How can ethnographic research shine light on the reproduction of social inequality in upscale Los Angeles restaurants? In today’s episode we talk with Dr. Eli Wilson, Assistant Professor…
In December 2020, a group of social scientists gathered virtually at the LSE Department of Anthropology to discuss the relationship between data science and the social sciences. We…
Thousands of couples were wed in a mass ceremony in South Korea on February 7, 2020. Some of them had only met a few weeks earlier, after being…
Part Three: A Travel Agent selling Freedom For the second half of my stay, I lived in a shared accommodation of mostly Egyptian men in Ajman, which is…
By David Davies Humans.Machines.Pandemic.Presence. Meeting online presents a challenge because we are synchronized in time, but not in place. While it might seem we are “together apart” like…
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Nasima Selim Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa. A specter is haunting Europe. …
When news broke out on January 20th, 2021, that newly inaugurated President Joe Biden signed a proclamation ending Trump’s Executive Order 9844, which declared a national emergency at…
Chaco Canyon was the center of a thriving Pueblo society from 800 to 1250 CE, including dozens of magnificent great house structures, nume…
Wendy Yared A woman sitting on the floor in a library with a blue book in her hand. Photo by Joshua Purnell. I’m so excited to share my first…
“Boah, schon wieder scharfe Linsensuppe so früh am Morgen?! Können die nicht mal normales Frühstück zubereiten?!?” “Oh Gott, können die bitte aufhören, mitten in der Nacht zu hupen??…
Helen Fisher knows more about love than most. As a biological anthropologist who studies the topic, she has been a chief scientific adviser to the internet dating site…
He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive Outstanding magazine article which uses the story of one professor – Dan-el Padilla Peralta – to examine…
“Imaginemos un tapiz tupido, que poco a poco y con el tiempo, si no se cuida y se mima, va perdiendo hilos y se va agujereando por diferentes…
La foto es de Cristina García Rodero Final del artículo “La mujer fanática. Anticlericalismo y matrifocalidad en la España contemporánea”, sobre La familia de León Roch, de Benito…
Part Two: New Opportunities, New Stress In the Gulf region, Dubai has been a forerunner in the transformation towards a neoliberal market of skills and hands. Gulf countries…
Philosophers have long approached the concept of rhythm as a significant tool for understanding the human experience, metaphysics, language, and the arts. In her new study Rhythm: A Theologic……
Edited by Naomi M. Leite, Quetzil E. Castañeda, and Kathleen M. Adams, The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (Lexington Books, 2019) focuses on the experience-near, interpretiv… Visit New Books in…
In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2020), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle … Visit New…
Was ist die Aufgabe der Literatur? Wie politisch darf, ja muss sie sein? Immer wieder hört man, dass Literatur, die wirksam werden will, sich über ausserliterarische Kriterien legitimieren…
Youtube has quite a few old Egyptian films with music, dancing, the colorful Egyptian dialect and some very strange plots. Baba ‘Aris is well worth watching… For details…
The dominant discourse surrounding digital psy technologies such as MindStrong, a teletherapy app designed to detect mental health changes by monitoring changes in typing speed “down to the…
INTRODUCTION All researchers realize early in their careers that they stand on the shoulders of giants in their field. The field of tourism is no different. No matter…
INTRODUCTION All researchers realize early in their careers that they stand on the shoulders of giants in their field. The field of tourism is no different. No matter…
The authors of The Anthropological Career in Europe (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) have made visible the inequality and hierarchy that has become increasingly normalized in higher education…