Deadline for international applicants coming: up 1 December! Master of Visual Anthropology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. International applications opened 1 October 2021 We invite you…
Dear readers, Welcome to the third online edition of the quarterly NAFA Network – the Nordic Anthropological Film Association’s newsletter.
Welchen Stellenwert soll die Gebärdensprache haben? Diese Frage betrifft grundlegende Rechte von gehörlosen Menschen. Sie fordert dazu auf, kritisch über Konzepte von „Behinderung“ und nationaler Zuge…
On Thursday, October 21, 2021, just after 9:00pm, Imam Yasin Abu Bakr of the Jama’at al-Muslimeen of Trinidad and Tobago, passed away at the age of 80. He…
Stanley Bridge, Alexandria (© el-Sayed el-Aswad) After one year of being forced to stay indoors (April ?2020 to May 2021) due to the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic,…
The Library of Congress has an online print of an engraving by Andrea Bernieri. It does not appear to be based on an actual observation by the artist.…
نادر انتخابی سرآغاز تاریخنگاری در عثمانی و نسبت آن با تاریخنگاری در قلمرو سلجوقیان روم و دولت بیزانس، بهرغم پژوهشهای پردامنه، هنوز بهدرستی شناختهشده نیست.[۱] اگرچه در نوشتههای…
محمد ایوب، نویسندهٔ استاد روابط بینالمللِ دانشگاه میشیگانِ آمریکا، در کتاب حاضر با عنوان Will the Middle East Implode پرسشی را در عنوان خود بیان کرده است که…
در جهان معاصر، پس از ورود به دنیای مدرن، هنجارهای زیبایی به ناگاه متحول شده و علاوه بر تغییر ظاهر افراد، منجر به بروز تغییرات اساسی در حوزه…
گردآوری و پژوهش: سینا پورعلیزاده و فروزان نظری در این نوشتار ابتدا با یکی از برجسته ترین پژوهشگران تئاتر شرق آسیا؛ دکتر محمدحسین ناصربخت مصاحبه ای کوتاه انجام…
Tea for clowns in Russia. Photo courtesy of the author, all rights reserved. Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate…
SAR Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant …
Hi all, Sometimes it happens that my weekly #globaldev review aligns along a certain theme & this week it is borders-border regimes, surveillance, migration control & various aspects…
Identity and class While identity is of course a fundamental category in European philosophy at least since Aristotle, its politicization is a much more recent phenomenon. One can…
In der chinesischsprachigen Welt haben in der jüngsten Zeit künstlerische Positionen an Popularität gewonnen, die klassische chinesische Traditionen aufgreifen. Diesen vielschichtigen und transkulture…
“Window” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. I. Finding myself lost in…
Hur fångar man ett akademiskt ämne i en utställning? Då det var dags att planera 100-årsfirandet för Nordisk etnologi fick vi fundera på det. Som tur är har…
Willi Braun’s Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion (Equinox, 2020) constitutes an extended argument for an anthropocentric, human-focused study of rel… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Today I spoke to Nick R. Smith to talk about how China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life, which he writes…
Rounding out September’s In the Journals compilation, here are several more articles of interest. See also these Special Issues on “Island Imaginaries” and “Beyond the Product…
CULTUREELS – Ethnographic Film Festival focuses on anthropological and ethnographic documentaries. The aim of the film festival is to promote awareness of anthropological themes to a wider audi…
By Esther Stoppani 001897 The first thing I feel upon waking is the cold; the freezing-hot sensation of blood rushing in my veins. My head feels gummy, and…
Next up: February 25, 2022: Cheryl Schmitz (MPIWG Berlin) – “Indebtedness, Predation, and Mistrust in Chinese-Angolan Transactions” – More info in the post!
Irma McClaurin holds up her first book, Women of Belize: Gender and Change in Central America. Ray Carson/University of Florida Photographic Services, 1996. Used with permission of University…