Wednesday Round Up #61
-I’m taking at least two weeks of break, so this is the last round up for awhile. Translating cognitive science in the public square We are at a…
Kapa-Making as a Way of Being: A Conversation with Lehuauakea
Mele O Nā Kaukani Wai (Song of a Thousand Waters), handmade plant dyes, earth pigments, and printed ‘ohe kāpala (bamboo stamps) on hand-sti…
What Do Goats and Wars Have to Do With Glacier Loss?
A local guide stands near Shali Kangri glacier in the Ladakh region of the Indian Himalayas. Hélène Lapierre-Messier For scientists, the layers of ice that make up glaciers…
AWAY FROM KEYBOARD
Dear Allies – readers, authors, reviewers, all, Allegra is away from her keyboard right now and cannot possibly be made to return before late August. Maybe September. Who…
Susan Gal and Judith T. Irvine, “Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
How are peoples’ ideas about languages, ways of speaking and expressive styles shaped by their social positions and values? How is difference, in language and in social life,…
Sarah Hepola on Drinking in a “Dry” Texas County
Welcome to Cover Story, a podcast by New Books Network devoted to long form journalism. Today, we are talking to Texas-based writer Sarah Hepola. Hepola is most known…
A Very Lengthy Swedish Introduction: Hype, Storytelling, and the Question of Entrepreneurial Allies
The Pitch At a Stockholm-based entrepreneur meetup, two entrepreneurs stood on stage ready to pitch their startup to a panel of venture capital investors (VCs).[1] The man clicked…
Special Focus: Structures
In the course of the twentieth century, structure became a central category of thought across a wide array of sciences. From linguistics to anthropology, psychoanalysis and history, the epistemic ai…
Violencia e intercambio de males en Medellín
La foto es de Manuel Delgado Fragmento de Violencia y ciudad. Sobre el intercambio de males en Medellín. En Ignasi de Solà-Morales y Xavier Costa, dirs. Presente y…
Scepticism fuelled by fake news threatens Africa’s vaccination drive
Vaccine nationalism and vaccine imperialism are posing a major challenge to the progress of mass vaccination in most countries across Africa. These countries are struggling to secure enough…
Review: Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety
Drew Ramsey. Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: Nourish your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks. Harper Wave/Harper Collins. New York: 2021. ISBN: 978-0-06-303171-5. pp.270.&nb…
Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief (Book Review)
“Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas” has gotten a formal book review! LINK:
Coronatider
Vem kunde ana att coronatiden skulle pågå så här länge? Vi gjorde det definitivt inte då det kulturvetenskapliga arkivet Cultura vid Åbo Akademi våren 2020 skapade en frågelista…
Eric Henry on his book, The Future Conditional
Interview by Andy Zhenzhou Tan cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501755163/the-future-conditional/ Andy Zhenzhou Tan: An explicit orienting question for the book is “Why teach an entire nat…
Stellenausschreibungen 31. KW – Green Jobs und Jobs mit Sinn
Bild von Leslin_Liu auf Pixabay Während bei einigen die Sommerferien erst begonnen haben, gehen in einigen Bundesländern die Ferien schon wieder zu Ende. Und auch wenn das Wetter…
Iris Berent, “The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Do newborns think-do they know that ‘three’ is greater than ‘two’? Do they prefer ‘right’ to ‘wrong’? What about emotions–do newborns recognize happiness or anger? If they do,…
Ruth Streicher, “Uneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand” (Cornell UP, 2020)
Since 2004 the Malay-Muslim majority provinces in the border region of southern Thailand have been wracked by a violent insurgency. Over 7000 people have been killed and many…
Sailen Routray, “Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi” (Routledge, 2017)
Set in the eastern state of Odisha in a district known as the “Somalia of India,” Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi (Routledge 2018)…
Warten
Beitrag und Foto von Mariella Neuberg und Niklas Schrade Die Welt befindet sich seit dem Beginn der Corona-Pandemie in einem kollektiven Wartezustand – der Alltag der Gesellschaft wurde…
The Pandemic Narrative and the War Against the People: Day 2 of an Online Interdisciplinary Symposium
Friday, July 30, 2021 was Day #2 of an online international and interdisciplinary symposium organized by Doctors for Covid Ethics (see the report for Day #1). The symposium…
Understanding My Mom’s Unorthodox Healing Practices
Sheets of newspaper cover a portion of the floor of our house in Manila, and on top of those thin pieces of paper sits a white candle, a…
پژوهشگرِ عشق
احمد ابوالفتحی جلال ستاری عاشقِ عشق بود. در گفتوگویی بیان کرده که سالهای زیادی را صرف تحقیق و نوشتن و ترجمه دربارهی عشق کردم. در ابتدای این…
نه فقط زیبا
در روزگاری که حتی با تلفنهای همراه هم میتوان باکیفیتترین عکسها را گرفت و روزانه صدها عکس ثبت کرد، تعمق در عکسهای تاریخی و سیاهوسفید و…
نگاهی مردمشناختی به لالاییها در موسیقی کرمان (قسمت دوم)
مفاهیم لالاییها لالاییها علاوه بر کارکرد آشکار خود، کارکردهای پنهانی نیز دارند که در این قسمت سعی بر آن است که ضمن ترسیم وضعیت زنان، بیشتر بدانها…