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Friday links
Murray Chapman, a geographer of the Pacific, passed away on the Big Island after a long career mentoring students, including many Pacific Islanders. The festschrift Oceanic Sojourns is…
Stolze Kulturbotschafter: Baukunst aus Ozeanien im Humboldt Forum
Auf den Ausstellungsflächen des Ethnologischen Museums im Humboldt Forum werden ab September Meisterwerke der ozeanischen Baukunst präsentiert. Jetzt sind Handwerker aus Palau und von den Fidschi-Ins…
Personalnot in Kitas: Wie Sie für Ihre Einrichtung Mitarbeiter gewinnen
Personalnot in Kitas: Wie Sie für Ihre Einrichtung Mitarbeiter gewinnen.
Kleines ABC von Auftraggeber*innen geisteswissenschaftlicher Freiberuflichkeit
Kleines ABC von Auftraggeber*innen geisteswissenschaftlicher Freiberuflichkeit Vielleicht habt Ihr beim Lesen des Kleinen ABCs von Angeboten geisteswissenschaftlicher Freiberufler*innen in der…
Paper: The failures & promises of transport infrastructure in a remote Canadian town
Budka, P. (2022). The failures and promises of transport infrastructure in a remote Canadian town. Paper at 17th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA),…
A Reformation of Transgender Healthcare in the United Kingdom
SEVEN MELL Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP House of Commons, London SW1A OAA 4th March 2022 Dear Secretary of State, I am writing to you, the Secretary of…
Picturing Palestine
This is a fabulous new book from the University of California Press discussing photographs from late 19th and early 20th century Palestine from seven notebooks by Wasif Jawhariyyeh…
Reducing Hypertension in Trinidad and Tobago
Author: Daniel Miller The research project Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing which is now close to completion was always intended to also develop some practical projects to…
Paul A. Djupe et al. “The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences” (Oxford UP, 2022)
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith, The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (Oxford UP, 2022) explores a more holistic understanding of knowledge production…
Maya Mikdashi, “Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon” (Stanford UP, 2022)
The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance.…
Victoria Reyes, “Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope” (Stanford UP, 2022)
In Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford University Press, 2022), sociologist Victoria Reyes combines her personal experiences with research findings to examine how academia creates conditional citizenship for its…
Kant on Robinson
well well… of course Robinson serves all who want him to be twisted this way and that – of its time, of our time… Immanuel Kant seems to…
El tiempo no se detiene; el espacio tampoco
Imagen de Cudillero, tomada de lugaresperdidosenelmundo.blogspot.com.es. Fragmento de El espacio social como patrimonio, prólogo al libro de Manuel Luna y Manuel Lucas, eds., “Arquitectura tradici…
Building a “Web of Intrigue”: Teaching Food Studies
Pamela RunestadAllegheny College I presented a framework for building a Food Studies syllabus at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy on June 10, 2022. Thanks to positive responses…
Digging for Birds
My partner and I bought a house in 2019 and moved to San Antonio, TX, in service of my pursuit of a Ph.D. in anthropology. One thing that…
Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor, “Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity” (Routledge, 2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (Routledge, 2020) brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor introduce a broad, insightful assembly of original theory and…
Sommerprogramm
Geschichte der Gegenwart liegt an der Sonne und macht ein wenig Sommerpause. Wir publizieren daher bis zum 4. September jeweils nur am Sonntag, dafür mit besonders interessanten Hinweisen…
The earliest origins of that one Margaret Mead quote
via goalcast Margaret Mead’s quote about how a small group of citizens can change the world can be found all over the Internet. But did she actually say…
Counting on Montane Birds: Biologists, Verticality, and Territorial Defense in Colombia
This piece is about the unforeseen and sometimes overlooked connection between (i) birds living in the forests of Colombia’s high tropical Andes, (ii) local biologists supporting an anti-mining…
Social and Cultural Anthropologist Prof. Mamadou Diawara Now a Fellow of the British Academy
In recognition of his accomplishments in the humanities and the social sciences, Mamadou Diawara has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Diawara is Professor for Social…
Book Review: Remaindered Life by Neferti X. M. Tadiar
In Remaindered Life, Neferti X. M. Tadiar examines ‘remaindered life’ that goes beyond the binary understanding of productive and disposable life propagated under global capitalism. This c…
Wisdom From the Winding Path
[no caption] Frans Lemmens/Getty Images Excerpted from Paul Stoller’s essay “Jabès Amongst Songhay Sorcerers” in Philosophy on Fieldwork: Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis, e…
پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ، جلسۀ پنجاهم: چالشهای زندگی در تهران (مطالبات فرهنگی)
جلسه پنجاهم مؤسسهٔ انسان شناسی و فرهنگ درباره «چالشهای زندگی در تهران (مطالبات فرهنگی)» برگزار خواهد شد. در این جلسه خانم دکتر ترانه یلدا (معمار، شهرساز و عضو…