Stolen temple bell and replica cannon. Opium and Crimean War relics in Nottingham.
Grey rainy day walk with the kids in the Arboretum of Nottingham, the city’s first park set out mid 19th Century. The park contains a monument to the…
Sobre la invención del hogar
Consideraciones para Borja Fernández, estudiante del Máster de Antropología y Etnografía de la Univesitat de Barcelona, enviadas en febrero de 2016 SOBRE LA INVENCIÓN DEL HOGAR Manuel Delgado…
Summer break!
This past academic year we have continued with our regular content featuring anthropological analyses of current events (the pandemic and the assassination of Peter R. de Vries, for…
War between good citizens and bad citizens: tools for today’s totalitarianism in Brazil and the Philippines
On May 6, 2021, on the heels of Brazil’s deadliest month since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, special police forces in Rio de Janeiro killed 28 people…
The False Pandemic and the Great Reset: Day 1 of an Online Interdisciplinary Symposium
A brief note before the main content for this report: since last publishing to this site I have been occupied with preparing a long and detailed series of…
Backing for Korean Studies at Goethe University
Korean Studies at Goethe University is one of what are known as “rare disciplines” (subjects with a small number of professors taught in only a few locations), so…
ResonanceCast #2: Incitement and Coups
Podcast with Jastinder Kaur and Daniel White, moderated by Ian M. Cook Allegra Lab · ResonanceCast 2: Incitement And Coups Referenced articles: Towards an Anthropology of…
Ismail Fajrie Alatas, “What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia” (Princeton UP, 2021)
What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia (Princeton UP, 2021) by Ismail Fajrie Alatas draws on groundbreaking anthropological insights to provide a new under… Visit New Books in…
Ethnographic Film at the Crossroads
Ethnographic film is blooming Ethnographic film, however loosely defined, is blooming. While to track and map the entire production of ethnographic film appears next-to impossible, I want to…
Vad du inte får göra i chefens rum
Vill du utsätta din chef för ett social experiment? Då har jag tre tips som du kan testa. Ledare precis som alla andra styrs av sociala regler. Det…
The Social Potential of Continuing to Wear Masks by Christos Lynteris
We are often told that anti-epidemic masks should not be politicised. Though often well intentioned, this admonition falls short of taking masks seriously as social and historical objects.…
Rethinking Masculinity: Fathers as Caregivers
The author, Aaron Jackson (center), with Wayne (left), a father whose thoughts about masculinity change as he raises his son Nick (right). Aaron J. Jackson This article was…
Annemarie Mol, “Eating in Theory” (Duke UP, 2021)
As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory (Duke UP, 2021),…
Robin Derricourt, “Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions” ( Manchester UP, 2021)
What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread? Robin Derricourt considers the birth and growth of several major religions, using history…
Vaibhav Saria, “Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India” (Fordham UP, 2021)
Hijras, one of India’s third gendered or trans populations, have been an enduring presence in the South Asian imagination—in myth, in ritual, and in everyday life, often associated…
Wednesday Round Up #60
Sharpen your intuitions about plausibility of observed effect sizes. r > .60? Is that effect plausibly as large as the relationship between gender and height (.67) or nearness…
Locating Our Hope: Resilience and Compassion in the Indigenous Southwest
Fight the Virus Campaign, Poeh Cultural Center, Pueblo of Pojoaque. Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray intern 2020–2021 &n…
What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution
[no-caption] DrAfter123/Getty Images Something about me must remind people of a blind 17th-century poet. My last name, Miton, is French, yet people outside of France invariably misspell i…
اهمیت شهر خلاق – بسترهای جذب طبقه خلاق (۵)
همچون همه شهرها، تحقق و زیستِ شهرهای خلاق هم به ساکنین آن مربوط است. این بدان معناست که نمیتوان این مکانها را از ابتدا و برای همیشه برنامهریزی…
فضای شهری و سازوکارهای هویت جنسی-جنسیتی دختران نوجوان (۱۱)
۱-۶-۱ فنون جمعآوری دادهها اولین مرحله در اتنوگرافی، انتخاب موقعیت اجتماعی است(اسپرادلی، ۱۹۸۰). موقعیت اجتماعی مورد نظر این تحقیق مربوط به یک دوره از زندگی(نوجوانی) با توجه به…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۱۵)
فصل دوم : هرمنوتیک و ساختار ۲. هرمنوتیکِ دیلتای: بیان رابطه انسان در زندگی (ادامه از قبل) از نظر دیلتای هنگام مطالعه تاریخ برای پرهیز از نگرشهای جزمی،…
مؤلفه زمان در طراحی (۲)
زمان میتواند در موقعیتهای حضور انسان بلندتر یا کوتاهتر به نظر برسد. با قراردادن بیشتر محرکهای محیطی میتوانیم به این نتیجه نایل شویم. فضا و زمان پدیده های…