#Book Review: Digital Divisions
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the optimism of the early days of the world wide web appears to have completely abated. The pandemic has proven justification…
Jacob Lederman, “Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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……
Eugene T. Richardson, “Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health” (MIT Press, 2020)
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…
پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ، جلسه پنجم: بحران اجتماعی کنونی و چشم اندازهای آن
✍ 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…
L’etnòleg segons el poeta
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,…
Wednesday Round Up #59
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…
Facebook on King Farouk
There is a Facebook site about Egypt’s last king, Farouk, with pictures from his time in office.
La etnografía como naufragio
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 …
Five Ways Humans Evolved to be Athletes
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…
Book Review: The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media by Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis
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…
Kailing Xie, “Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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…
Theodore W. Cohen, “Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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…
Emalani Case, “Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki” (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
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…
Sommerpause? Sommerprogramm!
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…
NBN Interview with Nicholas Thomas on “Voyagers”
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…
Five new books in series on Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
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…
Introducing the Other “AI”: Anthropology Intelligence
[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…
Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner, “Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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.…
Mark Bevir, “How Social Science Creates the World” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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…
Harnessing Indeterminacy: The Technopolitics of Hydrocarbon Prospects
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…
Mathew Gagne take the page 99 test
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…
Culture—Not Genetics—Was More Salient for Anglo-Saxons
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…
Book Forum: Therapeutic Politics of Care in Asia by Nicholas Bartlett
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…
Schutz von geflüchteten Frauen und Mädchen in Deutschland unzureichend
„Schattenbericht“ unter Mitarbeit der Universität Göttingen kritisiert Umsetzung der Istanbul-Konvention durch die Bundesregierung Eine Pressemitteilung von Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess (pug) Deutschland kom…