Brotgelehrte-Transparenz: Oktober-Statistik
Auch für den Monat Oktober können wir steigende Klickzahlen verbuchen. Das freut uns natürlich und zeigt auch, dass das, was wir tun, bei Euch auf Interesse stößt. Wir…
What’s Left Unsaid When a Language Dies
“Transition” by Papua New Guinean artist Philemon Yalamu. From Papua New Guinea: A New Dawn by Fondazione Imago Mundi/Luciano Benetton Collection. A Death in the Rainforest: How a Languag…
¡Sahara libertad, Polisario vencerá!
Somos muchas las personas que estamos indignadas con la situación que se está viviendo en la antigua colonia española del Sáhara Occidental, el conflicto armado que ha comenzado…
Book Review: Experiences of Academics from a Working-Class Heritage by Carole Binns
In Experiences of Academics from a Working-Class Heritage, Carole Binns draws on interviews with fourteen tenured academics from a working-class background to reveal the complexities faced by individu…
Å konstruere «dei andre» språkleg – fordommar om språkkontakt
Denne språkpraten viser gjennom eit døme korleis norsk språkvitskap har vore ideologisk vridd og derfor direkte fordomsfull. Det skal handle om språkkontakten mellom norsk og samisk og konstruksjonen…
Människor och andra djur
Årets volym av tidskriften Budkavlen har temat Människor och andra djur. Numret svarar på det alltmer växande intresset för djur i en tid då synen på vår relation till…
Ofrendas para la economía. El monstruo que nunca duerme
La economía sufre, pero no todos los sectores están siendo afectados de igual manera. Las farmacéuticas, aunque han experimentado pérdidas debido a la bajada de demanda de medicamentos…
The Networked Animita: Transgender Remembrance on Social Media
Tomorrow, November 20th, the world will commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to collectively mourn and remember those who have died as a result of transphobia. Started…
Wednesday Round Up #24
Photo: Most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-ray, NMR and cryoelectron microscopy datasets. For more photos and info, see here. The Denialist Playbook…
The Great Barrington Declaration is dangerous
The argument to “open up” society for everyone who is determined to not be at high risk does not take into account the true numbers of who fits…
The Great Barrington Declaration is dangerous
The argument to “open up” society for everyone who is determined to not be at high risk does not take into account the true numbers of who fits…
Special Episode: The Familiar Strange & All Things Myanmar with Myanmar Musings!
The Familiar Strange · Special Episode: The Familiar Strange & All Things Myanmar with Myanmar Musings! Surprise! We are so pleased to show you all a collaborative project…
Messages and Monuments: Perspectives on Collective Memories
Messages and Monuments: Perspectives on Collective Memories Free Virtual Program Invi…
In the meantime on the other side of the world…
By Marina de Regt While we were all busy watching the US elections in the first week of November, an armed conflict broke out on the other side…
The Cookout (and All Other Manners of Heavenly Black Things)
[no-caption] Manny Rodriguez As a poet and an anthropologist, I often write about the cycles of Black grief, death, celebration, and life. As a Black queer descendant of…
Cultural Anthropology, Infrastructures and Envisioning Futures
Port City Regions are global hubs which invite anthropologists, planners, geographers, and architects to rethink disciplinary foundations, interdisciplinary collaborations and future-making, as Sabine…
Cultural Anthropology, Infrastructures and Envisioning Futures
Port City Regions are global hubs which invite anthropologists, planners, geographers, and architects to rethink disciplinary foundations, interdisciplinary collaborations and future-making, as Sabine…
Sujatha Fernandes, “Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life” (Duke, UP 2020)
Cuban resourcefulness is on full display in Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke 2020), as sociologist Sujatha Fernandes presents an array of strategies not just fo… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
A. Kanna et al., “Beyond Exception: New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula” (Cornell UP, 2020)
Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticizing…
Sujatha Fernandes, “Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life” (Duke, UP 2020)
Cuban resourcefulness is on full display in Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke 2020), as sociologist Sujatha Fernandes presents an array of strategies not just for survival … Visit New Books…
A. Kanna et al., “Beyond Exception: New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula” (Cornell UP, 2020)
Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticizing…
Exterogestación o por qué la especie humana es la más vulnerable el primer año
La antropología ha demostrado que existen razones evolutivas que explican por qué los bebés son como son y se comportan de la forma que lo hacen. La naturaleza…
فراخوان انتشار نوروزنامه ۱۴۰۰
تصویر: اثر هنرمند معاصر “ایران درودی” مجموعه انسانشناسی و فرهنگ در روزهای سیاه اخیر که تقریباً یکسال از عمر آن گذشته است، بیش از هر چیز آرزومند است…
Vanessa Diaz, “Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood” (Duke UP, 2020)
While Hollywood’s images present a veneer of fantasy for some, the work to create such images is far from escapism. In Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in…