Ethnographic Film at the Crossroads
Ethnographic film is blooming Ethnographic film, however loosely defined, is blooming. While to track and map the entire production of ethnographic film appears next-to impossible, I want to…
Vad du inte får göra i chefens rum
Vill du utsätta din chef för ett social experiment? Då har jag tre tips som du kan testa. Ledare precis som alla andra styrs av sociala regler. Det…
The Social Potential of Continuing to Wear Masks by Christos Lynteris
We are often told that anti-epidemic masks should not be politicised. Though often well intentioned, this admonition falls short of taking masks seriously as social and historical objects.…
Rethinking Masculinity: Fathers as Caregivers
The author, Aaron Jackson (center), with Wayne (left), a father whose thoughts about masculinity change as he raises his son Nick (right). Aaron J. Jackson This article was…
Annemarie Mol, “Eating in Theory” (Duke UP, 2021)
As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory (Duke UP, 2021),…
Robin Derricourt, “Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions” ( Manchester UP, 2021)
What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread? Robin Derricourt considers the birth and growth of several major religions, using history…
Vaibhav Saria, “Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India” (Fordham UP, 2021)
Hijras, one of India’s third gendered or trans populations, have been an enduring presence in the South Asian imagination—in myth, in ritual, and in everyday life, often associated…
Wednesday Round Up #60
Sharpen your intuitions about plausibility of observed effect sizes. r > .60? Is that effect plausibly as large as the relationship between gender and height (.67) or nearness…
Locating Our Hope: Resilience and Compassion in the Indigenous Southwest
Fight the Virus Campaign, Poeh Cultural Center, Pueblo of Pojoaque. Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray intern 2020–2021 &n…
What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution
[no-caption] DrAfter123/Getty Images Something about me must remind people of a blind 17th-century poet. My last name, Miton, is French, yet people outside of France invariably misspell i…
اهمیت شهر خلاق – بسترهای جذب طبقه خلاق (۵)
همچون همه شهرها، تحقق و زیستِ شهرهای خلاق هم به ساکنین آن مربوط است. این بدان معناست که نمیتوان این مکانها را از ابتدا و برای همیشه برنامهریزی…
فضای شهری و سازوکارهای هویت جنسی-جنسیتی دختران نوجوان (۱۱)
۱-۶-۱ فنون جمعآوری دادهها اولین مرحله در اتنوگرافی، انتخاب موقعیت اجتماعی است(اسپرادلی، ۱۹۸۰). موقعیت اجتماعی مورد نظر این تحقیق مربوط به یک دوره از زندگی(نوجوانی) با توجه به…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۱۵)
فصل دوم : هرمنوتیک و ساختار ۲. هرمنوتیکِ دیلتای: بیان رابطه انسان در زندگی (ادامه از قبل) از نظر دیلتای هنگام مطالعه تاریخ برای پرهیز از نگرشهای جزمی،…
مؤلفه زمان در طراحی (۲)
زمان میتواند در موقعیتهای حضور انسان بلندتر یا کوتاهتر به نظر برسد. با قراردادن بیشتر محرکهای محیطی میتوانیم به این نتیجه نایل شویم. فضا و زمان پدیده های…
صفههای مقدس (۱۰)
بردِ نشانده و مسجد سلیمان ایران جنوب غربی از قرن هشتم قبل از میلاد تا قرن پنجم بعد از میلاد رومن گیرشمن ترجمه اصغر کریمی فصل دهم: مقدونی…
مطالعات تاریخی در بستر علوم شناختی
مطالعات تاریخی در بستر علوم شناختی که زین پس آن را تاریخ شناختی می خوانم یکی از زیرشاخه های علوم شناختی است که در کنار علومی مانند روان…
Anthony Q. Hazard, “Boasians at War: Anthropology, Race, and World War II” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
The realities of race that continue to plague the United States have direct ties to the anthropology. Anthropologists often imagine their discipline as inherently anti-racist and historically… Visit…
Towards an Anthropology of Coups
When is a coup a coup? Reflections on the anthropological study of ‘coups’ There have been more than 200 coups in 95 countries over the last 75 years,…
Collective Listening: CLEAR Soundscapes
This project involves critical listening to reflect on our positionality within our lived environments. The project was conducted as part of CLEAR’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, facilitated by P…
Archaeologists Should Be Activists Too
Archaeologists are well-suited to help organize protests such as this “Count the Vote” rally in 2020. Jon Irons When Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, paused counting votes for one night…
Reflections on the 2021 AusSTS ‘Situated Practices’ Workshop
Workshop participants on a sound walk through downtown Melbourne. Credit: Giles Campbell-Wright The 2021 AusSTS interdisciplinary workshop, hosted by the Deakin University Science & Society Networ…
Anna Corwin on her book, Embracing Aging
Interview by H. Keziah Conrad https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/embracing-age/9781978822276 H. Keziah Conrad: One of the central arguments you make in the book is that there is somethi…