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Hi all,I’m looking forward to the weekend like anybody else & leave you with a fresh #globaldev review that features articles that are as absurd, shocking, unsurprising &…
Menneskets språkevne er vår superkraft!
Menneskets språkevne er vår mest unikt menneskelige egenskap. Alle språk er uttrykk for det å være menneske i verden, og bor i akkurat samme slags hjerne. Derfor har…
Emily Channell-Justice, “Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine” (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine (U Toronto Press, 2022) explores the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests – a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine –…
David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, “People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown’s new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference…
Designing the Future of Global, Remote Work with Fredrik Thomassen
Show Notes Building a New Labor Market for Global Design Talent with Fredrik Thomassen More and more businesses are switching to remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But…
Little Experiments in Worldmaking with Amor Mundi Lab
The AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab transpires as a collaborative space for emerging scholars, artists, scientists, and practitioners of all kinds working in the Global South with…
A Major Museum’s Attempt to Center Native American Voices
Chicago’s Field Museum recently unveiled their new Native North America Hall, redesigned with input from Native collaborators. But does it go far enough to address past harms? ✽…
Inna Perheentupa, “Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources” (Policy Press, 2022)
Inna Perheentupa’s book Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources (Policy Press, 2022) is a nuanced and compelling analysis of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2023
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won over the years. Indeed, as noted below, Dr.…
Kartoffeln
Heute mittag hallte ein entsetzes vierstimmiges “No” durch den Besprechungsraum. Eine indische Kollegin hatte irgendwas zu Brot gefragt, was zu diesem entsetzen, überzeugten, gemeinsamen Ausruf v…
Kartoffeln
Heute mittag hallte ein entsetzes vierstimmiges “No” durch den Besprechungsraum. Eine indische Kollegin hatte irgendwas zu Brot gefragt, was zu diesem entsetzen, überzeugten, gemeinsamen Ausruf v…
Anstelle des Migrationshintergrundes Eingewanderte erfassen und für das rassistische Diskriminierungsrisiko Selbstbezeichnungen und selbstwahrgenommene Fremdzuschreibung
Replik von Dr. Anne-Kathrin Will (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Zum Abschluss der RfM-Debatte 2022 möchte ich auf die Kommentare zu meinem Initialbeitrag „Anstelle des Migrationshintergrundes: Ein…
Virginia R. Dominguez and Brigittine M. French, “Anthropological Lives: An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Anthropological Lives: An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology (Rutgers UP, 2020) introduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. It focuses on the work…
Margret Grebowicz, “Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans” (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Margret Grebowicz’s Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animal—in something…
Ted Conover, “Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge” (Knopf, 2022)
Today I talked to Ted Conover, author of Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge (Knopf, 2022) In May 2017, Conover went to Colorado to explore firsthand a rural way of…
Sicherheit für alle, Sicherheit für einige: Wie US-Hochschulen mit #Safe Spaces Ungleichheiten zementieren
Safe Spaces, also Räume, die Marginalisierten Sicherheit verschaffen sollen, werden heiß diskutiert. Und tatsächlich sollte dieses Konzept beunruhigen, aber aus anderen Gründen als vielfach angenommen…
Oct 22 1965 Sydney arrests
The report on this 1965 anti-war protest is marginally better than most current press release churnalism, of course it favours the Police and the future PM McMahon (who…
Ubyssey election profile transcript.
Last Friday I was interviewed by The Ubyssey for a profile piece on faculty candidates for the current board of governors’ election. This is a slightly cleaned up…
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…
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…