Sobre el Pla de la Ribera y la recuperación del mar en Barcelona bajo el franquismo
Foto de David Suñol, tomada en la Rambla de Poble Nou Notas para la doctoranda arquitecta Gabriela Navas, enviadas en diciembre de 2014. Sobre el Pla de la…
Ton Kin Sing
The reek of confidence. Look out for the work of Édouard de Saint-Ours in the future. In a fascinating paper last night he showed many early photographs from…
Encoding Decoding
It was time to rewatch a great little project on Klaus Maeck’s Decoder by Megan Legault circa 2008
Why did the Left Fail the Covid Test So Badly?
Note: Contrary to this site’s policy of not republishing work from other sites, which has been in effect for several years, this exception is a must. It is…
19th Century Song called “Yemen”
In 1894 the composer Harry G. Martin wrote a piece of sheet music called “Yemen,” drawing on a stanza in the famous poem Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore.…
NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival 2022
The 41st NAFA film festival took place from 7 to 11 September in the village of Csehétfavla/Cehetel in Harghita County in Transylvania, Romania, with around 30 participants present.…
Links & Contents I Liked 456
Hi all,I have to start this week’s post similar to last week’s one-thanking Monica Mukerjee, Tara Todras-Whitehill & Ben Chesterton for taking the time to talk at our…
Waleed Ziad, “Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints Beyond the Oxus and Indus” (Harvard UP, 2021)
Today, we speak with Waleed Ziad, about his book Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus, published in 2021 with Harvard University Press. Ziad is an assistant…
Johanna O. Zulueta, “Okinawan Women’s Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei” (Routledge, 2022)
The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed a…
The politics of nerves
The politics of nerves “All of us are nervoz since the war.” “How can we not feel nervoz after what we went through?” Women who had survived the…
Nuchatlaht First Nation fights to reclaim territory in landmark court case
Global BC reporter, Kylie Stanton, interviewed me for her story on the Nachatlaht rights and title case. Here is her story. The full transcript of my comments,…
Paper: Infrastructural sustainability?
I did prepare the paper “Infrastructural sustainability?” for the Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2022 and the session “Infrastructure and the Built Environment in the Anthropocene…
Study Study Study – then read like Bhagat Singh
Most interesting post of the day, and by far, has been this attached article on Bhagat Singh and anarchism, shifting to socialism. A few points fist though. I…
Sliding through life
On a chilly afternoon in April of 2016, Lana and I were about to embark on a ride through Saint Petersburg’s bustling downtown, so she was instructing me…
Merrick Daniel Pilling, “Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
In Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice (Palgrave Macmillan), Merrick D. Pilling urges those invested in social justice for 2SLGBTQ people to interrogate the biomedical model of mental…
Robinson Crusoe – 1902
This version of Robinson Crusoe, by the immortal Georges Méliès, was made 1902. This 12 and a half minute hand-coloured nitrate print was rediscovered and restored in 2011.…
With So Few Farmers, Why Are Video Games About Farming So Popular?
An archaeologist considers what farming simulators reveal about humanity’s ancient and evolving relationship with agriculture. ✽ “I hate when I have to harvest at night,” my husband complained…
El habitus como participación en la gracia del Espíritu Santo
“Apoteosis de Santo Tomás de Aquino”, de Francisco de Zurbarán (1631) Comentario para Marta Vencesalo, en el marco de un proceso de elaboración teórica compartido. EL HABITUS COMO…
Devotas astucias
Propuesta de comunicación para el II Congreso de la AIBR DEVOTAS ASTUCIAS La piedad religiosa como resistencia a la dominación masculina en la obra de Galdós Manuel Delgado …
Domestication and the new mythology of human “perfectibility”
In 2007, a psychiatrist, Martin Brüne, wrote an essay “On human self-domestication, psychiatry, and eugenics” published in the journal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, in which he…
CFP: Visual Anthropology panel on Photography at RAI 2023 (deadline: 31 October)
It is with great pleasure that conveners Richard Fraser, Christian Vium and Peter I Crawford invite you to submit a paper to the upcoming RAI 2023 Film Festival…
The dark humor of PhD life
Dark humor internet memes on Twitter show some of the emotions PhD students experience during their trajectory. This digital ethnographic blog reflects on these memes and what they…
Reflecting on misconceptions about conservation
21 September 2022. It was an intensive day at the storage facility of the Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt…
Neubau für Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Goethe-Universität eingeweiht
In einem Festakt weihten heute Universitätspräsident Prof. Enrico Schleiff, der hessische Finanzminister Michael Boddenberg und Ayse Asar, Staatssekretärin im Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft u…