[The following students are high school seniors Class of 20201 at “KTH School.” As part of their International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology class, they conducted a collaborative…
“La medicina y el arte parten del mismo tronco”. “Ambos tiene origen en la magia, sistema basado en la omnipotencia de la palabra. El arte de la palabra,…
How do songwriters, worship leaders, and music industry professionals collaborate to make music that can become prayer? Ari Y. Kelman explores this question in his excellent study, Shout to…
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020), milli… Visit New Books in…
How do songwriters, worship leaders, and music industry professionals collaborate to make music that can become prayer? Ari Y. Kelman explores this question in his excellent study, Shout to…
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020), millio… Visit New Books in…
Consider 2 movies and a TV show; ‘Hercules’, ‘Enola Holmes’ and ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’. Random collection or the sum of my November TV experience? For arguments sake let’s…
There will be plenty of time for Biden to use his extraordinary faith and energy and creativity to think about how this divided nation might be healed. For…
Mai Amer: “I really hope the show encourages viewers to reflecting on and critique certain things they think”. Screenshot from her Facebook page How can we better understand…
Del artículo “La sustancia de los sueños. El cine según Claude Lévi-Strauss”, en Historia, antropología y fuentes orales, 30 (2010). LA VERDAD AMERICANA Manuel Delgado Lévi-Strauss tiene con…
In the mid-twentieth century, recognizing the growing need for innovations born of clinical experience, pathways for training MD-PhD physician-scientists emerged in the hopes that this hybrid trainin…
When I arrived from the Philippines to the airport in the city of Gondar in northern Ethiopia early last year—before the pandemic started—I was greeted with an intensely…
Was lässt sich gegen Tier- und Naturschutz in Afrika einwenden? Und müssen nicht die letzten ihrer Art, etwa Nashörner, mit allen Mitteln gegen Wilderer verteidigt werden? Die Militanz…
Eine typische Villa im lombardischen (also italienischen) Teil der Alpen: Wir sehen einen simplen Kasten am Hang (den späteren Anbau im Garten lassen wir außer Acht), einen fast…
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won (or been commended) by the prize juries over…
Arctic sea ice is breaking up and melting as the world’s atmosphere and waters warm. Julianne Yip Arctic sea ice is dying: Its extent, volume, and thickness have…
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson ex… Visit New…
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinso… Visit New Books…
The obsession that media has had with small businesses has hidden the most aggressive public health measures are missing the biggest driver of the pandemic: large industrial workplaces.
Födelsedagsfirandet kan för många vara en enkel ursäkt att festa. Det är en utsaga som kan tänkas underminera hela frågeställningen angående traditionens historia och varför firandet av åldern…
Baseball has been Japan’s most popular sport for over a century. In The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2018), anthr… Visit…
In Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (Cornell University Press, 2020), Dr. Jodi Rios examines relationships between blackness, … Visit New Books…
Today I interview Tanya Lurhmann about her new book, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton University Press, 2020). Lurhmann is the Watkins Uni… Visit New Books in…
Today I interview Tanya Lurhmann about her new book, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton University Press, 2020). Lurhmann is the Watkins University Pro… Visit New Books…