Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea (Book Review)
by Connie Scott “Fish simply appear in supermarkets” (p.209), writes Penny McCall Howard. Most consumers have little or no awareness of where their fish comes from, or of…
Egyptology Has a Problem: Patriarchy
Ramses II built many temples to his own divinity, like the Ramesseum in Luxor, originally called the Temple of Millions of Years to imply his reign would never…
What Egyptian Pharaohs Can Tell Us About Modern Tyrants
Using religion to justify his rule, King Taharqa is shown nestled protectively between the legs of the god Amen in his animal form, implying the king knew the…
Nördlinger Ries: Vier Jahrtausende Kulturgeschichte
Vier Jahrtausende Kulturgeschichte am Westrand des Nördlinger Rieses zu rekonstruieren – dieses ehrgeizige Ziel hat sich Prof. Rüdiger Krause, Archäologe an der Goethe-Universität, mit einem neuen Pro…
Heritage out of Control: Inheriting Love – Sensing in The Museum of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi (1207-1273)
“Muslims go to Mecca once, if they are not unnecessarily wealthy (laughing), but people of all kinds come to visit Mevlana [‘s musealized tomb] every year. Why? Because…
Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, “American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York” (Princeton UP, 2022)
Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities…
Jane Lilly López, “Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State” (Stanford UP, 2021)
For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The US Supreme Court has confirmed the universal civil right to marry, guaranteeing every couple’s ability to wed. But…
Reactions and Ruptures: Ethnographies of Nuclear Life
Recording of Reactions and Ruptures This browser does not support HTML5 audio In one sense, nuclear materials direct our attention to the vibrancy and reactivity…
Liberal Revolutions and the African Future: An Interview with Keith Hart
Economic anthropologist Keith Hart (KH), one of the leading figures in African studies, spoke to Social Transformations editor Lisandro Claudio … More
What online learning taught me about (online) teaching, by Andrew Walsh
Andrew Walsh is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western University, London, Ontario. He is the author of Made in Madagascar in the Teaching Culture series. What more…
Viral Waste, or Covid Down the Toilet: Post-Colonic Pandemic Biopolitics by Warwick Anderson
Within days of discovering SARS-CoV-2, laboratory scientists and epidemiologists were speculating on whether the virus might take fecal passage, and thereby spread through contamination with bodily w…
Russel Kaschula on his book, Language, Identities and Intercultural Communication in South Africa
Interview by Jennifer Cox https://www.routledge.com/Languages-Identities-and-Intercultural-Communication-in-South-Africa-and/Kaschula/p/book/9780367364359 Jennifer Cox: Your book fo…
Book Review: The Digital Disconnect by Ellen Helsper
In The Digital Disconnect, Ellen Helsper explores how digital and social inequalities are interlinked and what we might do to prevent them. Utilising an intersectional perspective and showing careful…
Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, “Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial” (Leuven UP, 2020)
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’.…
انسانشناسی حافظه و خاطره
انسانشناسی به مطالعه بر انسان در چهار بُعد زیستی، تاریخی، زبانی و فرهنگی میپردازد و خاطره و حافظه در هر چهار بُعد حضوری پررنگ و پیوسته دارند که…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
ساموئل بکت (۱)
ساموئل بکت (۱۹۸۹-۱۹۰۶) مارتین سلین (۱) ساموئل بکت، با نام کامل ساموئل بارکلی بکت (۲) (متولد ۱۳ آوریل ۱۹۰۶ در فاکسراک (۳) واقع در شهرستان دوبلین ایرلند –…
آزار جنسی در فرانسه و ایالات متحده (۴)
فعالان و شخصیت های عمومی از تعاریف خود دفاع می کنند این مقاله ترجمه فصل سوم از کتاب Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology است. در انتهای مقاله مشخصات دقیق…
انارستانِ لعلبار: خلاء توسعهِ تاریخ و فرهنگبنیاد (۳)
اما اگر رود و گورستان و امامزاده کنار این سایت تاریخی، مردهریگِ بازماندهِ گذشتگانِ ماست، اکنونیان غم و اندیشه چندانی بر حفظ و کاوش و نگهداشت یکی از…
مهاجرت: از تخیل تا واقعیت
مساله میل به مهاجرت یکی از موضوعات کلیدی در فرهنگ و جامعه ایرانی است که به گونه ای است که گویی همه میل به مهاجرت دارند،آنقدر که در…
پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ، جلسۀ سیام: آیندۀ معماری (آیا ایران حرف آخرش را در معماری زده است؟)
✍️مؤسسۀ انسانشناسی و فرهنگ سیامین جلسه از پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ را با حضور دکتر علی اکبری (پژوهشگر حوزۀ معماری و عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی- واحد…
Heritage out of Control: RecycDisturbing Heritage
Disturbing Heritage The past is present through its lasting material forms, in open and hidden ways, marked and unmarked. Whether cherished, taken for granted or dismissed and left…
Green Jobs für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW5
Bild: ybernardi by pixabay Für eine vollständige Liste abonniert einfach unseren Newsletter. Diese Woche gibt es einige Stellen im Bereich Pädagogik (darunter Sozialpädagogik, Erlebnispädagogik…
Green Jobs für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW5
Bild: ybernardi by pixabay Für eine vollständige Liste abonniert einfach unseren Newsletter. Diese Woche gibt es einige Stellen im Bereich Pädagogik (darunter Sozialpädagogik, Erlebnispädagogik…