LGBT IN IRAN: THE HOMOPHOBIC LAWS AND SOCIAL SYSTEM IN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN Kameel Ahmady * Researcher, Anthropologist, University of Kent, Research Methods and MA in Anthropology…
Emilia Noel PtakThe University of Vermont The films El Cacao and No Place to Grow, directed by Michelle Aguilar, invite viewers to consider food as a nexus, where…
And maybe the overused quote about thorough study of Hegel is a touching nonsense too. ‘In his Capital, Marx first analyses the simplest, most ordinary and fundamental, most…
Hi all,This week’s #globaldev review is a bit like a wedding outfit: We have something serious (crises in Sudan & Ethiopia), something old (10 years of conflict in…
View the video recording here The Creative Thought Forum Linda S. Cordell Lecture was conducted online this year resulting in live event viewership from 360 computer, tablet, and…
Vor zwanzig Jahren oder so dachte ich, ich muss mal länger nach Indien und dort einen Alltag haben. Erfahren, wie das so ist in Indien zu leben und…
Vor zwanzig Jahren oder so dachte ich, ich muss mal länger nach Indien und dort einen Alltag haben. Erfahren, wie das so ist in Indien zu leben und…
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media-Anthropology/Costa-Lange-Haynes-Sinanan/p/book/9781032007762 Media is fundamentally about connection. Around the world, life is being…
A major contribution to Sámi Studies, The Sámi World presents a diversity of research topics from across Sápmi, providing rich and multifaceted understandings of Sámi worlds. The book…
Harmful Traditions Practice: A Comprehensive Study on female genital mutilation (FGM) Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Iran KameelAhmady Social Anthropologist, University of Kent,…
Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Iran 2005-2015 KameelAhmady Social Anthropologist, University of Kent, Research Methods and MA in Anthropology Kameel.ahmady@gmail.com Abstract A …
British Channel 4 report on Kameel Ahmady in English (Long version) Kameel Ahmady, a British-Iranian academic sentenced for nine years and three months in prison and heavy fine…
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising https://kameelahmady.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/WitnessHistory-20220421-IranianRevolutionTheKurdishUprising-1.mp3 Witness …
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising Witness History The story of a boy caught up in the forgotten war for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979. During the…
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising The story of a boy caught up in the forgotten war for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979. During the Iranian revolution,…
A House on Water – A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran Kameel Ahmady Published May 16, 2022 This fieldwork study supports the view…
A House on Water A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran 978-620-5-49696-1 The religious and traditional stratum of the Iranian society performs sigheh /…
The Asmat are an indigenous people of Indonesian Papua and are renowned for their artistic carving flair and complex life-cycle rituals. They also have big ambitions that reach…
In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city…
In Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022), Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual…
Anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Margaret Mead could not have achieved success without their local assistants’ insider knowledge and extensive labor. ✽ Growing up a Brown girl…
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”.…
This semester we are proud to host two cutting-edge anthropology scholars as visiting professors here at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, Lapland: Hiroki Takakura, Center for Northeast Asian…
Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022) is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there…