Sahlins memorial piece in the JSO
I have a piece in memory of Marshall Sahlins in the latest issue of the Journal de la Société des Océanistes . This is a more personal piece…
NBN Podcast on Emalani Case’s Everything Ancient Once Was New
My August 2021 podcast at NBN was with Emalani Case on her book Everything Ancient Once Was New. Go check it out! credit: UH Press twitter
NBN podcast with Anthony Hazard on “Boasians at War”
My July podcast over at NBN was with Tony Hazard about his book Boasians at War. Have a listen.
Seeing the Same Fire
Adriana Petryn An almost vertical line showing an increase of atmospheric CO2 emissions captures the urgency of …
Notes from a Fever Dream
Amy Moran-Thomas I spent much of last May watching my husband try to breathe. Sitting up on the living room floo…
Homeland, Far-Right Nationalism, and Environmentalism beyond Trump
Nitzan Shoshan As the lights dim on another chapter of White nationalism, authoritarian- ism and climate change denialism with the indecorous departure of Donald J. Trump from the…
Genres of Justice: A Conversation with Laurence Ralph
Laurence Ralph This article comprises excerpts from a conversation between Lucas Bessire and Laurence Ralph about the state of anthropology and the world now. Our discussion was wide…
Poetry and the Poet
by George Nicolas El-Hage, Ph.D. Poetry is the language of prophecy spoken by the angels and gods when they populated this earth before the fall. Hence, the poet…
The Shifting Meanings of “(Il)Legality”: Indonesian Migrant Workers in the Netherlands
How do migrants become ‘illegal’? How does their ‘illegality’ affect their position in the receiving countries? Ratna Saptari discusses the experiences of Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands and…
Did Dads Evolve?
[no-caption] Vincent van Gogh/Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. Lee Gettler is hard to get on t…
Gypsy Economy: The Promise and Limitations of Ethnography – Part 3
by Keith Hart Why Study Gypsy Economy? Looking at the contributions to this volume, I would pick out four themes: … More
Roy Richard Grinker, “Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness” (Norton, 2021)
Stigma about mental illness makes life doubly hard for people suffering from mental or emotional distress. In addition to dealing with their conditions, they must also contend with…
Tanya Jakimow, “Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Tanya Jakimow’s book Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia (Oxford UP, 2020) offers a novel approach to understanding power in development t… Visit New Books…
جنون، صدا، تصویر
درباره «جام حسنلو»ی اصلانی آفرینش: بوم سپید،جام زرین ژیل دلوز در گفتمان خود درباره نقاشی و با تاکید بر کار «ژرار فرومانژه» ، سپیدی ِ بوم ِ سپید…
اینستاگرام بهمثابه آشوبگاه عشق
با ظهور رسانهها و شبکههای اجتماعی امکان خلق و بازنمایی سبک زندگی، کنشها و روابط مطلوب و دلخواه بهآسانی برای همگان مهیا شده است. گویی زندگی به اثری…
صفههای مقدس(۱۳)
بردِ نشانده و مسجد سلیمان ایران جنوب غربی از قرن هشتم قبل از میلاد تا قرن پنجم بعد از میلاد رومن گیرشمن ترجمه اصغر کریمی فصل سیزدهم شعاع…
سفرنامه جنوب هند (۳۱)
روز هشتم در قلعه کوچی امروز باید از قلعه کوچی بیرون بروم و موزه منحصر به فرد Kerala Folklore Museum یا موزه فرهنگ عامه کرلا را که در…
Der Traum von Freiheit
Was steckt hinter den Unruhen in Südafrika, die im vergangenen Juni nach der Verhaftung des Ex-Präsidenten Jacob Zuma mit großer Heftigkeit ausgebrochen sind? Welche Rolle spielt dabei die…
“A new phase in the old struggle”: Trumpism and the Fight for Latinx Citizenship
My father tells a story about growing up in the hill country of Texas in the forties and fifties. The train station downtown had a drinking…
Will Bog Archaeology Fade Away?
Archaeologists excavate a bog in Hatfield Moors, England, to uncover Late Stone Age structures. Henry Chapman In the southernmost tip of Sweden, just over an hour from neighboring…
Mara Buchbinder, “Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America” (U California Press, 2021)
Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States, and is now legally available to one in five…
“I’m Not an Anti-Vaxxer, I Just Don’t Want This Vaccine”: Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy among Pregnant Women
“The world isn’t made up of good people and death eaters.” -JK Rowling The world isn’t made up of people who choose to vaccinate and those who are…
Will “Only Murders” be funny? It depends.
Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez to star in the new show Only Murders. Variety tells us that the new show called Only Murders and staring Selena…
Comment on “Memoirs of Women and Harvard” by Alice B. Kehoe
Editor’s note: The following essay is a response to “Memoirs of Women and Harvard” by Alice B. Kehoe, published on 9 August 2021 in Reviews. You can find…