Why do we find pervasive gender-based discrimination, exclusion and violence in India when the Indian constitution builds an inclusive democracy committed to gender equality? This is the puzz……
In Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty (Duke UP, 2020), Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antenna… Visit New Books…
Some notes from 2012… Gunnersbury Bagh. (Kill your darlings 10) 26/04/2017 ~ JOHN HUTNYK ~ [A set of cuts that jettison the last underworked section of the book – residue of…
“Gracias a todos los trabajadores y clientes de Amazon: ¡Vosotros habéis pagado todo esto!” Exclamó Jeff Bezos después de su viaje al espacio. Dueño del yate más caro…
Protestors filled Plaza San Martín in Lima, Peru, last November to demonstrate against the legislative coup that removed then-President Martín Vizcarra from power. Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty…
I want to introduce you to a policy that has revolutionised the way one of the smallest, but also one of the most powerful First World countries in…
The Excavating the Biosocial series has so far focused on birth cohorts as ethnographic object (Gibbon and Pentecost 2020). In this post, I explore the expansion of interest…
Youtube lecture on Kinship theories (Descent theory and Structuralism) Youtube lectu…
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the optimism of the early days of the world wide web appears to have completely abated. The pandemic has proven justification…
What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—es……
In Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (MIT Press, 2020), physician-anthropologist Eugene T. Richardson explores how public health practices—from epidemiological mo… Visit New Books in Anthropology for the…
✍ هماکنون بسیاری از جوامع، منجمله جامعۀ ایران، با بحرانهای اجتماعی گوناگونی دست به گریبان هستند؛ پاندمی کرونا و مسئلۀ واکسیناسیون، تورم و فقر، مسائل محیط زیستی و…
Ressenya de la traducció catalana de Tristos tròpics, de Claude Lévi-Strauss, a càrrec de Miquel Martí i Pol (Barcelona, Anagrama, 1992, 444 p.), publicada al Quadern de Cultura d’El País,…
Sexism Still Winning at the Olympic Games Most, if not all, of the IAAF investigations that have made it into the media have involved women from the Global…
There is a Facebook site about Egypt’s last king, Farouk, with pictures from his time in office.
Hombre bororo fotografiado por Claude Lévi-Strauss Fragmento de la introducción a Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Trópicos, Círculo de Lectores, Barcelona, 1993. LA ETNOGRAFÍA COMO …
The coming Olympics will showcase some of the most extraordinary human feats of strength, speed, and agility. As an archaeologist who focuses on the development of the human…
In The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media, Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis explore the discipline of sociology at a time when public…
Today I interviewed Kailing Xie on her recently published book, Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). This bo… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
In Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Theodore Cohen examines the ways in which different protagonists sought to incorporate Blacknes… Visit New Books in…
In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term th… Visit…
Geschichte der Gegenwart geht in die Sommerpause – und sendet bis Ende August ein Sommerprogramm mit Lesetipps und Erinnerungen an magische Filme. Sie erhalten von uns wie gewohnt…
Happy to announce that New Books Network has just released my new interview with Nicholas Thomas about his latest book Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific. If you…
From Humans and Nature and Co-edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer We live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties…