En la tierra del mezcal
Santo Domingo, Iglesia catedral de Oaxaca. Foto GVC 2024. El 30 de diciembre pasado, en 2024, mi esposo y colega Igor Ayora Diaz y yo estuvimos en un…
Network Ghosts in the Age of Generative AI
What are faculty thinking about generative AI? In my role at our faculty center, I speak to faculty often on the problems they face teaching in the…
Wider die Selbstbestimmung: Geschlechtliche und sexuelle Vielfalt von rechts
Queerfeindlichkeit spielt im rechten Wahlkampf eine zentrale Rolle, auch bei der AfD. Und dennoch schliessen Homosexualität und Rechtextremismus sich nicht aus. Zwei Jahre lang hat der Kulturanthropol…
Espacio púlblico y orden político
La foto es de Elena Rostunova Fragmento de “De la ciudad concebida a la ciudad practicada”, Archipiélago, 62, 2004, pp. 7-12. Espacio público y orden político Manuel Delgado…
Nara Milanich, “Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father” (Harvard UP, 2019)
Nara Milanich’s Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (Harvard University Press, 2019) explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological…
Sujatha Fernandes, “Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life” (Duke, UP 2020)
Cuban resourcefulness is on full display in Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke 2020), as sociologist Sujatha Fernandes presents an array of strategies not just for survival but for the invention…
When your research is attacked
Attacks on justice-oriented research (rather that valid criticism of research) is escalating. What is your plan if it happens to you?
When your research is attacked
Attacks on justice-oriented research (rather that valid criticism of research) is escalating. What is your plan if it happens to you?
History of history
What aspects of Natural History Museum samples contribute to the perpetuation of colonialism? And how can we conduct anti-colonial research with them?
History of history: Anti-colonial methods for a project that uses natural history museum samples
What aspects of Natural History Museum samples contribute to the perpetuation of colonialism? And how can we conduct anti-colonial research with them?
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, “Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite” (Princeton UP, 2021)
In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country’s lawyers are female, but…
Fernando Domínguez Rubio, “Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum” (U Chicago Press, 2020)
How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph…
Of Promiscuous Plasmids and Itinerant Patients: How Resistance Became a Global Health Crisis
I. Introduction In 2010 India found itself mired in a medical crisis of diplomatic proportions. The crisis was precipitated by a paper (Kumaraswamy et al 2010) published in…
MAROONS – The Great Palmares
Written by Neil Turner The study of Maroon sites is a rich and virtually untapped area that can advance our …
Joanna Mizielińska, “Queer Kinship on the Edge?: Families of Choice in Poland” (Routledge, 2024)
Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland (Routledge, 2024) explores ways in which queer families from Central and Eastern Europe complicate the mainstream picture of queer kinship…
Eugenics and Anthropology Publishing
In a reference within Trần Gia Thảo Vy’s essay on Malinowski I notice that old Bronio’s volume “The Sexual Life of Savages” (on kinship systems and beliefs, so…
12 Books in 12 Months: Circa 2024
January: The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman 
Hilarious – this book was nothing short of a fantastic way to launch 2024. As we transition into a new…
Centro urbano y centralidad ritual
La foto es de Jaime Vedres En José María García-Pablos, ed. Nombrando lo urbano, Escuela de Arquitectura, Ingeniera y Diseño, Universidad Europea, Madrid, 2016, pp.…
John Mathias on his book, Uncommon Cause
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/uncommon-cause/paper Chip Zuckerman: Thank you, John, for engaging with me about your new book. I should start by telling readers that we went to graduate school …
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Mukulika Banerjee, “Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India” (Oxford UP, 2021)
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India (Oxford UP, 2021) by Dr. Mukulika Banerjee offers a groundbreaking rethinking of democracy, moving beyond its institutional frameworks to focus on…
Rachel Emily Taylor, “Illustration and Heritage” (Bloombury, 2024)
In Illustration and Heritage (Bloomsbury, 2024), Rachel Emily Taylor explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and examines the potential role of contemporary illustration in…
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گذری بر شورش ماه ژوییهی ۲۰۲۳ در فرانسه خشونت، اعتراض، شورش، تخریب، سوزاندن و غارت! ده روز، فرانسه – یا به عبارت دقیقتر، حومههای داغ پاریس و مارسی…
هانس مگنوس انزنزبرگر و سیاستگذاری فناوری رسانههای جدید (بخش ۲)
تماشاخانۀ عملکردها صنعت آگاهی دارای شیوهای ارتباطی است که بین الزامات متناقض تقسیم شده است. یکی از شرایط این صنعت، افول تئوکراسی و فرمانروایی قطعی کشیشها یا حتی…