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…
Megan D. McFarlane, “Militarized Maternity: Experiencing Pregnancy in the U. S. Armed Forces” (U California Press, 2021)
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,…
Nicholas Thomas, “Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific” (Apollo, 2020)
In Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Apollo, 2020), the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas tells the story of the peopling of the Pacific. In clear, accessible language Thomas shows us that…
Stellenausschreibungen 29. KW – Green Jobs und Jobs mit Sinn
Bild von Free-Photos auf Pixabay Mit Entsetzen haben wir die Bilder aus den Hochwassergebieten gesehen und fragen uns natürlich, was wir tun können – unmittelbar zur Unterstützung der…
Caricaturas
Read Time:3 Minute, 24 Second El pasado lunes aparecía la noticia de un pueblo asfixiado que clamaba por su libertad, sesenta y dos…
Verano y Positivad Tóxica
No hay nada mejor que pasar una tarde calurosa de Julio escribiendo sobre positividad tóxica en mi blog abandonado de la mano de… Si no lo sabes, este…
Soziologiemagazin 01/2021 — Nichts als die Wahrheit? — ist erschienen
Konspirationistisches Denken gewinnt seit Beginn der Covid-19-Pandemie an gesellschaftlicher Relevanz und medialer Aufmerksamkeit: Auf „Hygienedemonstrationen” zweifeln selbsternannte „Querdenker*inne…
Newly Published: “Camp at the Salon: Anthropological Sense-Making with a Wink”
To camp is a mode of seduction – one which employs flamboyant mannerisms susceptible of a double interpretation; gestures full of duplicity, with a witty meaning for cognoscenti…
Calles en danza
La foto es de Tim Waterhouse Comentario enviado a Iris Romero y Aline Stonkinger sobre el trabajo entregado para la asignatura “Antropología urbana” en el Máster de Artes…
Intellektuelle des Alltags. Die afro-deutsche Frauenbewegung – ein Gespräch
Die afro-deutsche Frauenbewegung wirkte seit den 1980er Jahren mit neuem, de-kolonialistischem Wissen auf die deutsche Gesellschaft ein – und ist dennoch bis heute kaum bekannt. Die Historikerin Tiffa…
King Tut’s Tomb in Color
Nice site with photos of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb in 1922.
#BookReview: Being a parent in the field
Ethnographic fieldwork resembles a dance on the wire between distance and closeness, seesawing between participant immersion and analytical retreat that turns the anthropologist into a tool of data…
Arctic climate amplification and Siberia’s burning forests
Usually Arctic amplification is referred to as the reason why the Arctic is warming faster than the earth’s average, as the Arctic’s surface gets darker (due to less…
Transforming Market Research with Qualitative Consciousness in post-liberalization India w/ Dr. Meena Kashuik and Madhuri Karak
Dr. Meena Kashuik takes us through her story from the revolutionary idea in the late 1970s of applying semiotics to brand and market research to founding Quantum, which…
Stepping into the hospital side room: a place for death in England by Erica Borgstrom
I hovered in the doorway as the palliative care nurse who I was shadowing that day indicated I should. She entered the darkened side room to check on…
Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich’s Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health by Delaney Glass
Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 288 pages. Background Dr. Alexandra Br…
TWO 2-3 YEAR POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS: The experience and cultivation of love in religious and contemplative traditions
Postdoctoral Positions At The Department Of Anthropology And The Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University The School of Culture and Society, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University invites applicati…
Amazon Sidewalk Needs our Trust for its Security
On June 8, 2021, Amazon deployed an “opt-in” way for people to enable the company to expand its private network into communities, creating infrastructure to peddle even more…
Violence, Gender, and Policing in Colombia: In Conversation with Dr. Jon Gordon
In today’s interview, we speak with Dr. Jon Gordon, incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at Appalachian State University, who tells us about his research with criminalized men in…
Cynthia J. Becker, “Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today there are…
Sobre el culto al método o el método como rito
Foto de Marc-Javierre Kohan Comentario para Esther Vidella, estudiante de doctorado en la UB, enviado el 20 de agosto de 2018 SOBRE EL CULTO AL MÉTODO O EL…
Anthropology and Anthropologist
Poem written by Dr. Geetika Ranjan Professor, Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong. I am Anthropology I have been walking through the years in quest of…
Finnes det noe hvitere enn progrock?
PULS, juli 2021 Jeg hadde vært gjest i Knut Reiersruds “BluesAsylet”, og temaet var progrock og svart musikk. Det var en hyggelig stund, men som så ofte forlot…