In this episode I talked to Russell T. Warne about his book In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence (Cambridge UP, 2020). Warne takes on the “nature versus nurture” debate r……
Jeden Tag ein Türchen, eine Person, ein Gegenstand Fröhliche Weihnachten! Hyvää joulua! Merry Christmas! !کریسمس مبارک Vrolijk kerstfeest! Boldog karácsonyt! ¡Feliz Navidad! Счастли́вого Рождес…
Medical anthropologists often strive to disrupt typical public health and medical discourses, in part by questioning the broader applicability of individualized psychological concepts and biomedical …
Geschichte der Gegenwart macht eine kleine Winterpause, am 6. Januar sind wir wieder für Sie da. Wir danken unseren Leserinnen und Lesern für ihre anhaltende Neugier und wünschen…
Nu tändas tusen juleljus… så inleds en kär julsång skriven av Emmy Köhler år 1898. Sången och numera också psalmen sjungs på dagis, skolor, seniorhem och många julfester.…
This is part of our Special Series on Third World Nationalism. In the wake of a rise in nationalism around the world, and its general condemnation by liberals and the…
In The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans (St. Martin’s Press, 2020), anthropologist Eben Kirksey visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology … Visit New…
Joseph E. David, Professor of Law at Sapir Academic College in Israel, has written an intellectual history of the concept of belonging. David reviews the ancient Greek, Christian…
In the several decades since scholars in the humanities have taken up computational tools, they have borrowed many techniques from other fields, including visualization methods to create charts,…
Joseph E. David, Professor of Law at Sapir Academic College in Israel, has written an intellectual history of the concept of belonging. David reviews the ancient Greek, Christian…
In the several decades since scholars in the humanities have taken up computational tools, they have borrowed many techniques from other fields, including visualization methods to create char……
In The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans (St. Martin’s Press, 2020), anthropologist Eben Kirksey visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology t… Visit New…
This is part of our Special Series on Third World Nationalism. In the wake of a rise in nationalism around the world, and its general condemnation by liberals and the…
”I morgon, vill Gud, infaller vår Herres och Frälsares nåderika födelsefest” Julfreden utlyses i Åbo 1965. Bild av V. K. Hietanen, JOKA-arkisto. Varje julafton, några minuter innan Åbo…
Många av oss har säkert i en eller annan form varit med om att dekorerat en julgran, men varför är detta någonting vi gör och hur har vi…
La foto es de Valérié Jardin Nota para los estudiantes del Màster d’Antropologia i Etnografia de la UB, a propósito de una discusión sobre la seducción, enviada en…
Jeden Tag ein Türchen, eine Person, ein Gegenstand Die Übungsräume sind verlassen, in den Fluren hallt es: Es ist leer geworden an der Uni und an der Abteilung…
Suzana Jovicic Credits: Thomas Sobottka It is Friday night in a youth centre on the outskirts of Vienna; the lights are dim, and loud local Rap music is…
I have been away from the project for some time, but I have resumed my journey through the programs of the annual meetings of the American Folklore Society.…
Der immer lesenswerte Stuttgarter Architekturtheoretiker Jürgen Joedicke (1925-2015) schrieb 1969 in Moderne Architektur – Strömungen und Tendenzen über die 60er Jahre: Für den Historiker ist i…
In this blogpost, we draw from our current fieldwork on the island of Ærø, a place which has branded itself as “the digital island”[1], to explore how care…
Online Dating Goes Back to the Future Have you noticed an uptick in move-ins or engagements in your social circles lately? How about divorces? While everyone seemingly dreads…
In a colonial-era housing estate in Nairobi, urban life unfolds in the shadow of a billboard promising a bright hypermodern global future. How do ordinary residents inhabit this…
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (University of California Press, 2020) is an exploration of “the ways in which . . .veterans’ gendere… Visit New Books in…