Timothy Benedict’s Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan (U California Press, 2023) is an exploration of spiritual care in the context of the Japanese hospice. The book…
Read Time:3 Minute, 25 Second La teoría del crecimiento unificado, de Oded Galor, nos hace remontarnos a los albores de la humanida…
Shortly before the first Corona lockdown in spring 2020, I was busy preparing for fieldwork in Turkey on a much neglected topic in the scholarly literature on beauty,…
There is something beautiful that lies within repetitive actions; something inventive and creative that emerges through doing things again and again. The way musicians or dancers learn step-by-step…
Two archaeologists explore the complicated story of 33,000-year-old human remains—and calls for their repatriation to Wales. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been rep…
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our third podcast episode explores how Swedish anthropology departments hire. Every … More
Interview by Ahona Palchoudhuri https://www.press.umich.edu/11698102/sonorous_worlds Ahona Palchoudhuri: I’d like to begin with a particularly moving ethnographic instance from your book in…
Bei der Vorstellung des neuen Buches von Rajeev Bhargava Between Hope and Despair. 100 Ethical Reflections on Contemporary India hat unter anderem Romila Thapar gesprochen. Sie sagte, dass…
Bei der Vorstellung des neuen Buches von Rajeev Bhargava Between Hope and Despair. 100 Ethical Reflections on Contemporary India hat unter anderem Romila Thapar gesprochen. Sie sagte, dass…
The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry (The University of Chicago Press, 2022) shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women’s shoes.…
Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains difficult there. Building on empirical research with refugees…
Read Time:15 Minute, 12 Second Lee la primera parte aquí Lee la segunda parte aquí Todas estas películas de asesinos en serie han…
Diese Woche gibt es ein Praktikum im Bereich Klimapsychologie und -kommunikation (remote!), eine Volo-Stelle als Projektmanager*in im Bereich Kultur und eine Stelle als Referent*in für Antiras…
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2023 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition.
A Quechua poet and linguist speaks to the conflicting feelings some Indigenous groups experience when non-Native paleoarchaeologists and others visit their communities for research projects. “Se…
SAR is pleased to announce that Hugh Raffles, Professor and Anthropology Department Chair at the New School for Social Research, has been named winner of the 2023 J.…
Welcome back to the Familiar Strange. We’re kicking off 2023 with an interview with Dr Jasmijn Rana from Leiden University. Dr Jasmijn’s research interests include, gender, race-ethnicity, relig…
I wrote this first in 2023, when Edmonton’s city council failed to fully budget for completion of the planned bicycle-as-transportation infrastructure. Mine was an audacious, madcap response to…
Budka, P. (2023). “Have you seen a polar bear?” – Transportation during “bear season” in Churchill, Manitoba. InfraNorth – Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infra…
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, Africa has generated unique expressions of Christianity that have, in their rapid development, overtaken older forms of Christianity represented by…
Why do racial inequalities persist? In The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival (Penguin, 2023), Nicola Rollock, a Professor of Social Policy & Race at King’s College London, examines the often hidden and…
Materializing Ritual Practices (U Colorado Press, 2022) explores the deep history of ritual practice in Mexico and Central America and the ways interdisciplinary research can be coordinated to illuminate…
La foto es de Rober Tomás y está tomada de https://robertomasfoto.com/ Comentarios para el espacio “El rincón y la esquina”, del “Hoy por hoy” de la Cadena SER.…
“No es mi circo, no son mis monos”, así lo expresan en Polonia (y ahora en todo el mundo, en realidad) un “me importa un bledo”, “un comino”,…