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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’ 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
Read Time:6 Minute, 18 Second ¡Esa noche la escuchamos! Era como un susurro, como un lamento, como un canto quedito, como el murmul…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How does creativity work? In Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process (Edward Elgar, 2022), Chris Bilton, a Reader at University of Warwick’s Centre for Cultural…
Today I talked to Steven Lukes about Émile Durkheim’s classic The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). Lukes is the author of Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical…