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,…
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…
Vor gut zehn Jahren habe ich mir für die Lehre in Berlin Mary E. John’s Reader “Women’s Studies in India” angeschafft. Jetzt habe ich sie hier in Delhi…
Vor gut zehn Jahren habe ich mir für die Lehre in Berlin Mary E. John’s Reader “Women’s Studies in India” angeschafft. Jetzt habe ich sie hier in Delhi…
An interview with anthropologist Dána-Ain Davis digs into abortion rights and reproductive justice after the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. ✽ On June 24, the…
Bis in die 1980er Jahre wurden in der Schweiz armutsbetroffene oder unangepasste Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene fremdplatziert und administrativ versorgt. Die psychischen, sozialen und finanzielle…
The allure of the onion Fieldwork can produce odd obsessions. As an anthropologist studying agrarian risk economies, mine was onions. In the central Indian region of Malwa where…
Seattle has a reputation as a city of Progressive values, but as Megan Asaka argues in Seattle From the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (U Washington…
Read Time:7 Minute, 43 Second “Leemos mal el mundo, y después decimos que nos engaña” Rabindranath Tagore Son las 9:45 de la ma…
An anthropologist explores the resurgence of “new Animism”—interest in spiritual practices that recognize the interrelationships among animals, places, plants, and people. This article was originally…
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (Sociology, USC), a 2017-2018 Weatherhead Fellow, was recently honored for a book written during her time at SAR. South Central Dreams: Finding Ho…
In 1904 the proud D.D. Methodist Robert William van Schroik, at the age of 61, boarded a German steamer in New York for a 70-day trip to the…
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-76900-0 Last fall, we published a co-edited volume entitled Metalinguistic Communities: Case Studies of Agency, Ideology, and Symbolic Uses of …
The 1822 University Prize for Excellence in Teaching was presented at Goethe University Frankfurt for the 21st time. A Spanish lecturer, a bioscience professor and an educational science…
Ich bewege mich ganz vorwiegend in meiner Bubble rund um den Lodhi Garden. Ich wohne feudal, kann zur Arbeit durch den Park laufen, muss mich um nichts kümmern,…
Ich bewege mich ganz vorwiegend in meiner Bubble rund um den Lodhi Garden. Ich wohne feudal, kann zur Arbeit durch den Park laufen, muss mich um nichts kümmern,…
How do transnational Filipino families remain connected through mobile media technologies? In (Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media (Oxford UP, 2022), Earvin Charles…
Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, and…
ESCA VAN BLARIKOM Multimorbidity in the UK Historically, biomedicine focused on single disease categories. As a result, many of our current clinical guidelines are almost exclusively focused on…
The UN is marking 15 November 2022 as the day human population surpassed 8 billion people worldwide. Conspiracy theorists have falsely conjectured that a population control vaccine wil…
Only eleven years after world population surpassed seven billion, the UN has announced an extra billion humans has been added to the planet. In 2010, Australian businessman Dick Smith…
Hur åker man buss? Vad är det som händer? Hur ska man göra när man står och väntar på bussen? Hur formas kön när det är dags att…
Read Time:6 Minute, 46 Second En un sistema capitalista que todo lo convierte en mercancía, no es de extrañar que las tradiciones c…
We speak to Professor Tim Newburn about his new co-authored book, Orderly Britain, written with Andrew Ward, which explores facets of daily life – dog mess, smoking, drinking, parking, queuing,…