The collapse of national capitalism — a Sophoclean tragedy – Part 1 – by Keith Hart
Abstract The global economic crisis is not merely financial, a moment in the historical cycle of credit and debt. The … More
Tree Rings Are Evidence of the Megadrought—and Our Doom
I love trees. I also love dendrochronology—literally, “the study of tree time.” This science, which uses data derived from tree growth rings, provides scientists with a wealth of…
Folkeetymologier – små folkeeventyr om ord
Hva har forhåndsregel og muskedunder til felles? Jo, begge er eksempler på folkeetymologier, altså det at et sjeldent eller fremmed ord endrer seg påvirket av andre og mer…
James S. Bielo, “Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
What happens when the written words of biblical scripture are transformed into experiential, choreographed environments? To answer this question, anthropologist James Bielo explores a diverse range of practices…
Crystal Worl’s Countermural Tells a Different History of Alaska
Her dark gray eyes scan the horizon. An iridescent golden sun and stars encircle her head, flanked on one side by a cobalt sockeye salmon and the other…
Stay home to stay safe? South Durban‘s fence line communities in pandemic times (Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer)
In the so-called fence line communities adjacent to the notorious Engen refinery on Tara Road in Wentworth (South Durban), diverse aerosols jointly flooded the air – among those,…
¿Tienen los dioses derechos humanos?
Prólogo no publicado para el libro de Ana Olva y Gloria Fernández, Antonio Banderas, Toda su vida (Ediciones B, 1995). ¿TIENEN LOS DIOSES DERECHOS HUMANOS? Manuel Delgado La…
Andrew Leon Hanna, “25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Andrew Leon Hanna’s book 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs (Cambridge UP, 2022) takes readers inside the Za’atari refugee camp to follow the stories of three courageous…
Moisés Lino e Silva, “Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children,…
Erinnerungskultur in der „Zeitenwende“. Die deutsche Weltkriegserinnerung und der Ukrainekrieg
Neben Kanzler Olaf Scholz und den Verfasser:innen Offenen Briefe scheinen auch breite Teil der Gesellschaft in Deutschland bei Waffenlieferungen in die Ukraine zu zögern. Ein Grund für dieses…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Review: Vino
Campanale, Joe, and Joshua David Stein. Vino: The Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine. Clarkson Potter, 2022. 320 pp. ISBN 9780593136140. Jesse Dart, Arizona State University, Swette Center…
Five Turning Points in the Evolution of Wine
Archaeologists have investigated Greek wine containers shipwrecked in the Mediterranean. Cristian Umili/Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images Contrary to popular belief, the evolution of wine …
Alice Tilche & Akshay Kanna: The Village of the Dead
“Near Ahmedabad’s civil hospital, in a small dilapidated house. A dog lives with his wife and their children. After two days, the dog returns to his home. Af…
Marcos E. Pérez, “Proletarian Lives: Routines, Identity, and Culture in Contentious Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
What drives and sustains participation in unemployed workers’ movements in Argentina? Today’s guest, Marcos Perez, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Washington and…
Christopher Harker, “Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine (Duke UP, 2020), Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and…
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, “Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India” (Oxford UP, 2021)
How can development programs deliver benefits to marginalized citizens in ways that expand their rights and freedoms? Political will and good policy design are critical but often insufficient…
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Epistemologies – The Line Between Bodies and Ideas?
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this piece read by Nathan Klembara A recent trend in the sciences is the attem…
Anthropology Biographies
Arjun AppaduraiRuth BenedictAllison DavisNatascha Döw-SchullKatherine DunhamMarvin HarrisEpeli Hau‘ofaZora Neale HurstonEdmund LeachClaude Lévi-StraussRobert LowieBronislaw MalinowskiMarcel MaussLewi…
Infoveranstaltung: Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur? Was ist das und warum ist das wichtig für uns?
Die Fachgesellschaften für die Empirische Kulturwissenschaft/Europäische Ethnologie (DGEKW) und die Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA) laden ihre Mitglieder und Interessierte herzlich zu einer ge…
Taina Cooke takes the page 99 test
My excitement quickly turned into disappointment when opening my printed thesis, “Culture on trial: an ethnographic study of the de/constructing of culture in Finnish law courts”, to page…
Randa Khair Abbas and Deborah Court, “The Israeli Druze Community in Transition: Between Tradition and Modernity” (Cambridge Scholars, 2021)
Randa Khair Abbas and Deborah Court’s book The Israeli Druze Community in Transition: Between Tradition and Modernity (Cambridge Scholars, 2021) gives voice to the Israeli Druze through in-depth interviews with…
Aniket Aga, “Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India” (Yale UP, 2022)
How the debate over genetically modified crops in India is transforming science and politics Genetically modified or transgenic crops are controversial across the world. Advocates see such crops…
کوتهنوشتهایی بر فیلمهای بزرگ قرن بیستم (۸): طعم گیلاس
طعم گیلاس (۱۹۹۷) / ۹۵ دقیقه / نویسنده و کارگردان عباس کیارستمی سینمای کیارستمی یکی از بهترین نمونههای پیوند امر محلی و امر جهانی است، کاری که در…