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سوم: شاهزاده خانم بینام قاجار در تابستان ۱۲۶۵ ه. ش. شاهزاده خانمی قاجاری با همراهانش سوار بر کشتی در مسیر مکه بودند که علاوه بر شرایط ناگوار راه،…
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هنر و زبان مادری در ایران (۶)
(یک مجموعه مصاحبه) قسمت ششم. ایستادگی ها و بازگشت ها بر سر زبان و لهجه غیرمعیار لیلا حسین زاده، سپهر خدابخش پیشگفتار: هنر و زبان مادری در…
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محمد شمخانی عنوان «استاد» و بهویژه «استاد دانشگاه» را این روزها خیلیها یدک میکشند و در میان همین «خیلیها» که به برکت باز شدن دانشگاهها و دانشکدههای مختلف…
Fighting to Improve Disability Awareness within Healthcare
JILLIAN MANN Dear Erin Stampp, My brother, Hank, has faced a lifetime’s worth of scrutiny and maltreatment. Hank was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at the age of two…
Tony Perman, “Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life” (U Illinois Press, 2020)
In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with the madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau…
Laura A. Ogden, “Loss and Wonder at the World’s End” (Duke UP, 2021)
In this podcast Laura A. Ogden, cultural anthropologist at Dartmouth College, introduces her beautifully crafted book Loss and Wonder at the World’s End (Duke University Press, 2021). In Loss and Wonder at the World’s…
Eray Çayli, “Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey” (Syracuse UP, 2021)
“Confronting the past” has become a byword for democratization. How societies and governments commemorate their violent pasts is often appraised as a litmus test of their democratization claims.…
Book Review: Played Out – Difference and Repetition in Classic Board Games
By Samuel Gerald Collins Patkin, Terri Toles (2021). Who’s in the Game? Identity and Intersectionality in Classic Board Games. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. After taking…
Introducing: Anthrocine
by Jasper Schotte Anthrocine is the film club of the anthropology department -for students, and organised by students and faculty members. An important film or documentary is screene…
Biden’s trip to Middle East
There is an excellent analysis in Time Magazine of how President Biden’s trip to the Middle East could help with resolving the protracted war on Yemen. You can…
“You hurt our monuments, you hurt our heroes, you go to jail for ten years”: Contested histories at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021
Minutes before Trump told his supporters to march on the US Capitol and to “fight like hell,” he reminded them of a “little law” against attacking national monuments:…
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Law School Hiring
This series on academic hiring for anthropologists asks academics in different countries with considerable experience on hiring committees how hiring works in their academic systems to enable applican…
10 Ways that Human Waste Isn’t Waste at All
You can find this short essay (or academic listicle?!?) in the latest issue of Anthropology News, which explores research on waste. Kawa (2022) Anthropology News – 10 waysDownload
[Politics] practices of collaboration
How can anthropologists further problematize hierarchies of knowledge production that are haunting the discipline? Based on her PhD trajectory and research on environment and (im)mobilities in Sulawes…
GURU PURNIMA – Associated Traditions and Gurus
Today, on the occasion of Guru Purnima, I thought about shedding some light on the traditions which are associated with “Gurus”. To begin, Guru Purnima is traditionally…
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, “Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
A legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, Brazil is home to the largest number of African descendants outside Africa and the greatest number of domestic workers in the…
Nation der Dichter*innen. Was uns ukrainische Lyriker*innen über Krieg und Sprache lehren
Wie lässt sich die Geschichte einer multiethnischen, schon von unzähligen vergangenen Grausamkeiten gezeichneten Nation erzählen – und wie lassen sich die Schrecken des jüngsten Krieges in Worte fasse…
SAR Alumna Op-Ed on Wildfires and Climate Change is Published in Los Angeles Times
Adriana Petryna, professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and an SAR summer scholar in 2014, has published an op-ed essay in the Los Angeles Times that…
Informationsportal zu Forschungsethik
Das neue Informationsportal des RatSWD zum Thema Forschungsethik ist jetzt online! Mit der Best-Practice-Sammlung zur Forschungsethik im Forschungsprozess kann ab sofort auf maßgeschneiderte Informati…
Reena Kukreja, “Why Would I Be Married Here?: Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India” (Cornell UP, 2022)
Why Would I Be Married Here?: Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India (Cornell UP, 2022) examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry…
سیری در مسئلهٔ آگاهی
خیلی دور، خیلی نزدیک ایمان یارمحمدی نظریههای آگاهی در فلسفهٔ ذهن و مغزپژوهی امروز. آندره اوجنیو کاوانا و آندره نانی. ترجمهٔ سعید صباغیپور و عبدالرحمن نجل رحیم. چ…