SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Stephen Sullivan Listens to the Soundscapes of Gentrification
My project is less interested in the so-called problem of noise than understanding urban neighborhood sounds more capaciously as social ph…
La iconoclastia islámica y el precedente Ikwhan
Camellería ikwhan Nota para Antonio Monforte, doctorando. La iconoclastia islámica y el precedente Ikwhan Manuel Delgado Lo que tenemos es que las interpretaciones sobre el fundamento antirrit…
Hochschulen als Arbeitgeberinnen
Die Universitäten schreiben aus, und ein großer, klassischer Arbeitsmarkt für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaftler*innen geht trotz Krise in einen weiteren Zwei- bis Drei-Jahres-Zyklus. Es ist viel zu …
Links & Contents I Liked 384
Hi all, How are things? I know…but amidst all the 2020 craziness this week’s #globaldev review features interesting, often uplifting and always status-quo-challenging stories from indigenous pe…
Antoinette Jackson: Intangible Cultural Heritage and Living Communities – Curating ethnographic resources and engaging people
https://aoe.fi/api/download/antoinettejacksonaudio-1603871601474.m4a Antoinette Jackson (University of South Florida) gave a talk titled “Intangible Cultural Heritage …
Amtsübergabe an Carola Lentz als neue Präsidentin des Goethe-Instituts
Heute findet die Amtsübergabe zwischen dem scheidenden Präsidenten Klaus-Dieter Lehmann und seiner Nachfolgerin Carola Lentz statt. Damit steht erstmals eine Ethnologin an der Spitze des Goethe-Instit…
Collaborative Ethnography in the Digital Age: Towards a New Methodological Framework*
Monika Palmberger & Philipp Budka Digital ethnography has become a very vibrant research field, as the growing body of literature indicates (e.g. Hjorth et al., 2017; Pink et…
Katja M. Guenther, “The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster…
Katja M. Guenther, “The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster…
Native North American Studies at the AFS Annual Meetings of the 1980s
Less than 100 papers were presented at the American Folklore Society meetings in the decade of 1900-1909. More than 3500 papers and films were presented during the decade…
Some folklore to get us through the transition tantrums
As the latest long national nightmare slithers inexorably to its end, it is time to consider a few familiar stories that may provide much needed wisdom. Rumpelstiltskin, Samson,…
Sexworkers’ long history as political experts, English translation: Thierry Schaffauser
I’ve translated Thierry’s reflections published the other day as faithfully to his tone as I could and checked with him, so here’s the piece with the same title,…
Podcast # 2 is online! Guest: Aleeha Ali
In this episode, Puck de Boer talks with Aleeha Ali, who studied sociology in Pakistan, did a research master’s in anthropology in the UK and is currently a…
Is the Pandemic Slowing Down Love?
[no-caption] Angus Krieg SAPIENS host Jen Shannon speaks with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher about her research on love, sex, and everything in between. Fisher is the author of…
The Pandemic and the Process of Becoming
Anthropologist Victor Turner’s work on transitional states may shed light on people’s pandemic experiences of the betwixt and between. Pixabay/Pexels As a parent of two kids in elementary…
Communication at a distance: technology old and new
View of Pentecost. © Hannah Sibona By Hannah Sibona In 2020, a face-to-face meeting, more often than not, means screen-to-screen. The global pandemic, social restrictions, and the ‘new…
Southeast Asian Performance, Ethnic Identity and China’s Soft Power: A Discussion with Dr Josh Stenberg
From glove puppets of Chinese origin and Hakka religious processions, to wartime political theatre and contemporary choirs and dance groups, the diverse performance practices of ethnic Chinese communi……
Southeast Asian Performance, Ethnic Identity and China’s Soft Power: A Discussion with Dr Josh Stenberg
From glove puppets of Chinese origin and Hakka religious processions, to wartime political theatre and contemporary choirs and dance groups, the diverse performance practices of ethnic Chines… Visit…
Society 5.0 – new evolutionism towards more inclusive well-being?
Listening to the presentation of Ms Kanae from the Japanese cabinet office at the Japan-Finland Joint Committee meeting on Cooperation in Science and Technology, I was impressed how…
The ICT Poverty Trap: How Technology Disparities Exacerbate the Spread of Disease and Division in Jamaica
A view of the street side in Kingston, Jamaica’s capital. A leaning telecommunications tower, symbolic of the island’s deficient ICT infrastructure, separates the stalls of informal street vendors…
Wednesday Round Up #23
Rigorous Study Backs A Psychedelic Treatment For Major Depression The study of cancer patients “led us to consider whether or not this treatment might be effective for people…
Ancient Beer Is Craft’s New Frontier
Ancient artwork, such as this relief in the Israel Beer Breweries museum in Ashkelon, Israel, offers clues to past beer production. Alamy One morning in May 2019, a…
بررسی فضاهای فرهنگی شهر آمل
مقدمه فضاهای شهری نه تنها عرصه بیان و بروز فرهنگ جامعه هستند، بلکه در کنار مبادلات اقتصادی، بستر های تولید و مصرف فرهنگی و مبادله نشانه های فرهنگی…