Do Things Have to Be This Way?
[no-caption] Henrik Sorensen/Getty Images Excerpted from The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. © 2021 by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Reprinted with permission from Farra…
The black jaguar and the guardian of the forest
By Maycon Melo and Barbara Arisi In Brazil, a group of hunters killed a black jaguar. Not satisfied with the crime of killing an endangered animal, they made a video…
Understanding Ageing from An Anthropological Perspect
Chandana Sarmah Associate Professor Department of Anthropology University of Guwahati, ASSAM Email: chandanasarmah@gauhati.ac.in Living long has been and still is one of the secret desires of all ind…
Geschlecht und Gewalt: Arme Frauen, böse Männer?
Bei aller Dominanz des Männlichen im Verbrechen – es verfolgen auch andere Geschlechter dunkle Machenschaften. Der Essay ist in Der Standard vom 20. 11. 2021, Album S. 1…
Nolan Gasser, “Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste” (Flatiron Books, 2019)
Why do we love the music we love? In Why You Like IT: The Science & Culture of Musical Taste (Flatiron Books, 2019) musicologist Nolan Gasser, architect of Pandora Radio’s…
Sunhee Koo, “Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China” (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
When faced with some of the complex identity questions which often arise in borderlands, Koreans in China – known as Chosonjok in Korean, Chaoxianzu in Chinese – have…
Jessie Barton-Hronešová, “The Struggle for Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
In Jessie Barton Hronešová’s new book, The Struggle of Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), she explores pathways to redress for main groups of victim… Visit New…
Jeffrey Guhin, “Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jeff Guhin joins us today to talk about his book Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools (Oxford University Press, 2020). Jeff, an Assistant Professor of…
No chismorreen. Va bene?
Read Time:9 Minute, 26 Second Se llama suicidio a todo caso de muerte que resulte, directa o indirectamente de un acto, positivo o…
گزارش نشست وضعیت خانواده در عصر ارتباطات
جلسۀ هجدهم پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ با عنوان « وضعیت خانواده در عصر ارتباطات» روز ۱۳ آبان ۱۴۰۰ ساعت ۱۵ با حضور مرتضی منادی (جامعهشناس و عضو هیئت…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن(۲۳)
فصل سوم: امتزاج افقها ۲. سوژه آلن تورن، و گریز از امر کلی (ادامه از قبل) باری، زمانی که مشروعیت دولت ـ ملت در برابر ملت با بحران…
مرثیه ای برای نسل سرگشته
مرثیه ای برای نسل سرگشته؛ نقد و بررسی رمان وداع با اسلحه وداع با اسلحه، ارنست همینگوی، ترجمه: نجف دریابندری، انتشارات علمی فرهنگی، چاپ هشتم ۱۳۹۹ داستان این…
خشونت سیاسی و بازتاب آن در نمایشنامههای منثور عصر مشروطه
زهرا رستمی پایههای مشروطیت از زمانی پیریزی شد که مراوده با جهان غرب گسترش یافت و در نهایت، بر اثر کنش و واکنشهای سیاسی، اجتماعی، اقتصادی، فرهنگی و……
کرونا و توسعه شهرها
کرونا سبب توسعه شهرسازی خواهد شد “برگرفته از مقاله ی نورمن فاستر” نام سِر نورمن فاستر برای تمام معماران و شهرسازان نامی آشناست. هرکس که اندکی به معماری…
More Persistent Inequality: Farmworkers and Your Food
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate seminar on food justice at the University of New Orleans. You can read…
Neal Stephenson und das Metaverse
Das in ‚Meta’ umbenannte Unternehmen Facebook plant, ein ‚Metaverse’, eine virtuelle Realität als die nächste Stufe des Internets zu bauen. Das Konzept ist nicht neu – es stammt…
30 Minute Methods at TDTU – Ken Fero
This has a shaky start because the zoom settings were wacko, But after a minute its much better. Ken Fero talks on obstinate memory under the title: ‘Documentary…
5 Questions About the History of Humanity
Join us LIVE for a 25-minute Q&A with archaeologist and author David Wengrow to discuss his New York Times bestselling book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of…
Helicopter Images: Mediating Injustice in Environmental Film
Marian Ahn Thorpe, Princeton University § The fictional movie Even the Rain (Bollaín 2010) tells the story of a Spanish-Mexican team as it attempts to make a drama…
Five Ways Native American Communities Honor Turkeys
Ancient Indigenous peoples who lived in what is today the U.S. Southwest carved turkey bones into flutes, such as these from the site of Pecos Pueblo in New…
Juan Luis Rodríguez on his book, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/language-and-revolutionary-magic-in-the-orinoco-delta-9781350115767/ Interview by Rusty Barrett Rusty Barrett: First, for those unfamiliar with Venezuela, coul…
Mental Health in Academia: A Conversation with Roy Richard Grinker
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for…
Hollywood ha muerto
Read Time:5 Minute, 37 Second Seatle, 1931. Una estudiante de 18 años escribe un ensayo titulado ‘Dios muere’ que es pr…
Insights on Entrepreneurship and Non-Salaried Labor in Latin America
Photomontage by Fernanda Ruiz. The problem of unemployment and underemployment in Argentina emerges as acutely pressing and very complex. The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses’ last report…