15M: El peligro ciudadanista
La foto es de Edu Bayer Intervención en la acampada del movimiento 15M en la plaça de Catalunya de Barcelona, el 20 de mayo de 2011. 15M: El…
When care is delegated: Care troikas in Danish dementia wards by Simone Anna Felding
When a person with dementia moves into a nursing home, he/she is not only physically transferred from one location to another; the relocation also involves a reconfiguration of…
Links & Contents I Liked 406
Hi all, I think this week’s highlight is the ‘new reports’ section with so many great new readings to discover!There’re also links to old men, Sean Penn &…
Study Sessions for Grandmother: An Experiment with Repetition, Memory, and Dementia by Jieun Lee
“My grandmother does a lot of ‘study (gongbu)’. Those are just some activities, but we named them ‘study’. What motivates her [to engage in those activities] is her…
Georgische Ehrenmedaille für Frankfurter Sprachwissenschaftler
Weil sie sich um die Förderung der Georgischen Sprache verdient gemacht haben, sind zwei Wissenschaftler der Goethe-Universität von der georgischen Präsidentin geehrt worden. Dr. Zakharia Pourtskhvani…
Ruins and Precarity in European Peripheries
Copyright: Ognjen Kojanić Theory from the Peripheries: What Can the Anthropology of Postsocialism Offer to European Anthropology? published in the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures wa…
Dead People Tell Tales: Segregated Cemeteries in Richmond Virginia w Dr. Ryan Smith
TAL Correspondent Sara Schmieder brings us an all new interview about the power of cemetery restoration, race in the American South, and bringing legacy to light. Dr. Ryan…
Workbook Motivation
Letztes Jahr, zu Beginn des ersten digitalen Sommersemesters, regte unser Praktikant Vincenz Schmarsow an, ein Workbook zu Motivation zu verfassen. Das war in zweifacher Hinsicht vorausschauend: Er h…
María José Garrido Mayo
María José Garrido Mayo es Doctora en Antropología, con especialización en Etnopediatría y Antropología de la maternidad y la infancia. También es Licenciada en Antropología Social y Cultural,…
Inviting disasters
One particularly warm morning in September 2020, I am looking at photographs and videos in the media depicting the aftermath of medicane (Mediterranean hurricane) Ianós that just rampaged…
Ser madres en el s.XXI
Si algo caracteriza la maternidad en nuestra cultura[1] es la soledad que sienten las madres. La maternidad en nuestra sociedad es invisible, no se considera importante, no se…
Members Matter: Russ and Diane Kyncl
Guest post by SAR members Russ and Diane Kyncl. This is our fifty-year …
Writing Life No. 10: An interview with Sebastjan Vörös by Mareike Smolka
Figure 1: Sebastjan’s philosophy notebook and writing space in Ljubljana, Slovenia “Curiously, our letters turned out to be not a mere sum of (theoretically discrete) elements but a…
Tackling the pandemic: examining the role of social movements and organizations in Argentina by Silvia Hirsch
Introduction Mónica, a 44-year-old woman, wakes up every morning thinking about the challenges ahead. Today, like every other day, she will prepare soup with noodles and rice for…
Decolonising the Digital: Collaborative approaches to virtual heritage
BySidali SidMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology Virtual reality was once a dream confined to science fiction and futurism, promising endless worlds at the touch of our synapses. These…
How Museums Can Do More Than Just Repatriate Objects
Back in 1990, when I was in my third year of graduate school, then-President H.W. Bush signed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) into law:…
El urbanismo como máquina de guerra contra lo urbano
La foto es de James Maher Fragmento del artículo “De la ciudad concebida a la ciudad practicada”, publicado en la revista Archipiélago, 62 (2004): 7-11 EL URBANISMO COMO…
Robert D. Miller II, “Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
Recognizing the absence of a God named Yahweh outside of ancient Israel, this study addresses the related questions of Yahweh’s origins and the biblical claim that there were…
“Not the Chinese, I’m a Pfizer girl!” The covert politics of pharmaceutical branding in Covid struck Hungary
ARIEL BINETH HUNGARY. The country has one of the highest death rates of COVID-19 globally.1 Hospitals are filled with ICU patients at some places outnumbering staff 5:1.2 Nurses…
La trampa del patrimonio: miserias y hegemonía neoliberal
Al hablar de patrimonio todos solemos imaginarnos aquellos monumentos y tesoros emblemáticos de nuestras ciudades, pueblos o países. En ellos se proyectan los discursos y el orgullo patrio…
DFG Research Training Group “Configurations of film“ at Goethe University can continue its work
What happens when film leaves the cinema and becomes available everywhere – out and about on mobile devices, or in the living room at home? The Graduiertenkolleg (Research…
La conquista de la palabra
La foto es Reuters Fragmento de Tomar las calles. La manifestación como ritual político, prólogo para Jofre Padullés y Joan Uribe, eds. La danza de los nadie. Pasos…
Why We Need a Truth Commission on White Supremacy
The author leads a teacher training seminar as part of a genocide education project run by the Documentation Center of Cambodia, a local nongovernmental organization heavily involved in Cambodia’…