How to Promote Research on Social Media
Since SAPIENS launched in 2016, several social media outlets have been central to the magazine’s promotion strategy. Every week, we publish multiple posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram…
The TikTok of Anthropology
Author: Daniel Miller I want to make a slightly surprising suggestion. That my current ambition in anthropology is to become more like TikTok (or its original Chinese form…
Conversaciones en zapatillas de andar por casa: hoy Manuel Carmona
Read Time:10 Minute, 18 Second Hoy tengo el placer de cruzar unas palabras con Manuel Carmona, del que podría decir muchas cosas, p…
77* Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
John and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson in this rebroadcast of a 2019 Recall this Book conversation. Her Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia both relates the history…
A reminder from the NAFA Family
Dear NAFA Friends, A new year for all of us, a new year for the Nordic Anthropological Film Association – NAFA, so here we send a new reminder…
More Than a Mountain
The sky island of Dzil Nchaa Si’an is more than a mountain. It is a significant landmark in Arizona for Apache tribal members to collect medicinal plants, perform…
Call for Reviews: Life at the edges in a changing world
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started more than two years ago, time has been put on hold and precarity has become an even more common feature of life globally.…
El virus de Epstein-Barr, un avance hacia el conocimiento de la esclerosis múltiple
Read Time:6 Minute, 17 Second Una vez más la ciencia avanza hacia el conocimiento. Este año ha comenzado con la noticia de que la E…
Ori Schwarz, “Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes That Bind Us Together” (Polity Press, 2021)
The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In…
Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss, “Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species” (U Washington Press, 2021)
Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most important fish species in the Northern…
Babyn Jar, Antisemitismus und der Angriff auf die Ukraine
Nach dem russischen Angriff auf die Gedenkstätte Babyn Jar erklärte Präsident Selenskyi umgehend, es drohe die Gefahr, dass der Holocaust sich wiederhole. Ist das bloßer Krieg der Worte…
Jackie Higgins, “Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses” (Atria Books, 2022)
Packed with beautiful imagery, but also hard scientific facts, Jackie Higgins’s book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses (Atria Books, 2022) explores how we process the…
Testimonios del remordimiento
Una de las representaciones tradicionales del Ánima Sola Comentario enviado a Sibila Vigna, cuando era doctoranda, en agosto de 2012. Testimonios del remordimientoManuel Delgado Me parece genial que…
Call for applications and papers for VRN residency and conference
The Visual Research Network, in association with the Estonian National Museum, will hold the 3rd edition of the VRN residency and conference in Tartu, Estonia from June 12th…
Framing. Wie Sprache dein Denken lenkt
Hallo. Ich bin Julia. Und ich kann hellsehen. Glaubst du nicht?Hier ein Test. Ich gebe dir eine Denkaufgabe – und ich weiß schon jetzt ganz genau, was du…
La Gens oculta y a ti te encontré en la calle
Read Time:10 Minute, 46 Second El parentesco, como campo de estudio dentro de la antropología, ha ido pendulando desde la más absol…
Jane M. Ferguson, “Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred” (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
Around five million people across Southeast Asia identify as Shan. Though the Shan people were promised an independent state in the 1947 Union of Burma constitution, successive military…
Netlicks and Chill: Digitalization and Food Politics in Taste the TV (TTTV) Technology
Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Antonio Oraldi This browser does not support HTML5 audio Digital technologies have increasingly penetrated asp…
Interview with Brave UX
This blog post is the transcription of a podcast I did with Brendan Jarvis in early February. He’s done a number of interview with senior folks in the…
Interview with Brave UX
This blog post is the transcription of a podcast I did with Brendan Jarvis in early February. He’s done a number of interview with senior folks in the…
Beth Derderian takes the page 99 test
Why do some things count as art and go in museums, and other things don’t? “Exhibition organizers in the UAE often requested proof of citizenship status as part…
The Politics of “Ukraine” Versus “the Ukraine”
[no-caption] TheKit_13/Pixabay This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. For most of the 20th century, English speakers re…
Tugendbesoffenheit, ein Rausch ohne Kater
Der Kommentar ist in Der Standard vom 19. 2. 2021, S. 47 erschienen. Das heuchlerische Besserwissen hat Dimensionen angenommen, die bisher unvorstellbar waren. Wieviel an moralinsauren Ausstößen vertr…
El último (bueno, el penúltimo) partido de sus vidas
Read Time:7 Minute, 43 Second ¿Sabías que hubo un partido de fútbol en el que sus integrantes se jugaron el pellejo contra los nazi…