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جستجوی حقیقت دغدغه همیشگی انسان است. زود شروع میشود و تا یافتن پاسخ ادامه خواهد داشت. در بُن هر تلاشی و استمرار هر راهی، حقیقتجویی نهان است. و…
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دیوید مدوکس برگردان: آذر جوادزاده تاب آوری[۱] واژهی دههی حاضر است، همانطور که پایداری[۲] در دهههای گذشته بود. بدون شک، دیدگاه ما از نوع و کیفیت شهرهایی که…
La calle como quintaesencia del espacio social
La foto es de Markus Hartel Este es el Último apartado del prólogo para Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades, de Jane Jacobs (Capitan Swing, 2012). LA…
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Hi all, I thought a lot about Jennifer Lentfer’s Tweet in connection with the #WeTheHelpers campaign & discussion: So the question becomes, how do we spend our precious…
Tyler D. Parry, “Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual” (UNC Press, 2020)
In Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual (UNC Press, 2020), Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the “broomstick wedding.” Popularly associated with…
Oishik Sircar, “Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India” (Oxford UP, 2021)
Law and violence are thought to share an antithetical relationship in postcolonial modernity. Violence is considered the other of law, lawlessness is understood to produce violence, and law…
Negative heritage and de-normalizing necropolitics
Upon entering the Orthodox Christian cemetery in Siret, a town on the Romanian-Ukrainian border, we were met with neatly kept marvel gravestones, occasionally adorned with plastic flowers and…
Michael Edwards: Graeber, Leach, and the Revolution in Myanmar
I would never have expected Ruth to join the revolution. But then so much of what’s happened in Myanmar this past year has been somehow unexpected, from the…
Raiding Graves—Not to Rob but to Remember
Reconstruction of a chamber grave from eastern France. B. Clarys/PCR espaces et pratiques funéraires en Alsace aux époques mérovingienne et carolingienne This article was originally publ…
Paulette F. C. Steeves, “The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere” (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the…
Heritage out of Control: Human bones as inherited waste of Europe
Central and Eastern Europe – known as “Bloodlands”, the area where Nazi and Stalin’s atrocities met, leaving behind many sites marked by mass killings – provide an obvious…
La iglesia considerada como burdel
Unas notas para Gabriella De Giorgi, doctoranda de la UB LA IGLESIA CONSIDERADA COMO BURDEL Manuel Delgado Es sobre la analogía entre iglesia y lupanar que sugerías y…
Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades
Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESApplied Anthropology »Cultural Anthropolog…
Ten Treasures (and a Bonus): A Selection of Anthropological Gems You Might Have Missed from the Past Few Years
I began interviewing authors of fabulous new anthropology books for this space back in 2016. While completing 11 interviews, I also amassed a backlog of more terrific books…
Matan Kaminer: Marxist anthropology in a world of surplus population: Reflections on a Frontlines of Value workshop
I was recently privileged to participate in a workshop about the Marxian concept of the “surplus population,” convoked by Stephen Campbell, Thomas Cowan, and Don Kalb as part…
Time, History, Politics, Art, Revolt – not being crushed to bits. This is a MUST SEE – of all things going on in the Integrated hyperventalated Spectacle this year, why, its Tom Buyard, a rare treat that will be worth doing the prep reading for and tuning in ready to roll.
Seriously do not miss this. Some call him Mr Modest, to others he is The Tattooist (with a nod to Raymond Redington’s Black List) but Tom Bunyards’s Spectacle/S.I.…
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Consumer Culture Won’t Lead to Body Positivity
Focusing on what bodies can do shifts attention away from cultural lenses that focus on how bodies look. Holly Falconer/Getty Images I have an 8-year-old daughter. From time…
Stellungnahme von Werner Schiffauer zur DEVI-Studie: Bestandsaufnahme Konfrontative Religionsbekundungen in Neukölln.
von Prof. Dr. Werner Schiffauer, 25.01.2022 Die vollständige Stellungnahme als PDF Die Studie besteht im Wesentlichen aus der Wiedergabe von Zitaten bzw. der inhaltlichen Wiedergabe von Gesprächen mit…
Lisa Björkman ed., “Bombay Brokers” (Duke UP, 2021)
A political party worker who produces crowds for electoral rallies. A “prison specialist” who serves other people’s prison sentences in exchange for a large fee. An engineer who…
Kevin J. Wetmore, “Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters” (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the meaning of cannibalism. Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in…
Dungeons & Dragons – Ritual och materialitet utanför spelet
Dungeons & Dragons är ett TTRPG (tabletop role-playing game), alltså ett rollspel som oftast spelas vid ett bord med vänner. Spelet är fantasy-centrerat och innehåller magi och monster.…
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مهدی دیهیمی آرژانتین مانند اکثر کشورهای آمریکای جنوبی تاریخ خونباری داشته، انواع کودتا،درگیریهای داخلی و خارجی، تغییر خط مشی سیاسی، حزبها و نظامهای مختلف را به خود دیده…