In Case You Missed It: Cultivating Connections 2022
Jennifer Jo Thompson, University of Georgia (SAFN President) After three years of planning, postponing due to COVID-19, and then planning again, “Cultivating Connections”—the 2022 joint annual mee…
Cuando la copia vence al original. Versiones que superaron a las versiones originales
Read Time:3 Minute, 43 Second Todas las épocas tienen canciones que son seña de identidad de la misma, y grupos memorables que han …
Bharat Jayram Venkat, “At the Limits of Cure” (Duke UP, 2021)
Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were…
Susan Hartman, “City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town” (Beacon Press, 2022)
City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town (Beacon Press, 2022) paints an intimate portrait of the newcomers revitalizing a fading industrial…
Äntligen dags för konferens!
Så kändes det som att många kände inför att Nordiska etnolog- och folkloristkongressen (Ethnofolk) gick av stapeln i Reykjavik 13-16 juni, det märkets också genom ett högt deltagarantal…
Apocalyptic end times
I have a hunch this place won’t last the decade – some sort of global cataclysm is in the offing, you can just tell. Yet despite prognostications of…
ARHE Policy Brief Award
We are excited to announce the first annual ARHE Policy Brief Award is now open for submissions. The aim of the award is to encourage and acknowledge the contributions…
Anthropolitan | Call for Photographs 2022
Dear students and staff, We are delighted to write with news of a new departmental photography initiative. We warmly invite submissions from all members of the department—students and…
KulturTransfer – Wie fast alles, was uns vertraut ist, eigentlich einen Migrationshintergrund hat (Buchprojekt)
Michael Toggweiler Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. “…
The Allowable Limit of Disability
This browser does not support HTML5 audio The Allowable Limit of Disability read by the author, Gabrielle Hanley-Mott In February 2022 a court in Norway …
KulturTransfer – Wie fast alles, was uns vertraut ist, eigentlich einen Migrationshintergrund hat (Buchprojekt)
Michael Toggweiler Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. „…
حاشیههای فمینیستی قرآن
کتاب حاشیههای فمینیستی قرآن نوشتۀ عایشه هدایتالله با ترجمۀ مرضیه محصص و نفیسه دانشفرد توسط نشر کرگدن در سال ۱۴۰۰ به بازار آمد. «این کتاب، که در سال…
هویت ِ بیهویت
چرا ایدهی جهانوطنی هم مهاجرت را آسان نکرد؟ از خانوادهها و دوستانشان خواسته بودند کسی به فرودگاه نرود. فکر کرده بودند اگر کمی پیش از ترک وطن در…
سنتهای خیر در جامعه
نگاهی به اهمیت مجمع خیرین مدرسه ساز هرجامعه ای برای تداوم و تعالی خودش، نیازمند سنتهایی است که بتواند بنیانهای آن جامعه را تقویت کرده و آن را…
What Klingon and Other Constructed Languages Reveal
This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished with Creative Commons. Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some…
What Klingon and Other Constructed Languages Reveal
At a Comic-Con, or comic book convention, in Los Angeles in 2010, the trolley signs were in Klingon. Doug Kline/The Pop Culture Geek Network/Flickr This article was originally…
The Noise of Russian Silence
By Ekaterina Thor, second-year Bachelor student of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Opening our daily news feed on the 24th of February, most of probably needed a second…
Resurrecting a wolf for conservation?
Many herders, especailly in the Sub-Arctic, are threatened by the increased number of wolves, eating entire reindeer herds. In Australia they go the opposite way now: they try…
Libertad para morir. En defensa de la sanidad pública
Read Time:5 Minute, 58 Second Estados Unidos es considerado uno de los países desarrollados más ricos del planeta, sin embargo, es …
On the Lives of Spiritually Fluid People
Dr. Duane Bidwell works to reduce suffering and promote abundant life in all of his teaching, writing, and research. Experiences as chaplain, pastor, spiritual director, pastoral counselor, HIV/AIDS…
Agustín Fuentes, “Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature” (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022)
There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are wholly different in behavior, desires,…
Michael Heneise, “Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India: The Life and Landscapes of Dreams” (Routledge, 2018)
The Nagas of Northeast India gives great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict…
Jonathan Crary, “Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World” (Verso, 2022)
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digital age’ is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation…
Digitale Ortlosigkeit. Über die Politik des Metaverse
Was in der Welt des Digitalen spielerisch daherkommt, greift tief in die Wirklichkeit – und bestimmt selbst militärische Operationen. Ein Streifzug durch die digitalen Räume und ihre wachsende…