#Corona: Connected by extension – How paying connects old regimes and new isolations
The situation in Myanmar during and shortly after my fieldwork in March 2020 reminded me of the uncertainty of knowledge and call for prudence which started the…
Jill Massino, “Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania” (Berghahn, 2019)
In this episode, we meet Dr. Jill Massino, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina who is fascinated researching everyday life under dictatorships. We…
Kelly Underman, “Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training” (NYU Press, 2020)
The pelvic exam is considered a fundamental procedure for medical students to learn; it is also often the one of the first times where medical students are required…
انتشار شماره جدید مجله علمی پژوهشی پژوهشهای انسانشناسی ایران
شماره جدید مجله علمی پژوهشی پژوهشهای انسانشناسی ایران (پاییز و زمستان ۱۳۹۸، دوره ۹، شماره ۲) منتشر شد. این شماره شامل ۹ مقاله علمی پژوهشی به شرح ذیل…
سلبریتیهای زودگذر
این یادداشت در ۲۰ آبان ۱۳۹۹ در همین وبگاه منتشر و اکنون در تاریخ ۲ مهر ۱۴۰۱ بازنشر میشود. کریس روجِک-دانشگاه سیتیِ لندن برگردان: فردین علیخواه سلبریتی، اختصاص…
La muerte cercana
La fotografía es de Dirk HR Spennemann Epílogo para padres y maestros del libro “El jardín de mi abuelo”, de Maria’ Àngels Vila i Mabel Pierola (Bellaterra, 2007)LA…
The Work it Takes to Stop Working: Productivity in Labs and Sugarcane
In spring of 2020, thousands of scientific labs across several continents shut down. What was deemed “non-essential” research was ramped down and/or paused in an effort to stop…
Extreme Anthropology
During my exploration of anthropology in the Directory of Open Access Journals, I came across the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. Just the title entices, but the contents are…
This is Us
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design Dean Vishaan Chakrabarti reflects on the 2020 presidential election saying “… Our long national nightmare is over. For now.”
تأثیر تغذیه بر سلامت روان
رابطهی بین غذا و دیابت، بیماری قلبی و چاقی شناخته شده است اما آیا خوردن غذا میتواند تأثیری بر سلامت روان داشته باشد؟ در قرون وسطی مردم بر…
Race, Place, and Latinx Political Choices
How can there be talk of a singular Latinx vote without recognizing the differentiated racial experiences among Latinxs? During the 2020 primary elections, a New York Times headline,…
Guest Post: Reflexive Anthropology: Black Women and Ethnographic Performances // Antropología Reflexiva: Mujer Negra y Actos Etnográficos
[Footnotes is pleased to present this guest post by Carolina Nvé Díaz San Francisco in both English and Spanish. Carolina is currently a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology…
Guest Post: Reflexive Anthropology: Black Women and Ethnographic Performances // Antropología Reflexiva: Mujer Negra y Actos Etnográficos
[Footnotes is pleased to present this guest post by Carolina Nvé Díaz San Francisco in both English and Spanish. Carolina is currently a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology…
Gabriella Lukacs on her book, Invisibility by Design
Interview by I-Lin Liu https://www.dukeupress.edu/invisibility-by-design I-Lin Liu: Could you share with us what prompted you to take on this research on Japanese women’s participation in d…
Book forum: Michelle Murphy’s The Economization of Life by Martha Lincoln
Michelle Murphy’s The Economization of Life (Duke University Press, 2017) received the Ludwik Fleck Prize from the the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) at the 2019…
Sexworkers’ long history as political experts: Thierry Schaffauser
The other day Thierry Schaffauser posted some reflections on facebook on the history of sexworkers as thinkers and leaders in activism for social change. Objecting to the exclusion…
James Staples, “Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India” (U Washington Press, 2020)
Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route… Visit…
Stellenausschreibungen 46. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
Letzte Woche war es ja dürr mit studentischen Jobs; wir haben darum gezielter danach gesucht und wurden fündig – hoffentlich hilft es Euch weiter. Auch bei den Quereinstiegen…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Consciously (Re)Quarantined
As nations across Europe find the inevitable domino of new national lockdowns knocking into them, we may all approach ‘this time’ differently from the last. During the interim…
Discard Studies Twitter Conference Schedule
The Discard Studies Twitter Conference is going live on November 16th and 17th! Here is the schedule. #Discard2020
Wapato Canoes
There are several types of canoes for the region which served the purposes of the tribes. The most well know is the Chinook canoe or western style canoe…
کانون پرورش فکری و کژفهمی پایهای در امر فرهنگ
از اندیشههای کلیشهای و موردپسند حوزهی سیاسی وابسته دانستن همهکس و همهچیز از خوب و بد به خود بهشکل مثبت یا منفی است. نوعی خودمحوری و…
گفتمانهای «ازدواج» در ایران معاصر
گفتمانهای «ازدواج» در ایران معاصر: متاثر از گفتمانهای دین یا مدرنیته؟ «ازدواج» از پرچالشترین پدیدههایی است که در دنیای مدرن امروز دستخوش تغییر شده و مباحث علمی زیادی…
مقدمهای بر زمینههای ظهور پدیدارشناسی
اگر بنا باشد به یکی از تأثیر گذار ترین جریان های فلسفی در تاریخ اندیشه ی بشر اشاره گردد، بی تردید نام جنبش فلسفی پدیدار شناسی در صدر،…