In Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025), anthropologist Dr. Greta Lynn Uehling illuminates the untold stories of Russia’s occupation of Crimea…
Weil man die multiethnische US-Gesellschaft in der Realität nicht mehr „entdiversifizieren“ kann, versucht sich die Trump-Administration an der „damnatio memoriae“: der symbolischen Tilgung von Erinne…
بخش چهلوهشتم/ طبقه (Classe)/ ک.م.هان/ برگردان: فریبرز مجیدی بحث و جدل در طول نسلهای پیدرپی موجب آن نشده است که مرکزیت مفهوم طبقه در علوم اجتماعی چندان تغییری…
برداشتی عمیق از میراث فرهنگی در جریان گردشگری محلهمحور فراغت در فرهنگ ایرانی مبتنی بر غایتمحوری، پرهیز از ابتذال و آسیبرسانی به ارزشهای اصیل ملی و دینی است.…
The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir (Wipf and Stock, 2024) is a narrative of a Christian family in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Based on diary…
Camilla Annerfeldt joins to discuss Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome (Bloomsbury, 2025). This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides…
The academic year is finally winding down and many of us are hoping to travel— for research, fun, or a … More
Too often these days our world, or community, is horribly divided and divisive. And not just by the actions of the present administration, but it seems everything and…
Revisiting the Skeletons of Roopkund Lake AI Summary with minor edits by SAR Team Roopkund Lake Located in India’s Himalayan mountains is Roopkund, a small glacial lake that…
SAR Moments: Revisiting the Skeletons of Roopkund Lake AI Summary with minor edits by SAR Team …
In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo…
Since 2018, personal data collected, stored, or otherwise processed in the European Union must comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). I would like to share some…
George Floyd, an African American man, was murdered by a white police officer on May 25, 2020, after being suspected of using a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. This incident…
After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides. In the new book Something Between Us, he…
A personal note: Dr. Mark Bookman was an incredible scholar, the foremost expert on historical and contemporary disability issues in Japan, a wonderful and caring person any my…
اشاره: یکی از پرسشهای اساسی در بررسیهای تاریخی گیلان این است که در سپیده دم تاریخ یعنی زمانی که انسان در نواحی کوهپایه و کوهستان حضور داشت و…
In this interview with LSE Review of Books Managing Editor Anna D’Alton, Danny Dorling discusses his new book, The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future which…
What can soldier humour tell us about international relations? To begin with, humour is a universal social practice …
As the influx of processed foods threatens traditional diets in rural Mexico, an intergenerational community is forming to keep people healthy. Milpa is an ancestral way of farming…
„Barcelona oder sterben“, so lautet die Devise auswanderungswilliger junger Leute in Senegal. Die Positionen Westafrikas und Europas zu Migration könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Die einen forder…
In Transformismo, M. Myrta Leslie Santana draws on years of embedded research within Cuban trans/queer communities to analyze how transformistas, or drag performers, understand their roles in the social…
Following a group of US Midwest farmers who purchased tracts of land in the tropical savanna of eastern Brazil, Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado (Cornell University Press,…
Helping on a prescribed fire as a volunteer firefighter sometime in September, I felt the anticipation that had been building in our team dissipate as we learned that…
Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China by Christof Lammer (Berghahn 2024), 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-80539-651-2 Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College) Several …