Happy New Year 2023 from「VAoJ」
This is only anecdotal, but I have noticed in and around my neighborhood that houses are not displaying New Years decorations like the shimekazari in the photo above…
Magnus Fiskesjö, “Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture” (Berghahn Books, 2021)
In 2013, the Journal of Burma Studies published an article titled “An Introduction to Wa Studies.” It seems that even within the last decade the Wa, an upland people living predominantly on…
Bonus Episode: “Nomadland”
A special bonus episode in honor of the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25, 2021! One of the most-nominated films at this year’s Oscars is “Nomadland,” adapted from…
Happy Holidays 2022
I am long overdue for an update here, and I hope to get to that in Q1. My health really took a serious downturn, and I haven’t had…
2022 Toshikoshi Soba
The tradition here at VAOJ to document the purchase of toshikoshi soba (“end of the year soba noodles”) on New Year’s Eve continues! Click here for previous new…
مردمشناسی بریتانیا
این مطلب در ۸ بهمن ۱۳۹۸ در همین وبگاه منتشر و اکنون در تاریخ ۱۰ دی ماه ۱۴۰۱ بازنشر میشود. تصویر: دبلیو یو اچ ریوورز نوشته فردریک…
حافظهی جمعی و هویت ملی
تذکر نویسنده: این مقاله بازگردان یکی از سخنرانیهای نگارنده است که به دلیل نبود فرصت برای بازبینی آن پیش از چاپ، اشتباهات کوچکی در نمونه مکتوب آن راه…
هویت ایرانیان و ساختارهای ناکارآمد
«هویت» به سان سکهای است که یک روی آن را شباهتها و روی دیگر آن را تفاوتها رقمزده است. شباهتِ با «ما» و تمایزِ با « آنها»، اساس…
نگاهی به کتاب سفر نظریهها
موضوع مواجهه اصحاب علوم اجتماعی ایران با نظریه ها یکی از مهمترین و شاید کلیدی ترین مباحث برای شناخت وضعیت علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدرن در ایران است.…
El normal i l’anormal
Foto presa de www.flickr.com/photos/an_untrained_eye/4891511937/in/photostream] Nota para Rocío Martinez, doctoranda, enviada el febrer de 2019 EL NORMAL I L’ANORMAL Manuel Delgado El que deia sobre …
Against Charity
I wrote my first book as a critique of charity work in Kolkata, India. I attempted a critique of western ‘charity’ workers helping those they saw as the…
Depression (not mine, ours)
Depression: I am no expert on depression, at all, but I also note that over the last two decades it has become a more visible topic of discussion…
«Eg trur faktisk eg har valt det vekk, eller at det er det første eg vel vekk viss eg ikkje har tid» Lærarhaldningar til fleirspråklege tilnærmingar i norskfaget
Norskfaget er kanskje det viktigaste faget i skulen og har blitt kalla «alle fags mor». Faget er ein sentral møtestad for alle elevar frå det første året i…
Mathew Gandy, “Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space” (MIT Press, 2022)
In his new book, Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (MIT Press, 2022), Mathew Gandy explores urban nature as a multilayered material and symbolic entity. The book examines the…
大掃除！New workspace set-ups for the office and home
For the office, a new second (curved) monitor; I bought it last year to use up university research funds. After my accident it was sitting in its box…
Apology
by Peter Versteeg “Apology” is another word for acknowledgmentAcknowledging the past, but not just any kind of pastIt is a formal word for a moral occasionNo emotion, no…
from here to there
(June Fog, photo by Zoe Todd) 2 years and 11 months ago, I posted my last entry on this website: https://anthrodendum.org/2020/01/27/an-answer/ What I didn’t know then, on January…
Mário de Andrade, Modernism, and Brazilian Anthropology
Semana de Arte Moderna Poster, São Paulo, 1922 This year marks the centenary of São Paulo’s 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna (Week of Modern Art).[1]Funding for this article…
Rosa on opium
Rosa Luxemburg The Accumulation of Capital, ch 18 “Consequently, a stricter law was passed [by the Chinese] in 1833 which made every opium smoker liable to a hundred…
Trader, Hunter, Herder, Other: Types and Categories of Nomadism
This episode looks at the main types and categories of nomads, how they live, and the similarities and differences between them. Music in this episode: Desert City by…
MOVING THINGS // HELPERS CHANGING HOMES
What roles do things play in the context of forced migration? How do things become a vital source in the constitution of a sense of (new) home? Which…
Piiskan-Paavo – min farfars största rädsla som barn
Det är den 21 december, årets mörkaste dag. Tanken på att julafton bara är tre dagar borta borde göra julstämningen påtaglig. Men så är det inte för barnen…
How not to consult indigenous people
Like Canada, Brazil, the whole of Africa, and many other places in the world, Cameroon has the combination of indigenous people and a special fondness for big industry.…