Sixty may be the New Fifty but is Twenty Six the New Old?
Author: Sheba Mohammid In Trinidad and Tobago, we may not have Ponce De Leon’s fountain of youth, but we do have a pool. It’s technically an offshore sandbar,…
Athletics, IQ, Health: Three Myths of Race
Our recent book, Racism, Not Race, tackles a big lie: The idea that human beings have biological races. Biological races do not exist in humans. Why, then, do…
Funció i virtuts dels nous moviments religiosos o "sectas"
La foto està pressa de tanya-n.com/?m=200702 Fragment de l’article Els nous moviments religiosos, a L’Avenç, 185 (1994), pp. 58-62. Funció i virtuts dels nous moviments religiosos o “sectes” M…
Powerpoint Karaoke, a Ph.D. Version
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Zhou Zhou “You win the lottery! You are a millionaire! You…
The First Census of the Coast and Grand Ronde Reservations: 1856
In 1856, Joel Palmer had some 4000 Natives removed from their homelands to the Coast and Grand Ronde Indian Reservations. Up to at least April of 1856 the…
Repatriation Is Our Future
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, or NAGPRA, is supposed to curb the illegal possession of ancestral Native American remains and cultural items. But…
Rituals to help us out, and beliefs one professes tongue in cheek – Part II
By Ton Salman This is part II of the blog “Rituals to help us out….” If you have not yet read part I, you can read it here.…
سرنوشت نقد موسیقی ایرانی (۵)
در این قسمت از نقد موسیقی ایرانی می خواهم به چند تجربه شخصی در آموزش ساز، نگاهی دوباره به جایگاه و اعتبار موسیقی و موسیقی شناسی ایران بیندازم…
Owen Flanagan, “How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures” (Princeton UP, 2021)
How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures (Princeton UP, 2021) is an expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions—and how we can…
Anadelia Romo, “Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia” (U Texas Press, 2022)
In Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia (University of Texas Press, 2022), Anadelia Romo argues that visual images were central to the shift from emulating…
Meredith Heller, “Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending” (Indiana UP, 2020)
Drawing on a rich body of archival and ethnographic research, Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending (Indian UP, 2020) illuminates diverse examples of theatrical gender-bending. It shows how, in each case,…
Yana Stainova, “Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
El Sistema is Venezuela’s large scale classical music education program for poor and working class people on the economic, social, and physical margins. In Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela (University…
Darren Byler, “Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City” (Duke UP, 2022)
The continuing crisis in Xinjiang has, thanks to the work of many scholars and reporters, led to greatly increased awareness of the region’s history and Uyghur population among publics outside China. But so far less appreciated have…
Återblickar från djurforskningsdagarna 4-6.4.2022
Djurforskningsdagarna som ordnades i Åbo 4-6.4.2022 med temat ”Djurens natur” (fi. Eläimen luonto, eng. Animal Nature) lockade en mångvetenskaplig skara av forskare som diskuterade de olika sätt på…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۳۲)
فصل چهارم: اصالت وجود ماکس وبر، متفکر وجودی مدرنیته (ادامه از قبل ) وبر به معنای دقیق کلمه فرزند خلف عقلانیت مدرنیته و پارادوکسهای درونی آن است. پارادوکسهایی…
تصویر در خدمت یا علیه قدرت
نگاهی به تاریخچه فیلمهای سیاسی آغاز فناورانه سینما را چه در ابداع ادیسون بگیریم و چه در سینماتوگراف برادران لومیر، در گستره زمانی حدود یکی دو دهه آخر…
Janusköpfig: Polens Kampf gegen Putin – und den „inneren Feind“
Polen hat die Bedrohungslage, die von Putin ausgeht, stets klar eingeschätzt. Innerhalb kürzester Zeit hat es über zwei Millionen Flüchtlinge aufgenommen. Dennoch hört man in Polen innenpolitisch Paro…
German International Ethnographic Film Festival Programme is online
The festival presents the most recent productions of ethnographic films and acts as a platform for a dialogue between anthropology and documentary filmmaking. The event will have a…
What Ancient DNA Reveals About Life in Africa 20,000 Years Ago
Kondoa Irangi rock art in present-day Tanzania features the cultural expressions of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists over a 2,000-year span. Nina R/Wikimedia Commons This article was ori…
People Are Not Fixed Media
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this post as read by Ritwik Banerji Sensory ethnography continually emphasizes …
Natalia Knoblock on her book, Language of Conflict
Interview by Sofiya Asher https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/language-of-conflict-9781350098626/ Sofiya Asher: What inspired this particular book? Natalia Knoblock: What inspired this book? T…
An Open Letter from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany (with an Introductory Text on the Situation of African Students in Germany by Ziga Podgornik Jakil)
Hide Press Release (10 Less Words) Ziga Podgornik Jakil, in Collaboration with African Students from Ukraine (Figure 1: Aid for refugees at Berlin main station. Author: Leonhard Lenz.…
Hoy he visto a una niña con un velo
Read Time:1 Minute, 1 Second Hoy, cuando volvía a casa, he visto a una niña con un velo. Pero no era una niña cualquiera. Es una ni…
Race, Security, and the Contradictions of Humanitarianism
In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We – this is Till Mostowlansky, an anthropologist at The…