A paleoanthropologist explains what fossilized teeth—analyzed through a recently developed mathematical equation—can tell us about how brains have developed in utero over millions of years of human ev…
This year I tried to get out there into the field when the camas is beginning to erupt from the ground. I am not sure I have seen…
CoFuFun is an open space for special events, gatherings and for children (and adults) to play. It was produced by Nendo, a not-for-profit arts and architectural group, to…
همچون هر سال ویژهنامه نوروزی و سالگرد موسسه انسانشناسی و فرهنگ منتشر میشود. در ویژهنامه امسال که با سردبیری ناصر فکوهی، مدیر موسسه و دستیاری خانم پگاه دودانگه …
Read Time:18 Second Ya estamos trabajando para traeros el próximo número, cargado de buenos artículos, reflexiones y divulgación …
Man könnte meinen, es müsste einfach sein Milch zu kaufen. Vorallem wenn es dafür auch noch spezialisierte Läden gibt. Und es ist auch nicht schwer sie zu kaufen,…
Man könnte meinen, es müsste einfach sein Milch zu kaufen. Vorallem wenn es dafür auch noch spezialisierte Läden gibt. Und es ist auch nicht schwer sie zu kaufen,…
Jag sitter i bussen som kör på en smal sandväg igenom en liten by. Plötsligt ropar någon till, ”Vad är det där!?” Två rödlurviga varelser rör sig på…
Women’s rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from which women must be liberated. Counseling Women: Kinship Against…
If your genes make you better suited to succeed, is that fair? And if not, can anything be done about it? Kathryn Paige Harden – professor psychology at…
The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to…
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation (Lexington Books, 2022) is the newest monograph from Professor Juwen Zhang of Willamette College. Through a historical survey and analyses of oral traditions like…
This March, SAPIENS is partnering with the Royal Anthropological Institute’s RAI Film Festival to celebrate anthropological documentaries. ✽ The art of anthropological documentary filmmaking is thriv…
Was sind die Grundlagen eines politischen Systems? Nach dem Sturz von Saddam Hussein sollte die Teilung der Macht zwischen Schia und Sunna dem Irak Frieden und Demokratie garantieren.…
Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, eds. Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice. University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis. 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0814-0. pp. 302.…
How to Build a More Resilient WorldThe COVID-19 pandemic leveled the playing field between those who have the privilege to avoid or mitigate disasters and those who don’t.…
In the fifth season of the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of human stories: from the origins of the chili pepper to how prosecutors decide someone…
La foto procede de http://www.popupideas.com. No veo el autor Fragmento de “Emergencias”, en Iñaki Rivera, Héctor Silveira, Encarna Bodelón y Amadeu Recasens, eds., Contornos y pliegues del Derech…
Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China (Rutgers UP, 2022) traces the…
In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles…
Based on critical theory and ethnographic research, Gediminas Lesutis’ book The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering (Routledge, 2021) explores how intensifying geographies of extractive capitalism shape human lives…
Das letzte halbe Jahr haben Anne-Kathrin Will und ich uns das Büro bei ICAS:MP hier in Delhi geteilt. Beworben haben wir uns unabhängig voneinander, gekannt hatten wir uns…
Das letzte halbe Jahr haben Anne-Kathrin Will und ich uns das Büro bei ICAS:MP hier in Delhi geteilt. Beworben haben wir uns unabhängig voneinander, gekannt hatten wir uns…
One of the things that surprised me most after I began doing research on European far-right youth activists was my research participants’ statements on how much they love…