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Hi all, Last week I included a Tweet about MSF using blockchain for patient data in my review; after a message from MSF (‘Hi Tobias, just to let…
New Australian Anthropological Collective – Curatorium
We proudly introduce to our European friends and colleagues an exciting new initiative that has been bubbling away down in the antipodes. Curatorium is a collective of anthropologists,…
I Carry My Grief With Me, but I Also Carry My Joy
When you lose someone the future dies. Or, at least, the one with them, that you thought about with them, in it. I imagine any relationship that ends…
El cumpleaños de Tamara Falcó
Read Time:2 Minute, 25 Second Hace unos días, haciendo zapping para terminar de comprobar que la televisión no podía ofrecerme nada…
Two Robinsons, one more to come…
Robinsonades: pertaining to allegories from the East India Company in Ceylon and other islands, from Marxism to Post-structuralism, and in which, dear reader, a 300-year-old adventure book may…
El ciudadano del mundo como ser superior
Foto de Eleanor Hardwick Fragmento de la intervención en el workshop internacional Pragmatiques du cosmopolitisme urbain. Épreuves, resources, interactivité, celebrado en la Université …
Getting dropped from a feature on cancel culture
A lesson on getting oneself dropped from a feature article about cancel culture at UBC in the student paper. A month ago I was asked to do an…
Book Review: Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis edited by Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar
In Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis, Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar explore how communities in different areas of the world mobilised to help one another during the…
Recognising the Spirit of Ubuntu in Khayelitsha Community Response to the Covid-19 pandemic
by Megan Anderson In the second-largest peri-urban settlement in South Africa, Khayelitsha, the coronavirus has proliferated with recorded cases over 6,500. The township has become one of the…
La higiene como base de la prevención de enfermedades
Read Time:10 Minute, 25 Second Un virus, en concreto el SARS-COV-2 (de la familia de los Coronavirus) causante de la Covid-19, pued…
Where’s #Anthropology? Hashtag mayhem at #AAA2021Baltimore
The American Anthropological Annual Meeting has come and gone after a year hiatus. But, courtesy of the continued pandemic, it was not business as usual, and a combination…
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…