COVID-19 measures and industrial workplaces
The obsession that media has had with small businesses has hidden the most aggressive public health measures are missing the biggest driver of the pandemic: large industrial workplaces.
Att fira jaget i tiden
Födelsedagsfirandet kan för många vara en enkel ursäkt att festa. Det är en utsaga som kan tänkas underminera hela frågeställningen angående traditionens historia och varför firandet av åldern…
William W. Kelly, “The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2018)
Baseball has been Japan’s most popular sport for over a century. In The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2018), anthr… Visit…
Jodi Rios, “Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis” (Cornell UP, 2020)
In Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (Cornell University Press, 2020), Dr. Jodi Rios examines relationships between blackness, … Visit New Books…
Tanya Lurhmann, “How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Today I interview Tanya Lurhmann about her new book, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton University Press, 2020). Lurhmann is the Watkins Uni… Visit New Books in…
Tanya Lurhmann, “How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Today I interview Tanya Lurhmann about her new book, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton University Press, 2020). Lurhmann is the Watkins University Pro… Visit New Books…
William W. Kelly, “The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2018)
Baseball has been Japan’s most popular sport for over a century. In The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2018), anthro… Visit…
Jodi Rios, “Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis” (Cornell UP, 2020)
In Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (Cornell University Press, 2020), Dr. Jodi Rios examines relationships between blackness, s… Visit New Books…
Memoria y Salud Andino-Amazónica
En el 18 de julio de 2020, participé en un evento interdisciplinario organizado por el grupo estudiantil Abya Yala (de Ohio State) y el Foro Permanente de Estudios,…
From Hope-Punk to Speculative Fiction: TGA 2020 Round-Up
Believe it or not, we started 2020 with the proposition of Hope-Punk, the possibilities that could emerge through the disposition of hope. Throughout this year, we’ve explored how…
Review: Black Food Geographies
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance and Food Access in Washington, D.C. By Ashanté M. Reese. 2019. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 978-1-4696-5150-7. 18…
Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagisako on Fabricating Transnational Capitalism
Interview by Janet Connor https://www.dukeupress.edu/fabricating-transnational-capitalism Janet Conner: Why is fashion so good for thinking about capitalism? Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagi…
Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie: Einblicke in die Wissenschaft des Alltags
Wie nutzen wir das Internet? Wodurch verändert sich eine Stadt? Was fördert unsere Kreativität am Arbeitsplatz? Wie konsumieren wir Lebensmittel? Oder kurzgefasst: Wie sieht der Alltag von Menschen…
Pregnancy and baby apps, smart home devices: Anthropologist shows how surveillance capitalism targets children
When we are online we are constantly being watched and tracked. A huge industry has evolved to build profiles about us so that they can predict and influence…
Doing Ethnography in Buenos Aires: A Discussion with Javier Auyero
Today we speak with Javier Auyero, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, about his 25 years of experience studying marginalized communities in Buenos Aires…
Doing Ethnography in Buenos Aires: A Discussion with Javier Auyero
Today we speak with Javier Auyero, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, about his 25 years of experience studying marginalized communities in Buenos Aires…
Stellenausschreibungen 1. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
Frohes neues Jahr! Die Brotgelehrte-Redaktion meldet sich zurück aus der Weihnachtspause. Wir hoffen, Ihr hattet erholsame Feiertage, um mit uns zusammen ins neue Jahr zu starten. Wir alle…
Society – A preliminary idea
In classical sense society refers to a group of people who share a common ‘culture’, occupy a particular territorial area and feel themselves to constitute a unified…
Von gebrechlichen Häusern und Menschen
Ein Haus in Sabbioneta in der Po-Ebene. Die mächtigen, verputzten Steinpfeiler genügten früher zur Stützung des gesamten Gebäudes. Dann wurden die Holzstürze faul. Lösung: Man stellte einfach zwischen…
Shaligram Interpretive Practice (Set)
Reading a Shaligram may begin with scriptural texts, but it ends with the final divination of the deity by way of each Shaligram’s unique characteristics. For ritual specialists,…
Catarsis y drama social en la teoría del rito
Danza ndembu fotografiada por Victor Turner en los años 50 Comentario para Gloria Polisena, estudiante de Antropologia Religiosa sobre una consulta sobre la relación entre catarsis y teoría…
(updated) Iran jails anthropologist for "subversive research", "seeking cultural changes" and "promoting homosexuality"
Kameel Ahmady. Photo: Kameel Ahmady, Wikipedia 14 years ago I wrote about his website: Visual ethnography and Kurdish anthropology by Kameel Ahmady and Photography as research tool: More…
110 ways to get a job in user experience research
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already read 5,436 articles about how to get a job as a user experience researcher. There is a lot out there. Too…
World Orders Old and New – Latin America
The Colossus of the South “When the resources of that vast country are taken into account,” the editors of the … More