Is intersectionality a critical social theory? What must intersectionality do to be both critical and a social theory? Must social justice be a guiding normative principle? And what does or…
Shirley Marie Menzies, née Naud. Born Sept. 13, 1932. Died April 18, 2013. My mother was a teacher, that was her vocation, as much as it was for moments…
My apologies to readers. I haven’t posted in a while. But I have an excuse. Two excuses actually. I spent the first half of 2020 scrambling to finish…
David Beriss The big day is here. Today is Anthropology Day! Every year the AAA has organized this, we have completely forgotten to acknowledge it. But not this…
Das SARS-CoV-2 hält die gesamte Welt weiterhin in seinem Bann. Hoffnung bieten Impfstoffe. In China sind zwei Präparate aus eigener Produktion zugelassen, die bereits verimpft werden. Mit der…
Im Rahmen ihres Industrie-Großprojekts „Made in China 2025“中国制 2025 hat die Volksrepublik die Biotechnologie und die Impfstoffproduktion als eine von mehreren Schlüsseltechnologien ausgemacht, in der …
Es gibt in China im Gegensatz zu Deutschland kein Hausarztsystem. Daher geht man auch bei kleineren Beschwerden in die örtlichen Krankenhäuser, etwa zur Medikamentenausgabe. Dies war ein wichtiger…
China ist der weltweit drittgrößte Absatzmarkt für Pharmaprodukte nach den USA und Japan. Bisher ist der chinesische Pharmamarkt etwa zur Hälfte von ausländischen Konzernen dominiert, wobei der Anteil…
Chakad Ojani: On October 14, 2020, the Swedish government announced its decision to grant 90 million SEK to support the expansion of Sweden’s space center and rocket-launching site…
In the summer of 1960, Jane Goodall left England for what is now Gombe National Park in Tanzania. With the aid of legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, Goodall was…
Bartira Fortes: Street Art of Marielle Franco by Rodrigo Rizo Art in its broad spectrum – visual, sonorous, literary, or performative – have offered anthropological research a laboratory…
ff 1. There are two twins sat on the beach but one is farther up the shore, closer to West Point, or right inside it, depending on which…
Tanya Luhrmann has spent much of her career as an anthropologist investigating the complex ways that people engage religion and the supernatural. In How God Becomes Real: Kindling the…
In today’s episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, Sneha Annavarapu talks with Dr. Caterina Fugazzola, Earl S Johnson Instructor in Sociology at the University of Chicago, about her research on t……
Sometimes it only takes a “spark,” a “simple, focused intervention,” a “single stroke of genius,” or “the single prick of a needle” to release the flows and create…
Around the world, orangutans are widely recognised as an iconic species for environmental and wildlife conservation efforts. The rainforest in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is one of…
If you joined the Handbrick of Marxism book-launch with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak last evening you will have seen her talk on citizens as agents, global Marx, supplementing vanguardism…
How to Interpret Resting-State fMRI: Ask Your Participants Resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI) reveals brain dynamics in a task-unconstrained environment as subjects let their minds wander freely. Consequentl…
An Egyptian graphic designer named Mahmoud Tammam has created some fascinating word images in Arabic. Check out a discussion of his work here and here.
Jacqueline Solway: “… the article sensationalizes and sets up straw people at least at the outset. It is our problem, not ‘theirs’ that we see some others as…
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Mesa Verde National Park (MVNP) in what is today southwestern Colorado is a UNESCO World Heritage site dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the amazing cliff dwellings…
ByAlice Riddell, Chloe Dominique, Emilie Glazer, Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou, and Victoria TeccaPhD Anthropology Introducing PAPER, Power and Politics of/in Ethnographic Research; a timely and i…
“Miss Nina, time to wake up! First bus leaves in half an hour!” Nina opened her eyes halfway, and nodded assent. “OK honey, I’ll check on you in…