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), anthro… 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, s… Visit New Books…
En el 18 de julio de 2020, participé en un evento interdisciplinario organizado por el grupo estudiantil Abya Yala (de Ohio State) y el Foro Permanente de Estudios,…
Believe it or not, we started 2020 with the proposition of Hope-Punk, the possibilities that could emerge through the disposition of hope. Throughout this year, we’ve explored how…
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance and Food Access in Washington, D.C. By Ashanté M. Reese. 2019. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 978-1-4696-5150-7. 18…
Interview by Janet Connor https://www.dukeupress.edu/fabricating-transnational-capitalism Janet Conner: Why is fashion so good for thinking about capitalism? Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagi…
Wie nutzen wir das Internet? Wodurch verändert sich eine Stadt? Was fördert unsere Kreativität am Arbeitsplatz? Wie konsumieren wir Lebensmittel? Oder kurzgefasst: Wie sieht der Alltag von Menschen…
When we are online we are constantly being watched and tracked. A huge industry has evolved to build profiles about us so that they can predict and influence…
Today we speak with Javier Auyero, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, about his 25 years of experience studying marginalized communities in Buenos Aires…
Today we speak with Javier Auyero, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, about his 25 years of experience studying marginalized communities in Buenos Aires…
Frohes neues Jahr! Die Brotgelehrte-Redaktion meldet sich zurück aus der Weihnachtspause. Wir hoffen, Ihr hattet erholsame Feiertage, um mit uns zusammen ins neue Jahr zu starten. Wir alle…
In classical sense society refers to a group of people who share a common ‘culture’, occupy a particular territorial area and feel themselves to constitute a unified…
Ein Haus in Sabbioneta in der Po-Ebene. Die mächtigen, verputzten Steinpfeiler genügten früher zur Stützung des gesamten Gebäudes. Dann wurden die Holzstürze faul. Lösung: Man stellte einfach zwischen…
Reading a Shaligram may begin with scriptural texts, but it ends with the final divination of the deity by way of each Shaligram’s unique characteristics. For ritual specialists,…
Danza ndembu fotografiada por Victor Turner en los años 50 Comentario para Gloria Polisena, estudiante de Antropologia Religiosa sobre una consulta sobre la relación entre catarsis y teoría…
Kameel Ahmady. Photo: Kameel Ahmady, Wikipedia 14 years ago I wrote about his website: Visual ethnography and Kurdish anthropology by Kameel Ahmady and Photography as research tool: More…
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already read 5,436 articles about how to get a job as a user experience researcher. There is a lot out there. Too…
The Colossus of the South “When the resources of that vast country are taken into account,” the editors of the … More
Noam Chomsky is the quintessential pioneering linguist, intellectual and political activist of the last fifty years. He is an American, … More
I’m happy to announce a new podcast episode over at New Books Network. In this episode I interview brother and sister teams Elizabeth and Stephen Ferry. Elizabeth is…
Looking Forward, Looking Back …
Language warning. We use the word sh*t a lot in this episode, since it is, in fact all about poop. To wrap up this crappy, some may even…
La foto es de Joan Colom La Dictadura y la Iglesia contra el piropo y el asedio sexual Manuel Delgado Se ha publicado estos días el bulo de…
A popular 2020 American meme reminds of us of the 1985 Robert Zemeckis science fiction film Back to the Future. In it Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) is…