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…
Irene Theodoropoulou and Johanna Tovar on their edited volume, Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
https://www.routledge.com/Research-Companion-to-Language-and-Country-Branding/Theodoropoulou-Tovar/p/book/9780367343590 Brands are omnipresent in our lives and they help us make choices as con…
Próximo número: 7/Noviembre/2022
Read Time:13 Second ¡Os anunciamos la nueva fecha para el próximo número! ¡NOS VEMOS EL 7 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 CON NUEVOS ARTÍCULOS…
Sich statistisch blind zu machen löst keine gesellschaftlichen Probleme
Kommentar von Dr. Susanne Worbs, Forschungszentrum des Bundesamtes für Migration und Flüchtlinge* – Einreichung am 28. August 2022 Als ehemaliges Mitglied der Fachkommission Integrationsfähigkei…
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa, “Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader” (NYU Press, 2021)
Latinx Studies has long been overdue for a revamp – a different orientation to the questions with which we concern ourselves. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader (New York…
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, “The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences” (Columbia UP, 2022)
How do metrics and quantification shape social science? In The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences (Columbia UP, 2022), Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, an Associate Professor in sociology at the University…
Trust, truth, and the blockchain
“Less Trust, More Truth” said the black nylon drawstring bag in the cardboard box. I had to have one. No other item of swag at this crypto-conference articulated…
Stellenausschreibungen KW 39
Die Ausschreibungen in dieser Woche sind weitgehend in den “klassischen” Bereichen der Absolvent*innen geistes- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Fächer: kulturelles Gedächtnis, Bildung, K…
New project in evolutionary theory and cultural anthropology
Photo by Hermes Rivera on Unsplash. As a cultural anthropologist, I am thrilled that cultural variation is increasingly recognized as significant in a wide range of fields, cognitive…
Ad-hoc Block: Dystopian Worlds and the War for Advertising
As artificial intelligence and algorithmic surveillance become more ubiquitous, we should really start to think about our relationship, not just to internet tracking and data collection, but to…
New CyberOrient Issue
The latest issue of CyberOrient is now available online: Joel W. Abdelmoez >> Good Tidings for Saudi Women? Techno-Orientalism, Gender, and Saudi Politics in Global Media Dis…
Edle Wilde. Der Mythos vom afghanischen „Kriegervolk“
Afghanistan – ob magisches Reiseland für Hippies oder mittelalterlich anmutendes Land ganzer Generationen von Kriegern. Die westlichen Klischees blenden aus, wie die Konflikte in der afghanischen Poli…
عدم بروزرسانی سایتها و کانالهای مؤسسه انسانشناسی و فرهنگ تا اطلاع ثانوی
با تشکر از اعضا و علاقمندان مؤسسه انسانشناسی و فرهنگ و با ابراز تأسف و تسلیت به خانوادههای داغدار و آسیبدیده و برای ابراز همدردی با مردم ایران…
بادکاشتن و طوفان دروکردن
درباره فاجعه مرگ ِ ژینا امینی پس از دستگیری به وسیله گشت ارشاد به عنوان یک انسانشناس و یک جامعهشناس که تخصص عمدهاش آسیبشناسی اجتماعی است، سالهاست هشدار…
جنگهای زبالهای:کشمکش برای عدالت زیستمحیطی در شیکاگو(۱)
دیوید نگیب پلو برگردان طراوت مظفریان این متن ترجمه فصل اول از این کتاب است: Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago Book by David…
پداگوژی: علم و هنر یاددهی-یادگیری
نگاهی به کتابِ «پداگوژی: علم و هنر یاددهی-یادگیری» پداگوژی چیست؟ مدرسه از چه زمانی و برای تحقق چه هدفی شکل گرفت؟ قرن بیست و یکم میلادی را یونسکو…
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Hi all,NRC’s Giulio Coppi as well as Dante Licona & Léa Salwan from IFRC’s social media team joined our Glocal Classroom this week & it was such a powerful…
Falina Enriquez discusses her new book, The Costs of the Gig Economy
Interview by Owen Kohl https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p086687 Owen Kohl: Let’s start with the powerful title. Can you briefly describe the gig economy in question? And …
Book Review: Tigers are our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India by Ambika Aiyadurai
In Tigers are our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India, Ambika Aiyadurai offers an ethnographic study of wildlife conservation in Northeast India, examining the relations…
Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., “Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader” (Duke UP, 2021)
Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean studies, and beyond. From his early critique…
Jamie Barnes, “Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation: A Reflexive Ethnography of Christian Experience” (Routledge, 2020)
Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation: A Reflexive Ethnography of Christian Experience (Routledge, 2020) offers a uniquely intimate and auto-ethnographic exploration of Christian experience, rendering a deep, phenomenological account…
CFF: Jean Rouch International Festival (deadline: 15 November 2022)
We are pleased to announce the opening of the call for films for the 2023 edition of the Jean Rouch International Festival! All the members of the selection…