Why Do (Some) Humans Love Chili Peppers?
An anthropologist traces the origins and world travels of one of his favorite kinds of plants. ✽ As someone who grew up in the Philippines, I have always…
An anthropologist traces the origins and world travels of one of his favorite kinds of plants. ✽ As someone who grew up in the Philippines, I have always…
July 1st, Ho Chi Minh City – 76 Hai Ba Trung – After a fire that started in an picture framing shop*, a large part of the house…
Emmanuelle Loyer. Lévi-Strauss: A Biography. Translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff. New York: Polity Press, 2018. xi+744 pp., illus., notes, list of works, archives, index. There…
In Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World (U Toronto Press, 2021), Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates in London and Toronto, along…
For deaf people in the U.S., accessibility has become synonymous with provisioning professional sign language interpreters. But in everyday life, deaf people’s experiences of “access” often include mo…
Have this in my hand, having helped translate a part of it, cannot recommend it more highly. The full Đường Cách Mệnh trans will follow next year, also…
Since the 1970s, a “Polynesian Pipeline” has brought football players from American Sāmoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the collegiate and professional levels.…
The idea that evolution is a hierarchy of complexity with humans on top lurks in everything from biology classes to politics. It’s time to unlearn this false and…
JFK’s coconut shell encased in plastic, via Wikimedia Commons After a bumpy election, James Marape returns for a second round as prime minister of PNG. I’m optimistic about…
Interview by Natalja Czarnecki https://www.dukeupress.edu/shock-therapy Tomas Matza on his book, Natalja Czarnecki: In your ethnography of the popular “psychotherapeutic turn” in po…
In The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power, Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou explore how digital technologies are shaping experiences of migration today, focusing particularly on the 2015…
KATERINA DOWNING University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT 12/05/2022 FAO: Cass Review Team NHS England PO Box 16738 Redditch B9…
Today I spoke to anthropologist William Mathews about his new book, Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination (Berghahn Books, 2021). This book explores how humans are unique in their…
Stellenbörse für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW 33 Diese Woche haben wir die gesamte Bandbreite geisteswissenschaftlicher Praxis in den Ausschreibungen abgebildet: Bühnen, Museen, Bildungsanb…
شمارۀ هشت: مساله ی مجوز در تولید هنر به زبان و لهجه غیرمعیار لیلا حسین زاده، سپهر خدابخش پیشگفتار: هنر و زبان مادری در ایران، مجموعه مصاحبه…
تصاحب رقص سیاهان طبقه پایین توسط انقلاب کوبا نوشته: ایوان پین دانیل-استاد رقص و مطالعات آفریقایی-آمریکایی برگردان: فردین علیخواه در کوبای معاصر، بیانی فرهنگی، که تا پیش از…
سوزان سانتاگ برگردان: آذر جوادزاده رولان بارت هفتهی پیش زمانی که شصت و چهارساله بود، درگذشت. اما تخصص و تفکرش بسیار جوانتر از سناش بود. او اولین کتاباش…
جلسه پنجاه و دوم مؤسسهٔ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ درباره «خودمحوربینی فرهنگی در ایران و آسیبهایش» برگزار خواهد شد. در این جلسه آقای دکتر ناصر فکوهی (استاد انسان…
SAPIENS Poet-in-Residence Jason Vasser-Elong reflects on horrific cycles of violence—and highlights injustices that are often papered over. We All Love Roses – Listen Some say it’s human nature…
موسیقی و مردمشناسی بومیان کیش رجبعلی مختارپور باباالهوا؛ موسیقی و مردمشناسی بومیان کیش. پژوهش و نگارش محسن شریفیان. تهران: انتشارات نگاه، ۱۳۹۹. ۳۰۲ ص. ۷۰۰۰۰۰ ریال. ریشههای…
The North coast of Oregon had several tribes of Native peoples, the Tillamook tribes and bands (Tillamook, Nehalem (Naalem), Nestucca, Nechesne) and the Clatsop tribe of Chinooks.…
Ethnographers have long struggled with the nebulous in-between spaces of science on the one hand, and story-telling on the other. It was what my frustrated seminar professor described…
Wonder Woman hat, wie alle Superheldinnen, eine Secret Identity. Die US-amerikanische Historikerin Jill Lepore kitzelt jedoch noch ganz andere Geschichten aus der Geschichte um die Amazone mit dem…
اگر قدرت را در دست کم در یکی از معناهایش، اِعمال اراده یک فرد یا گروه بر اراده فرد یا گروه دیگری برخلاف رضایت آنها بدانیم، میتوانیم سلسله…