In the Journals, April, Part 2 by Livia Garofalo
Here’s the second part of the round-up for April. Enjoy! Social Science & Medicine Help me quit smoking but don’t make me sick! The controversial effects of electronic…
Climate Change and COVID-19: Online Learning and Experiments in Seeing the World Anew
By Adam Fleischmann The site is easy to access. Just a short walk and I’m there, immediately confronted with two large rectangular windows. The large window up high…
An Unlawful Form of Democracy
What do we mean by an unlawful form of democracy? In the context of discussing the events of January 6, … More
Abuso y mentira
Prólogo de El vicio del ladrillo, Lluis Pellicer (Catarata, 2014) ABUSO Y MENTIRA Manuel Delgado ¿Cómo fue posible aquello? ¿Cómo fue posible que aparentemente casi nadie se diera…
جهانیشدن؛ تعریفها، فهمها، رویکردها
تد لولن[۱] (۲۰۰۶ – ۱۹۴۰) انسانشناس فقید و استاد دانشگاه ریچموند نویسندهی یکی از چند کتابی است که به گواهی پروژه کتابشناسی دانشگاه آکسفورد[۲] از کتابهای مبنایی حوزهی…
رمانهای پلیسی و آوازهگریهای ناسیونالیستی در ترکیه (۱۹۴۵-۱۹۲۸)
نادر انتخابی Investigating Turkey: Detective Fiction and Turkish Nationalism, 1928-1945. David Maso. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017. ۱۸۴ pp. ناسیونالیسم عامل یکپارچگی ماست. در برابر اکثری…
توصیفی مختصر از شهر کرج
مقدمه هنگامی که نام شهر کرج از ذهنمان عبور می کند با کلیشه هایی که همواره در عرف جامعه وجود دارد همسو می شویم، برای مثال اتوبان تهران…
Why the Camp Grant Massacre Matters Today
In 2015, members of the Apache Nation and their allies protested actions by the U.S. Congress that granted parts of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper Mining. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty…
Eine Zukunft für die Kultur
– Umdenken lernen, um neue Wege und Ansätze zu finden Von Julia Koop Ein Weiterführen der Gedanken von Mareike Mennes Beitrag Kultur-Zukunft suchend. Im Laufe des noch anhaltenden…
Links & Contents I Liked 404
Hi all, From Argentina to Zimbabwe & from Bangladesh to the Philippines this week’s review also covers stories from India, Myanmar, Germany, UK and the US. Stay safe…
My Reflections Two Years After Surviving a Classroom Shooting
Today marks two years since a classroom shooting happened while teaching my final class at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Six students were shot, two of which…
Online-Workshop Digitalisierung als Laufbahnchance
Online-Workshop: Digitalisierung und Laufbahnplanung für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaftler*innen nächster Termin: 19.5.2021, 9-15 Uhr Teilnehmerzahl min. 5, max. 12 Kursleitung: PD Dr. Mareike…
Rain on snow – how do people and reindeer learn to survive?
This winter and spring we hear again disastrous news from sudden temperature rises and falls, leading to thick ice-crusts on reindeer pastures that block reindeer’s access to their…
Writing your thesis – some tips and tricks
Over the course of my studies I have received a lot of advice on how to best go about writing my thesis. In this blog, I have curated…
Brotgelehrte 4 – Stellenbörsen
In den großen Stellenbörsen sind einfach keine passenden Ausschreibungen? Dann lohnt es, sich spezifischer auszurichten, z.B. nach Region, nach (Ziel-)Branche, nach (Herkunfts-)Fach. Wir pflegen …
Sinicizing Islam in Contemporary China
Modern states, both liberal and non-liberal, tend to deploy totalitarian-style strategies which force an “internal other” to assimilate into the dominant group. Such assimilationist policies presume t…
Trust Versus Paranoia: Can the Siberian fire spirit explain the spectacular failure of the UK Covid track and trace app?
Piers Vitebsky (pv100(at)cam.ac.uk) and Roza Laptander (roza.laptander(at)mail.ru) are going to give an interesting example on how to de-provincialise Arctic social sciences. This time on a topic tha…
Walda Barrios, fantástica luz
Me he enterado con gran dolor y desesperación de que Walda Barrios-Klee nos ha dejado: La foto que aparece en los periódicos de Guatemala es ésta, en la…
Part 2. They say that Paris 1967 changed Marshall Sahlins
They say that Paris 1967 changed Marshall Sahlins, the encounter with both the revolutionary activism of French students and the structuralism of Levi-Strauss. And it’s true; Paris 1967 di…
Brenda Chalfin: Taking Arendt to the Toilet – Excursions in Ethnographic Theory
https://aoe.fi/api/download/audioonly-1619701055444.m4a Brenda Chalfin (University of Florida) gave a talk titled “Taking Arendt to the Toilet: Excursions in Ethnograp…
Thesis Review and Discussion: The Metamorphosis of Greek Cuisine
Kapari Deli in Athens city centre, Greece Photographs by Nafsika Papacharalampous If you have written a recent thesis in the Anthropology of Food or would like to review…
How Black Caribbean Communities Are Reviving an Ancestral Dance Tradition
Bèlè dancers and musicians help shape how some Martinicans envision their future society. Benny René Charles As public discussions about social justice and Black resistance continue in th…
Situating COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Tanzania by Thomas Nyalile
In early February 2021, Tanzanian Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima announced that the Tanzanian government would not partake in COVID-19 vaccination campaigns—“we are not yet satisfied that those vacc…