The Dirt
The Dirt is a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field of discard studies. Here is The Dirt for December 2020.
Theory as reproduction: Reflections on the history of doing feminist anthropology in Australia Part 1 and 2
The Familiar Strange · Part 1:Theory as reproduction:reflections on the history of doing feminist anthropology in Australia The Familiar Strange · Part 2:Theory as reproduction:reflections on the hist…
Desemmascarament i mort de la gauche divine. La destrucció del carrer Tuset (desembre 1970)
Comentari pel doctorand Jeremy Buck, amb un TFM en marxa sobre la gauche divine. enviat el març de 2015 Desemmascarament i mort de la gauche divine. La destrucció…
FLP: Announcing the upcoming release of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong Vol. IX – Redspark
https://www.redspark.nu/en/theory/flp-announcing-the-upcoming-release-of-the-selected-works-of-mao-zedong-vol-ix/ This is how to do an announcement!. It is well worth reading for both what it says abo…
Sobre l’eventual confluència entre EUiA i la CUP
Foto de Jordi Pizarro Els amics David Fernández i Julià de Jòdar, del seminari la Directa, van demanar-m què penso de la CUP per a un llibre sobre…
Ubyssey interview on UBC security and defunding the police.
In late November, 2020 I was interviewed by the Ubyssey about the external review of UBC’s security force and the place of the RCMP on campus. The article was…
El complejo funcional según Papanek
El complejo funcional del diseño es una propuesta conceptual y metodológica de Víctor Papanek para ayudar al diseño a salir de su distracción. Tal vez nadie como Papanek…
Wednesday Round Up #29
Ira Glass, the Host of This American Life, Breaks Down the Fine Art of Storytelling Doing the Biocultural Work with Dr. Jada Benn Torres and Dr. Gabriel A…
Christmas in the Brothel
Christmas in the Brothel Edvard Munch, 1905 The post Christmas in the Brothel appeared first on The Naked Anthropologist.
Russell T. Warne, “In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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 “natu… Visit New Books in…
Russell T. Warne, “In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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……
24. Dezember (Adventskalender)
Jeden Tag ein Türchen, eine Person, ein Gegenstand Fröhliche Weihnachten! Hyvää joulua! Merry Christmas! !کریسمس مبارک Vrolijk kerstfeest! Boldog karácsonyt! ¡Feliz Navidad! Счастли́вого Рождес…
Disrupting medical anthropology: Views from Kenya and Cameroon on how to build a more inclusive discipline by Moïse Mvetumbo
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 …
Winterpause
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…
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.…
Isar P. Godreau, “Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico” (U Illinois Press, 2015)
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…
Eben Kirksey, “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans” (St. Martin’s Press, 2020)
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 David, “Kinship, Law and Politics: An Anatomy of Belonging” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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…
Johanna Drucker, “Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display” (MIT Press, 2020)
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 David, “Kinship, Law and Politics: An Anatomy of Belonging” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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…
Johanna Drucker, “Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display” (MIT Press, 2020)
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……
Eben Kirksey, “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans” (St. Martin’s Press, 2020)
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…
Isar P. Godreau, “Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico” (U Illinois Press, 2015)
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…
Julfreden
”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…