Manu Pineda
Read Time:5 Second Yo no hablo de cine porque sepa, yo le declaro mi amor. Sevillano exiliado en el Pirineo. …
“Skull, bones found in septic tank at vacant [Kadoma-shi,] Osaka Pref. [apartment]”
This is a mere 20 meters from my home; I walk past it twice a day. I walked past the septic cleaner truck around 8:30 this morning. There…
Ingrid Kummels discusses her book, Transborder Media Spaces
Interview by Alana Mazur https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KummelsTransborder Alana Mazur: One of the main themes running through your book is Indigenous audiovisual media and mediatized …
Las profesiones de las mujeres hispanorromanas en la ciudad de Gades
Read Time:11 Minute, 6 Second Baebia, Turpa y Secundilla fueron mujeres que desempeñaron un oficio en la Cádiz de época romana imp…
Brian Villmoare, “The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. Brian Villmoare’s book The Evolution of Everything:…
Ethnographic Postcards: The Good Polyester
Polyester is widely considered an unsustainable fabric polluting our environment but in Ghana, it is seen as a sustainable, good material. The post Ethnographic Postcards: The Good Polyester…
How Do We Heal?
A poet-anthropologist who is a Passamaquoddy tribal member lights a path toward healing both within the field of archaeology and in reflecting on the voices and presence—past, present,…
Männlichkeitskonstruktionen im Rechtsrap
Einleitung Seit seiner Entstehung in den 70er Jahren hat sich HipHop seit dem Ende der 90er Jahre zur einflussreichsten jugendkulturellen Strömung in Deutschland und der Welt entwickelt (Farin,…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW14
Hier ein Hinweis für alle Abonent*innen des Newsletters: Der Newsletter wird diese Woche am Dienstag, den 4ten April versendet. Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Praktikum beim Clett-Cotta-Verl…
RECONSTRUCTING NARRATIVES AND HISTORICTY OF CASTE
Shalina Mehta Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology (retd.) Department of Anthropology Panjab University Chandigarh Shalinamehta137@gmail.com Many a doctrine is like a windowpane. We see trut…
Call for Submissions: Editors’ Forum on Popular Culture Representations of Anthropologists
We are excited to announce our very first “Editors’ Forum.” As part of this initiative, we are calling for blog submissions on the fascinating topic of “Popular Culture…
International organisierte Transfeindlichkeit – vom Papst zu Putin
Antifeminismus ist ein Kernanliegen reaktionärer Politik – und richtet sich aktuell massiv gegen trans Menschen. Wie ist der Kampf gegen die Gleichberechtigung von Frauen und Queers – unter…
Alexa Hagerty, “Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains” (Crown, 2023)
In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for marks…
sNAPAshots: Mohini Mehta
https://practicinganthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023.04.01_Mohini-Mehta-sNAPAshot.mp4 0:10[On Screen Text – Scrolling] sNAPAshots Interviewer 0:10 Welcome back to season two of sNAPAshots….
sNAPAshots: Chad Morris
https://practicinganthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023.04.01_Chad-Morris-sNAPAshot.mp4 0:00 [NAPA Logo] Interviewer 0:11 Welcome to sNAPAshots: Conversations with Practicing, Professional, and App…
Los discursos ocultos de las fiestas religiosas populares
Pañuelada en las fiestas de Lizarra. Tomada de http://www.estella-lizarra.com/estella-lizarra/fiestas/ Fragmento de “Estella: entre el poder y la fiesta”, publicado en los Cuadernos de Etnología y Etno…
Eli Elinoff, “Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand” (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern…
Austerity: An Economy of Words? Pt. 2
Written by Keith Hart The originality of Keynes Commerce waxed and waned throughout the agrarian era, until the market became …
Wissenschaftliche Laufbahn
Mein erster Weg nach Rückkehr nach Deutschland war heute ein Ausflug zu meinem Arbeitsamt, um mich zum 01.04.23 wieder arbeitslos zu melden. Das bin ich diesmal seit dem…
Wissenschaftliche Laufbahn
Mein erster Weg nach Rückkehr nach Deutschland war heute ein Ausflug zu meinem Arbeitsamt, um mich zum 01.04.23 wieder arbeitslos zu melden. Das bin ich diesmal seit dem…
The mental tangles of classification
Citational politics often means citing a diverse group of authors, but often that will bring up the political and practical problems of categorization.
Links & Contents I Liked 477
Hi all,Any weekly review post that features a link to Robert Chambers’ work is a good post ;). More seriously, lots of new research, reflections & reporting from humanitarian…
Ioannis Gaitanidis, “Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?” (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Ioannis Gaitanidis’ book Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (Bloomsbury, 2022) critically examines the spirituality phenomenon in contemporary Japan by looking at the main actors involved in the discourse:…