Punjabi Girl
Ich habe zwei meiner Salwar-Kamiz (Hose-Hemd) mit nach Indien genommen. Bisher hatte ich sie noch nie an. Vor allem weil mir Taschen fehlen. Eines hat gar keine, das…
Barbara Harris Combs, “Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society” (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society (U Georgia Press, 2022) asserts that anti-Black racism is not better than it used to be; it is just performed…
جهانهایِ موازیِ ما کرمچاله هم دارد؟
آخرین فرضیه استیون هاوکینگ، کیهانشناس فقید معاصر، در مورد جهانهای موازی چند ماه پس از اینکه او زندگی شیرینش را وداع کند در قالب مقاله مشترکی با هرتوگ،…
هیات به مثابه نهاد مدنی
هیات های عزاداری یکی از مهمترین اشکال جماعت های آیینی در ساحت شیعی جامعه ایران هستند. هیات های عزاداری که در امتداد سنت ها و جماعت های آیینی…
درگذشت محمود زند مقدم
دکتر محمود زند مقدم، پژوهشگر، مردمنگار و نویسندۀ نامدار «حکایت بلوچ» در سن ۸۴ سالگی در تهران درگذشت. محمود زند مقدم از سال ۱۳۴۳ تکنگاری و پژوهش دربارۀ…
¿Un proceso soberanista barcelonés?
Consideraciones para los/as colegas del Observatori d’Antropologia del Conflicta Urbà, OACU, enviado el 8 de junio de 2015 ¿UN PROCESO SOBERANISTA BARCELONÉS? Un nuevo posible episodio de la…
The Dangers of Ancient Apocalypse’s Pseudoscience
Reviewing Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse, an anthropologist explains how its host Graham Hancock devalues both archaeology and Indigenous heritage. This article was originally published at The Conversa…
Uncovering Ethnography in Creative Practice Research with Machines
A live performance of Oliver Bown’s Zamyatin system with clarinetist François Houle This blog post comes out of a discussion with Ritwik Banerji about the ‘hidden’ role of…
Gun Safety is a Philosophical Issue
YES to far more sensible gun-purchase background checks and restrictions. YES to more comprehensive mental health treatment options. Credit: pikisuperstar via www.freepik.c…
“NARMADA MAN” TURNS 40
Celebrating RUBY JUBILEE YEAR of a historic find Contributed By Subhash R. Walimbe Former Faculty, Deccan College PGRI, Pune subhashwalimbe@gmail.com December 5th, 1982 is indeed an unforgettable day…
Another New Resident Scholar Book: Undocumented Saints
Did you know that La Santa Muerte (“Saint Death”) is worshipped by some residents of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands? Likewise Santa Olguita, a feminist saint associated with border womenR…
Umgang mit dem Hindu-Nationalismus
Seit dem ich in den 1990er bei Hermann Kulke in Kiel Vorlesungen zu indischer Geschichte gehört habe, beschäftige ich mit dem Hindu-Nationalismus (zum Wikipedia-Artikel und hier das Buch…
Umgang mit dem Hindu-Nationalismus
Seit dem ich in den 1990er bei Hermann Kulke in Kiel Vorlesungen zu indischer Geschichte gehört habe, beschäftige ich mit dem Hindu-Nationalismus (zum Wikipedia-Artikel und hier das Buch…
Niku T’arhechu T’arhesi takes the page 99 test
“Yes,” I said. My answer left you like a glutton without food—unsatisfied. Before you could request thick ethnographic details, I handed you page 99 of Endangered Words and…
Cristina Civantos, “Jamón and Halal: Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía” (Amherst College Press, 2022)
In this episode, I interview Dr. Christina Civantos (University of Miami, FL, USA) about her open access book Jamón and Halal: Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía (Amherst College…
Reclaiming relationships and thinking differently about people in healthcare systems: reflections on insider-fieldwork, access and inclusion
SARAH YARDLEY Instead of trying to construct healthcare systems that don’t rely on people knowing each other, our energies would be better spent focused on creating mechanisms that…
Mary-Frances O’Connor, “The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss” (HarperOne, 2022)
For as long as humans have existed, we have struggled when a loved one dies. Poets and playwrights have written about the dark cloak of grief, the deep…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW49
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. einige Stellen für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen, die ihr Wissen und Können in einem neuen Bereich unter Beweis stellen möchten, und zwar als Videograf*in oder Vide…
Purity, Danger, and Handwashing
Author: Michael Dunford is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Culture History and Language. His research asks how how agrarian economies and agrarian ecologies intersect with…
Article: “Kultuuriline omastamine kultuurimuutusena” in Studia Vernacula 14
More good news in terms of publication work. I am pleased to share that my article “Kultuuriline omastamine kultuurimuutusena” is now published in Estonian in the wonderful journal…
Nadim Bawalsa, “Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948” (Stanford UP, 2022)
Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. By 1936, an estimated 40,000…
Melissa Kagen, “Wandering Games” (MIT Press, 2022)
In Wandering Games (MIT Press, 2022), Melissa Kagen analyzes wandering within different game worlds, viewed through the lenses of work, colonialism, gender, and death. Wandering in games can be a theme,…