Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2021 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
One of the casualties of Putin’s war on Ukraine will be European critical social science. While the war has instigated important discussions about ‘US-plaining’, ‘Westplaining’ and about Russian…
Author: Sheba Mohammid In Trinidad and Tobago, we may not have Ponce De Leon’s fountain of youth, but we do have a pool. It’s technically an offshore sandbar,…
Our recent book, Racism, Not Race, tackles a big lie: The idea that human beings have biological races. Biological races do not exist in humans. Why, then, do…
La foto està pressa de tanya-n.com/?m=200702 Fragment de l’article Els nous moviments religiosos, a L’Avenç, 185 (1994), pp. 58-62. Funció i virtuts dels nous moviments religiosos o “sectes” M…
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Zhou Zhou “You win the lottery! You are a millionaire! You…
In 1856, Joel Palmer had some 4000 Natives removed from their homelands to the Coast and Grand Ronde Indian Reservations. Up to at least April of 1856 the…
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, or NAGPRA, is supposed to curb the illegal possession of ancestral Native American remains and cultural items. But…
By Ton Salman This is part II of the blog “Rituals to help us out….” If you have not yet read part I, you can read it here.…
در این قسمت از نقد موسیقی ایرانی می خواهم به چند تجربه شخصی در آموزش ساز، نگاهی دوباره به جایگاه و اعتبار موسیقی و موسیقی شناسی ایران بیندازم…
How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures (Princeton UP, 2021) is an expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions—and how we can…
In Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia (University of Texas Press, 2022), Anadelia Romo argues that visual images were central to the shift from emulating…
Drawing on a rich body of archival and ethnographic research, Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending (Indian UP, 2020) illuminates diverse examples of theatrical gender-bending. It shows how, in each case,…
El Sistema is Venezuela’s large scale classical music education program for poor and working class people on the economic, social, and physical margins. In Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela (University…
The continuing crisis in Xinjiang has, thanks to the work of many scholars and reporters, led to greatly increased awareness of the region’s history and Uyghur population among publics outside China. But so far less appreciated have…
Djurforskningsdagarna som ordnades i Åbo 4-6.4.2022 med temat ”Djurens natur” (fi. Eläimen luonto, eng. Animal Nature) lockade en mångvetenskaplig skara av forskare som diskuterade de olika sätt på…
فصل چهارم: اصالت وجود ماکس وبر، متفکر وجودی مدرنیته (ادامه از قبل ) وبر به معنای دقیق کلمه فرزند خلف عقلانیت مدرنیته و پارادوکسهای درونی آن است. پارادوکسهایی…
نگاهی به تاریخچه فیلمهای سیاسی آغاز فناورانه سینما را چه در ابداع ادیسون بگیریم و چه در سینماتوگراف برادران لومیر، در گستره زمانی حدود یکی دو دهه آخر…
Polen hat die Bedrohungslage, die von Putin ausgeht, stets klar eingeschätzt. Innerhalb kürzester Zeit hat es über zwei Millionen Flüchtlinge aufgenommen. Dennoch hört man in Polen innenpolitisch Paro…
The festival presents the most recent productions of ethnographic films and acts as a platform for a dialogue between anthropology and documentary filmmaking. The event will have a…
Kondoa Irangi rock art in present-day Tanzania features the cultural expressions of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists over a 2,000-year span. Nina R/Wikimedia Commons This article was ori…
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this post as read by Ritwik Banerji Sensory ethnography continually emphasizes …
Interview by Sofiya Asher https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/language-of-conflict-9781350098626/ Sofiya Asher: What inspired this particular book? Natalia Knoblock: What inspired this book? T…
Hide Press Release (10 Less Words) Ziga Podgornik Jakil, in Collaboration with African Students from Ukraine (Figure 1: Aid for refugees at Berlin main station. Author: Leonhard Lenz.…