Sobre el Purgatorio, los estados bardos y otras formas de Tercer Lugar
“La Virgen y las almas del Purgatorio”, de Pedro Machuca (1517) Notas para la doctoranda Sibila Vigna Vilches, enviadas en marzo de 2013 SOBRE EL PURGATORIO, LOS ESTADOS…
SAFN Awards for 2023!
Award Winning Cheese! Photo: David Beriss Ryan Adams The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition offers five awards annually. Please follow the links below for application…
Statement from UBC President and Provost (finally, three months after METL story broke)
A Message to UBC Vancouver Indigenous Faculty and Staff Members on behalf of the President and Vancouver Provost To quote the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan, “Truth before…
When Coffee Is Like Angel Cake With Strawberry Jam
An anthropologist delves into the rarefied ritualistic world of specialty coffee, where highly trained brewers and judges compete to determine which beans reign supreme. Excerpted from Making Better…
The Ideology of Innovation in India
Science and Technologies scholar Lilly Irani talks her book, Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India, with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. Irani’s work examines the…
Paulina Laura Alberto et al., “Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil,…
Volviendo a Cicely
Read Time:3 Minute, 33 Second Hace unas semanas me enteré de que la plataforma audiovisual Filmin va a sacar a la luz uno de los se…
RSS und LGBTQ
Der Leiter des hindunationalistischen RSS Mohan Bhagwat hat kürzlich in einem Interview, Offenheit für LGBTQ gezeigt (siehe Indian Express). Zwei Tage später haben im Indian Express der…
RSS und LGBTQ
Der Leiter des hindunationalistischen RSS Mohan Bhagwat hat kürzlich in einem Interview, Offenheit für LGBTQ gezeigt (siehe Indian Express). Zwei Tage später haben im Indian Express der…
Towards a History of Philosophical Anthropology: A Review of Carroll (2018)
Jerome CarrollAnthropology’s Interrogation of Philosophy from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth CenturyLexington Books, 2018256 pp., references, index Anthropology and philosophy are today well-e…
Review: Palm Oil
Max Haiven Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire. Pluto Press, London, 2022. ISBN 9780745345826. Leonidas Vournelis (Baruch College) Max Haiven’s Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire explores an…
Third Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
St. Joseph’s Day Altar, New Orleans. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day (February 16). If you have food anthropology…
Toonto nuttag en Buriatia: o el lugar donde entierran tu placenta.
“‘Toonto nuttag’ es el lugar de nacimiento de alguien, donde fue enterrada su placenta bajo el umbral de la casa, ger o yurta de los padres, donde estaba…
Stephen Chrisomalis on his book, Reckonings
Interview by Grace East https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044639/reckonings/ Grace East: Reckonings whisks us away on a journey through time and space and introduces us to how people en…
Önskebrunnen – en plats för magiskt tänkande
Brunnar, fontäner, dekorativa små bassänger av olika slag. De flesta människor har säkert sett slantar glimma på botten av en sådan någon gång. Kanske har man till och…
Max oder Meks?
Das India International Centre ist in der Max Mueller Marg. Das Goethe-Institut in Indien heisst Max Mueller Bhavan. Max Müller war ein wichtiger Indologe , der in Oxford…
Max oder Meks?
Das India International Centre ist in der Max Mueller Marg. Das Goethe-Institut in Indien heisst Max Mueller Bhavan. Max Müller war ein wichtiger Indologe , der in Oxford…
Eric A. Stanley, “Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable” (Duke UP, 2021)
Content note: This episode contains discussions of suicide, as well as allusions to graphic anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Black violence Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don’t…
Marlene Schäfers, “Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
“Raise your voice!” and “Speak up!” are familiar refrains that assume, all too easily, that gaining voice will lead to empowerment, healing, and inclusion for marginalized subjects. Marlene…
La voz de los difuntos
Read Time:6 Minute, 18 Second ¡Esa noche la escuchamos! Era como un susurro, como un lamento, como un canto quedito, como el murmul…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW3
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. die Möglichkeit eine Masterarbeit im Bereich Wirkungsanalyse/ Bildung zu schreiben (Frankfurt a.M.), und in Oberhausen gibt es eine Werkstudi-Stelle im Bereich Text/ R…
Benjamin Hegarty, “The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia” (Cornell UP, 2022)
In The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia (Cornell UP, 2022), Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, one of Indonesia’s trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way…
Carwil Bjork-James, “The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia” (U Arizona Press, 2020)
In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politically, rivaling and at times exceeding voting booths…
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, “Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in…