„Was ist eine Frau?“ Mit dieser scheinbar einfachen Frage agitieren gegenwärtig rechte Akteur*innen gegen trans Menschen und ihre Rechte und fordern eine „eindeutige“ biologische Bestimmung von Geschl…
How are stories about the ocean best told? In July 2022 the OceanStates project had the privilege of bringing 28 students from the University of the South Pacific…
By Irene Stengs On 1 September 2022, the Dutch Central Organisation for the Meat Industry (COV, Centrale Organisatie voor de Vleessector), a partnership consisting of organizations involved in…
Hi all,A solid #globaldev round-up this week tackling Pakistan, climate change & lack of accountability, the forthcoming UNGA, bitcoin failure in El Salvador, Bill Gates bashing, the humanitarian…
Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest (Lexington Books, 2022) explores an annual interstate tug-of-war between two small towns along the Mississippi River. In this book, Johnston…
Manuela Ciotti’s Retro-modern India: Forging the Low Caste Self (Routledge, 2020) is interesting engagement with Chamar identity and understanding it through the lens of modernity. Through a rich ethnographic engagement…
Ethnographic moments spark curiosity and puzzlement, spur the search for new understanding, and are almost always seen to be some of the most generative parts of anthropological fieldwork.…
La foto és de Nate Roberts Nota per Júlia Coll Lladó, estudiant d’antropologia religiosa del Grau d’Antropologia de la UB, enviada l’abril de 2022. Secularització com a subjectivització…
Re-Visioning Psychiatry and What an Anthropological Perspective Could Contribute Text by Michl-Felix Bierl (Freie Universität Berlin) Image by Pablo Dohms Within psychiatry, and within popular p…
Svenskar och finländare är lika stolta över sin disciplinerade kökultur. På båda sidan Östersjön köar vi minsann i långa rader och nåde den som tar sig förbi kön…
Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash Epidemics can turn the world upside down. They kill millions, isolate us and wreak havoc on international trade. But what is their impact on religion?…
According to the latest report released by Switzerland’s main organic certification agency (BioSuisse), the country currently holds the world’s largest numbers in organic consumption per resident. In …
In Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains (Duke UP, 2022) Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm:…
From Syria to Ukraine, the sight of women taking up arms to fight for a cause calls audiences to attention. Why? ✽ In 2019, the video game Call…
In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary…
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, 2020-2021 Anne Ray Intern I arrived mid-morning at the Reception Center, the summer sun already high and bri…
Global production networks, as we know today, have repeatedly failed to ensure the rights of workers and their health and safety. These failings have been exposed time and…
Read Time:4 Minute, 36 Second Si algo une a los seres humanos desde hace miles de años, es la necesidad de despedirnos de nuestros …
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”.…
Ab sofort starten der Call for Papers und der Call for Films für die nächste DGSKA-Tagung „Umstrittenes Wissen: Ethnologische Perspektiven“. Die Tagung findet vom 25. bis 28. Juli…
Victor Frankl was a leader in 20th century psychiatry. In 1942, Frankl was sent to a concentration camp in the Czech Republic. Frankl was already influential in the…
After a long drive, Sheila and I arrive at the gates of a sprawling fifty-one square mile Malawian sugar plantation that belongs to Africa’s largest sugar company. An…
هلن توماس برگردان فردین علیخواه چشمپوشی نسبت به رقص در جامعهشناسی و علاقه پنهان نسبت به آن در مطالعات فرهنگی، در عرصه دیگری که بهتازگی گسترش یافته…
فصل پنجم : روانکاوی فروید فروید، فرهنگ و تمدن (ادامه از قبل) و اما در بُعد دوم، وی در مقام روانکاو، همان گونه که از او انتظار میرود،…