AI’s Truth, Lies, and Ethos
Summary: Conversational artificial intelligence is often a form of storytelling, and underlying some of AI’s stories is an artificial ethos that could be insidious. I am a cultural…
What Spider Games Say About Arachnophobia
Many people around the world fear spiders. But in the Philippines, the tradition of spider wrestling often brings people and arachnids in close proximity. ✽ A fear of…
Monica Liu, “Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China’s Global Rise” (Stanford UP, 2022)
Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes-younger, more physically attractive brides from…
António Tomás, “In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda” (Duke UP, 2022)
In his book, In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda (Duke UP, 2022), António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation’s capital as…
Das individuelle Asylrecht ist die historische Konsequenz aus dem Scheitern von Kontingent-Lösungen
In einem Gastbeitrag für die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hat der Erste Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion, Thorsten Frei, die Abschaffung des individuellen Asylrechts g…
La batalla por el hogar a finales del siglo XIX en España
“Soñando”, David Dávila Final de Devotas astucias. La piedad religiosa como resistencia a la dominación masculina en la obra de Benito Pérez Galdós, Aries. 14 julio 2013. La…
Representations of Political Violence in Museological Spaces
Museums have traditionally served as custodians of historical artefacts and of normative narratives, playing a crucial role in shaping our understanding of the past, of the political violence…
Trading Safety for Knowledge?
Introduction Enduring hardship and taking risks related to one’s personal safety have long been considered a part of anthropological fieldwork. Often, emotionally challenging and dangerous situations…
„Natürlicher“ oder „künstlicher“ Staat? Nation und Imperium im russischen Staatsdenken
Russlands Großinvasion im Februar 2022 hat einen langen Vorlauf, der tief in der russischen Geschichte wurzelt. Der Kreml beruft sich bis heute auf eine historische Vorstellung von Staatlichkeit,…
Can we talk about race and inequalities without talking about racism?
INTRODUCTION Can we talk about race without talking about racism and inequalities? To answer this question, we must first understand what ‘race’ is. To understand what race is…
Can we talk about race and inequalities without talking about racism?
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Reflections on not flying: one year on
Gareth E. Hamilton, University of Latvia Rail Baltica works outside Riga’s central railway station. Author’s photograph Today on the way to the office, I witnessed a small piece…
On Censorship and the American Anthropological Association’s Declining Democracy
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is awaiting the results of a membership vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions submitted in response to a solidarity call…
Why Store 41,000 Bison Bones?
An archaeologist explains why a museum keeps so many bones from the Jones-Miller site, an ice age bison kill on the North American plains. In the 1970s, archaeologists…
Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, “Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum” (Archive Books, 2022)
Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum (Archive Books, 2022) proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An ethnographic research approach is confronted with the demands…
Tokens, Voids, and Archives: Locating Berlin’s NFT Projects
I’m standing on the train platform of U Schloßstraße, an U-Bahn station in Berlin’s Steglitz neighborhood. In front of me is an artwork: a beauty advertisement depicting a…
Marlene Schäfers on her book, Voices that Matter
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo183627808.html Andrew Bush: The book makes crucial interventions that connect the study of liberal governance in Turkey to the comparative…
Victor Luckerson, “Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street” (Random House, 2023)
When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, in 1914, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming a national center of black…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Why are all these people standing in line at 3:50 in the afternoon? Public Tavern「Uosan」(6/29/23)
So why were these people standing in line a few minutes before 4:00 PM, especially on such a hot day? Waiting to get into the Public Tavern「Uosan」! I…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW29
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als Projektmanager*in für den Bereich digitalisierte Gesellschaft bei der Stiftung Mercator GmbH in Essen und eine Praktikumsstelle bei Bastei Lübbe in…
تبدیل کارگاهی قدیمی در بازارچۀ تاریخی عودلاجان به کافه گالری فرش
موقعیت: تهران، ایران | قدمت: دوره قاجار | کاربری قدیم / جدید: کارگاه فلز کاری/ کافه گالری فرش | تاریخ شروع پروژه: ۲۰۱۷ | کارفرما: مالک شخصی ارزشهای بنا محله عودلاجان…
اقتدارگرایی با خصوصیسازی از بین نمیرود
گفتوگو روزنامه هممیهن با ناصر فکوهی دربارۀ چیستی نولیبرالیسم و نسبتش با وضعیت اقتصادیسیاسی ایران اکنون / ۱۲ تیر ۱۴۰۲ علی ورامینی: چندی پیش تلویزیون دو برنامۀ مناظره…
خیابانهای یکطرفه؛ جشن غدیر، سیاستهای آیینی و بحران پذیرش کثرتهای فرهنگی در ایران امروز
پژوهشگاه مطالعات فرهنگی، اجتماعی و تمدنی این روزها در فضای رسانهای کشور مناقشههای بسیاری بر سر جشن غدیر و شیوههای جدید برگزاری آن وجود دارد. مجادلههایی که بیشتر…
پلاستیکیشدن نوروز
مقدمه نوروز آئینی از نو شدن، تغییر و انقلاب درونی انسانی، در رازورزی میان خورشیدِ سوزان فلات و سرمای کوه بوده است. آنچه در گذشتۀ این سرزمین فلسفۀ…