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Gold.

Trinketization

I’d be hard-pressed to explain all the reasons why this text is worth your time. And indeed it might be a lot of time, since the reading of…

  • Post date 24th December 2024
  • Post author By john hutnyk
  • Post categories In English

Richard Francis Burton

Trinketization

Note to self to transpose my ppt slides on Richard Burton into a text since he is problematic enough to take a place alongside The Victorians (Tylor, Spencer,…

  • Post date 24th December 2024
  • Post author By john hutnyk
  • Post categories In English

A liturgy for animals as seen through the eyes of a character with long ears

STANDPLAATS WERELD

By Peter Versteeg – This year, as Christmas approached, I felt a strong urge to visit a church. An advertisement in a vegan deli shop caught my eye:…

  • Post date 23rd December 2024
  • Post author By standplaatswereld
  • Post categories In English

Jessica Chandras on her book, Mother Tongue Prestige

CaMP Anthropology

https://www.routledge.com/Mother-Tongue-Prestige-The-Sociolinguistics-of-Privilege-in-Urban-Middle-Class-Education-in-India/Chandras/p/book/9781032404554 Priya M. Dabak: This book is divided i…

  • Post date 23rd December 2024
  • Post author By |
  • Post categories In English

„Ich habe anfangs meinen eigenen Augen nicht getraut“

Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften Archive | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Professor Markus Scholz, Archäologe an der Goethe-Universität, war maßgeblich an der Entzifferung der „Frankfurter Silberinschrift“ beteiligt. Eingerollt in einem silbernen Amulett wurde die Inschrift…

  • Post date 23rd December 2024
  • Post author By Dr. Anke Sauter
  • Post categories In German

Bewerbungsanschreiben: Fokussierung auf Aufgaben statt Lebenslauf-Nacherzählung

Brotgelehrte

Bewerbungsanschreiben: Fokussierung auf Aufgaben statt Lebenslauf-Nacherzählung In Workshops rund um den Berufseinstieg und Bewerbungscoachings mit Geisteswissenschaftler:innen fällt immer …

  • Post date 23rd December 2024
  • Post author By Mareike
  • Post categories In German

„Good Mothering Through Breastfeeding“ – Die Stillpropaganda der La Leche League seit den 1950er Jahren

Geschichte der Gegenwart

Die Qualität von Mutterschaft wird bis heute gerne mit der frühkindlichen Ernährung verknüpft. Eine historische Analyse der Stillkampagnen der La Leche League seit den 1950er Jahren zeigt, wie…

  • Post date 22nd December 2024
  • Post author By Lotta Danz
  • Post categories In German

Melissa Johnston, “Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste” (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in Anthropology

Over the two decades since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, peacebuilding interventions around the globe have increasingly incorporated gender…

  • Post date 21st December 2024
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English

Michael Leunig 1945-2024

Trinketization

Vale Michael Leunig To honour Leunig’s art, you could do worse than to read The Curly Pyjama Letters: https://cdn2.reader.cx/?source=cdb57604ddccccabed07785d0e0e9…

  • Post date 21st December 2024
  • Post author By john hutnyk
  • Post categories In English

Are You Having a Good Time? Abuse, Bad Jokes & Making Light of Gender-Based Violence in 2024

The Geek Anthropologist

By Emma Louise Backe In year marked by monumental legal cases against abusive men—Gisèle Pelicot in France, Cassie’s lawsuit against former partner Sean “Diddy” Combs—America re-elected a proud…

  • Post date 20th December 2024
  • Post author By Emma Louise Backe
  • Post categories In English

Wild Computing: a view from anthropology 

Allegra Lab

Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more […] The post Wild Computing: a view from…

  • Post date 20th December 2024
  • Post author By Anibal Garcia Arregui
  • Post categories In English

Racism Hidden Between the Lines in Norwegian News Media

RightNow! - Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet

As observed in media representations of immigrants during the Covid-19 pandemic, racist discourse is produced and reproduced by journalists and ordinary citizens wh…

  • Post date 20th December 2024
  • Post author By Cristina Archetti
  • Post categories In English

Kva tyder ordet «jordmor», og kvifor heiter fødselshjelparen framleis det og ikkje noko kjønnsnøytralt?

Språkprat

Jordmoryrket er den eldste kvinneprofesjonen vi veit om, jordmødre er nemnde alt i Det gamle testamentet. For nokre få år sidan starta styresmaktene med å døype om yrkestitlar…

  • Post date 20th December 2024
  • Post author By sprakprat
  • Post categories In Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Ege Selin Islekel, “Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance” (Northwestern UP, 2024)

New Books in Anthropology

What does mourning have to do with politics? How do practices of forced disappearance and improper burial shape subjects, spaces, and what is intelligible? What are people doing…

  • Post date 20th December 2024
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English

Hannah Gould et al., “Death and Funeral Practices in Japan” (Routledge, 2024)

New Books in Anthropology

Death and Funeral Practices in Japan (Routledge, 2024) is an essential introductory text an often overlooked element of cultural expression. The books offers a succinct history to the development of funeral practices…

  • Post date 20th December 2024
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English

Jugendwort des Jahres: „Aura“, „goofy“, „cringe“ & Co

Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften Archive | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Die Linguistikprofessorin Petra Schulz hat auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse die Bekanntgabe des neuen „Jugendwort des Jahres“ sprachwissenschaftlich begleitet. UniReport: Frau Prof. Schulz, haben Sie in …

  • Post date 20th December 2024
  • Post author By Dr. Dirk Frank
  • Post categories In German

GONE ICE-FISHING

Allegra Lab

It’s this time of the year again, and Allegra will close shop for the many merry end-of-year festivities (or just […] The post GONE ICE-FISHING appeared first on…

  • Post date 20th December 2024
  • Post author By Allegra Lab
  • Post categories In English

2024 in Review

Platypus

Welcome to our annual wrap-up of CASTAC’s 2024 activities! We are grateful to all of you, our readers, for engaging with our content this year and we look…

  • Post date 20th December 2024
  • Post author By Katie Ulrich
  • Post categories In English

2025 will bring (back) to us some of our favorite meshi tero, The Solitary Gourmet & Wakako Zake『劇映画 孤独のグルメ』&「ワカコ酒」シーズン8

Visual Anthropology of Japan - 日本映像人類学

The Solitart Gourmet becomes a full length feature film, with a very different kind of vibe. Out on January 10, 2025. Official movie site: https://gekieiga-kodokunogurume.jp/ Movie trailer: https…

  • Post date 20th December 2024
  • Post author By Unknown
  • Post categories In English

La doble función del llamado inmigrante

EL COR DE LES APARENCES

La foto es de Àngel García y está tomada de https://www.revista5w.com/temas/movimientos-sociales/tras-las-mantas-7747 Fragmento de Víctimas Alienígenas. El inmigrante como personaje conceptual, en…

  • Post date 20th December 2024
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado
  • Post categories In Spanish

President’s Circle Annual Winter Party: December at SAR

School for Advanced Research

2024 has been a remarkable year of growth and achievement at SAR, and it’s a testament to the passion and dedi…

  • Post date 19th December 2024
  • Post author By Lindsay Archuleta
  • Post categories In English

Office Door – Version Winter Holiday Break 2024

  • Post date 19th December 2024
  • Post author By Unknown
  • Post categories In English

Book Review: Marcia C. Inhorn’s ‘Motherhood on Ice’

Somatosphere

Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs by Marcia C. Inhorn (NYU Press, 2023) Since 2012, when egg freezing by vitrification (flash-freezing) emerged from…

  • Post date 19th December 2024
  • Post author By Ellen Hausner
  • Post categories In English

Nathan McGovern, “Holy Things: The Genealogy of the Sacred in Thai Religion” (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books in Anthropology

Scholars of religion have mostly abandoned the concept of “syncretism” in which certain apparent deviations from “standard” practice are believed to be the result of a mixture of…

  • Post date 19th December 2024
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English
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