Book Review: The Religion of the Central Luo by Okot p’Bitek
LSE Professor Tim Allen reflects on the profound impact that Ugandan poet Okot p’Bitek‘s The Religion of the Central Luo had on his own approach to fieldwork among…
Sesgo de confirmación
Read Time:2 Minute, 34 Second ¿Cómo es posible que ante un mismo hecho distintas personas saquen distintas conclusiones? Formulada …
Michael G. Flaherty and K. C. Carceral, “The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison” (Columbia UP, 2022)
Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in…
Viral Entanglements in Malaysian Porcine Worlds
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this piece read by Kymberley Chu Content warning: This blog post contains photo…
The last free words of a cannabis prisoner
My friend Daniel Muessig went to prison today. A former criminal defense attorney himself, he sold cannabis in Pennsylvania, a state where it’s legal. But it’s still illegal…
El espacio público no existe
La foto es de jayclar30 y está tomada de https://steemit.com/@jayclar30 Publicado en Barcelona metrópolis mediterrànea, primavera (2011) EL ESPACIO PÚBLICO NO EXISTE Manuel Delgado …
Decolonising indigenous knowledge? Reading circle 12 May 2022 noon Finnish time
Indigenous knowledge, or better indigenous ways of knowing, have been key to anthropological debates on human-environment relations in the Arctic, even more so since climate change has increased…
Susan Seizer’s reflections upon retirement
What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about the story behind writing it? Oddly enough the article I am most…
Uttryck för kollektiv sorg
Jag står tillsammans med en blandad skara människor utanför ryska generalkonsulatet i Åbo. Vi deltar i en kollektiv sorgemanifestation för offren i Ukraina. Inslagen är framförallt musikaliska och…
We need to talk about skateboarding
Skateboarding is a skilful practice, a discipline of failure, and a global culture. Sander Hölsgens studies skateboarding as a tool for social good and reflects on three socio-political…
Die Obdachlosigkeit
Die erste obdachlose Person in der Bay Area traf ich, da hatte ich den Flughafen keine zehn Minuten verlassen. Es saß im BART, der U-Bahn der Bay Area,…
Biological Science Rejects the Sex Binary, and That’s Good for Humanity
Despite myths of “pink” brains and “blue” brains, human brains are mosaics of what have stereotypically been characterized as male and female traits. CSA-Printstock/Getty Images At the re…
Busting Myths About Sex and Gender
The belief that males are aggressive while females are nurturing is a dangerous myth. Evgeny Tchebotarev/Pexels Excerpted from the second edition of Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They…
Der Grind
Während des Semesters hatte mich die Uni voll im Griff, da gab es immer etwas zu lesen, vorzubereiten oder zu schreiben. Die Seminare dauern länger (3h) und es…
En todas las guerras quien pierde es el pueblo
Read Time:5 Minute, 7 Second Anatomía de “Soldados y Padres” de José Jurado Morales Hay libros que vienen a ti en el momento adecua…
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…