The Best Laid Plans are not Birth Plans
Childbirth has had a long and winding history. This is understandable since it has literally been happening since the beginning of human time. Prior to 1950, many births…
#A future history of water: Maura Finkelstein’s comments
Andrea Ballestero,(2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. I have an exercise I like to assign to my students, one that I have adapted from Donna…
#A future history of water: Rachel Douglas-Jones’ comments
As I finished reading Ballestero’s A Future History of Water, the world observed World Water Day 2021. Organized by the United Nations, it has been observed annually each…
“Take your skills to the streets”: Skateboarding and Social and Physical Urban Space
by Luiza Fonini Reis and Luisa Voss / Images: Ella Bowler Anthropology is the study of intersections, of community and its inherent conflict between the self and the…
What Does It Mean to Decolonize Heritage?
At the King’s Palace Museum in Nyanza District, Rwanda, tourists can visit coffee shops built in a traditional architectural style. GIZ/Martin Karenzi Most tourists visit the district of…
Susanne Klien, “Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society” (SUNY Press, 2020)
Susanne Klien’s book Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society (SUNY Press, 2020) provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and e……
Milton Santos, “The Nature of Space” (Duke UP, 2021)
The Nature of Space (Duke UP, 2021) is a translation (by Brenda Baletti) of pioneering geographer Milton Santos’ A Natureza do Espaço, originally published in Brazil in 1996. The book offer… Visit New…
سفرنامه جنوب هند (۳۶)
تاریخ کولابا : در واقع این منطقه را پرتغالی ها در قرن ۱۶ میلادی بنا نهادند، پیش از ورود پرتغالی ها نام این جزیره کولابات Kolabhat بود. این…
وقتی دوباره زاده شدم!
سالها پیش بود. شاید نزدیک به سی سال پیش. جوان بودم و امیدوار و خوشنود؛ تازه از اروپا بازگشته، مدرکی در جیب و مشغول به تدریس در دانشگاه…
Angela Merkel. Eine andere Art der Autorität
“Sie kennen mich”. Mit diesem Slogan gewann Angela Merkel 2013 den Wahlkampf. Sie hat ihr authentisches Auftreten stets geschickt in Szene gesetzt – zugleich hat sie mit althergebrachten…
Consideraciones sobre el seductor y la seducción
Ilustración para la edición de 1796 de ·”Les liaisons dangereuses” Consideraciones para Nicolás Alfaro, estudiante del Máster en Antropología y Etnografia de la UBConsideraciones sobre el seductor y…
Six Coffees
Check out this article on six different kinds of coffee in the Middle East on Middle East Eye.
Did Aliens Build the Pyramids? And Other Racist Theories
The Egyptian pyramids are a focal point for conspiracy theories about alien intervention. Sheilapic76/Flickr One afternoon in June, I found an email in my inbox from Atlantis Rising:…
Christian M. Anderson, “Urbanism Without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and…
Gideon Fujiwara, “From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan” (Cornell UP, 2021)
From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Cornell UP, 2021) tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century… Visit New…
What makes the “ness” in Geel?
Distinctive doctrines of the Church, and their place in contemporary society, are at times, argued to bring about changes in the Arctic – the people, their land, and…
“Orientalism alla Turca”: Evolutionary Desires, Imperial Nostalgias, and Western Anxieties in Ahmed Midhat’s Avrupa’da Bir Cevelân
Introduction On November 15, 1889,[1] Ahmed Midhat (1844–1912), a prolific Ottoman journalist and novelist, announced in his newspaper Tercümân–i Hakîkât (Interprete…
Culture: brought together, kept apart
brought together but kept apart I felt like I was being chased up the beach by a tidal wave. Run for your life, anthropologist, run for your life! I…
Alex Fattal on his book, Shooting Cameras for Peace
interview by Camilo Ruiz Sanchez https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780873658713 Camilo Ruiz Sanchez: It shook me to learn that the archive has almost disappeared and that what w…
Nuevo número: 8 de Noviembre
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Mirjam Lücking, “Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims” (SAPP, 2021)
Mirjam Lücking’s Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims (Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2021) explores the ways contemporary Indonesia… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Panayotis F. League, “Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2021) explores the legacy of the Great Catastrophe—the death and expulsion from Tur… Visit New Books…
A Letter to Andrew Selous
SHOLA AJAO Dear Mr Andrew Selous, It is unfortunate that I find myself writing to you again during these unprecedented times. As you may recall, I wrote July…
Über das Verhältnis von emanzipatorischen Werten und politischem Protest
Ein Essay von Fabian Schwanitz. Europa als Schauplatz politischer Proteste Politischer Protest ist für Bürger:innen, die sich dem „Funke[n] der emanzipatorischen Werte” (Welzel/Alvarez 2014: 59) ausge…