Reflecting on misconceptions about conservation
21 September 2022. It was an intensive day at the storage facility of the Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt…
Neubau für Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Goethe-Universität eingeweiht
In einem Festakt weihten heute Universitätspräsident Prof. Enrico Schleiff, der hessische Finanzminister Michael Boddenberg und Ayse Asar, Staatssekretärin im Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft u…
Wendy Simonds, “Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization” (Routledge, 2016)
In Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization (Routledge, 2016), Wendy Simonds analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalization: the dynamic processes by which medical authorities, institutions, and ideologies impact our everyday…
Zachary Levenson, “Delivery As Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City” (Oxford UP, 2022)
In Dispossession as Delivery: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City (Oxford University Press; 2022), Zachary Levenson explains why post-Apartheid South Africa continues to evict land occupations. Levenson shows…
Was Our Skin Meant for the Sun?
An anthropologist examines the history of human skin under the sun, revealing how evolution and culture conspired to shape our outermost organ. This article was originally published at…
Life Last Week
via Wikimedia Commons Happy new year everyone! Here are Things That Happened in the last week or so: Celia Tichi is writing the history of the US through…
Ausweitung der Subjektzone. Ein Gespräch über Selbstgestaltung und Schönheit-OPs
Fettabsaugen und Brustvergrößerung lassen sich als Ausdruck von Selbstbestimmung betrachten, aber ebenso als Unterwerfung unter Geschlechternormen. Körper-Selbst-Gestaltung, sagt die Soziologin und Ge…
Platypod, Episode Three: Disability, Toxicity, and the Environment
Platypod In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Elizabeth Roberts (the University of Michigan) and Sophia Jaworski (the University of Toronto). They discuss the complexities of corp…
What Is Cultural Anthropology?
Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the dizzyingly diverse ways people live today, including how they think, act, create, struggle, make meaning, and organize their societies. WHAT IS CULTURAL…
Andreas Hackl, “The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv” (Indiana UP, 2022)
The city of Tel Aviv presents itself as a bastion of liberal values, tolerance, and ultimately of freedom. But like many self-definitions, there is something of a gap…
The History and Ethnography of Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Northwest
Greg Marchildon interviews historian and ethnographer Jennifer Brown on her two most recent books. The first, Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth…
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, “Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist” (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Franz Boas is remembered today as one of the most important figures in the history of anthropology. In the United States, he is widely created with creating the…
Trust: A Pragmatics of Social Life?
Trust exposes and discloses the social. But the heterogeneity and even excessiveness of meaning in the concept—its overdetermination, its multifariousness and multiformity, its downright fuzziness—sug…
Letter to Jane
Lecture on Jean-luc Godard’s film “Letter to Jane” – much to discuss at TDTU.
CFF: Riga Pasaules Film Festival (deadline: 16 December)
The theme for the 2023 Riga Pasaules Film Festival is Love. We seek films that respond to the experience of Love. We ask what it means to know…
Careers and Caregiving: An impossible juggling act?
By Kathe Managan This fall, with my AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) card in my wallet, I attended my third new faculty orientation and learned about the…
Irene Theodoropoulou and Johanna Tovar on their edited volume, Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
https://www.routledge.com/Research-Companion-to-Language-and-Country-Branding/Theodoropoulou-Tovar/p/book/9780367343590 Brands are omnipresent in our lives and they help us make choices as con…
Próximo número: 7/Noviembre/2022
Read Time:13 Second ¡Os anunciamos la nueva fecha para el próximo número! ¡NOS VEMOS EL 7 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 CON NUEVOS ARTÍCULOS…
Sich statistisch blind zu machen löst keine gesellschaftlichen Probleme
Kommentar von Dr. Susanne Worbs, Forschungszentrum des Bundesamtes für Migration und Flüchtlinge* – Einreichung am 28. August 2022 Als ehemaliges Mitglied der Fachkommission Integrationsfähigkei…
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa, “Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader” (NYU Press, 2021)
Latinx Studies has long been overdue for a revamp – a different orientation to the questions with which we concern ourselves. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader (New York…
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, “The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences” (Columbia UP, 2022)
How do metrics and quantification shape social science? In The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences (Columbia UP, 2022), Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, an Associate Professor in sociology at the University…
Trust, truth, and the blockchain
“Less Trust, More Truth” said the black nylon drawstring bag in the cardboard box. I had to have one. No other item of swag at this crypto-conference articulated…
Stellenausschreibungen KW 39
Die Ausschreibungen in dieser Woche sind weitgehend in den “klassischen” Bereichen der Absolvent*innen geistes- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Fächer: kulturelles Gedächtnis, Bildung, K…