Platypus in 2025
Welcome to Platypus in 2025! Last year, we published over 65 posts, almost half of which were also in a second language, and maintained a readership from 169…
Welcome to Platypus in 2025! Last year, we published over 65 posts, almost half of which were also in a second language, and maintained a readership from 169…
How do Black women experience education in Britain? Within British educational research about Black students, gender distinctions have been largely absent, male-dominated or American-centric. Due to the lack…
Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India (Cambridge UP, 2022) presents a novel ethnographic examination of archaeological practice within postcolonial India, focusing on the Archaeological Survey of…
Mit großer Freude kann ich teilen, dass mein neues Buch „Zeitmanagement. 52 Impulse“ fertiggestellt ist! Es ist aus meiner langjährigen Erfahrung in Coachings und Beratungen entstanden und ric…
Nicola Twilley. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. Penguin. NY. 2024, pp. 387 ISBN: 9780735223288. Richard Zimmer. Sonoma State University The…
Der Einfluss der „Purity Culture“ auf freikirchliche Kontexte in Deutschland Im Rahmen meiner Bachelorarbeit habe ich — Larissa Schott — mich mit dem Thema „Purity Culture“ — also…
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498594219/The-Relationship-People-Mediating-Love-and-Marriage-in-Twenty-First-Century-Japan Robert Marshall: How did you decide to study Japanese matchmakers? …
A poet moves through rituals of silence and erasure that permeate the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. “An Order for My Backpack” and “Three Stages of…
Door Ton Salman – Onlangs, op 25 november 2024, is in de Tweede Kamer een motie aangenomen waarin de regering wordt verzocht “om gegevens over culturele en religieuze…
I continue to wrestle with the legacy of cybernetics in anthropology – and a future premised on an anthropological bases for the digital. https://histanthro.org/notes/communication-without-…
What can be the fate of humanity? There has been a lot of attention paid recently to the question of “Peak Oil” worldwide, and what our industrial civilization…
Als Google Gemini vor kurzem das Bild einer „indischen Päpstin“ generierte, war die Aufregung gross. Aber warum eigentlich? Denn generierte Inhalte sind nicht einfach wahr oder falsch, sie…
We are looking for two experienced researchers who are fluent in Indigenous approaches to quantitative methods. Experience can come from community research, graduate degrees, and/or research positions…
We are looking for two experienced researchers who are fluent in Indigenous approaches to quantitative methods. Experience can come from community research, graduate degrees, and/or research positions…
Amrita Narayanan is a practicing Clinical Psychologist (Psy.D. 2007) and Psychoanalyst (Indian Psychoanalytic Society, 2019). She is the author of Women’s Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of…
Remembering serving on this film festival doco jury. A great experience: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/docu-on-kol-filmmakers-karbala-journey-wins-award/articleshow/87875803.cms …
‘There are not many mistakes as significant as the conception that class consciousness is a matter of morality’ (Reich [1935] 1971: 24) < the one who must steal…
Sure, rescuing Matt Damon from Mars is easier than fixing Earth, but planetary survival is imperative and cannot be left to NASA’s zero-gravity speculative research project or the…
The Entanglement If the 18th century gave us the Enlightenment, which was a mixed blessing, as they say, what are we to make of what the 21st century…
«من در جنوب شیکاگو، – سیاهپوست و زن – به دنیا آمدم! در سالهای رکود اقتصادی پس از جنگ جهانی اول، و سپس آغاز جنگ دیگری در دوران…
روز بیستم ژانویه ۲۰۲۵، دونالد ترامپ، کسی که به شهادت بخش بزرگی از همکاران رده نخستش در دور اول ریاست جمهوریاش در آمریکا (۲۰۱۶-۲۰۲۰)، به شهادت شاکیان بیشمار…
“Rostropálido no es el único nombre por el cual los nativos americanos conocÃan a los hombres blancos”, asegura el antropólogo Alexander F. Chamberlain. En su artÃculo How…
کتاب «جستارهایی در مخاطرات محیطی انسانساخت» تألیف حمید رزاقی توسط انتشارات اندیشه دانش منتشر شد. پس از قریب دویست سال پویاییِ ذاتی و موفقیت شتابان جامعهی صنعتی که…
به باور گئورگ لوکاچ نویسندگان – صاحبان قلم، که او ایشان را ناجیانِ رهایی سیاسی و اجتماعی میانگارد – باید بر انزوای خود چیره شده و از تنزل…