Children and youth are front and center in the context of global mass migration and the social discord around questions of multicultural inclusion that it often ignites. Imprecise…
Jon Keune’s book Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India (Oxford UP, 2021) is about the deceptively simple question: when Hindu devotional or bha… Visit…
In this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal contradictions of sovereignty and capitalism in the formation…
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what…
In the Digital Age, maps are closer to us than ever before—a quick tap on a smartphone and you’re off to the nearest Starbucks for a quick coffee…
In this free online webinar, SAPIENS’ editor-in-chief Chip Colwell explains the ins-and-outs of writing for the magazine and its peer publications. Learn who is behind the SAPIENS editorial…
In the winter of 2020, the Historic Santa Fe Foundation named SAR’s 1920s campus a site worthy of preservation (read the announcement). We …
Heat Listed McDaniel was both a potential victim and a potential perpetrator, and the visitors on his porch treated him as such. A social worker told him that…
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. How big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first…
Berbicara tentang Madura. Orang lebih mengenal dengan sate. Pulau garam yang identik dengan kegigihan orangnya termasuk masalah mempertahankan harga diri. Pulau Madura ada banyak pulau kecil sam…
Eve Rosen’s The Voucher Promise: ‘Section 8’ and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Princeton UP, 2020) examines the Housing Voucher Choice Program, colloquially known as “Section 8,” and … Visit New…
بردِ نشانده و مسجد سلیمان ایران جنوب غربی از قرن هشتم قبل از میلاد تا قرن پنجم بعد از میلاد رومن گیرشمن، برگردان اصغرکریمی توضیح تصویر: بردِ نشانده.…
فصل اول: اقتدار، اتوریته و فرهنگ ۳. ساختار شکنی از اقتدار دولت، در جامعه شناسی پی یر بوردیو (ادامه از قبل) بدین ترتیب اقتدار دولت در جوامع اروپایی…
۱- جنس، جنسیت و سکسوالیته در زمینه مفاهیم جنسیت و سکسوالیته، دیدگاههای معاصر به دوگانه ذاتی/برساختی میپردازند. دیدگاه ذاتگرایانه که اغلب به تفاوتهای بیولوژیک به عنوان علت…
جفری ویتنی برگردان ملیحه درگاهی در این مدخل از دانشنامه مسائل اجتماعی خدمات وام (debt service) به معنای بازپرداخت سرمایه اصلی و سود به صورت قرضه به قلمروهای…
نیل گوردون برگردان آذر اصغریان چرا درونگراها میتوانند در جمع بهتر سخنرانی کنند؟ این را خودشان نگفتند بلکه از عکسالعمل مخاطبان معلوم است. یکبار به پادکستی گوش میکردم…
In einem geistreichen, aber auch provokativen Essay kritisierte Dirk Moses hier auf Geschichte der Gegenwart vor ein paar Tagen die „Hohepriester“ der deutschen Erinnerungskultur dafür, dass sie ein…
This week features commemorations of one of the worst atrocities on American soil during the twentieth century, the so-called Greenwood Massacre, also known as the Tulsa Race Riot.…
Pretty happy to see this taken seriously. Its like I was waiting for someone to reach for the falling penny. When it happens, its come with a whole…
Wrestling with the themes of violence, hope, and resilience, Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi often makes delicate use of red—the color of blood. Imran Qureshi “Love Me, Love Me…
Im Mai 2021 sind die letzten Großobjekte des Ethnologischen Museums Berlin ins Humboldt Forum eingebracht worden – u.a. ein rund 600 kg schwerer und fast neun Meter langer…
Lerato Coulter, Nunu Dlamini, Jonathan Govender, Sarah-Jayne Du Plessis, Ryan Harries, Khanyisile Maphalala, Dineo Mtetwa, Katso Sebina, Hannah Sunpath, Storm Theunissen and Lenore Manderson Unive…
How Political Corruption Impacts Culture From a traditional perspective, when people think of South America, many think of a group … More
Marianne Hem Eriksen (Associate Professor, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester) speaks with Michèle Hayeur Smith (Research Associate, Haffenreffer Museum of Ant… Visit New Books in…