Did Processed Foods Make Us Human?
Anthropologist Bill Schindler uses techniques developed thousands of years ago to prepare fresh-caught salmon during the filming of National Geographic’s The Great Human Race. Luke Cormack …
Textiles Großprojekt: Der Umzug des Lienzo Seler II ins Humboldt Forum
© SPK / Elena Then Die Textilrestaurator*innen Kerstin Flemming und Thomas Arens arbeiten momentan im Team an einem gemeinsamen Großprojekt: Dem Lienzo Seler II. Es hing fast 50…
Quantum Arms Race
A lot has been said and written about the impending unleashing of quantum technology in the world. Whereas many sing paeans to the potential of the technology to…
Placing the Anthropos in the Anthropocene
Jeff Hoelle and I just wrapped up proofs on an article that will be part of a special issue dedicated to the Anthropocene in the Annals of the…
Kristin Hickman takes the page 99 test
On page 99 of my dissertation, Révolution Dārija? Imagining Vernacular Futures in Morocco, the reader finds themself in a Casablanca dubbing studio alongside a sound engineer and a…
Wounded Attachments: Intimacy, Infrastructure, and Harm in the National Public Hospital by Livia Garofalo
The first thing you see from the highway is a massive building. The Hospital is simply enormous. In front of the Hospital plaza is a roundabout. In the…
Textiles Großprojekt: Der Umzug des Lienzo Seler II ins Humboldt Forum
Die Textilrestaurator*innen Kerstin Flemming und Thomas Arens arbeiten momentan im Team an einem gemeinsamen Großprojekt: Dem Lienzo Seler II. Es hing fast 50 Jahre lang unberührt in seiner…
The Narrative of LGB in Iran and the Chronic Closet
Abstract The Narrative of LGB in Iran and the Chronic Closet By using snowballing and Grounded Theory approach, a research was conducted during the course of one year…
Language, silence and climate in Yamal
In spring we were proud to host the world’s first anthropological PhD defence in english by a Nenets colleague, Roza Laptander. Now we are happy that she got…
Jim Mason, “An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature” (Latern Books, 2002)
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1993 and then by Continuum in 1998, Jim Mason’s An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature has become a classic.…
Dwaipayan Banerjee, “Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi (Duke UP, 2020) Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi’s urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients…
Lamont Lindstrom, “Tanna Times: Islanders in the World” (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
For four decades, Lamont “Monty” Lindstrom has conducted research on the island of Tanna in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Considered by outsiders to be incredibly exotic, Tanna…
Jim Mason, “An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature” (Latern Books, 2002)
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1993 and then by Continuum in 1998, Jim Mason’s An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature has become a classic.…
Lamont Lindstrom, “Tanna Times: Islanders in the World” (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
For four decades, Lamont “Monty” Lindstrom has conducted research on the island of Tanna in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Considered by outsiders to be incredibly exotic, Tanna…
Dwaipayan Banerjee, “Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi (Duke UP, 2020) Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi’s urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients…
Aforismos
El tiempo que nos ha tocado vivir está compuesto por momentos efímeros donde los análisis de la realidad se quedan en lo superficial, una sociedad líquida que diría…
میکروسلبریتی و خودِ برندشده(۲)
ترزا سنف-دانشگاه مککوآری برگردان: فردین علیخواه از ستارههای خردهفرهنگ تا کردارهای میکروسلبریتی برای برخی از خوانندگان، هر آنچه در بالا گفته شد به نظر میرسد که بر منطق…
Discussing Phone and Spear
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/phone-spear An edited excerpt from an ongoing conversation between Jennifer Deger and Zeynep Devrim Gürsel Zeynep Devrim Gürsel: How has twenty five years of …
Moments of Resilience Amid a Pandemic
[no-caption] Angus Krieg SAPIENS host Chip Colwell speaks with Melanie Adams, the director of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), about #Moments of Resilience, the ACM’s e…
Risky business: how older ‘at risk’ people in Denmark evaluated their situated risk during the COVID-19 pandemic by Amy Clotworthy
This blog post is a teaser for a longer article to be published in vol 41, issue 2 of the Journal of Anthropology and Aging in November 2020.…
سفرنامه جنوب هند(۲)
دی ماه بود و روزهای نسبتا گرم و مرطوب مومبای شروع شده بود قدم زنان به طرف هتل تاج محل به راه افتادم و از ایست بازرسی پلیس…
Medmänskliga möten i kassakön
Jag står i kassan i den stora matvaruaffären och lastar omsorgsfullt upp mina varor på bandet. Denna monotona aktivitet en dyster novembermåndag avbryts oväntat av kassörskans glada kommentar:…
The Evolution of Comfort Food
The winter holiday season will feel different this year for many: Extended families may not be able to gather, leaving holiday meals shared with smaller groups, or digitally,…
The Nexus between the Temporary Marriage and Early Child Marriages
Abstract The Nexus between the Temporary Marriage and Early Child Marriages The present study is a step towards deeper understanding of the phenomenon of Temporary Marriage (TM) and…