نگاه امام محمد غزالی به موسیقی در کیمیای سعادت
توضیح عکس: هارونیه در طوس، آرامگاه احتمالی امام محمد غزالی در میان نوشته های پیش از دوران مغول، آثار پراکنده ای در دست است که هرکدام به نحوی…
Why organise a special section on decolonising Europe?
Patrícia Ferraz de Matos and Livio Sansone In recent years, problems linked to racism and the colonial past have appeared more markedly in the public sphere. There is…
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Hi all, Amazing how quickly another week passed…reparations, localization, narco states, disability rights, feminist foreign policy, UN remote work struggles, crypto as ritual & religion & th…
Introduction: Reducing Harm Responsibly? by Johannes Lenhard
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2021) estimated that, worldwide, 269 million people used drugs in 2018, a 30% increase since 2009. In the same period,…
Incarceration as Harm Reduction: The realities of lethal street-based opioid overdoses in neoliberal Philadelphia by Tali Ziv
Philadelphia is the poorest of the ten largest cities in the United States and has one of the highest rates of fatal opioid-related overdoses in the state of…
Afe Adogame, “Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Afe Adogame, Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual…
Academic Authority and Institutional Power in Anthropology
Recent events have raised perennial questions about academic authority and institutional power in anthropology. There are persuasive allegations about more than one famous anthropologist—most recentl…
Guidelines for Collaboration: Museums and Communities Seeking Equitable Change
Dolores Lewis Garcia and Claudia Mitchell during a collections review at the Indian Arts Research Center. Guest post by Emily Santha…
#Hackademics- Hacks for Succeeding in Academia #1: Balancing Family Drama Trauma Fieldwork & Teaching
I recently participated in a webinar with the American Association of Biological Anthropologists and the Sausage of Science Podcast. We discussed mental wellbeing in academia and Dr. Rebecca…
Spiritual Aliens, DJ Shamans, and Us: Experiences of liminality and communitas within the psytrance rave
ByIzzy DaviesBSc Anthropology Coming from the Latin limen, meaning ‘threshold’, the anthropological concept of liminality is taken to refer to ambiguous moments or spaces both inside and outside…
Writing Life No. 16: An Interview with Warwick Anderson by James Dunk
Figure 1: Writing and thinking in anticipation of writing: notes stacked in files next to a computer (Warkwick’s desk). In the early days of freedom after a long…
The Nightmare of Pandemic-Era Teaching
Teachers face increasing challenges—from staff shortages to widely varying student achievement levels—with omicron infections sweeping across the country. Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronic…
Who cares? Peer-review at Allegra
At Allegra, we believe and know from our own experience that the fresh eyes of our peers can help us improve drafts, weed out waffle, strengthen an argument,…
Mimi Sheller, “Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2020), Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate…
Heritage Out of Control: Musealising (Hi)stories of Migration
Since the early 2000s, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the recruitment agreement between Austria and Turkey in 1964, there have been increasing initiatives in Vienna that involve municipal…
Queered Ruptures: The Politics of Anti-irradiation Maternalism in the TEPCO Nuclear Disaster, Kokutai, and Hentai
“Warped Pervert.” Parking lot in Iwaki city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. June 10, 2019. Video by author. See note 1 for additional information. Listen to this post read by…
El culto a lo culto y otras supersticiones contemporáneas
La imagen de la entrada es del Pompidou de París, que motivara una pertinente reflexión de Jean Baudrillard: “El efecto Beaubourg”, que está dentro de Cultura y simulacro (Kairós). Comentario…
WissZeitVG abschaffen – erneutes Schreiben ans BMBF
Die Initiator*innen der Initiative „Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz abschaffen – Grundfinanzierung der Universitäten stärken“ haben ein erneutes Schreiben an das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Fors…
Michael Herzfeld: The Slyness of Stupidity: A Commentary on David Graeber’s “The Utopia of Rules”
David Graeber’s wide-ranging – and, appropriately, sometimes wildly swashbuckling – set of essays sketches his anarchist utopia by default, as a social world free of bureaucracy. Bureaucracy, he…
David Graeber LSE Tribute Seminar: Bureaucracy
Chair: Alpa Shah Discussant: Michael Herzfeld If the previous week in our series focused on the imagination, this week considers what for David Graeber was its antithesis: bureaucracy.…
A Lens on Cyprus Reunification
[no-caption] Vasili Sotiropulos Panikos sat on a beach in Cyprus, dressed in a blue Speedo and straw hat, sipping whiskey with his friends. Behind him, the Mediterranean Sea…
Rare job opening: Groningen Professor Arctic Studies
This blog is run by the anthropology team of the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. But today we want to share a very rare job opening of our…
Rashmi Sadana, “The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure” (U California Press, 2021)
The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure (U California Press, 2021) is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through…
Jagriti Gangopadhyay, “Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond” (Springer, 2021)
Culture, Context and Ageing of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond (Springer 2021) discusses the intersections between culture, context, and ageing. It adopts a socio-cultural lens and highlights emotional,…