A Mass Shooting in the “Evangelical Vatican”
The recent violent attack on Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, happened in a place shaped by decades of anti-LGBTQ organizing by evangelical Christian groups. ✽…
Von Weiß bis Grau
Zur Zeit ist eine Delegation aus Tunesien bei uns in Delhi. Wir führen einen Workshop zusammen durch und machen auch gemeinsam Ausflüge. Gestern waren wir am Taj Mahal.…
Von Weiß bis Grau
Zur Zeit ist eine Delegation aus Tunesien bei uns in Delhi. Wir führen einen Workshop zusammen durch und machen auch gemeinsam Ausflüge. Gestern waren wir am Taj Mahal.…
Dodom Kim takes the page 99 test
On page 99 of my dissertation, I end a section that traces a series of Chinese newspaper reports on a pregnant woman’s long-winded quest for the so-called “birth…
Neoliberalism and small-hall boxing: two zero sum games?
By Louis Gregory – Few people know much about the surreal world of English small-hall boxing, a world away from its professional, globalised alternative. Small-hall boxing is a…
La multitudo o el rejuvenecimiento de la sociedad civil
Foto de Reyes Sedano Notas para la segunda parte de la clase del 8/1/15 de la asignatura Antropología de los espacios urbanos La multitudo o el rejuvenecimiento de…
More Open Letters from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany II
Figure 1: Contact point for refugees from Ukraine. Cologne, Central Station (Copyright: Raimond Spekking / CC) This series of letters began with an introduction written by Ziga Podgornik Jakil…
Eva Illouz, “The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations” (Polity Press, 2021)
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the…
Rhonda F. Levine, “When Race Meets Class: African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City” (Routledge, 2019)
In When Race Meets Class: African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City (Routledge, 2019), Rhonda Levine provides a 15-year ethnography that follows the lives of individual, low-income African…
Sexo y menopausia
Read Time:4 Minute, 30 Second Mientras pensaba en como enfocar este nuevo artículo, decidí empezar con una de mis estrategias metod…
Mölln 1992. Gewalt und Angst, Missachtung und Solidarität
In Mölln setzen am 23. November 1992 Skinheads zwei Wohnhäuser türkischer Familien in Brand. Drei Menschen sterben, weitere werden teils schwer verletzt. Der Anschlag verändert migrantisches Leben im…
Tim Page
Fighting the lurgie seemed the right time to read Tim Page’s book on train trips in Vietnam 20 years after his war photo stint – the Dennis Hopper…
Monogamy. Grandmas. Milk. The Evolution of Childhood Is Very Strange.
In a new book, Growing Up Human, a bioarchaeologist chronicles some of the most surprising evolutionary adaptations of babies, parents, and grandparents. This article is excerpted and adapted…
Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, “Genocide: Key Themes” (Oxford UP, 2022)
Donald Bloxham and Dirk Moses have offered us a unique opportunity–a chance to see authors and editors in conversation with each other and themselves about the state and…
Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, “Fandom, the Next Generation” (U Iowa Press, 2022)
In Fandom, the Next Generation (University of Iowa Press, 2022), Bridget Kies and Megan Connor have edited the first collection to offer a close study of fan generations, which are defined not…
El desafío del médico en la España abandonada
Read Time:6 Minute, 6 Second Los médicos rurales en España precisan de reconocimiento, visibilidad y óptimas condiciones laborales …
“ARE YOU HEADING TO THE FUN ZONE?”: NOTES FROM THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER
Research takes you to unexpected places. After finishing my PhD, I got a postdoc position at the ERC-funded project WARFUN led by Antonio De Lauri at the Christian…
Qui recorda és qui no pot oblidar
La foto és de Saul Leiter Postil·la a la classe d’Antropologia Religiosa del 21 de març de 2015 QUI RECORDA ÉS QUI NO POT OBLIDAR Manuel Delgado Va…
Leah Junck takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation is part of my methodology section and connects testing research moments to the topic at hand: the use of the dating application Tinder…
Reflecting on reflexivity: A practical example of reporting your reflexive practice
DR JESSICA REES As distinguished by Chiseri-Strater (1996) “to be reflective does not demand an ‘other,’ while to be reflexive demands both another and some self- conscious awareness…
Alda Benjamen, “Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Today I talked to Alda Benjamen about his book Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space (Cambridge UP, 2021) Examining the relationship between a strengthened Iraqi state under the…
Psyche A. Williams-Forson, “Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America” (UNC Press, 2022)
In Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America (UNC Press, 2022), Psyche A. Williams-Forson offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice…
Entrevista a Cláudia Gomes
Read Time:17 Minute, 53 Second Hoy, tenemos en “Conversaciones en zapatillas de andar por casa” a Cláudia Gomes (Oporto, 1987), con…
Victorian Pseudoscience on a Netflix Budget: “Ancient Apocalypse” and the Paradox of Science Communication Online
As scholars and investigators of conspiracy theory communities have noted, people who cling to these ideas long after they have been demonstrated to be factually false tend to…