📣📣پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ، جلسه یازدهم: چشماندازهای محیط زیست در سالهای آینده
❓به نظر شما در پایان دولت سیزدهم وضعیت محیط زیست بهتر از امروز است یا بدتر از آن؟ 📍روز ۱۸ شهریورماه ساعت ۱۵ به وقت تهران، در صفحهی…
نشستهای حلقه شیعهپژوهی سرو(۲)
مناسک در حرکت: آیینهای سوگواری شیعی و حجگزاری ایرانیان در دورهی قاجار با حضور پیمان اسحاقی در دوره قاجار، ایرانیان، از جمله دولتمردان، تجار و روحانیون، از ایران…
Virtual Ruination: Encountering Virtual Loss and Digital Ephemerality
Jessica Marie Falcone As I logged into the virtual world of Second Life (SL) in October 2020, I was expecting my a…
La antropología-pasión
Fotograma de “El amor en los tiempos del cólera” (2007) Inicio de la conferencia “La antropologia en los tiempos del cólera”, pronunciada el 8 de septiembre de 2016…
Links & Contents I Liked 414
Hi all, We welcomed almost 170 students to our ComDev courses this week, so the link review is a tad bit shorter than usual at the end of…
سیری در خاطرات علی دشتی
کاوه بیات یادداشتهای سیاسی انتشار نیافتهٔ علی دشتی: دورنمای چهار سال و نیم دعوی دموکراسی! شهریور (۱۳۲۰-۱۳۲۴). علی دشتی. با نظارت و اهتمام مهدی ماحوزی و محمدحسین ابن…
Feeling Digital and Reimagining Fieldwork during COVID Times
Yichen Rao, Anna Castel & Lili Almási-Szabó* During the outbreak of COVID-19, everyday life has been modified in accordance with the protocols that every country has implemented. These…
Kva er ei preike?
Det er eit vanskelegare spørsmål enn det ser ut til. Det er lettare å svara på kva ei preike bør vera, eller kva faglitteraturen seier. Men kva er…
‘Creatures of Cain’ by Erika Lorraine Milam
Erika Lorraine Milam. Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America. 408 pp., 33 b/w illus., app., notes, index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. “Human…
Camelia Dewan, “Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh” (U Washington Press, 2021)
Climate change is one of the key challenges of our time and large amounts of development aid are allocated towards adaptation in the Global South. Yet, to what…
Anthropology for Liberation readings 3.0
2021 marks the fourth year I have taught Anthropology for Liberation, an undergraduate course in the Cultural Anthropology Programme at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. The course…
What is ‘Indian’ Anthropology?
NK Vaid, Academic Nomad AC – 177B, Shalimar Bagh Delhi – 110088 Ph.: 91-9311337737 E-mail: nareshkrvaid@gmail.com I Despite being a serious student of Anthropology for almost 50 years,…
April, 2021
Volume 13 | Number 1 | April, 2021 FEATURES Where Do We Go From Here?Lucas Bessire Notes from a Fever DreamAmy Moran-Thomas Situating Conspiracy TheorySusan Lepselter Trump Time,…
Trump Time, Prophetic Time and the Time of the Lost Cause
To cite this article: Susan Harding & Emily Martin (2021) Trump Time, Prophetic Time and the Time of the Lost C…
Where Do We Go From Here?
To cite this article: Lucas Bessire (2021) Where Do We Go From Here?, Anthropology Now, 13:1, 1-10, DOI: 10.1080/19…
Call for Films: Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film
Dear Filmmakers, The Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen invites film submissions to be screened at the 10th edition of the Bremen Days…
Confronting Anti-Blackness in “Colorblind” Cuba
A man holds his grandson inside the doorway of a fruit and vegetable shop in Havana, Cuba. Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images I sat waiting for Yudell* to finish his shift…
Nicole Karapanagiotis, “Branding Bhakti: Krishna Consciousness and the Makeover of a Movement” (Indiana UP, 2021)
How do religious groups reinvent themselves in order to attract new audiences? How do they rebrand their messages and recast their rituals in order to make their followers…
Sahlins memorial piece in the JSO
I have a piece in memory of Marshall Sahlins in the latest issue of the Journal de la Société des Océanistes . This is a more personal piece…
NBN Podcast on Emalani Case’s Everything Ancient Once Was New
My August 2021 podcast at NBN was with Emalani Case on her book Everything Ancient Once Was New. Go check it out! credit: UH Press twitter
NBN podcast with Anthony Hazard on “Boasians at War”
My July podcast over at NBN was with Tony Hazard about his book Boasians at War. Have a listen.
Seeing the Same Fire
Adriana Petryn An almost vertical line showing an increase of atmospheric CO2 emissions captures the urgency of …
Notes from a Fever Dream
Amy Moran-Thomas I spent much of last May watching my husband try to breathe. Sitting up on the living room floo…
Homeland, Far-Right Nationalism, and Environmentalism beyond Trump
Nitzan Shoshan As the lights dim on another chapter of White nationalism, authoritarian- ism and climate change denialism with the indecorous departure of Donald J. Trump from the…