The Fight to Save Cultural Memory with Charles Henry
Interdependence is the idea that the wellbeing of our world and for our physical and emotional selves depends on those around us, yet when we find ourselves up…
Samuel J. Redman, “Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology” (Harvard UP, 2021)
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard UP, 2021) is a searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenous peoples…
Karen Samantha Barton, “Africa’s Joola Shipwreck: Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster” (Lexington Books, 2020)
In 2002, a government-owned Senegalese ferry named the Joola capsized in a storm off the coast of The Gambia in a tragedy that killed 1,863 people and left…
Christopher Donoghue, “The Sociology of Bullying: Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents” (NYU Press, 2022)
School shootings and suicides by young victims of bullying have spurred a proliferation of anti-bullying programs, yet most of the research done on school bullying has been from…
عکاسی: تلفیق هنر و تکنولوژی
تصوبر : دان مک کالین، مجموعه عکس بی خانمان، لندن، ۱۹۷۰ بخش دوم (عکس و جامعه) از زمانی که عکاسی اختراع شد، رابطه میان این تکنولوژی و جامعه…
انسانشناسی بدن (۳)
تصویر: تندیس فرشته بزرگ ساخته چارلز ری، تندیسساز آمریکایی، ۲۰۲۱ انسانشناسی بدن: با تأکید بر مطالعه اختلالات تغذیه برگردان فاطمه سیارپور اصلاح بدن به طور کلی، حوزه تغییرات…
اشغال گیلان توسط پترکبیر (۵)
اشغال گیلان توسط پترکبیر و دیدگاه مارکس در مورد پترکبیر و اسلاوها اشاره: متنی که در مورد اشغال گیلان در دوره ی پتر اول ( پتر کبیر)…
فیلم مستند، مواجهۀ خلاق و روایی با امر واقع
جلسۀ چهاردهم پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ با عنوان « فیلم مستند، مواجهۀ خلاق و روایی با امر واقع» روز ۸ مهر۱۴۰۰ ساعت ۱۵ با حضور مهرداد اسکویی (مستندساز،…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۳۳)
فصل چهارم: اصالت وجود ماکس وبر، متفکر وجودی مدرنیته (ادامه از قبل ) اما آیا وبر همچون هایدگر به نفی این علمِ دلمشغول به هستها اقدام میکند، آن…
Das Leiden anderer in meiner Timeline. Über Fotografie im Ukraine-Krieg
Seit Susan Sontag vor fast zwanzig Jahren über Kriegsfotografien schrieb, hat sich die Medienlandschaft grundlegend verändert. Wie zeigt sich der Schmerz der anderen in Zeiten von Sozialen Medien?…
Out now: Searching for Sweetness: Women’s mobile lives in China and Lesotho (2022)
Sarah Hanisch’s monograph Searching for Sweetness: Women’s mobile lives in China and Lesotho (2022) is out! The book provides a fascinating ethnography, linking rural-to-urban migration in China with …
Dimensions of the In- and Interdependent Self
Text by Maria Clara Schaeffer (Freie Universität Berlin) Image by Pablo Dohms In this essay, I reconstruct findings regarding the constructions of selves and how they relate to…
Haunted by a Secret War
In Old Sepon in Savannakhet province, Laos, a temple wall riddled with bullet holes and shrapnel scars hints at war’s remains. Leah Zani Excerpted from Strike Patterns: Notes…
Un desierto sin Coca-Cola
Read Time:4 Minute, 12 Second Como ciudadanos somos corresponsables de la gestión de los servicios públicos de nuestro país, comuni…
Katherine Dugan, “Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics Is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role of religious identity in their culture.…
Deterritorialization
Saronik talks to Shweta Krishnan, doctoral candidate in Anthropology at George Washington University. She speaks about how she uses Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of deterritorialization in her work on…
Studying Borderlands: Talking Ethnography with Dr. Sahana Ghosh
How do border policing and violence intersect with gender and sexuality to affect border communities? Today’s guest, Dr. Sahana Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University…
Nicole Charles, “Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados” (Duke UP, 2022)
In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate…
Att resa – en reflektion över Kulturanalysens exkursion till Stockholm
Att resa i postpandemi-tider Då pandemi härjade som värst gjorde jag mig inga tankar på att resa. Dels fanns det inga möjligheter till det, dels hade jag inte…
Thinking in Constellations: Problematizing Indigeneity in the Atacama Desert, Chile
This browser does not support HTML5 audio . In October 2021, I flew from the capital of Chile to the driest desert in the world—the Atacama Desert, a…
Moments in Places in Time
Growing up in the middle of Alaska, there was a window to another world on the wall of my living room. It was like no place I’d ever…
Multiverse of Madness and the Problem of Mother as Monster
By Emma Louise Backe Wanda by César Castillo Marquez Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness is essentially a horror movie with the trappings of Marvel’s characteristic action…
Hu Tai-li has passed away
Hu Tai-Li, Doyenne of Visual Anthropology in Taiwan has passed away, 9 May 2022 Hu Tai-Li had a PhD from City University of New York. She became known…
Sonja Trifuljesko takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation contains three paragraphs. The first one closes an argument started on the previous page, while the third opens a new subsection. The paragraph…