What do anthropologists do when they compare, what do people do when they compare? Professor Soumhya Venkatesan shows how comparison produces meaning, including fresh ways of understanding the…
In their talk Prof. Tom Boellstorff explores comparison’s potential for anthropological inquiry in climates of technological transformation, global warming, and authoritarianism. Such attention to eme…
Gun violence in the United States is a statistical crisis, a political flashpoint, and an everyday reality for millions. But what if we could play through its structural…
A history of wearables at Augmented World Expo 2013 Tech companies have been trying to make VR/AR/XR headsets go mainstream for over three decades. Here’s what I’ve discovered in…
Guthman, Julie. The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food. University of California Press. 272 pp. ISBN 9780520402676 Amanda Kaminsky (University of C…
By Max Liboiron and Alex Bond We study plastic ingestion in animals harvested for food in Nunatsiavut, Inuit homelands in northern Labrador, Canada. This work is about more…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-trauma-mantras Sofía Cifuentes Contador: The Trauma Mantras is a non-conventional ethnography that draws on different writing styles, such as autoethnography, po…
To cope with terrorist attacks, we look for signs that the perpetrators are somehow abnormal or monstrous. Often, they are more similar to the rest of us than…
Warum entwickelt sich die Romantik als ästhetisches Phänomen zur Romantik der Heimatkunst und des „Wandervogel“? Für seine Spurensuche ist der Literaturwissenschaftler Raphael Stübe mit dem diesjährig…
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A suitcase full of books and a backpack with the essentials. So that was it. That was all I was going to take with me… I am surprised…
دربارۀ دائرهالمعارف/ (بخش ۱۱)/ مسئله روز: دربارۀ «دانش سایبری»، دائرهالمعارفی و اشتراکی چگونه میاندیشید؟/ گردآوری: کریستیان دنی/ برگردان: مهرنوش غضنفری انتشار بیستهزار نسخه از یک دائرهالمعارف را …
شرایط سلطان مسعود برای بیعت با خلیفه بعد از برگزاری مراسم عزا برای خلیفۀ درگذشته، و حضور رسول خلیفه، تهنیت خلیفۀ جدید و خطبه کردن به نام او…
عبدی جوادزاده[۱]، برگردان: آذر جوادزاده چکیده: این مقاله سیاست خارجی ایالات متحده در خاورمیانه را از منظر سیاسی‑ نظامی بررسی میکند. با استفاده از نظریه شکست پیروزمندانه[۲] (پیروزی…
بخش پنجاهویکم/ اجتماع (جماعت، community)/ نایجل راپورت/ برگردان: مهرداد میردامادی مفهوم اجتماع یکی از گستردهترین و پرکاربردترین [مفاهیم] در علوم اجتماعی است که مطالعه و پژوهش در مورد…
Rechte Angriffe auf CSD-Paraden haben in den letzten Jahren zugenommen. Angesichts dieser autoritären Attacken verkörpern die CSDs eine demokratische, vielfältige und offene Gesellschaft. Was ist ihre…
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مخاطبان گرامی با سلام و آرزوی سلامتی برای همه مردم ایران با توجه به گذشت چند روز از آرامش یافتن و بازگشت نسبی به موقعیت عادی در کشور،…
I am not sure there isn’t a major disconnect here. The global mining comglommoabberation Riotinto have the worst record, morally, ethically, and with their dirty-mucky-fingers inside the struct…
I feel surrounded by a special sense of gratitude, one that I’m unsure I have ever felt before, exactly like […] The post Practicing slow scholarship in a…
A vivid and intricate study of dance music traditions that reveals the many contradictions of being Syrian in the 21st century Dabke, one of Syria’s most beloved dance…
While thinking optimistically about politics is never wise, it is impossible not to share in the euphoria of Syrians for […] The post Syria in the Moment appeared…
After more than eight years of no contact, I conducted a video call with a former non-influential officer from an […] The post The Emotional Toll of Death…
This text is a slightly adapted keynote/film introductory note I gave at a conference when the Department of Media and Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger celebrated…