What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—es……
In Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (MIT Press, 2020), physician-anthropologist Eugene T. Richardson explores how public health practices—from epidemiological mo… Visit New Books in Anthropology for the…
✍ هماکنون بسیاری از جوامع، منجمله جامعۀ ایران، با بحرانهای اجتماعی گوناگونی دست به گریبان هستند؛ پاندمی کرونا و مسئلۀ واکسیناسیون، تورم و فقر، مسائل محیط زیستی و…
Ressenya de la traducció catalana de Tristos tròpics, de Claude Lévi-Strauss, a càrrec de Miquel Martí i Pol (Barcelona, Anagrama, 1992, 444 p.), publicada al Quadern de Cultura d’El País,…
Sexism Still Winning at the Olympic Games Most, if not all, of the IAAF investigations that have made it into the media have involved women from the Global…
There is a Facebook site about Egypt’s last king, Farouk, with pictures from his time in office.
Hombre bororo fotografiado por Claude Lévi-Strauss Fragmento de la introducción a Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Trópicos, Círculo de Lectores, Barcelona, 1993. LA ETNOGRAFÍA COMO …
The coming Olympics will showcase some of the most extraordinary human feats of strength, speed, and agility. As an archaeologist who focuses on the development of the human…
In The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media, Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis explore the discipline of sociology at a time when public…
Today I interviewed Kailing Xie on her recently published book, Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). This bo… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
In Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Theodore Cohen examines the ways in which different protagonists sought to incorporate Blacknes… Visit New Books in…
In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term th… Visit…
Geschichte der Gegenwart geht in die Sommerpause – und sendet bis Ende August ein Sommerprogramm mit Lesetipps und Erinnerungen an magische Filme. Sie erhalten von uns wie gewohnt…
Happy to announce that New Books Network has just released my new interview with Nicholas Thomas about his latest book Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific. If you…
From Humans and Nature and Co-edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer We live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties…
[no-caption] DrAfter123/Getty Images “The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.” —attributed to anthropologist Ralph Linton I sat in a drab Soviet hotel room in…
It’s hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation.…
How Social Science Creates the World is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and UC Berkeley political scientist Professor Mark Bevir. Mark Bevir is an…
A drillship in the sea. Resource: Unsplash. Amidst an international crisis sparked by the scandalous confessions of a mafia boss and a pollution and climate change-triggered marine disaster…
While page 99 of my dissertation (see below) seems far from its focus on sex apps and digital media among queer men in Beirut, the connection is palpably…
An Anglo-Saxon burial mound rises in Taplow Court, England. Shutterstock This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Scholar…
The six review essays in this collection emerge from a joint launch of five books and one dissertation/ book-in-progress and a panel at the recent annual meeting of…
„Schattenbericht“ unter Mitarbeit der Universität Göttingen kritisiert Umsetzung der Istanbul-Konvention durch die Bundesregierung Eine Pressemitteilung von Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess (pug) Deutschland kom…
The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United States. Yet,…