A piece for Anthropology Day
Margaret Mead Imagined Different Futures By Samuel Gerald Collins In the face of climate disaster, a continuing pandemic, and endless global conflict, it’s difficult to be optimistic about…
Nomadic or sedentary life: difficult choice?
Most people on our planet make their life choices mostly about in which settlement, country, climate etc they want to live. But the remaining nomads in the Arctic…
JOURNEY OF A WOMAN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
from anthropology to human genetics Prof. Suraksha Agrawal Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Medical Genetics (retd.) Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow …
Margaret Mead Imagined Different Futures
Anthropologist Margaret Mead (center), actor Robert Redford (left), and historian Lola Van Wagenen (right) attend “A Future With Alternatives,” a symposium held in 1978 in New York City.…
Dyrere og dyrere og ei jente som ikke er flinkere enn seg sjøl
Mange norske adjektiv oppviser tre grader, for eksempel dyr ‒ dyrere ‒ dyrest. Disse bøyingsformene kaller vi positiv, komparativ og superlativ. Dette er ganske elementær grammatikk. Men har…
Radicalism or pragmatism? The divide in racial justice advocacy
Policy advocacy and racial equity proposals exist on a spectrum, with many areas of disagreement or differences in emphasis. And it would be an oversimplification to describe one…
Nachgefragt beim Philologen Hans Bernsdorff: Wie bildet man den richtigen Plural von Campus?
Campusse, Campus oder Campi? Der Duden empfiehlt die ersten beiden Varianten, doch das ist falsch, findet der Klassische Philologe Hans Bernsdorff, der nur Campi für richtig hält. Wenn…
At the Heart of It All
For its practitioners, archaeology can feel like it is unearthing events deep in the past … until it doesn’t. What is the experience of researchers who discover their…
Gotong Royong: a recent flood and strong leadership strengthen a system of solidarity in Lombok
By Jop Koopman On the 6th of December 2021, a massive flood happened in the area of Gunungsari in West Lombok. Floods are not rare in the rainy…
Kate Henley Averett, “The Homeschool Choice: Parents and the Privatization of Education” (NYU Press, 2021)
Homeschooling has skyrocketed in popularity in the United States: in 2019, a record-breaking 2.5 million children were being homeschooled, within an increasingly diverse subset of American families. In The…
Vânia Penha-Lopes, “The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation” (Lexington Books, 2021)
The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation (Lexington Books, 2021) is a sociological analysis of the similarities between the elections of Donald Trump and Jair…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۲۹)
فصل چهارم: اصالت وجود ۱. شهسوار ایمانی و تَرکِ نامتناهی (ادامه از قبل) به واقع مشکل فلسفه کییرکگارد، بر سر خط ربطی است که به اصرار میخواهد بین…
صدای ِ فرهنگ
معمار و نظریهپرداز فنلاندی، یوهانی پالاسما (۱۹۳۶) با کتابش «چشمان پوست» (۱۹۹۶) به شهرتی جهانی رسید زیرا این گزاره مهم را مطرح کرد: تمدن مدرن، باید تجدید نظری…
رسالههایی در مورد شهر، جامعه شهری و برنامهریزی
رسالههایی در مورد شهر (City)، جامعه شهری (Urban) و برنامه ریزی هانری لوفبور برگردان: آذر جوادزاده ۱) دو گروه سؤال و دو دستور کار فوری مشکلات شهر (City)…
#Vulnerabilität. Ein Schlüsselbegriff in Zeiten der Pandemie
Seit der Pandemie bildet der Begriff der Vulnerabilität ein beliebtes politisches Schlagwort. Doch die Verwundbarkeitsdiskurse der Politik verschleiern Ungleichheiten und Machtverhältnisse. Wie kann m…
From Amusement to Conscientization: The Purpose of Media Literacy in the Age of Misinformation
In one of my first classes in my Undergraduate program in Media Studies, our Professor displayed a prominent newspaper. The masthead and the front page borders were red…
The Cultural Anxieties of Xenotransplantation
In January, news broke that David Bennett Sr.—a 57-year-old man with a serious heart disease—received a heart from a genetically modified pig. The eight-hour operation, which took place…
Manoela Carpenedo, “Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil” (Oxford UP, 2021)
An unexpected fusion of two major western religious traditions, Judaism and Christianity, has been developing in many parts of the world. Contemporary Christian movements are not only adopting…
Elogio de la ambigüedad
La foto es de Jenxi Reseña de Ficciones de fin de siglo, de Marc Augé, traducción de Anna Jolís Olivé, Gedisa, Barcelona, 2001, 189 páginas, publicado en Babelia, suplemento de…
The Public Anthropologist Award 2022: Catherine Besteman!
APLA would like to congratulate…
Review: Cooking up a Revolution
Sean Parson, Cooking up a Revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and Resistance to Gentrification. Manchester University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781526107350. Xi + 147 pp. David Sutton…
Aden in the mid-19th Century
James Vaughn, a physician stationed in British-controlled Aden in the mid-19th century, published an article in 1853 in the British Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions (12:226-229,385-388), w…
Martha, la última paloma mensajera: las mascarillas, el meta-verso, y la economía de la atención.
“Entonces habrán nuevas enfermedades. Es un hecho fatal. Otro dato, igual de fatal, es que nunca podremos rastrearlos desde su origen.” Escribió Charles Nicolle, Premio Nobel de Medicina…