The Good American (book review)
Imagine if I told you a story about a high school drop-out without any formal credentials who moved into a career with more humanitarian front line work and…
Imagine if I told you a story about a high school drop-out without any formal credentials who moved into a career with more humanitarian front line work and…
Image 1. Photo of Rauner Special Collections library at Dartmouth College, taken from the perspective of Sienna’s favorite table. Photo by Eli Burakian, 2014. Sienna Craig is a writer…
5 Gründe, weshalb es nachhaltig ist, online regional zu kaufen: Ergebnisse eines Lehrforschungsprojektes. Derzeit zeigt sich im medial-öffentlichen Diskurs hier und dort das Phänomen des Click&…
No-till is a soil conservation practice that has been widely adopted by Midwestern farmers. Many have described it as a “win-win” for soil conservation because it offers benefits…
Dr Joanna Siekiera was recently invited to speak at a Special Lecture titled Climate Change and its Impact on Small Islands Developing States: The Example of the Pacific…
Homes along a river in the Sundarbans face a concrete embankment that protects land on the opposite side from rising waters. Megnaa Mehtta The Sundarbans is a region…
Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life (Wayne State University Press, 2020), by Zev Eleff, challenges the current historical paradigm in the study of Orthodox Judais… Visit New…
For many of us in anthropology, the advent of “big data” represents a threat. Why, after all, spend months developing rapport and interviewing 100 people when you can…
In 1996 SAR Press published Senses of Place, an edited volume that originated as an SAR Advanced Seminar co-chaired by Steven Feld and Keit…
For the first time since El Salvador’s mid-20th century military dictatorship, a single political party dominates both the legislative and executive branches of the government, and by all…
On March 12th, 2021, students at Uganda’s Mbarara University of Science andTechnology (MUST) organised a strike. The strike, the students argued, was both a protest against online lectures…
[no-caption] Kim Herbst With over 131 million people fully vaccinated in the U.S. and numbers of new infections dropping nationwide, some have started to declare the “end” of…
In Me, Not You, Alison Phipps uses the #MeToo Movement as a backdrop to her work to illustrate how privileged white women using mainstream feminism as a conduit,…
Karen Ruffle’s Everyday Shi’ism in South Asia (John Wiley & Sons, 2021) is an introduction to the everyday life and cultural memory of Shi’i women and men, focusing on the…
Why do people give to charity? In The Good Glow Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good (Policy Press, 2020), Jon Dean, Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology at Sheffield Hallam…
Yinghong Cheng’s book Discourses of Race and Rising China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) is a critical study of the development of a racialised nationalism in China, exploring its unique characte… Visit…
Balut is a fertilized chicken or duck egg that is boiled at the seventeenth day and sold as a common street snack in the Philippines. While it is…
This is an actual event – by which I mean an important discussion that makes important moves, negotiates languages and ambiguities of the decolonial/postcolonial/colonial. There is good material…
The British Government issued an official handbook on Yemen in 1917. This has recently been uploaded to the Qatar Digital Library. One of the sections gives a general…
از میان شاعران کلاسیک ایران، شاید هیچ کدام، همچون فردوسی، پیشینهای چنین طولانی در پیوند خوردن با فرهنگ مردمی، نداشته باشند. و این که امروز یک گفتمان ملیگرا،…
توضیح تصویر: بردِنشانده. نقش برجسته در پائین پلکان شمال غربی. بردِ نشانده و مسجد سلیمان ایران جنوب غربی از قرن هشتم قبل از میلاد تا قرن پنجم بعد…
رابرت هریس برگردان ملیحه درگاهی فضای مجازی (Cyberspace) یک قلمرو غیرقابل مشاهده است که بوسیله ارتباطات الکترونیکِ رسانه ای اشغال شده است. اصطلاح فضای مجازی توسط نویسنده داستانهای…
فصل اول: اقتدار، اتوریته و فرهنگ ۳. ساختار شکنی از اقتدار دولت، در جامعه شناسی پی یر بوردیو «آیا جامعه شناسی علم است ؟ …» ، این پرسشی…
۱-۲ ضرورت انجام تحقیق نگرش فرد به خود، از اندیشه آزاد و خارج از کنترل ساختارهای اجتماعی شکل نمیگیرد، بلکه نتیجه فرایند اجتماعی شدن در موقعیتهای اجتماعی متفاوت است.…