El mundo como solar abandonado de dioses y de humanos que ya no están entre nosotros
La foto es de Matt Pierce Mensaje enviado en agosto de 2016 a los/as colegas del Observatori Antropològic del Conflicte Urbà a propósito de los vacíos urbanos. EL…
Keine Muße gewähren
Der Architekt Peter Behrens schrieb 1910 über die moderne Stadt: Eine Eile hat sich unserer bemächtigt, die keine Muße gewährt, sich in Einzelheiten zu verlieren. Wenn wir im…
Medical Anthropology and Practice of Medicine in Health Issues by Awah Kum Tchouaffi
Abstract: It is known through anthropological literature that African countries are distinguished by a category of medicine that many specialists call ethnomedicine or traditional African medicine. F…
Wednesday Round Up #30
Dylan Thomas reads “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” This reading makes the poem come even more alive, to hear its rhythms in the voice of…
Michiel Baas, “Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility & the New Middle Class” (Context, 2020)
The gyms of urban ‘new India’ are intriguing spaces. While they cater largely to well-off clients, these shiny, modern institutions are also vehicles of upward mobility for the…
Mark James Porter, “Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mark Porter (@mrmarkporter) explores the relationship between music, sound, space, and spirit in his new book Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking (Oxford University Press, 2020). U… Visit New Books…
Mark James Porter, “Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mark Porter (@mrmarkporter) explores the relationship between music, sound, space, and spirit in his new book Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking (Oxford University Press, 2020). Us… Visit New Books…
Michiel Baas, “Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility & the New Middle Class” (Context, 2020)
The gyms of urban ‘new India’ are intriguing spaces. While they cater largely to well-off clients, these shiny, modern institutions are also vehicles of upward mobility for the…
El año que se nos va
El 2020 va llegando a su fin y por todos los medios se multiplican las esperanzas puestas en el nuevo año que entra. La esperanza de un futuro…
The mask tan
People are intolerable. Absolutely insufferable beings that never do what they’re told. People do whatever they want and often don’t care because it’s one life right? Let’s live…
Top 10 Discard Studies articles of 2020
It’s time for reminiscing! And what better topic to think back on than a year’s worth of trashy insights? Here are the top ten posts from Discard Studies…
In the Journals, December 2020, Pt. 2 by Eliza Williamson
Medical Anthropology Quarterly This month’s edition of MAQ examines the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of medical anthropology in making sense of and responding to it. Medical Anthropolog…
Other Psychotherapies: Special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry by Eliza Williamson
This special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry explores the under-examined roots of Western psychotherapy, complicating the idea that it is, in the words of the issue organizers, “exclusively&#…
Sudden loss of a great research facilitator
This is dedicated to a long term and very good friend, Konstantin Ochepkov, who passed away in Siberia way too early yesterday, just a little over 50 years…
SAFN Award Winner Interviews
SAFN recently announced the 2020 winners of our student awards. The undergraduate Christine Wilson paper award went to Adele Woodmansee, for her paper “‘It is Pure Criollo Maize’:…
In the Journals, December 2020, Part 1 by Emmanuelle Roth
American Anthropologist Fitness Fanatics: Exercise as Answer to Pending Zombie Apocalypse in Contemporary AmericaKatie Rose Hejtmanek Physical fitness has a long history in the United Sta…
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, “Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan” (U California Press, 2020)
The name Cancún brings to mind tourism, resorts, beaches, sun, and fun. In her book, Stuck With Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan (University of California … Visit New…
Theodora Wildcroft, “Post-lineage Yoga: From Guru to #metoo” (Equinox Publishing, 2020)
Theodora Wildcroft’s Post-lineage Yoga: From Guru to #metoo (Equinox Publishing, 2020) presents a ground-breaking model for scholars to understand the contemporary teaching and practice of y… Visit New Books in…
John Wei, “Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes” (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
John Wei’s book Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) studies queer cultures and social practices in China an… Visit New Books…
Theodora Wildcroft, “Post-lineage Yoga: From Guru to #metoo” (Equinox Publishing, 2020)
Theodora Wildcroft’s Post-lineage Yoga: From Guru to #metoo (Equinox Publishing, 2020) presents a ground-breaking model for scholars to understand the contemporary teaching and practice of yo… Visit New Books in…
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, “Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan” (U California Press, 2020)
The name Cancún brings to mind tourism, resorts, beaches, sun, and fun. In her book, Stuck With Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan (University of California Press, 2020)… Visit…
John Wei, “Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes” (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
John Wei’s book Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) studies queer cultures and social practices in China and Sinop… Visit New…
Introducing a New TGA Editor: Astrid Willis Countee
I am sure that I don’t have to say that we have all been through a lot this year. For me personally, I have struggled in ways that…
Philip Seargeant on his new book The Emoji Revolution
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/emoji-revolution-how-technology-shaping-future-communication Kevin Laddapo…