Weed or Not Weed?
Weeding is an exercise in anthropology. How do we know what’s a weed? The great French anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss, organized his 80-year career around one foundational principle: R…
The Ghost of Amanullah: Afghanistan Redux
The Khyber Pass in 1923 Historians generally assume that “modernity” jump-started in Afghanistan in 1919 with the crowning of Ghazi Amanullah Khan as emir and later as king…
Haunted by My Teaching Skeleton
Museum storage facilities, such as this one in Germany, often hold the remains of human beings. Jens Büttner/Picture Alliance/Getty Images There is something unsettling about being alone …
P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, “The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now” (MIT Press, 2021)
Increasingly we live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialize, and learn digitally. The shift to remote everything during the pandemic was another step in a decades-long…
Nicola J. Smith, “Capitalism’s Sexual History” (Oxford UP, 2020)
As ongoing controversies over commercial sex attest, the relationship between capitalism and sexuality is deeply contentious. Economic and sexual practices are assumed to be not only separabl… Visit…
When Cash Rules: A Local Researcher/Activist’s Fieldnotes on “Passive Locals” Living Around Mailiao’s Petrochemical Complex
Yunlin is a coastal county in Western Taiwan famous for its agricultural produce, also known as “the barn of Taiwan.” However, the exchange value of agricultural produce has…
En un presente remoto
La foto es de Marcel·li Saenz Reseña de Alberto Cardín. Lo próximo y lo ajeno. Icaria, Barcelona, 1990, publicado en Babelia, suplemento literario de El País, el 20 de mayo…
SAR Welcomes New Board Members
SAR Welcomes New Board Members …
Barney Bate’s book, Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33334 Hannah Carlan interviews E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, and Constantine V. Nakassis Hannah Carlan: Bernard Bate’s posthumous book Protestant Textu…
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, “Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing…
Jennifer Morton, “Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility” (Princeton UP. 2021)
Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path…
Die Korrespondenzen der Großmutter. Von Erinnerungsstücken zu historischen Quellen
Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash Von Katharina Burgstaller-Mühlbacher Im Haus der Großmutter „Little things mean a lot.” Dieses Lied ist seit Wochen über den Röhrenempfänger z…
Stellenausschreibungen: Green Jobs für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW 33
Bild: Pixabay by vanni_mc Wir wünschen einen guten Start in die Woche und viel Erfolg beim Suchen, Finden und Bewerben. Und nicht vergessen – Ihr könnt uns und…
در ستایش در همآمیختگی هنری
محسن حجاریان، موسیقیشناس برجسته ایرانی در مطلبی با عنوان:«سرنوشت نقد موسیقی ایرانی» به خاطراتی از دوران انقلاب اشاره میکند و با تمثیل جذابی که از تقلیلگرایی در ذهنیتها…
چالش آموزش در ایران
تعلیم و تربیت یکی از مهمترین نهادهای جامعه پذیرکننده در هر جامعهای است که در قالب آن یک انتظار میرود یک شخصیت اجتماعی خودساخته پرورش یابد که ابتدا…
گردشگری وافزایش رفاه جوامع مقصد
در سالهای اخیر تاثیر گردشگری بر مولفههای رفاه اجتماعی در دو حوزه شهری و روستایی مورد توجه قرار گرفته است. علاوه بر آن که اندیشمندان و نظریه پردازان…
اهمیت شهر خلاق (۶)
اهمیت شهر خلاق – شهر خلاق به مثابه مکان (۶) رقابت شهر خلاق به مثابهی شهرِ جهانی با دیگر شهرها، در توانایی جذب و نگاهداشتِ طبقه خلاق است.…
درمانکاوی در کاشان و تهران
همراهیِ دمِ درد*: درمانکاوی در کاشان و تهران از بدحادثه و طنز روزگار، بیمارستان اصولا با موجودات منحوس، ریز و نامریی و میکروسکوپی، پدیدار میشود و موجودیت می…
2 legs good, 4 legs better: Uner Tan syndrome, part 2
Image by massaoud el allaoui from Pixabay (I am republishing a lot of my ‘legacy content’ from our PLOS Neuroanthropology weblog, which has been taken down, along with many of the…
Asifa Majid on language and olfaction
(I am republishing a lot of ‘legacy content’ from our PLOS Neuroanthropology weblog, which has been taken down, along with many of the other founding PLOS Blogs. Some…
Giving names to aromas in Aslian languages
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails…
Life in the Dark
Image by Pexels from Pixabay (I am republishing a lot of ‘legacy content’ from our PLOS Neuroanthropology weblog, which has been taken down, along with many of the other found…
A Policy of Forfeiture of Rights and Annuities under the Peace Treaty of 1853
In numerous essays on this blog I have noted that many of the tribes considered the most violent, and those who had participated in the wars in southwestern…