El toreo y la concepción trágica de la virilidad en Michel Leiris.
Una de las ilustraciones de André Masson para Le Miroir de la tauromachie, de Leiris Notas para Pedro Montoya, estudiante del Màster d’Antropologia i Etnografia de la UB…
J. Andrew Bush, “Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Between Muslims Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan (Stanford UP, 2020) by J. Andrew Bush asks what it means to be Muslim, yet not pious, in Iraqi Kurdistan. Though Islam…
Deseo sexual femenino. El gran desconocido
Quiero besarte en París. Sostener tu mano en Roma. Quiero correr desnuda en una tormenta. Hacer el amor en un tren atravesando el campo. Pon eso en mí.…
Mourning for Aicha, Mourning for Yemen
By Marina de Regt. “Marina, if I die, will you then forgive me for all the trouble that I caused you?” my Yemeni friend Aicha wrote me ten…
Welcome!
This is the personal homepage of Grant Jun Otsuki. I’m a Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Recent Publications:In Anthropology Now: “…
Corona und Islam
Aus verschiedenen Gründen bietet Covid-19 wieder Anlass für Hetze. Der Kommentar ist unter anderem Titel in der Wiener Zeitung am 6. 5. 2021, S. 22 erschienen. Zu Beginn…
Corona und Islam
Aus verschiedenen Gründen bietet Covid-19 wieder Anlass für Hetze. Der Kommentar ist unter anderem Titel in der Wiener Zeitung vom 6. 5. 2021, S. 22 erschienen. Zu Beginn…
Writing Life No. 9: An interview with Danya Fast by Robert Lorway
It is 11 am in Vancouver. Danya sits at a desk beside a large window that looks out onto tree tops and electrical wires. Rain pools in the…
Anti-Asian Racism’s Deep Roots in the United States
People protest anti-Asian hate crimes on April 4 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, incidents of harassment, discrimination, and violen…
Book Review: The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
In The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, Sonia Faleiro investigates the shocking deaths of two teenage girls in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, allowing the reader to…
Vaccine envy and vaccine snobbery – why we look a gift horse in the mouth when it comes to the Covid-19 vaccine
MARIA LARRAIN The vaccine rollout has been well-underway in the UK since Margaret Keenan was the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 jab in…
Michael L. Siciliano, “Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries” (Columbia UP, 2021)
How should we understand creative work? In Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries (Columbia UP, 2021), Michael Siciliano, an assistant professor of sociology at Q… Visit New Books…
Dilara Yarbrough, “Nothing About Us Without Us: Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research” (2019)
Today I talked to Dilara Yarbrough about her article “Nothing About Us Without Us: Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research,” published i… Visit New Books…
M. Vollman Makris and M. Gatta, “Gentrification Down the Shore” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
In Gentrification Down the Shore (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Molly Vollman Makris and Mary Gatta engage in a rich ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park to better understand the conn… Visit…
El hombre de Loizu nos habla de un rito funerario: entrevista a la arqueóloga Maitane Tirapu de Goñi
La arqueóloga y antropóloga Maitane Tirapu de Goñi, reflexiona sobre nuestro pasado, la importancia de la arqueología y lo que supone para la humanidad actual, en una entrevista…
Thinking with a Database
In 2019, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority notified television channels that they were not allowed to host the Pakistani Senator Hafiz Hamdullah on air. The reason: Hamdullah…
Call for Pitches: Ghosts
Image description: A light pink ghost with black eyes floats in front of a blue background. The ghost appears to be made of paint. iStock Peter Venkman catches…
Call for Pitches: Ghosts
Image description: A light pink ghost with black eyes floats in front of a blue background. The ghost appears to be made of paint. iStock Peter Venkman catches…
Call for Pitches: Ghosts
Image description: A light pink ghost with black eyes floats in front of a blue background. The ghost appears to be made of paint. iStock Peter Venkman catches…
How an anthropologist thinks about the travel industry
As you may know, we are on the verge of a new Culture Camp. Details here: www.culture.camp! This morning we got a query from a guy in the…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Alina Méndez
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Architektur und Alltag 19
Zeitstillstände haben den Vorteil, dass ein bestimmter Moment in der Geschichte eingefroren wird und man ihn Jahrhunderte später noch ungestört betrachten kann – betrachten, da sich ein Stillst…
An Archaeologist on the Railroad of Death
WWII Allied prisoners of war and civilian laborers worked in horrendous conditions to install a railway between Thailand and Burma. Australian War Memorial, P00406.026 In retrospect, I wa…
Paywalls überall: Wie kann man sich noch über Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie / Ethnologie informieren?
Bis vor etwa fünf bis zehn Jahren habe ich regelmäßig hier auf antropologi.info über Nachrichten aus dem Fach berichtet. Aufgrund Änderungen privater und beruflicher Natur blieb in den…