The Green Woods of Resilience
Conservationist Madeleine Nyiratuza (center) walks through Rwanda’s Gishwati Forest with three eco-guards, who were charged with protecting the area. Courtesy of Madeleine Nyiratuza For a…
Espíritu inconformista
Dicen que el ser humano es el único animal que tropieza dos veces en la misma piedra, y es que después de un Estado de Alarma de casi…
Manipulating student evaluations: the Downey Sales School method
Student evaluations are biased? Yes, yes, they are. Research has repeatedly shown that students’ evaluations of teaching quality show a range of biases. For example, Anne Boring, Kellie Ottoboni…
Crackles of Science and other Signs of the Unseen in East Africa
After hearing that several villagers stored bags full of radioactive sand inside their family houses, the nuclear scientist explained that he went into a man’s home with a…
Tom Boylston on his book, The Stranger at the Feast
Interview by Jon Bialecki https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520296497/the-stranger-at-the-feast Jon Bialecki: The Stranger at the Feast stands out for numerous reasons. First, it reads like one of tho…
سرشت علمی «مطالعات زنان» (۱)
«مطالعات زنان» بعد از حدود بیست سال از ورودش به ایران، اکنون به عنوان رشته‌ای مستقل در دو مقطع ارشد و دکترا در چندین دانشگاه ایران دانشجو می‌پذیرد.…
Conformity and Resistance in Mahabad
Conformity and Resistance in Mahabad Media Consumption, Conformity and Resistance: A Visual Ethnography of Youth in Iranian Kurdistan English Publishing: Mehri Publication, London-UK (2020) F…
Paying attention: Diagnosis, values, and meaning-making in the ADHD clinic by Angela Marques Filipe
Attention, as you know, is the basic faculty, the mother faculty of what we commonly call intelligence. Those who play a role in education must, above all, provoke…
Stellenausschreibungen 42. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
Wir waren in der vergangenen Woche mit der Organisation unseres Contents beschäftigt. Kennt Ihr das? Textruinen, Konzepte, die nicht verfolgt wurden, Ideen, die nicht ins Leben kamen, irgendwas,…
Adam Auerbach, “Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Good Provision in India’s Urban Slums” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
India’s urban slums exhibit dramatic variation in their access to basic public goods and services—paved roads, piped water, trash removal, sewers, and streetlights. Why are some vulnerable co……
There’s no such thing as “We”
Put simply, evoking the universal “we” is a way to discard differences and maintain business as usual.
DIGITALE ETHNOGRAFIE IN CORONA-ZEITEN IV
In dem vierten Beitrag der Blogserie beschäftigen sich die Studierenden mit dem Umgang mit Trauer und Verstorbenen in der Corona-Krise, in der physischer Kontakt und Nähe nur sehr…
گزارش زندگی شیروانلو
درباره‌ی فیروز شیروانلو که مدارای بلندپروازانه‌اش نسلی از روشنفکران فرهنگ‌ساز بار آورد «ما معتقد نیستیم که کودکان از آدم‌های بزرگ از نظر فکری عقب‌افتاده‌تر…
گردشگری ادبی
گردشگری ادبی، شاخه ای از گردشگری فرهنگی است که درآن انگیزه محوری گردشگران، بازدید از مکان ها و آثاری است که با زندگی و کار ادبا، نویسندگان و…
Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective Textbook Review
Christian but not ideological? Doesn’t promote perspectives in controversy but centers theological devotion? Biblical differences of opinion, but not anthropological ones? The centrality of “belief” a…
The Experience of Displacement and Social Engineering in Kola Saami Oral Histories
Public defence of the doctoral dissertation by blog contributor Lukas Allemann on 15 Oct 2020 Our team member and periodic blog contributor Lukas Allemann examines in his thesis…
Historia trágica de un falangista llamado Durruti
Mensaje enviado el 15/9/2014 a los/as colegas del Observatori d’Antropologia del Conflicte Urbà a propósito de la vindicación de Durruti por Bases Autónomas y la existencia de un…
مروری بر ادبیات ماتم، سوگواری و پاندمی‌ها (۳)
همین پیوندهای عاطفی هستند که نقشِ عمده‌ای را در همبستگیِ اجتماعی وهویت خانواده‌ها، قبایل، گروه‌های قومی یا ملت‌ها ایفا می‌کنند. این نگاه از اندیشه‌ی امیل دورکیم نشات می‌گیرد.…
Der Tag der deutschen Einheit und der Brandanschlag in Hünxe. Eine Erinnerung
Am 3. Oktober 1990 wurde die Vereinigung von BRD und DDR vollzogen. Genau ein Jahr später brannte im niederrheinischen Hünxe das Flüchtlingsheim. Welchen Platz hat die rassistische Gewalt…
La teoría de la evolución: o porqué tienes tantos problemas de espalda.
“Nos detuvimos en busca de monstruos debajo de la cama cuando nos dimos cuenta de que estaban dentro de nosotros”. Charles Darwin. La evolución funciona por…
Special Issue: Doing the individual and the collective in forensic genetics: governance, race and restitution by Megh Marathe
BioSocieties has a new open-access special issue titled, “Doing the individual and the collective in forensic genetics: governance, race and restitution.” Edited by Amade M’charek and Pet…
Special Issue: Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Noncommunicable Chronic Disease by Megh Marathe
American Anthropologist has a new open-access Vital Topics Forum titled, Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Noncommunicable Chronic Disease. Edited by Alyshia Gálvez, Megan Carney, and Emily Yates-Doerr, …
In the Journals, September 2020, Part 2 by Megh Marathe
Anthropology & Medicine What drives distress? Rethinking the roles of emotion and diagnosis among people with diabetes in Nairobi, KenyaEmily Mendenhall, Abednego Musau, Edna Bosire, Victoria …
Rogue River People
Rouge is a common enough mis-spelling of the word Rogue. Rouge is a French word that means red, while Rogue is another French word meaning brigand, outlaw, criminal…