Amazon Sidewalk Needs our Trust for its Security
On June 8, 2021, Amazon deployed an “opt-in” way for people to enable the company to expand its private network into communities, creating infrastructure to peddle even more…
Violence, Gender, and Policing in Colombia: In Conversation with Dr. Jon Gordon
In today’s interview, we speak with Dr. Jon Gordon, incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at Appalachian State University, who tells us about his research with criminalized men in…
Cynthia J. Becker, “Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today there are…
Sobre el culto al método o el método como rito
Foto de Marc-Javierre Kohan Comentario para Esther Vidella, estudiante de doctorado en la UB, enviado el 20 de agosto de 2018 SOBRE EL CULTO AL MÉTODO O EL…
Anthropology and Anthropologist
Poem written by Dr. Geetika Ranjan Professor, Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong. I am Anthropology I have been walking through the years in quest of…
Finnes det noe hvitere enn progrock?
PULS, juli 2021 Jeg hadde vært gjest i Knut Reiersruds “BluesAsylet”, og temaet var progrock og svart musikk. Det var en hyggelig stund, men som så ofte forlot…
Het ontstaan van een nationale held
Door Irene Stengs Op plekken waar mensen op een dramatische manier om het leven zijn gekomen ontstaat de laatste decennia vaak een tijdelijk monument bestaande uit bloemen, kaarsen,…
Burdened with Glorious Purpose: Loki and the Hidden, Occult Power of Bureaucracy
By Emma Louise Backe At the beginning of Marvel’s new Disney+ series Loki, the God of Mischief and Chaos is apprehended just as he’s escaped from the Avengers…
The Evolution of Throwing
United States Olympic athlete Kara Winger competes in the women’s javelin throw in 2019. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images With the Tokyo Olympics on the horizon, Kara Winger is trainin…
Book Review: The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race and the Gentrifying City by Tyler Denmead
In The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race and the Gentrifying City, Tyler Denmead reflects on his role in founding New Urban Arts, an arts and humanities programme primarily for young people…
Komplimente
Heute ist es bedrückend, ins Internet zu schauen. Und auch sonst ist ein bisschen der Wurm drin. Bestimmt kennt Ihr solche Tage. Darum gibt es heute einfach mal…
#Bookreview: Dying to Eat
Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife (2018), edited by Candi K. Cann, is an interdisciplinary study that cuts across various approaches, including the…
Christian C. Lentz, “Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam” (Yale UP, 2019)
Why is Vietnam’s modern history so closely associated with a place that lies only just within the country’s borders? What was at stake in the contest for the…
Fish as Food: Lifestyle and a Sustainable Future
Fish dinner. Photo credit: David Beriss SAFN member Ellen Messer has written to us here at SAFN World Headquarters about the virtual International Conference on the Anthropology of…
Registrierung zur Tagung hat begonnen
Die Registrierung für die DGSKA-Tagung 2021 ist gestartet. Registrieren Sie sich jetzt. Ab 15.8. steigen die Preise. Hier die einzelnen Ticketkategorien auf einen Blick: DGSKA-Mitglied oder Mitglied e…
Wednesday Round Up #58
My Traumatic Breakfast With Gabor Maté Which brings us back to his diagnosis of me in that Vancouver cafe: “You have deep unresolved pain.” Telling the mark something…
Labeling the Schilderswijk
By Sophie Koolma Many labels are applied to Schilderswijk, a multicultural neighborhood in the city of The Hague. Slum, ‘problem area’, ghetto, disadvantaged, poor. These are all words…
Copyright on the Farm
In 2015, tractor manufacturer John Deere made waves for sending its dealers a letter asserting that when farmers repaired their own John Deere equipment, what they were really…
Copyright on the Farm
By MC Forelle This article is based off of the work recently published by the author in New Media and Society, titled “Copyright and the modern car: Colliding…
Roy Baumeister, “Being Social” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Being Social is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland. This extensive conversation explore… Visit…
Lindy McDougall, “The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century” (Indiana UP, 2021)
Today on New Books in Gender Studies Jana Byars talks with Lindy McDougall, of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia about her new book, The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in…
زیباشناسی امر ساده
عکاسی عشایری در ایران بسیار زود و از ابتدای قرن بیستم با ورود نخستین انسان شناسان اروپایی و آمریکایی (اسپونر، بارت، بازن، بک، تاپر و … که تخصص…
صفههای مقدس (۹)
بردِ نشانده و مسجد سلیمان ایران جنوب غربی از قرن هشتم قبل از میلاد تا قرن پنجم بعد از میلاد رومن گیرشمن برگردان اصغر کریمی فصل نهم آیَدَنها…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۱۴)
فصل دوم : هرمنوتیک و ساختار ۲. هرمنوتیکِ دیلتای: بیان رابطه انسان در زندگی ویلهم دیلتای ( ۱۸۳۳ـ۱۹۱۱) یکی از اندیشمندان بزرگ آلمانی است. «دانش هرمنوتیک و مطالعه…