A window of opportunity
Our slowed-down, cooled-down, scaled-down lives during the pandemic are evidence that quality of life does not depend on high productivity and frantic consumption. Suddenly, it has become respectable…
On Juneteenth, our fight for full freedom requires that we persist
What we are witnessing today is encouraging for many reasons, among them the fact that we’re seeing a new generation of Americans from all races and backgrounds standing…
Ten Film Scenes Every Stay-At-Home Cinephile Should Know
Ted Gideonse is a medical anthropologist who studies the effects of public health discourses about HIV and drugs. As people with more than a passing understanding of biology…
Imagining Rural Immunity
Political myth-making about America’s rural “heartland” is doubly pernicious, increasing rural vulnerability to COVID-19 and ignoring the disintegration of rural health services. In March 2020, Fair…
How to Start a Meditation Practice
I came to meditation because my brain is always running. The part of an academic’s job that requires me to think and theorize sometimes grows much larger than the…
Saving Anthropology from COVID-19
Higher education is at a crossroads. Can we adapt to the ongoing challenges and create transformative educational courses for an uncertain future? As colleges and universities started shutting…
Sign Languages as Disaster Entertainment
Sign language interpreters have become social media celebrities of our coronavirus moment. But signing is not a form of light entertainment; it should be lifesaving information. Dutch health…
The Funny Wrath of Italy’s Viral Mayors
In March 2020, a video of Italian mayors scolding citizens for failing to stay at home went viral. Only ostensibly insignificant, these clickable white men reveal new forms…
Coloring for Anthropologists
Get creative with our coloring page produced in collaboration with March Mammal Madness. Image description: A gorilla stands in mid-stride. Charon Henning March Mammal Madness is a bracket-based tourn…
Social Inequality in Times of Pandemics
We should not expect COVID-19 to behave in the same way as historical pandemics of plague. But both show how inequalities exacerbate mortality outcomes. It’s a gorgeous, warm…
On Living through Plagues and Wars in Lebanon
In much of the Global North COVID-19 is wreaking existential havoc. For the war-seasoned Lebanese in the throes of an economic meltdown and ongoing protests, it is yet…
فرازگفتارها
.”Le meilleur gouvernement est celui où il y a le moins d’hommes inutiles” Voltaire بهترین حکومت، حکومتی است با کمترین آدم‌های بی خاصیت. ولتر، نویسنده و فیلسوف…
غزل‌وارگی در اشعار موسیقی قومی ایران
اندیشه غزل در موسیقی قومی از دو جهت قابل بررسی است: اول این که این اندیشه خود به طور فرهنگی و اساسی در این موسیقی موجود بوده و…
بوطیقای شهر (۸۲)
نقاشی: Incendiaries In a suburb, 1941 By Henry Carr ** پیرسانسو برگردان ناصر فکوهی و زهره دودانگه زمان شهری، انسان گریزان را زیر فشار می‌گذارد و از او…
جهانی‌شدن و فیلم مستند؛ به سوی نمایش فرهنگ‌های محلی
همراه با گسترش روزافزون فناوری‌های صوتی – تصویری، اقبال مخاطبان و سرمایه‌گذاری شرکت‌های مختلف از گوگل تا تلویزیون‌های ملی، مستندهای عظیم و پرهزینه‌ای در سال‌های اخیر ساخته شده‌اند.…
شهر، دین و خشونت
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…
افتتاح کانال انسان‌شناسی و فرهنگ در ساوند کلاود
کانال موسسه انسان‌شناسی و فرهنگ در ساوندکلاود ٣٠ خردادماه ١٣٩٩ کار خود را آغاز می کند. فایل‌های صوتی جلسات برگزار شده، درسگفتارها، و سخنرانی‌هایی که به نوعی به…
پیر شالیار هورامان
اطلاعات کتاب‌شناختی: پیر شالیار هورامان، نویسنده: سارا محمودی، زبان کتاب: فارسی، انتشارات: ئه وین، محل انتشار: کردستان، مریوان، تعداد صفحات: ۱۳۰ صفحه کتاب «پیر شالیار هورامان» کتابی است…
(E)thnographic Correspondence and Collaborative Improvisation
by Joelle Powe, Thea McRae, Christina Jones and Laith A. Ayogu. Screenshots from virtual meetings with authors on Google Hangouts and Zoom, taken during quarantine in various locations. Screenshot…
ARHE Solidarity Statement
We, in the Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies Special Interest Group (ARHE SIG), condemn the recent killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee, Tony McDade,…
Engaging the Pandemic
How one medical anthropologist is boosting our capacity to understand and contend with COVID-19. In late February 2020, I traveled back to the United States from India and…
“The Hostel saved me, really” – addiction and homelessness under Covid-19 by Johannes Lenhard
When I did my second shift of volunteering at the Hostel[1], new rules were already in place: ‘stay-at-home’ orders had been issued and were enforceable (if not necessarily e…
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Happy Midsummer from Sweden! It has been an intense week, listening to two exceptional events on racism, #globaldev, becoming #AntiRacistinAid and compiling a new resource on that topic.…
Enikő Vincze: Post-covid “Economic recovery” in Romania: forget labor, save capital, and support militarization?
Enikő Vincze, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoc On May 28th the liberal Romanian government published the last data on the employment situation. This is therefore a good time to review…