Meine Olympiade
Meine Olympiade Auf dem Wühltisch bei Thalia entdeckte ich im August ein Buch: Meine Olympiade | Ilija Trojanow Ich las es quer und dachte: Das will ich auch.…
¿Es nuestra especie violenta por naturaleza?
Read Time:11 Minute, 37 Second La violencia… ¿es biológica o cultural? El ser humano lleva mucho tiempo preguntándose si la violen…
Ellie D. Hernández et al., “Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces” (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Edited by Ellie D. Hernandez, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda García, Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Space (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) focuses on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of…
Humanitarian Techniques of Trust
“Trust in humanitarian action” was the top item on the agenda of the 33rd international conference of the Red Cross movement which took place in Geneva in December…
What Is Freedom in a Brazilian Favela?
In a new book, Minoritarian Liberalism, an anthropologist explores how favela residents of Rio de Janeiro create their own versions of liberty—even under conditions of violence, poverty, and…
All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa: Building Colonies without Colonization
First edition cover of 2010: Odyssey Two where the quote “all these worlds are yours except Europa…” is from. Beneath Europa’s frozen surface is an ocean thought to…
Making the Scientific Social, and the Social Scientific: A Review of Durba Mitra’s “Indian Sex Life”
Durba Mitra. Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 302 pp., 15 b/w illus., n…
Late Removals to the Grand Ronde Reservation from Umpqua Valley and Rogue River
As noted in several essays on this blog, removing tribes from their lands and to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation was not a perfect process. Most of the…
The Critic Retires: Fifty Years of Restaurant Writing
A few of Tom Fitzmorris’ many books. David Beriss What does it mean to be a restaurant critic for fifty years? I recently attended a dinner in honor…
It’s not all downhill: On becoming an older scholar
By Laura Miller. Expectations for academics are sometimes based on stereotypes. One idea is that people reach the apex of their creativity and intensity before diminishing energy and…
Chihab El Khachab on his book, Making Film in Egypt
Interview by Meg Morley https://aucpress.com/product/making-film-in-egypt/https://aucpress.com/product/making-film-in-egypt/ Meg Morley: How do/would you explain the central arguments of yo…
See You Later, Thick Data – Part 3
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”.…
Posicionando (manipulando) a la audiencia
Read Time:3 Minute, 54 Second El pasado 22 de agosto la hija de Aleksndr Duguin, la periodista Daria Duguina, moría como víctima de…
Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman, “Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form” (Duke UP, 2022)
The contributors to Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke UP, 2022) assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a contemporary…
Technologies of Trust: Introduction
This post is the introduction of our thematic thread on Trust, curated by Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna), Shaila Seshia Galvin (Geneva Graduate Institute) and Ramah McKay (University of Pen…
Katastrofalkarneval och doktorandkurs
Den 23 maj skulle jag åka till Lund för att gå på en doktorandkurs vid Lunds universitet, men då jag fick höra att Lundakarnevalen skulle gå av stapeln…
Stellenbörse für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW37
pixabay: Falkenpost Diese Woche gibt es eine Stelle als Referent*in für den Kanzler an der Universität Hamburg, eine Stelle im Bereich urbane Resilienz in Berlin, mehrere Berufe im…
Choosing Your Own Adventure: My Life as a Teenage Dungeon Master and How It Prepared Me to Become an Anthropologist
In many ways, Dungeon Masters are the ethnographers of their own worlds. Granted, we’re not exactly interviewing the people who populate them, and we’re inventing most of the…
Food Sovereignty vs. Food Aid: Why Smallscale Farming Suffers
Traditional farming in al-Ahjur, Central Highlands (photography by Daniel Martin Varisco) The early major civilizations in the Middle East and Asia with their head start several millennia ago…
Kultureller Krieg und tatsächlicher Krieg. Russlands Feldzug gegen „Gender“ und den „dekadenten Westen“
Putins rhetorische Spitzen gegen queere Menschen, „Gender“ und Feminismus werden meist als politischer Nebenschauplatz abgetan. Doch dieser ‚Kulturkampf‘ gegen den Westen gehört zu einer Rhetorik, die…
Two permanent lecturer positions in cultural anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington
My programme is hiring two lecturers in cultural anthropology. These are junior level academic positions, equivalent to an assistant professor in the US. However, these jobs are permanent…
کوتهنوشتهایی بر فیلمهای بزرگ قرن بیستم (۱۵): رُز ارغوانی قاهره
وودی آلن را باید بسیار فراتر از یک هنرپیشه، یک فیلمساز، یک موزیسین، ، یک نویسنده و یک شاعر، یک فیلسوف دانست: فیلسوفی با زبانی ویژه، با گزندگی…
گزارش جلسۀ ۴۳: اشتغال زنان از دیدگاه روانشناسی (بازنگری به خدمات و تسهیلات اجتماعی)
چهل و سومین جلسۀ گفتگوی انسانشناسی و فرهنگ با عنوان « اشتغال زنان از دیدگاه روانشناسی » روز ۱۲ خرداد ۱۴۰۱ ساعت ۱۵ با حضور دکتر ربابه نوری…
جامعهشناسی رقص(۱)
هلن توماس برگردان: فردین علیخواه هدف سهگانهای برای نوشتن این کتاب[۱] دارم. برای آغاز، قصد دارم تا موردی برای ایجاد رویکردی نظاممند (هر چند نه همهجانبه و کامل)…