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 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…
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…
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.…
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…
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),…
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…
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…
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…
Fight the Virus Campaign, Poeh Cultural Center, Pueblo of Pojoaque. Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray intern 2020–2021 &n…
[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…
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…
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…
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،…
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…
بردِ نشانده و مسجد سلیمان ایران جنوب غربی از قرن هشتم قبل از میلاد تا قرن پنجم بعد از میلاد رومن گیرشمن ترجمه اصغر کریمی فصل دهم: مقدونی…
مطالعات تاریخی در بستر علوم شناختی که زین پس آن را تاریخ شناختی می خوانم یکی از زیرشاخه های علوم شناختی است که در کنار علومی مانند روان…
The realities of race that continue to plague the United States have direct ties to the anthropology. Anthropologists often imagine their discipline as inherently anti-racist and historically… Visit…
When is a coup a coup? Reflections on the anthropological study of ‘coups’ There have been more than 200 coups in 95 countries over the last 75 years,…
This project involves critical listening to reflect on our positionality within our lived environments. The project was conducted as part of CLEAR’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, facilitated by P…
Archaeologists are well-suited to help organize protests such as this “Count the Vote” rally in 2020. Jon Irons When Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, paused counting votes for one night…
Workshop participants on a sound walk through downtown Melbourne. Credit: Giles Campbell-Wright The 2021 AusSTS interdisciplinary workshop, hosted by the Deakin University Science & Society Networ…