Take a look at a globe. Europe is there in big letters, and, to us, this hardly merits a passing thought. But Europe is a concept, a construct,…
Phil Zuckerman’s book, Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment (2nd ed.) (New York University Press, 2020), points out that religious conservatives… Visit New…
Living Nations, Living Words, SAR Welcomes Joy Harjo …
The Greek mathematician Pythagorus, considered the founder of mathematics, left his home in Samos for Egypt in 535 BCE. A decade later he was captured and taken prisoner…
With a new congress and president the federal government will once again become the focus of advocacy and attention for advancing a racial equity agenda. The question before…
Contemporary anthropological praxis sits at the intersection of two ethical traditions. Many anthropologists are equipped with both a sophisticated understanding of the ethics and politics of rep…
El capitalismo de vigilancia un capitalismo que cada vez tiene más poder político y económico. Ya sabemos que todo lo que toca el capital lo destruye, lo transforma…
Door Peter Versteeg Veranderen, verandering – waarom willen we dat eigenlijk? Weten we werkelijk waarom we soms ons leven om willen gooien of zijn onze motieven ten diepste…
Born in Mexico, Rosario (a pseudonym) has worked as a cleaner in the Los Angeles public hospital system for more than three decades. But despite meeting California state…
This round up brings research papers, but first a taste of sublime. Chasing the Sublime The video features one of the better definitions of human agency I’ve heard…
Introducción Juan Antonio Alcántara Hernández es un nombre que puede sonarnos como otro cualquiera dentro de nuestro diverso bosque nominal peruano. Pero si pronunciamos Víctor Andes, la cosa…
“Anthropology for kids” as a research project I spent most of my life doing two things – raising children and moving from country to country. I’m an eternal…
Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China (Intellect Books, 2020) is an exploration of China’s cultural economy over the last twenty years, particularly through the lens of its creative…
Whether framed as complaints about cancel culture or as increased awareness of prejudice, stories about offensive language are common in our daily news cycle. In On the Offensive: Prejudice…
In seinem Meinungstalk „Die letzte Instanz“ machte der WDR TV-Unterhaltung auf Kosten anderer, in diesem Fall Sint:izze und Rom:nja. Das ist leider nichts Neues in der Unterhaltungsbranche.
Originally posted 20 December, 2020 by Arts Squared. Since first published, the University of Alberta’s General Faculties Council rejected the ‘Executive Dean’. However the position…
Originally posted 20 December, 2020 by Arts Squared. Since first published, the University of Alberta’s General Faculties Council rejected the ‘Executive Dean’. However the position…
Umberto Eco, in How to Write a Thesis (from this excerpt): The language of the thesis is a metalanguage, that is, a language that speaks of other languages. A…
Hace tiempo -sería a mediados de 1996-, recibí una llamada telefónica del doctor Jordi Estapé, uno de los oncólogos más reputados del país, que me encargó un artículo…
Ein Gebäude im italienischen Brescia. Es ist einer dieser zahlreichen Kästen in Italien, bei denen man nicht versteht, warum sie dort stehen, wieso sie genau so dort stehen,…
Our team—Christine Weeber (poetry and copy editor at SAPIENS), Justin D. Wright (poet-in-residence at SAPIENS), and Leah Zani (poetry editor at Anthropology and Humanism)—seeks poetry and experimental…
Ketaki Hate and Proshant Chakraborty: …
Aquellos que nacimos a mediados de los años setenta y que estamos a punto de pasar el ecuador que separa la década de los cuarenta en dirección a…
On a February Thursday afternoon, Nika Dubrovsky and Allegra assistant editor Emilie Thevenoz sat down together over Zoom. The chat covered the pedagogical concepts and ideas that guide…