In Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women (Indiana University Press, 2020), Michal Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about t… Visit New Books in…
Bastun tillhör starkt finländarnas kultur och historia. De äldsta spåren av bastur i Finland är 10 000 år gamla hål i marken, som man troligen täckte över med…
Notes transcribed from Smedley, Audrey. Race in North America, Origin and Evolution of a Worldview, 2nd edition, Westview press, 1999, Comments are my own. The origins of racism…
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…
Alle Architekturepochen haben ihre Vorläufer. Die Renaissance berief sich auf das alte Rom, wobei die neuen statischen Kenntnisse der Gotik nicht vergessen wurden. Der Barock führte zwar meist…
Anthropology’s interest in health, illness, prevention, and treatment is longstanding and increasingly robust. In this era of medical development, epidemics and pandemics, and debates in both the oft…
We are an ensemble cast. As such, it is perhaps appropriate that one of the first places where we all came together as a team had at one…
From time to time, I meet an American who likes to tell me that the United Kingdom, the country of my birth, has a weaker democracy than the…
Politicizing the demand White Marriage in Iran , Although the protests against the compulsory hijab in Iran have been politicized, this has not demoralized women activists, some observers…
Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participatio… Visit New…
How vulnerable can you be as a researcher? Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their businesses than entrepreneurs from Korea…
Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make par… Visit New…
How vulnerable can you be as a researcher? Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their businesses than entrepreneurs from Korea…
Claude Lévi-Strauss en el Mato Grosso, en la segunda mitad de los años 1930 Artículo aparecido en El País el 5 de abril de 2005, con motivo de…
När våren gör sitt intåg och videbusken slår ut i små, ludna knoppar är det vanligt att vi pyntar detta ris i våra hem till påsken med olika…
Der tschechische Autor Karel Čapek hat im Theaterstück „Die weiße Krankheit“ von 1937 einiges von der Corona-Pandemie vorweggenommen. Das eigentliche Drama beginnt allerdings, als ein Medikament gegen…
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…
Bayla Ostrach and Megan A. Carney Neighborhood-level social solidarity efforts that emerged following the 2008 global fina…
Archaeologists Joshua Kumbani (left) and Sarah Wurz (right) work at a site near the Klasies River in South Africa. Joshua Kumbani On South Africa’s southern coast, above the…
Resisting the “Rotterdam Port of the East” In 2011, the prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, and the CEO of the national oil company Petronas, Shamsul Azhar Abbas,…
Pavel Égüez, “Cuarentena (Quarantine)” (2020), Oil paint on cardboard. In March 2020, the health and funerary system collapsed in Guayaquil. The largest city in Ecuador was one of…
Konfirmationen är en kyrklig välsignelseritual med en anknytning till dopet och som utförs inom den kristna kyrkan. Den vita alban har man i Finland burit sedan 1960-talet. Denna…
How do we deal with the categories of human difference – such as gender, race, ethnicity, ability, etc. – that scholars, policy-makers and citizens use in a search…
How do we deal with the categories of human difference – such as gender, race, ethnicity, ability, etc. – that scholars, policy-makers and citizens use in a search…