Did Aliens Build the Pyramids? And Other Racist Theories
The Egyptian pyramids are a focal point for conspiracy theories about alien intervention. Sheilapic76/Flickr One afternoon in June, I found an email in my inbox from Atlantis Rising:…
Christian M. Anderson, “Urbanism Without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and…
Gideon Fujiwara, “From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan” (Cornell UP, 2021)
From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Cornell UP, 2021) tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century… Visit New…
What makes the “ness” in Geel?
Distinctive doctrines of the Church, and their place in contemporary society, are at times, argued to bring about changes in the Arctic – the people, their land, and…
“Orientalism alla Turca”: Evolutionary Desires, Imperial Nostalgias, and Western Anxieties in Ahmed Midhat’s Avrupa’da Bir Cevelân
Introduction On November 15, 1889,[1] Ahmed Midhat (1844–1912), a prolific Ottoman journalist and novelist, announced in his newspaper Tercümân–i Hakîkât (Interprete…
Culture: brought together, kept apart
brought together but kept apart I felt like I was being chased up the beach by a tidal wave. Run for your life, anthropologist, run for your life! I…
Alex Fattal on his book, Shooting Cameras for Peace
interview by Camilo Ruiz Sanchez https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780873658713 Camilo Ruiz Sanchez: It shook me to learn that the archive has almost disappeared and that what w…
Nuevo número: 8 de Noviembre
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Mirjam Lücking, “Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims” (SAPP, 2021)
Mirjam Lücking’s Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims (Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2021) explores the ways contemporary Indonesia… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Panayotis F. League, “Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2021) explores the legacy of the Great Catastrophe—the death and expulsion from Tur… Visit New Books…
A Letter to Andrew Selous
SHOLA AJAO Dear Mr Andrew Selous, It is unfortunate that I find myself writing to you again during these unprecedented times. As you may recall, I wrote July…
Über das Verhältnis von emanzipatorischen Werten und politischem Protest
Ein Essay von Fabian Schwanitz. Europa als Schauplatz politischer Proteste Politischer Protest ist für Bürger:innen, die sich dem „Funke[n] der emanzipatorischen Werte” (Welzel/Alvarez 2014: 59) ausge…
Die STV stellt sich vor
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 3 Minuten Foto von Maria Prchal Wofür steht jetzt wieder dieses Kürzel? Wer ist da dabei? Was machen die? Wer die Antworten wissen möchte, einfach weiterlesen!…
استعمارزدایی در مطالعات مرگ (۱)
راهی برای نجاتِ فرهنگِ مرگ بارها از من پرسیده شده است که مطالعات مرگ چیست؟ برای آنهایی که با این حوزهی مطالعاتی آشنا نیستند باید بهصورت ساده و…
شهر ناپایدار
در نیویورک ، شهر پایدار بر روی تخریب خود ساخته می شود در سال ۲۰۱۴، ساکنان محله الم پارک جزیره استاتن، خودروهای خود را پوشیده در غبار یافتند.…
Green Jobs für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen, KW40
Bild: pixabay by thanasispap Diese Woche gibt es leider wieder keine Volo-Stellen, daür wieder einiges zum Thema Content Creation und einig Quereinstiegs-Stellen! Viel Erfolg bei der Suche. Hier…
Returning to the concert hall
Today marked Cal Performances’ return to in-person indoor concerts, and what an opening to the regular 2021/22 season! Tessa Lark on violin and Amy Yang on piano delivered…
Teaching through Tension at the Crossroads of America
Valerie Miller1, Shradha Naveen2, Amanda Waller3, Jennifer L. Johnson4 Purdue University. mill2206@purdue.edu (corresponding author) Purdue University. snaveen@purdue.edu Purdue University. wallera@p…
EP#81 Lifeworlds & Studying Aoetorea: Susanna Trnka on Traversing Multiple Lifeworlds & Publics
The Familiar Strange · EP#81 Lifeworlds & Studying Aoetorea: Susanna Trnka on Traversing Multiple Lifeworlds & Publics We’re back this week with Joe’s first interview! For this episode,…
Time For Life Course Approach in Anthropology
Vipin Gupta Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi Email: drvipiing@gmail.com The idea of the life course approach is based on the hypothesis of developmental origins of…
Cuttings
I find it a little sad every time I’m compelled to cut a sentence that I really like because I’m the only one its effectively written for (if I…
Online-Programm Joborientierung
Direkt zu: Warum? Wie? Was? Konditionen Warum? Social Learning. Weil Joborientierung abseits der klassischen Berufe für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaftler*innen stets Arbeit allein …
La ostentación paradójica
La foto es de David Tijero Último apartado de Vida de estudiante, que firmamos Marta Lopez y yo, publicado en Jorge Larrosa y Marta Venceslao, coords., De estudiantes…
Wir Barbaren. „Inneres Afrika“, „Unzivilisierte“ und „Entartete“ in der europäischen Moderne
Europäische Gesellschaften suchten im 19. Jahrhundert ihre „Zivilisation“ in alle Welt zu exportieren. Die „Fremden“, darunter auch die Armen, erschienen dem gegenüber als „Barbaren“. Ist diese Geschi…