avner Works with Light
Written by Olivia Amaya Ortiz. Koyukon Athabascan creative, Janna Avner (she/her),…