How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to John Arroyo
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Vom Architekten und der Bürokratie
Der immer lesenswerte Architekturkritiker der FAZ, Niklas Maak, schreibt über die Geschichte des Pritzker-Preises: Skandalös war die Auszeichnung von Alejandro Aravena, der mit seiner Idee reüs…
Finance is Funds and Games Until It Stops (For Hedge Funds in New York)
By Nazli Azergun Two weeks ago, we experienced a flamboyant coda to an extremely eventful month. Between processing the assault of the US Capitol and Trump’s departure from…
Call for Posts: Imaging Nature
“The Blue Marble,” by NASA/Apollo 17 Crew. Public domain. Modified by Colin Hoag. Environmental humanists and environmental scientists labor over images—their production, their disseminati…
برگزاری نشستهای مجازی یکشنبههای انسانشناسی و فرهنگ
انسانشناسی و فرهنگ به اطلاع علاقهمندان و مخاطبان خود میرساند که برگزاری نشستهای یکشنبههای انسانشناسی و فرهنگ که از زمستان سال ۱۳۹۹ به دلیل پاندمی کرونا متوقف شده…
Death as Something We Make
[no-caption] Rouzes/Getty Images Renee (a pseudonym) closed her eyes, lay her head in her brother’s arms, and gently drew her last breath. Minutes before, she had chugged a…
The Ghost in the Machine is Not Who You Think: Human Labor and the Paradox of Automation with Mary L Gray
BOOK GIVEAWAY!! Leave a Review of This Anthro Life for a chance to win a copy of Ghost Work! Leave us a written review on Apple Podcasts or…
New Ethnographies of the Global South: In Conversation with Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido
How can Sociology be nudged away from its traditional parochialism to embrace empirical work that focuses on the global south? Marco Garrido (assistant professor of sociology at the…
Monique M. Ingalls, “Singing the Congregation: How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community” (Oxford UP, 2018)
The choices that churches make about their musical style do more than simply change the sounds one hears in their gatherings, but actually form certain kinds of community.…
On Online News Making, Cultural Translation, and Journalism Industry in Exile
Journalism is under attack in many contexts from Hungary to the United States. In Turkey, the situation is not different. Autocracy changed the profession radically and forced some…
Lost Blue Books of India
NINTH ALL-INDIAORIENTAL CONFERENCE TRIVANDRUM DECEMBER 20th to 22nd 1937Observations taken more than acentury ago, these* papers describe many things which areno longer actual, and they are become rec…
Further fun with Blue Books
It seems in Sri Lanka a holy text was burnt… a ‘heretical’ text brought from Benares, but not burnt before it inspired the king (Kumaradasa) and some devoted souls……
University of Memphis Business Anthropology Graduate Fellowship – Fall 2021
The Department of Anthropology at University of Memphis (my alma mater) is offering a one-year graduate student fellowship with Terminix. This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on…
Felix Lussem: Alienating “facts” and uneven futures of energy transition
We are in the middle of the Rhineland’s lignite mining region, a semi-urban to rural area in the west of Germany. The landscape is considerably altered by past…
Katja Müller, Charlotte Bruckermann, Kirsten Endres: Introduction: The political power of energy futures
Debates about climate change have long entered political arenas through diplomacy, bureaucracy and regulations as part of worldwide environmental governance. Global efforts to foster greener energy i…
Can Social Scientists Help Control Epidemics?
A poster in an Ebola response center breaks down the evolving response to the epidemic—including efforts to address social and cultural concerns. Annie Wilkinson On May 24, 2014,…
Solidarity, infrastructure and critical pedagogy during COVID-19: Lessons from Brazil by Dominique P. Béhague
Even before the pandemic hit Brazil’s favelas, residents began organizing to protect themselves — against both the novel coronavirus and the government’s active suppression of effective public …
Wednesday Round Up #44
Octomom: Deep-sea octopus guards her eggs for over four yearsAmazing footage of an amazing mother The Empty Brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge, or store…
Animal Displacement from Syria: A Story Yet to be Written
During the Syrian war, which has now raged for a decade, the attention of scholars, media commentators and activists has primarily focused on human displacement. More than 60%…
Lee Ann Fujii, “Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach” (Routledge, 2018)
In this very special episode of New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science we feature Lee Ann Fujii’s Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach (Routledge, 20… Visit New Books…
Duane Jethro, “Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power” (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Duane Jethro’s Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power (Bloomsbury, 2020) is a terrific book. In it, Jethro develops a novel analytical framework… Visit New…
زایش اشاره و گفتار (۲)
آندره لوروا-گوران ترجمه اصغر کریمی زایش اشاره و گفتار وسیرتحول آن، فن و شیوه زبان فصل دوم مغز و دست …چنین بود که در پرتو این سازمان، روح…
سنتهای نظری: رویکردها و منشاهای فرهنگی، اجتماعی بدن مندی
لیلا اردبیلی سال ۲۰۱۹ انتشارات آکسفورد کتابی با عنوان کتاب راهنمای جامعه شناسی شناختی منتشر کرد که در آن کسانی همچون عمر لیزاردو، اویاتار زروباول، کارن سرلو، و…
گونهشناسی نظریههای اجتماعی ریسک و خطرات محیطی
ریسک در چند دهه ی اخیر از انحصار دانش تخصصیِ علوم پایه و مهندسی (علوم فیزیکی) که فقط با ابزارهای فنی تخمین زده می شود، خارج گردیده و…