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…
ANNAMARIA DALL’ANESE The word ‘community’ has heart-warming connotations of mutual support and reciprocal understanding. The sense of belonging that stems from being integrated into a social world…
Introducción Hoy día, el feminismo vive una situación contradictoria. Por un lado, cada día son más las personas que se interesan por el tema y se comprometen con…
Was hat ein Kulturbanause mit einer Kulturtasche gemein? Bakterienkultur mit Kulturschock? Oder Joghurtkultur mit Leitkultur? Nicht viel. Außer dieses einen … Weiter lesenVon Bakterienkulturen b…
Die erste Woche im neuen Jahr ist geschafft. Hat Euch der Trott des Alltags auch schon wieder eingeholt? Es ist oft schwer nach Feiertage-Marathon und Jahreswechsel wieder richtig…
So häufig in aktuellen Filmen und Serien über Kinder gesprochen wird, so selten sind sie tatsächlich präsent. Bei aller Diversität bleibt die uns gezeigte Welt eine sehr erwachsene,…
The second of the six main identifying characteristics in Shaligram interpretive practice is shape. I realize that this might, at least initially, seem relatively self-explanatory but shape, like…
When: 15 January 2021 / 2-3.30 pm CET Link: https://zoom.us/j/93210372616pwd=dTZZ… ID: 93210372616 Password: 4JzWZ6 See you on Zoom! Here is the full schedule of the webinar series. You…
Dr. Berman. Director of the School of Population and Public Health. January 6, 2021. Dear SPPH Community, In light of recent events and news stories this past week,…
Japan’s standing bars offer respite from the daily grind with drinks, lively company, and a feast of small dishes. Image description: People walk down a corridor in front…
The Wonka-fication of chocolate in American society is multiply damaging, increasing cocoa producer vulnerability to COVID-19 and further eliding the inequalities that characterize the value chain. “W…
An heirloom bean club brings culinary community and diverse foodways to its legume lovers’ doors. Alubia Blanca, Good Mother Stallard, Vaquero, Eye of the Goat. Four times a…
Keeping processing lines running at workers’ expense is not only a sign of our pandemic times. The meat and poultry processing industry has long treated workers as disposable.…
How a white identified city struggles to commemorate the Black lives and deaths that produced its sugar and built its wealth. Sugar Land is a growing, white, politically…
5 Don’ts For Better Fat Loss (Evidence Based) Decent summary of how to start to create the long-term changes that sustain weight loss and healthy weight ‘Toxic Individualism’:…
Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period became…
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer & Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2020) by Niloofar Haeri is a stunning and absorbing ethnography of the lived ritual…
With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo’s commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In An Anthropology of the Machine: Tok……
With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo’s commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In An Anthropology of the Machine: T……
Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period became…
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer & Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2020) by Niloofar Haeri is a stunning and absorbing ethnography of the lived ritual…
Figure 1: Janelle’s chair, with writing and knitting projects underway The conversation began on a summer day in a 13th Century chateau, with a moat, on the outskirts…
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray Intern 2020-2021 We began the class …
In November 1981, anthropologists and tribal representatives gathered on the Pascua Pueblo Yaqui Reservation in southern Arizona for the 89…