Ausgewählte Objekte aus der Sammlung des Ethnologischen Museums reisten im Mai nach Namibia. Die Direktorin der Museums Association of Namibia, Esther Moombolah/Gôagoses, erklärt im Gespräch, was n…
Excerpted from The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America by Anita Hannig. © 2022 by Anita Hannig. Used with permission of the publisher,…
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Seit fast 30 Jahren kümmert sich Peter Steigerwald um das fotografische Bildarchiv des Frobenius-Instituts für kulturanthropologische Forschung. Der berühmte Ethnologe Leo Frobenius (1873–1983) hat vo…
In Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Harvard UP, 2022), Holger Droessler provides a novel history of the impact of globalization on Sāmoa and vice versa. Using a series of…
Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South (NYU Press, 2022) reveals the importance of citywide celebrations like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for LGBTQIA+ communities in the US South.…
Last November, it looked like some good things were on the horizon for Open Access and the American Anthropological Association’s publishing portfolio: At this morning’s #AAA2021Baltimor…
یکم: نامه هایی از کرمان به دوبلین از امیلی لاریمر تولستوی در موخره ای که بر جنگ و صلح (۱) نوشته می گوید که تاریخ، عمدتا روایتی است…
امروزه فرزنددار نشدن نه فقط بر اساس شرایط، که میتواند خودخواسته و بر اساس میل شخصی باشد. در واقع با وجود اینکه اکنون نیز برخی از زوجین به…
والدمار کولیگوفسکی* برگردان یوسف سرافراز ما زندهایم، ما متفاوتیم نخستین تناقضْ نسبتاً واضح و روشن است. واقعیت شناختهشدهای است که جماعتهای محلی در حالی که در اغلب موارد…
Die Erfindung alternativer Vergangenheiten im Kino ist mehr als ein spekulatives Spiel. Bei Quentin Tarantino drückt sich darin ein Aufbegehren gegen die Vergangenheit aus; seine Spielart der Nostalgi…
La foto és de Phil Pemman Comentari per en Guillermo Aguirre, doctorand, enviat el 12 de juny de 2022. L’anarquia ja regna als carrers Manuel Delgado La vida…
Wu, Amy (2021) Farms to Incubators. Women Innovators Revolutionizing How Our Food is Grown. Fresno, California: Craven Street Books. Ellen Messer (Tufts University) This book, like the docum…
An anthropologist dives into the morally fraught blood and plasma industry and what it reveals about human societies—the good, the bad, and the gory. ✽ In the spring…
In 1950, human blood was stored for patient use at a U.S. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons In the spring…
Interview by Katherine Chen https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31761 Katherine Chen: Your book Supercorporate, an ethnography of a multi-conglomerate steel company that you call Sangdo, ar…
Of the many differences between the West and the rest of the world the issue of religiosity is one of the most striking. In the West ever fewer…
Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics (Utah State University Press, 2020) explores notions of Blackness in white institutional—particularly educational—spaces. In it, Louis M. Maraj theorizes how Black identity operates with/against…
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this piece read by Benjamin Schaefer Hair is a dynamic biological structure an…
The cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of Ukraine is a well-known fact, used and abused in explanations of the ongoing war. Having taken root in the early modern period…
Dear readers, Welcome to NAFA Network’s second edition of 2022.
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE The activity of list-making is an eclectic process that enables us to draw on varied, fragmentary sources, and simultaneously negotiate their meaning. It allows us to admire…
I’ve yet to meet an academic who is not a geek. What it means to be either an academic or a geek is, by necessity, flexible and inconsistent,…
Interview by Natalja Czarnecki https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520285842/living-faithfully-in-an-unjust-world Natalja Czarnecki: You write that inter-faith food aid organizations occupy a …