In 1994, almost one million ethnic Tutsis were killed in the genocide in Rwanda. In the aftermath of the genocide, some of the top-echelon Hutu officers who had…
Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. More than a community, Maclovio Rojas is a w……
Ever since Noah exited the ark, human beings have been wanting to get drunk and high. Why? Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization (Hachette,…
Read Time:11 Minute, 30 Second Cuando una persona está familiarizada con la manera en que los científicos sociales, no sin discusió…
گزارشی از نمایشگاههای راه اندازی شده در ۴ دهه ابتدای سده چهاردهم هجری شمسی براساس بازنمایی اخبار آن در روزنامه اطلاعات نمایشگاه، از جمله پدیدههای مدرنی بود که…
فصل سوم: امتزاج افقها ۲. سوژه آلن تورن، و گریز از امر کلی (ادامه از قبل) تورن به خوبی میداند که آنچه از سوژه دکارتی بیرون میآید پیروزی…
خشونت سیاسی و تأثیر آن بر حضور زنان در صحنۀ تئاتر و شخصیتهای زنانه درامهای عصر مشروطه تطبیق دونسخه از نمایشنامۀ «انوشیروان عادل و مزدک» نوشتۀ گرگور یقیکیان…
معرفیِ دو کتابِ “تا روشنایی بنویس” و “تفنگ چخوف” نوشتهی احمد اخوت شایان صانعی احمد اخوت برای داستانخوانان حرفهای و اهل ادبیات نام شناخته شده ایست. ویژگیای که…
مؤسسۀ انسانشناسی و فرهنگ نوزدهمین جلسه از پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ را با حضور ناصر فکوهی با موضوع «ترامپیسم و پیامدهای آن در جهان» برگزار میکند. دربارۀ موضوع…
Vor kurzem noch ein politischer Kampfbegriff, bezeichnet „Dichtestress“ seit der Pandemie vor allem den Anstieg psychosozialer Belastungen im Privatraum. Die politischen Vektoren des Sprechens über Di…
In this free live event, SAPIENS Media and Public Outreach Fellow Yoli Ngandali asks archaeologist, primitive technologist, and chef Bill Schindler about his new book, Eat Like a…
It’s not everyday I get to talk with other anthropology podcasters, and even more infrequently that I get to talk with undergraduate anthropology podcasters. I’m joined on the…
Published in Space and Place as Human Coordinates: Rethinking Dimensions Across Disciplines, edited by Arianna Maiorani and C. Bruna Mancini, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. 2021. Tsing, Anna L., Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. http://doi.org/10.21627/2020f…
Clockwise from top left: (1) Indigenous Wari’ dwellings in Amazonia, Brazil. (2) The author (middle) with her adopted father, Paletó (right), in 2012. (3) The author interviewing Wari’…
Hartley Dean discusses the intellectual journey that influenced the writing of his revised edition of Understanding Human Need. (Re)Understanding Human Need: Writing the Revised Edition I suspect that…
Don F. Selby’s Human Rights in Thailand (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018) is a rich anthropological study of the emergence of human rights in Thailand at a national scale following the…
Today I spoke to Professor Andrew Kipnis about his book on social change in urban China from the perspective of funerals. In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on…
In The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Duke University Press, 2021), Maria José de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemp… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Read Time:6 Minute, 32 Second En la presente investigación analizo el comportamiento marcadamente racista de amplios sectores de la…
At present, there are several problems in women’s health that still remain poorly characterized and understudied. In my research on one such issue, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), it is…
Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000–1600): Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds. Fabian Kümmeler, Judit Majorossy, and Eirik Hovden (Brill Publishing, November 20…
Caroline Wazer at Lapham’s Quarterly (via this on Metafilter), a discussion of three reviews of games in the Assassin’s Creed series in the American Historical Review, and video…
2021 Award winners, Sucharita Kanjilal, Noha Fikry, Carolyn Mason, and Ileana Diaz Students! Have you been doing research or writing on food and nutrition? Would you like fame,…