Zwischen alten Gebäuden, kleinen Cafés und der belebten Innenstadt Krakaus fand vom 24.–30. August 2025 das weltweit größte Event der Religionswissenschaft an der Jagiellonen-Universität statt. Unter…
This poem is an account of materiality through time-tracking and place-making, viewed from within the contours of home while wearing the ethnographer’s lens.
I love Ikuno Naka’s and Garima Jaju’s film State of Address. I have my reasons. They’ve something to do with […] The post State of Address v DOGE …
American anthropologist Oscar Lewis secured permission from Fidel Castro to undertake three years of field research on cultural and economic change in Cuba in the decade after the…
Wie du dein eigenes berufliches Profil jenseits klassischer Schubladen entwickelst „Ich bin Hiwi, und darum weiß ich, dass mein Prof nicht nur Prof ist, sondern auch Autor und…
A few months ago, CBC radio’s flagship national program called Cross-country Checkup asked Canadians a question that riled us immensely. I’m posting in September of 2025, a letter…
Til alle tider har fugler spilt en rolle i menneskets liv. Nå er sjøfuglene i ferd med å forsvinne, det samme er mange av de praksisene som har…
In a personal essay, an anthropologist reflects on her family’s dual Syrian and French heritage. ✽ Throughout my early childhood, I did not hear my mother’s accent. Other…
Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife (Cornell University Press, 2025) is the first book to interrogate race and racial logics in Albania. Chelsi West Ohueri examines how…
رودیا مان[۱] نویسنده، محقق و طراح مهره و جواهرات[۲] متولد کنیا است. پدر و مادر رودیا از یهودیانی بودند که در زمان حملۀ نازیها به رومانی در جنگ…
تروما تعریفهای مختلفی از تروما در حوزههای مختلف، از جمله روانشناسی، جامعهشناسی و مطالعات فرهنگی، ارائه شده است. یکی از بهروزترین و قابلاستنادترین تعاریف آکادمیک تروما را کَتِرین…
بخش پنجاهوهشتم/ مصرف (Consumption)/ جیمز.جی.کریر/ برگردان: سمیه کریمی مصرف برابر است با استفاده بهینه مردم از اشیایی که با آنها در ارتباط و تماس هستند.این ارتباط میتواند از…
Almost every aspect of life on earth interacts with soil. Soils are old. Soils take time to develop from their parent material. Soils embody life itself. Yet, the…
In unserer ersten Podcastfolge spricht Mareike Menne mit Dominik Gröpper über die Entstehung seines Debütromans PaderValley. Mareike unterstützte Dominik bei der Veröffentlichung seines Buch…
Today I saw, not for the first time, a group of people on Bluesky (supported by many likes) fantasizing about putting MAGA cultists in prison. No matter how…
Caste: A Global Story by Suraj Yengde explores caste from both a Dalit and global perspective, critiquing caste’s enduring structures and calling for justice in India and beyond.…
Demilitarizing the Future (Anthem Press, 2025) draws from art, anthropology, and activism to investigate the entrenchment of militarism in everyday lives and consider novel imaginaries of its dissolution–of peacemaking, community, and…
What if rural progress isn’t about government intervention but about the self-reliance and ingenuity of peasants themselves? The Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-Socialist Rural Development in Serbia (UCL Press, 2025) subverts conventional…
Viele Studiengänge in den Geisteswissenschaften versprechen in ihren Profiltexten breite Beschäftigungsfelder: „Gefragt“ seien Kompetenzen aus Literatur-, Sprach- oder Kulturwissenschaft…
Pasta with yogurt, photo by Elif Birbiri Elif BirbiriYork University Do we still tell food stories to each other? About what we cook, what we miss, and what…
I was looking through the NARA electronic records and found references to a man, Henry Petit, at Umatilla. The Petit name is well known at Grand Ronde. My…
Research ethics and human skeletal biology: Indian scenario Subhash Walimbe Rtd. Faculty, Deccan College Postgraduate and Research…
The metrics of long-term business health that investors pay attention to – customer retention rates, revenue growth / predictable cash flow, and customer lifetime value – are a…
An anthropologist unpacks how colonial histories and racial and class hierarchies shape who is allowed to desire and accumulate gold today. ✽ In July 2018, my fiancé and…