[مجموعه عکس]: قرنطینه (۳)
کرونا به سبب وسعت و گستردگی درگیری میتواند تا سالیان پیش رو سوژههای نابی برای اهالی فرهنگ و هنر اعم از ادبیات، شعر، سینما و نمایش، عکاسی، موسیقی…
Are Pandemics Good for the Environment?
Mountain goats roam the streets of Llandudno, in north Wales, in the absence of tourists. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have noted…
Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19 – Issue 2 by Eugene Raikhel
May 5 -12, 2020 “Medical anthropology weekly: COVID-19” is a weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats focused on medical anthropology and neighboring …
The Chaos of Asynchronous Grief
Spoiler: I hate to say it, but Americans have only begun the five stages of grief, and we aren’t all going through it in the same way…
Links & Contents I Liked 365
Hi all, Wow…this has turned into one of the longest #globaldev reviews in a while-so I hope you have some extra time to explore great food for thought…
Gavin Smith: Rereading Marx on machines in the time of COVID-19
Gavin Smith, University of Toronto “One of the many perils lies in normalizing the ‘batshit crazy’ presently underway.”—Wallace, Liebman, Chavez & Wallace 2020: 5 The COVID-19 pandemic has…
No Longer a Field
by Rachel Howard (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) An intersection at the author’s fieldsite. Image by the author. Suspending my fieldwork due to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Wenn aus Tätern Opfer werden: Freilassung von Gefangenen wegen des Coronavirus in Argentinien (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Kim Radestock Strikte Quarantäne in Buenos Aires. Copyright: Kim Radestock. SARS-CoV-2 hat die gesamte Welt in einen Ausnahmezustand versetzt. Jed…
Nusrat S. Chowdhury, “Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world’s most inhabited. Often described as…
T. Sangaramoorthy and K. Kroeger, “Rapid Ethnographic Assessments” (Routledge, 2020)
How can researchers gather information quickly, for instance in the times of COVID-19? IN their new book, Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit for Collaborative Co……
Jacqueline H. Fewkes, “Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
What is a mosque? What are women’s mosques specifically? What historical values do women’s mosques offer, and what is the relationship between mosque spaces and women’s religious work?…
Sociological Reflections In Times Of Change And Uncertainty: Managing Risk, Trying To Adapt And Being Creative
CATARINA DELAUNAY Covid-19 crisis is not democratic in the sense that it affects everyone equally regardless of age, gender, class, ethnicity or geographic area where one lives, as…
Italia moderna – quattordici
Ein Firmensitz in Mittelitalien, südliche Emilia Romagna, mittlerweile wohl aufgegeben. Man findet solch avancierte Architektur überall in Nord- und Mittelitalien. Wie überhaupt Italien das vielleicht…
#Afterlives: Presumed Dead but Lived On
Treasures and Discreet Afterlives of Greek Heritage in Contemporary Turkey Treasure hunts have long been a common practice, constituting one of the primary problems for heritage preservation in…
Warum braucht es einen medizinsoziologischen Impuls während der Covid-19 Pandemie? Vervollständigung der aktuellen medizinischen Deutung mit den sozialen Folgen
von Arne Conte Das neue Virus „SARS-Covid-2“ mit seiner Erkrankung Covid-19 hat durch seine globale Verbreitung die gesamte Welt in eine bisher unbekannte Situation gebracht. Der gesundheitliche Notst…
Events of Disruptive Transformation by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
We have been discussing the prospects of catastrophes of our own making for decades. We have been debating risks linked to anthropogenic climate change and runaway technologies, trying…
Nancy Mattina on Gladys Reichard
My interview with Nancy Mattina on Gladys Reichard, ‘America’s least appreciated anthropologist’ is now live over at the New Books Network. Go take a listen! Nancy’s carefully…
Review: Anti-Diet
Christy Harrison Anti-Diet: Reclaim your Time, Money, Well-Being and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating. Little, Brown Spark. 2019. Pp. 326. ISBN: 0316420352 (Hardback). Janet Chrzan (University of P…
How Kings Created Angkor Wat—Then Lost It
The impressive temples at Angkor Wat make it famous—but there is much more to the site. Vincent Gerbouin/Pexels Over a thousand years ago, the ancient Khmer civilization emerged…
A Curator’s Search for Justice
In October of last year, I found myself with my family in the heart of a sacred forest of the Mijikenda people of Kenya. One of the elders…
COVID-19 Forum III – Introduction by Christos Lynteris
Thirty-eight days have passed since the publication of Somatosphere’s COVID-19 Forum II. In the course of these days the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the globe…
Book Review: Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football by Tobias Jones
In Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football, Tobias Jones immerses himself in the culture of Italian football ultras, exploring the rituals of different ultra groups, their infamous links…
Research in the time of Corona: A brief update from the Mare Nullius team in Bergen
A brief update on what members of the Mare Nullius team have been up to in the past weeks, while offices and borders have been closed to prevent…
Sociological Reflections In Times Of Change And Uncertainty: Surveillance, Control And Punishment
CATARINA DELAUNAY On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on Covid-19. Several countries, across the world, including Portugal, declared a state of…