Robinson Crusoe – 1902
This version of Robinson Crusoe, by the immortal Georges Méliès, was made 1902. This 12 and a half minute hand-coloured nitrate print was rediscovered and restored in 2011.…
With So Few Farmers, Why Are Video Games About Farming So Popular?
An archaeologist considers what farming simulators reveal about humanity’s ancient and evolving relationship with agriculture. ✽ “I hate when I have to harvest at night,” my husband complained…
El habitus como participación en la gracia del Espíritu Santo
“Apoteosis de Santo Tomás de Aquino”, de Francisco de Zurbarán (1631) Comentario para Marta Vencesalo, en el marco de un proceso de elaboración teórica compartido. EL HABITUS COMO…
Devotas astucias
Propuesta de comunicación para el II Congreso de la AIBR DEVOTAS ASTUCIAS La piedad religiosa como resistencia a la dominación masculina en la obra de Galdós Manuel Delgado …
Domestication and the new mythology of human “perfectibility”
In 2007, a psychiatrist, Martin Brüne, wrote an essay “On human self-domestication, psychiatry, and eugenics” published in the journal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, in which he…
CFP: Visual Anthropology panel on Photography at RAI 2023 (deadline: 31 October)
It is with great pleasure that conveners Richard Fraser, Christian Vium and Peter I Crawford invite you to submit a paper to the upcoming RAI 2023 Film Festival…
The dark humor of PhD life
Dark humor internet memes on Twitter show some of the emotions PhD students experience during their trajectory. This digital ethnographic blog reflects on these memes and what they…
Reflecting on misconceptions about conservation
21 September 2022. It was an intensive day at the storage facility of the Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt…
Neubau für Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Goethe-Universität eingeweiht
In einem Festakt weihten heute Universitätspräsident Prof. Enrico Schleiff, der hessische Finanzminister Michael Boddenberg und Ayse Asar, Staatssekretärin im Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft u…
Wendy Simonds, “Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization” (Routledge, 2016)
In Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization (Routledge, 2016), Wendy Simonds analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalization: the dynamic processes by which medical authorities, institutions, and ideologies impact our everyday…
Zachary Levenson, “Delivery As Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City” (Oxford UP, 2022)
In Dispossession as Delivery: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City (Oxford University Press; 2022), Zachary Levenson explains why post-Apartheid South Africa continues to evict land occupations. Levenson shows…
Was Our Skin Meant for the Sun?
An anthropologist examines the history of human skin under the sun, revealing how evolution and culture conspired to shape our outermost organ. This article was originally published at…
Life Last Week
via Wikimedia Commons Happy new year everyone! Here are Things That Happened in the last week or so: Celia Tichi is writing the history of the US through…
Ausweitung der Subjektzone. Ein Gespräch über Selbstgestaltung und Schönheit-OPs
Fettabsaugen und Brustvergrößerung lassen sich als Ausdruck von Selbstbestimmung betrachten, aber ebenso als Unterwerfung unter Geschlechternormen. Körper-Selbst-Gestaltung, sagt die Soziologin und Ge…
Platypod, Episode Three: Disability, Toxicity, and the Environment
Platypod In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Elizabeth Roberts (the University of Michigan) and Sophia Jaworski (the University of Toronto). They discuss the complexities of corp…
What Is Cultural Anthropology?
Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the dizzyingly diverse ways people live today, including how they think, act, create, struggle, make meaning, and organize their societies. WHAT IS CULTURAL…
Andreas Hackl, “The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv” (Indiana UP, 2022)
The city of Tel Aviv presents itself as a bastion of liberal values, tolerance, and ultimately of freedom. But like many self-definitions, there is something of a gap…
The History and Ethnography of Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Northwest
Greg Marchildon interviews historian and ethnographer Jennifer Brown on her two most recent books. The first, Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth…
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, “Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist” (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Franz Boas is remembered today as one of the most important figures in the history of anthropology. In the United States, he is widely created with creating the…
Trust: A Pragmatics of Social Life?
Trust exposes and discloses the social. But the heterogeneity and even excessiveness of meaning in the concept—its overdetermination, its multifariousness and multiformity, its downright fuzziness—sug…
Letter to Jane
Lecture on Jean-luc Godard’s film “Letter to Jane” – much to discuss at TDTU.
CFF: Riga Pasaules Film Festival (deadline: 16 December)
The theme for the 2023 Riga Pasaules Film Festival is Love. We seek films that respond to the experience of Love. We ask what it means to know…
Careers and Caregiving: An impossible juggling act?
By Kathe Managan This fall, with my AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) card in my wallet, I attended my third new faculty orientation and learned about the…