تشیع تاریخی و موسیقی دستگاهی
منظور از تشیع تاریخی در این نوشته زمانی بیش از ششصد سال است که از دوران ایلخانیان تا کنون سپری شده و چنان است که تاثیر آن بر…
دین‌داری در فضاهای شهر تهران
نشست یک صد و شصت و یک یکشنبه‌های انسان‌شناسی و فرهنگ با همکاری اداره کل مطالعات اجتماعی و فرهنگی شهرداری تهران یکشنبه ۵ اسفند ۹۷ ساعت ۱۶ الی…
Tactics of Silencing MRK II – shaming.
Online shaming has become a popular sport -or, if you rather, tactic- for many across the political spectrum. The effects can be devastating for the objects of this…
“Out of options:” The implications of COVID-19 for hospitalized patients with cognitive impairment by Kelly Colas
“How about a walk today?” I asked Mr. T each morning I arrived to the hospital, visiting him on my morning rounds. Mr T. grinned back at me…
Zwischen Fremdbild und Selbstbild.
Wertschätzung von Kulturwissenschaftler*innen in Veränderungsprozessen von Julia Koop Als Studentin der Kulturwissenschaft und Bachelorabsolventin habe ich in meinem Leben einige positive, …
Don Nonini: Black Enslavement and Agro-industrial Capital
Don Nonini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Insa Koch’s recent (2020) FOCAAL blog, “The Making of Modern Slavery in Austerity Britain,” reminds us that enslavement and…
Links & Contents I Liked 372
Hi all, This is going to be the final link review before my summer break until early August. I said that last year as well and a week…
The Case Against The ‘Singularity’
GRAHAM WILKES The definition of a ‘Singularity’ is something with ‘an unusual or distinctive manner or behaviour’. Something, or an event, that is ‘out of the ordinary’. Something…
Jonathan Parry, “Classes of Labor: Work and Life in an Indian Steel Town” (Routledge, 2020)
Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town (Routledge, 2020) is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic…
Sarah Knott, “Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History” (Penguin, 2020)
Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity—the history of pregnancy,…
#Review: Animal Intimacies
In her book Animal Intimacies Radhika Govindrajan takes us through a series of human-animal relations in India’s Central Himalayas, the Kumaon division in the hills of Uttarakhand. Each…
The Greatest Show on Earth – Zum Verhältnis von Profifußball und Fans in Zeiten von Geisterspielen
von Tobias Kanschick Das Corona-Virus wirkt sich auf nahezu alle gesellschaftlichen Lebensbereiche aus. Große Politik wird per Videokonferenz gemacht und Kommunikation findet in Zeiten von Ausgangsbes…
Arctic view on Russia’s changed constitution
The population of Russia officially supported the suggested changes in the world’s largest country’s constitution, with almost 78% of those who voted. Half of the circumpolar Arctic, incl…
Dear White Anthropologists, Let Not Symbolism Overshadow Substance
Racism permeates the academy. We will need more than performative allyship and symbolic statements condemning racism in society if we are to build a more inclusive anthropology. …
Monuments to Hate
We do not sit outside of the world in which we live. The current fight over the fate of Confederate monuments in US life is a direct struggle…
Frank G. Speck Visits the Euchee, Stockbridge, and Seneca Students at Haskell in 1939-1940
Among the objects cataloged as Creek in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History is a doll made by Leona Tiger while she was a student…
Heat and Covid-19 in the Off-Grid City by Nausheen Anwar
Amidst almost unstoppable contagion, many hung their hopes on heat and humidity as a potential defence against contracting Covid-19 in the early months of the pandemic. Early studies…
The Problem With Abstract Threats
[no-caption] Angus Greig Everyone seems to have a story about the moment when the novel coronavirus pandemic stopped being an abstract problem “somewhere out there” and started being…
IZO: Vortrag „Der Kampf um Chinas Marktreformen: Schocktherapie versus gradueller Experimentalismus“
Vortrag von Isabella Weber (Massachusetts, Amherst) zum Thema „Der Kampf um Chinas Marktreformen: Schocktherapie versus gradueller Experimentalismus“ Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Deuts…
Mare Nullius is on summer break
Much like the rest of Norway, many of us in the Mare Nullius team are taking our summer break in the month of July. The project will therefore…
#Review: Contesting Leviathan
In Contesting Leviathan, a reference on both the mythical sea-serpent and Thomas Hobbes’ political philosophy, Les Beldo seeks to provide a multi-faceted view of the Makah whaling conflict,…
When Sex Becomes a Matter of the State: Peciagraphy as a Qualitative Method for Examining Legal Cases
For the past ten years, I have been conducting ethnographic research on the Federal Supreme Court’s (STF) decisions on sexual identities in the Brazilian legal system. Despite the…
Bearing Witness and Raising Awareness: A Conversation with Jason De León
Approximately 3,200 handwritten toe tags representing migrants who died crossing the Sonoran Desert between the mid-1990s and 2019. These t…
On the Renaming of Anthropology’s Kroeber Hall
I was deeply distressed to learn about an administrative plan to remove the name of AL Kroeber from Kroeber Hall. The decision was not discussed with the anthropology…