Studying Historical Artifacts on YouTube
A new community of YouTube creators are using video to give audiences a close-up view of antique garments and accessories. Can they inspire museums to invest in new…
Black and Indigenous Futures
In this final webinar of the series, archaeologists, artists, and cultural theorists turn to questions of what’s next in the struggle for the recognition and promotion of Indigenous…
El espacio público y otras leyendas urbanas
La fotografía es de César Ordóñes y se titula “Tokyo” Fragmento de la charla pronunciada en el CSO Barrilonia, en la Rambla del Raval de Barcelona, el 6…
Amish Camels
The image above, a drawing from the 1850s, epitomizes how the camel has been imagined for everyone in America, the West and just about everywhere outside the area…
When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows
Among the ethnically Mosuo community in China, some groups are matrilineal, meaning inheritance passes from mothers to their children rather than from fathers to sons. Patrick Aventurier/Gamm…
La ruptura de la cultura
El Patrimonio Cultural es el conjunto de bienes muebles, inmuebles e inmateriales, resultado de la obra humana, heredado del pasado y que la propia Sociedad considera que son…
Vernacularizing Bureaucracy and Quantifying Violence
Omri Grinberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Haifa) will talk about “Vernacularizing Bureaucracy and Quantifying Violence: The Writing of Palestinians’ Testimonies in Israeli …
A4Kids: A space for experimentation
The Anthropology 4 Kids book “What is a nation?” begins like this: This book is a game. We are going to invent a new nation together and, at…
Robert Launay, “Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder” (U of Chicago Press, 2018)
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, “Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment” (New York UP, 2020)
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
Living Nations, Living Words, SAR Welcomes Joy Harjo …
Pythagorus in Egypt
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…
How Biden can root out systemic racism in America
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…
Adam Brisley: Ethics and the Anthropological Worker
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…
¿Qué es el Capitalismo de Vigilancia?
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…
De ondergang van de yup: The Nest en het failliet van het neoliberalisme
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…
What Is Vaccination Equity?
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…
Wednesday Round Up #42
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…
La vida es para el pueblo y la revolución: una aproximación a la vida y obra de Víctor Andes, un hombre de partido (I)
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…
A4Kids: how it all started
“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…
Justin O’Connor and Xin Gu, “Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China” (Intellect Books, 2020)
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…
Karen Stollznow, “On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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…
Othering: Rassismus als Unterhaltung
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.
Notes From and For the Frontlines of Academic Restructuring
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…