Building on insights from her research on midwives in Indonesia, Molly Fitzpatrick reflects on recent debates on the role of the doula in Dutch maternal healthcare.
We are joined today by Dr. Micha Rahder, writer, editor, and independent scholar based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. We will be talking about her new book, An Ecology…
The two most recent posts in this series considered the state of Native North American and First Nations studies within the American Folklore Society (AFS) through the lens…
Carrying forward from the previous post on the Journal of American Folklore (JAF) during the 1980s and 1990s, my focus here is the presence and absence of Native…
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased award the 2020 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology to Dr. Alpa Shah (London School of Economics) for her book Nightmarch: Am…
By Daniel Allen Solomon § In Timefulness (2018), geologist Marcia Bjornerud argues that one of the key problems of the contemporary historical moment, the so-called Anthropocene, is “time…
In this post I continue considering the absence and presence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the American Folklore Society. Please look…
Joel Palmer got his appointment to be the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in 1853 after the failure of Anson Dart to get some 19 treaties ratified. Palmer already…
[no-caption] Karen Carr/National Park Service This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been repub lished under Creative Commons. Every parent knows the feeling….
The integument bursts asunder (worst translation ever of Marx) Die Hülle … wird gesprengt. – Discussion [coming out soon-ish]. Introducing the Commodity — Capital Course – multiple i…
SAFN Events at AAA’s Virtual Raising Our Voices Conference For the 2020 annual meeting the American Anthropological Association will be hosting a virtual event, and SAFN members will…
Der lang ersehnte Strandurlaub blieb in diesem Jahr für viele aus. Manch einer denkt in diesen Herbsttagen nostalgisch an den letzten Spaziergang am Meer und gemeinsames Muschelsammeln zurück…
How the Awful Stuff Won The distinction between the religious fanatics and the click-chasers collapses still further as Phelps-Roper explains that, because Westboro’s fanatical conception of predestin…
Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Beyond the Household: Caribbean Families and Biocultural Models of AlloparentingRobin G. Nelson Alloparental or extramaternal care is an integral aspect of h…
This article deals with a common problem for professional profiles working with companies. Is it worth doing a PhD if you are going to work in the private…
In 1990, the Japanese government introduced the Nikkei-jin (Japanese descendant) visa and since then it has attracted more than 190,000 Nikkei Brazilian nationals to Japan. In Jesus Loves…
کرونا و فرهنگ چالشهای فرهنگ ایرانی در بحران کرونا نویسنده این کتاب دکتر جبار رحمانی است و کتاب توسط نشر انسانشناسی منتشر شده است. مقدمه و فهرست کتاب…
If you look at one of those world maps that show where Covid-19 cases are currently spiking, you will notice that the United Republic of Tanzania is usually…
Am 12. Oktober, dem „Kolumbus-Tag“, war es in Genua ruhig. Niemand hat die Statue des Genueser Seefahrers angegriffen, Diskussionen über seine Rolle als Erzkolonialist gab es – anders…
به یاد عباس معیری (۱۳۱۸-۱۳۹۹) امروز سخن گفتن از مرگ، گویی به مشغولیتی پیوسته برای کسانی بدل شده که هنوز زنده ماندهاند؛ گویی همه ما به بازیگران ناخواسته…
اکنون گروهی که هنوز به نوعی، باور به سوژه دکارتی دارند یعنی شناختِ توسط سوژه متفکر (و احتمالا خلاق و …)، ممکن است با توسل به تفسیری که…
مرکز مطالعات شهری دانشگاه آمستردام مرکز مطالعات شهری یکی از ۱۵ حوزه ی تحقیقاتی برتر دانشگاه آمستردام ((Amsterdam است. این مرکز پژوهشگران شهری از رشته های جامعه شناسی،…
گوبینو را انسانشناسان بهخاطر «رسالهای در نابرابری نژادها» میشناسند و ایرانیها بهواسطه کتابهای «سه سال در آسیا» و «قصههای آسیایی». یکی از کتابهای کمترشناخته شده وی، یادداشتهای سیاسی…
بعید است سانی بتواند دوباره کارش را از سر گیرد. او چطور میتواند بر هر کارفرمای بالقوهای توضیح دهد که تنها جرمش، جرم اسکیزوفرنی بوده است؟ در کودکی…