Überfordernde Milch
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,…
När kankurangen kommer – övergångsriter bland mandinka
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…
Julia Kowalski, “Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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…
The Future of Genes and Equality: A Discussion with Kathryn Paige Harden
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…
David Houston Jones, “Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics” (Routledge, 2022)
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…
Juwen Zhang, “Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation” (Lexington Books, 2022)
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…
Five Highlights From the 2023 RAI Film Festival
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…
Zwanzig Jahre Irakkrieg. Ein Land auf der Suche nach dem Staat
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.…
Review: Black Food Matters
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.…
Designing Resilience – Behavioral Science Meets Humanitarian Action with Britt Titus
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.…
SAPIENS Podcast Season 5 Trailer
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…
Por una antropología trágica
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…
Erin Raffety, “Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China” (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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…
Melanie Heath, “Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance” (Stanford UP, 2023)
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…
Gediminas Lesutis, “The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering” (Routledge, 2021)
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…
Außenstelle des IfEE in Delhi
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…
Außenstelle des IfEE in Delhi
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…
Far-right anthropologies
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…
Transpositioning, a Hypertext-ethnography
This is a work of hypertext-ethnography. It is based on my research of a small genetics laboratory in Tokyo, Japan where I am studying the impact of the…
Spring Break continued: I returned to Tenri/Ojiba after over three years… 陽気ぐらし
The weather was beautiful and Tenri was mostly quiet… Some changes here and there, a few due to COVID… More barrier-free in the shinden, many old shops closed,…
John P. O’Regan on his book, Global English and Political Economy
Interview by Bonnie Urciuoli https://www.routledge.com/Global-English-and-Political-Economy/ORegan/p/book/9781138811126 Bonnie Urciuoli: Can you say a bit about how your Marx reading group …
Jessica Grieser on her book, The Black Side of the River
Interview by Anna-Marie Sprenger http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/black-side-river Anna-Marie Sprenger: First of all, congratulations on your new book! I am curious how you came …
Street Piano at Kintetsu Tenri Station!
For more info: Street piano installation location information site https://pianomitsuketa.com/9404/ Kintetsu Tenri Station Street Pianohttps://ameblo.jp/koukishoji/entry-12733266099.html When I was play…
Citing toward Community, Citing against Harm
Here I want to think through the politics and ethics of citing against harm in academia.