Why do the Dutch never get tired of everyday sandwiches, the boterham?
At lunchtime on university campus one thing stands out: the boterham (sandwich). Coming from Japan’s elaborate bento culture, I was puzzled that so many students eat the same…
At lunchtime on university campus one thing stands out: the boterham (sandwich). Coming from Japan’s elaborate bento culture, I was puzzled that so many students eat the same…
La foto es de Ron Anthony Bautista Respuesta a la periodista y arquitecta Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, de El País, a propósito de las smart cities, enviada en marzo de…
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/audit-culture/ Ilana: Reading about audit culture as a professor feels so much like a fish being told “notice this water.” What inspired you to compare…
Anyone who knows Venezuela knows that things happen fast there. It is a function of the hectic pace of urban life in a society that is highly subject…
Ching Kwan Lee’s Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Decolonization Struggle combines history, ethnography and sociological analysis. According to Lucas Tse, the author’s account of political tra…
A best yet marston mat helicopter landing pad from the stranded bunnies section of Apocalypse Now Redux (2001 edition). Not in any of the other editions, for reasons…
Economies of Gender: Masculinity, “Mail Order Brides,” and Women’s Labor (Rutgers University Press, 2025) by Dr. Julia Meszaros offers a provocative exploration of the international dating industry, challenging simplistic…
This is a (hopefully) weekly update about events in Porgera. A few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley…
This year I used StoryGraph to track my reading daily, and then I went back to LibraryThing to track my reading over time. LibraryThing is great: fully featured…
Montag, 26.01.2026, 18.00 Uhr Buchpräsentation mit Kommentaren von Christin Jänicke (WZB) und Anne-Kathrin Will (Zittau/Görlitz) sowie einer Diskussion mit Autor*innen und Herausgebend…
Montag, 26.01.2026, 18.00 Uhr Buchpräsentation mit Kommentaren von Christin Jänicke (WZB) und Anne-Kathrin Will (Zittau/Görlitz) sowie einer Diskussion mit Autor*innen und Herausgebend…
Mit der neuen National Security Strategy kehren die USA zu einer Politik offener Machtdemonstration in Lateinamerika zurück. Doch die Wiederbelebung der Monroe-Doktrin offenbart weniger Stärke als vie…
Joshua Farrell-Molloy elucidates how masculinity helps explain performances of militant republican aesthetics by Irish far-right actors, who bind a revolutionary past to conte…
by Sophie Leegwater – A few minutes before 4:30 pm on a Monday afternoon in early January 2024, I hop into the yellow cab that takes me to…
Who are expatriates? How do they differ from other migrants? And why should we care about such distinctions? Expatriate: Following a Migration Category (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Sarah…
Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea (University of Michigan Press, 2025) by Dr. Anita Gonzalez provides a rare perspective on performance by staff above and below deck…
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 2 Minuten Von Emilia Kraus Im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung „Kulturwissenschaftliche Werkstatt“ haben wir, die Teilnehmenden des Seminars, uns im Sommersemester 2025 mit d…
Essays written in preparation for my Comprehensive exams, nearly 20 years ago. Anthropology and Government Policy Part of the government’s role regarding Indian people was to figure out…
Sylvester Woodbridge, a Presbyterian pastor, may have been one of the first to suggest a plan for the initial California Reserves. This certainly helped the effort for writing…
Hewett, E. L. (n.d.). Edgar L. Hewett points in the distance while giving an archaeological tour of the southwest (PAAC.056.0047a) [Photographs, photographic prints]. New Mexico History Museum. …
فیلم «چهارصد ضربۀ» فرانسوا تروفو، که در سال ۱۹۵۹ اکران شد، نهتنها یک اثر سینمایی ماندگار، بلکه یک مانیفست هنری پیشرو است که در جایگاه یکی از ستونهای…