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…
[no-caption] DrAfter123/Getty Images “The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.” —attributed to anthropologist Ralph Linton I sat in a drab Soviet hotel room in…
It’s hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation.…
How Social Science Creates the World is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and UC Berkeley political scientist Professor Mark Bevir. Mark Bevir is an…
A drillship in the sea. Resource: Unsplash. Amidst an international crisis sparked by the scandalous confessions of a mafia boss and a pollution and climate change-triggered marine disaster…
While page 99 of my dissertation (see below) seems far from its focus on sex apps and digital media among queer men in Beirut, the connection is palpably…
An Anglo-Saxon burial mound rises in Taplow Court, England. Shutterstock This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Scholar…
The six review essays in this collection emerge from a joint launch of five books and one dissertation/ book-in-progress and a panel at the recent annual meeting of…
„Schattenbericht“ unter Mitarbeit der Universität Göttingen kritisiert Umsetzung der Istanbul-Konvention durch die Bundesregierung Eine Pressemitteilung von Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess (pug) Deutschland kom…
The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United States. Yet,…
In Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Apollo, 2020), the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas tells the story of the peopling of the Pacific. In clear, accessible language Thomas shows us that…
Bild von Free-Photos auf Pixabay Mit Entsetzen haben wir die Bilder aus den Hochwassergebieten gesehen und fragen uns natürlich, was wir tun können – unmittelbar zur Unterstützung der…
Read Time:3 Minute, 24 Second El pasado lunes aparecía la noticia de un pueblo asfixiado que clamaba por su libertad, sesenta y dos…
No hay nada mejor que pasar una tarde calurosa de Julio escribiendo sobre positividad tóxica en mi blog abandonado de la mano de… Si no lo sabes, este…
Konspirationistisches Denken gewinnt seit Beginn der Covid-19-Pandemie an gesellschaftlicher Relevanz und medialer Aufmerksamkeit: Auf „Hygienedemonstrationen” zweifeln selbsternannte „Querdenker*inne…
To camp is a mode of seduction – one which employs flamboyant mannerisms susceptible of a double interpretation; gestures full of duplicity, with a witty meaning for cognoscenti…
La foto es de Tim Waterhouse Comentario enviado a Iris Romero y Aline Stonkinger sobre el trabajo entregado para la asignatura “Antropología urbana” en el Máster de Artes…
Die afro-deutsche Frauenbewegung wirkte seit den 1980er Jahren mit neuem, de-kolonialistischem Wissen auf die deutsche Gesellschaft ein – und ist dennoch bis heute kaum bekannt. Die Historikerin Tiffa…
Nice site with photos of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb in 1922.