In the Journals, November 2020, Part 1 by Anna Zogas
Here’s the first part of November’s round-up of new journal articles that may be of interest. Enjoy! Science, Technology and Human Values Borderlands of Life: IVF Embryos and…
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Hi all, I am tired. I know we all are. I was fortunate to talk with great students in Edinburgh and Malmö this week about media, development, reflective…
Birth cohorts, biosocial theory, and the politics of developmental disruption by Dominique Béhague
How and with what consequences do young people push up against standardized views of “normal” and “healthy” development? To what extent can young people’s attempts to disrupt developmental…
Zeugnisverweigerungsrecht für Wissenschaftler*innen
Gemeinsam mit dem Vorstand der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Religionswissenschaft (DVRW) sowie einzelnen Wissenschaftler*innen unserer Fachgesellschaft startet der DGSKA-Vorstand eine Initiative für die…
Jason Keith Fernandes, “Citizenship in a Caste Polity: Religion, Language and Belonging in Goa” (Orient BlackSwan, 2020)
In the mid-1980s, Goa witnessed mass demonstrations, violent protests and political mobilising, following which Konkani was declared the official language of the Goan territory. However, Konkani was r……
Jennifer M. Randles, “Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering” (U California Press, 2020)
In Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering (University of California Press, 2020), sociologist Jennifer Randles shares the stories of more than 60 marginalized m… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Jason Keith Fernandes, “Citizenship in a Caste Polity: Religion, Language and Belonging in Goa” (Orient BlackSwan, 2020)
In the mid-1980s, Goa witnessed mass demonstrations, violent protests and political mobilising, following which Konkani was declared the official language of the Goan territory. However, Konk… Visit New…
Jennifer M. Randles, “Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering” (U California Press, 2020)
In Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering (University of California Press, 2020), sociologist Jennifer Randles shares the stories of more than 60 marginalized men as they … Visit New Books…
Changing perspectives, Infrastructuring care
MICHELA COZZA On 21 March 2020, during the first COVID-19 pandemic peak in Italy, a group of doctors working at the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, published…
Cantar en mexicano es conectarme con mis abuelos y mis antepasados
Los movimientos migratorios dan como resultado una mezcla de personas, con formas de vida diferentes. Las migraciones del campo a la ciudad han llevado a cientos de jóvenes…
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Kürzlich in einer TV-Doku über die drei Hochhäuser von Arne Jacobsen von 1965 auf der Ostseeinsel Fehmarn: Eine Touristin in einem Fehmarner Restaurant in der Nachbarschaft sagt: Ich…
More than a Game: Sports, Race, and Masculinity in Diaspora w/ Vyjayanthi Vadrevu and Stanley Thangaraj
In this episode we meet Dr. Stan Thangaraj, an anthropology professor at the City College of New York whose research includes immigration in the U.S, being interviewed by…
Digitale Kompetenzen als Geisteswissenschaftler*in, Teil 1/3
Aus dem Workshop gefragt: „Sollte ich besser zusätzlich einen BA in Informatik machen?“ Zunächst zwei vielleicht entlastende Befunde: Die digitale Bildung findet aktuell überwiegend im Rahmen v…
How to Twitter Conference (#Discard2020)
In November 2020, Discard Studies held our first ever Twitter Conference. Here’s how it worked! #TwitterConference
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El hallazgo de un esqueleto femenino de 9000 años de antigüedad enterrado con un equipo de caza mayor en la cordillera de los Andes de Perú ha puesto…
Dominación, mediación y consentimiento
La foto es de Yanidel Comentario para Alberto Pérez de la Fuente, doctorando, enviado en octubre de 2016 DOMINACIÓN, MEDIACIÓN Y CONSENTIMIENTO Manuel Delgado De entrada, te convendría…
Snowats, Iswukaw and Quartux
The story of Snowats, Iswukaw and Quartux, written down and published by Jesse Applegate in 1907, appears to be a version of one of the four myth ages…
"If you Aren’t Scared Sh*tless, You Aren’t Learning"
“It you aren’t scared shitless, you aren’t learning,” the prof said to us. We all laughed. The prof doubled down, “Learning should shake you, disturb you, confront you…
A Story Still Being Written: SAR Campus Recognized by Historic Santa Fe Foundation
Community lives not only in people, but in places. Places like El Delirio, originally home to Amelia Elizabeth and Martha Root White and no…
The Power of Images
[no-caption] FG Trade/Getty Images The headlines and powerful prose of the anthropologists and journalists who write for SAPIENS draw our readers in time and again. But, as the…
Wednesday Round Up #26
Human-Animal Interactions – The Badger Version The biology of dads The finding was fascinating in light of seminal research in birds, which had established that testosterone facilitated aggressive…
White Wednesday’ and ‘My Stealthy Movement
Abstract White Wednesday and My Stealthy Movement Initiated on May 27, 2017, the “White Wednesday Campaign” encouraged women and men to wear white scarves or tie them round their…
Suraj Yengde, “Caste Matters” (India Viking, 2019)
“India is not yet a nation. It is still in an improvisational mode like a jazz band that needs to perform repeatedly together in order to uplift every…