El asalto al Capitolio como performance de fachada
La foto es Stephanie Keith (REUTERS) Comentario para la gente del OACU sobre el asalto al Capitolio de Washington del 6 de enero de 2021 El asalto al…
Comparativism
In an essay last term, students Làu Cẩm Tú and Hồ Phạm Ngọc Trân brought out the problems and possibilities inherent in Ruth Benedicts work style – though there is…
The Coastal Edge
New technologies are refortifying our coastlines against anthropogenic climate change, drawing our water edgelands near and making them tangible and perhaps valuable. Edgelands, those ignored yet sym…
Apuntes literarios de Pérez de Ayala sobre la peligrosidad sexual del clero
La foto es de EFE Consideraciones para Sofía Castaño, doctoranda, enviadas en diciembre de 2014 Apuntes literarios de Pérez de Ayala sobre la peligrosidad sexual del clero Manuel…
2021 at Platypus
Pixabay The first weeks of 2021 brought no relief, even though so many hoped otherwise. Instead, the first twelve days clearly demonstrated that exclusion, inequity, violence, and multiply…
Do Twins Share a Soul?
I have a clone. He’s an identical twin brother, really. But as monozygotic twins derived from one fertilized egg, we share the exact same genome. Since birth, we…
Book Review: Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica by Luke de Noronha
In Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica, Luke de Noronha weaves together the personal histories of four men who have been deported from the UK to Jamaica. Showing…
‘Darwinism, Democracy, and Race’ by John P. Jackson Jr. and David J. Depew
John P. Jackson Jr. and David J. Depew. Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century. 240pp., index. New York: Routledge, 2017. Concurre…
Maradona policromado y los nuevos puritanismos
Si existe una disciplina consciente de lo resbaladizo del concepto de religión esa es la antropología. Estoy de acuerdo en que lo que llamamos religión es un artefacto…
Two Lessons I Learned about the Transfer of Power while Living in Africa
1. The moment that any transfer of power occurs from one individual or regime to another is fraught—ritually, sociologically, emotionally. Why? This is a liminal period–“betwix…
ستارگی و سلبریتی(۲)
سوزان لئونارد و دایان نگرا برگردان: فردین علیخواه تاریخچه فکری مفهوم بسیاری از اسلوبها و سازوکارهای کنونیِ سلبریتی از پیش از تاریخ فیلم، تلویزیون و رسانههای دیجیتال نشأت…
مسئلههای بدن: مقالاتی درباب جامعهشناسی بدن
معرفی کتاب «مسئلههای بدن: مقالاتی درباب جامعهشناسی بدن[۱]» [بخشی از متن پیش رو از مقدمۀ این کتاب نوشته شدهاست] کتاب مسئلههای بدن شامل ۸ مقالۀ مختلف در حوزۀ…
سفرنامه جنوب هند(۸)
تصاویر از نسیم کمپانی ۲۰۱۷ تصویر: استخر باستانی من ماتا در معبد ویروپاکشا در منطقه هامپی معنی کلمه ویروپاکشا در زبان سانسکریت چشمان بدون شکل می…
قاهره: خیال تا واقعیت (بخش سوم)
محمد علی پاشا و کلنل کمپل، نقاشی دیوید رابرتز ۱۸۳۹ \ آن زمان که از آمریکا به مصر رفته بودم چهارده سال بود که از ایران دور بودم.…
Review: Food Festivals
Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology. Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. London: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN #978-3-030-53321-2. Xli + 179 pp Dav…
September 2020
Volume 12 | Number 2 | September 2020 AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AirwaysMary Louise Pratt Making Meat in the Tim…
Italia moderna – diciannove
Ein öffentliches Gebäude (Rathaus? Schule?) in Bassano del Grappa in der Region Venetien in Italien, leider Gottes nicht auf einem Foto vollständig fotografiert: Das Gebäude besticht, wie man…
Kregg Hetherington discusses Government of Beans
Interview by Indivar Jonnalagadda https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-government-of-beans Indivar Jonnalagadda: What inspired the book’s central idea of ‘agribiopolitics’, which enco…
Anthropologist counters Zoom-fatigue: "Your next video conference might resemble a video game"
Why can we spend hours playing video games while many of us get exhausted by much shorter video-conferences? That is without doubt no bad question that the magazine…
Lisa Wedeen, “Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
How has the Syrian regime been able to bear the brunt of the challenges raised against it? And, what can we learn about the seductions of authoritarian politics…
Barbara Dennis, “Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise” (Peter Lang, 2020)
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Barbara Dennis of Indiana University on her new ethnography, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise, published in 2020 by Peter……
Barbara Dennis, “Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise” (Peter Lang, 2020)
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Barbara Dennis of Indiana University on her new ethnography, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise, published in 2020 by Peter……
Barbara Dennis, “Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise” (Peter Lang, 2020)
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Barbara Dennis of Indiana University on her new ethnography, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise, published in 2020 by Peter…
Lisa Wedeen, “Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
How has the Syrian regime been able to bear the brunt of the challenges raised against it? And, what can we learn about the seductions of authoritarian politics…