فرایند شکل گیری تفأل با نگرشی به فال زدن به دیوان اشعار حافظ
این مقاله در ویژهنامه نوروز ۱۳۹۶ انسانشناسی و فرهنگ منتشر و اکنون در تاریخ ۲۸ آبان ماه ۱۴۰۱ بازنشر میشود. روش های پیش بینی سرنوشت و واقعه هایی…
Anti-Evolution in Turkey
This article is worth reading. An entire country bans the teaching of a scientific fact. Read it here.
What Do Hair Salons Have to Do with Prayer, Magic, and the Development of Literacy?
It turns out, the first complete sentence ever written by a human, at least as of what we know now, concerned hair. New archaeological evidence — discovered in…
Links & Contents I Liked 462
Hi all,I’ll be quick as it’s getting a bit late in Sweden on this dark & cold Friday afternoon…this week we start with the meltdown of FTX, SBF…
Emergency
Ich lese gerade Mukundans Roman “Delhi. A Soliloquy” (Rezension auf scroll.on) über Malayalis in Delhi. Es fängt an mit dem indisch-chinesischen Krieg 1962 und gerade bin ich im…
Emergency
Ich lese gerade Mukundans Roman “Delhi. A Soliloquy” (Rezension auf scroll.on) über Malayalis in Delhi. Es fängt an mit dem indisch-chinesischen Krieg 1962 und gerade bin ich im…
El miedo y el cine
Read Time:13 Minute, 48 Second El miedo siempre ha estado presente en nuestras vidas, tanto en el cine como en los libros. La oscur…
Lo urbano como melodia oculta
La foto es de Tom Waterhouse Consideraciones para Maria Lindmãe, doctoranda en la UPF, enviadas en octubre de 2015. LO URBANO COMO MELODIA OCULTA Manuel Delgado Solo incidir…
Cooking and tasting as complex practice in the work of Amy Trubek
David Sutton In this seventh interview with Professor Amy Trubek (University of Vermont), we discuss the difficult path she followed in graduate school to write about the Anthropology…
The Lie of the Happy Pill
Text by Maria Clara Schaeffer (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Pablo Dohms “Are we a more stable and productive society as a consequence of all the antidepressants we…
Bericht zum Workshop „Exploring Unruly Sites of More-than-Human Entanglements“ (19/20 Mai 2022, Berlin)
Organisiert von Cornelia Ertl, Kathrin Eitel, Felix Lussem Überblick und thematischer Fokus Am 19. und 20. Mai fand das 5. Netzwerktreffen der AG Umweltethnologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für…
What Commentators Get Wrong (and Right) About North Korea
An anthropologist argues that unfair portrayals of North Korea as a hopelessly irrational hermit state has huge implications for policy and security. ✽ This month, North Korea tested…
Straßengespräch
Auf dem Weg zum Büro überquere ich immer diese Strasse. Das ist kein Problem, da die Ampeln dafür sorgen, dass es Lücken gibt und es auch eine Mittelinsel…
Straßengespräch
Auf dem Weg zum Büro überquere ich immer diese Strasse. Das ist kein Problem, da die Ampeln dafür sorgen, dass es Lücken gibt und es auch eine Mittelinsel…
On Victor and Edith Turner’s “The Forest of Symbols”
In the mid-20th century, British anthropologists Victor and Edith Turner studied the Ndembu people of present-day Zambia. They wrote about their findings in their 1967 book The Forest…
Éxito mediático
Read Time:4 Minute, 7 Second Aristóteles dijo que el éxito tiene que ver con la excelencia y que ésta es un hábito que debemos trab…
Anthropology for Liberation assessments
Over the past few years I have been sharing the readings I assign for an undergraduate course I teach at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Anthropology for…
Selected Ho Chi Minh
Because I was looking for it online and could not see the contents pages, here are some rough snaps.
El pasado en el presente
La foto es de Amador Álvarez Final de Cultura de la violencia y violencia de la historia en Centelles, verano de 1936, Historia y fuente oral, 9 (1993),…
Alienated Labor, Sex Work, and Intimacy among Thai Sex Workers
I lived many years in Thailand where a subject of fascination for outsiders is the “sex industry.” I have of course known many people who were involved at…
Katy Highet takes the page 99 test
I wasn’t expecting my p. 99 – right in the middle of my methodology – to be particularly revealing. But as luck (or indeed Ford Madox Ford) would…
David McDermott Hughes, “Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity” (Duke UP, 2017)
In Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity (Duke University Press, 2017), David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the…
Mark D. Calder, “Bethlehem’s Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice” (Gorgias Press, 2017)
Mark D. Calder’s Bethlehem’s Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice (Gorgias Press, 2017) is anthropological study of Syriac Orthodox Christian identity in a time of displacement,…
Soluciones al problema de la vivienda
Read Time:5 Minute, 13 Second Por razones que no vienen al caso he tenido que dedicarme a la búsqueda activa de vivienda en alquile…