Editor’s Note
The introduction to this special issue, An Anthropology of the COVID-19 Pandemic, highlights the collective nature of its p…
An Anthropology of the Handshake
Bjarke Oxlund To cite this article: Bjarke Oxlund (2020) An Anthropology of the Handshake, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 39-44, …
An Anthropology of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rylan Higgins, Emily Martin and Maria D. Vesperi To cite this article: Rylan Higgins, Emily Martin & Maria D. Vesperi …
Why Do Virtual Meetings Feel So Weird?
[no-caption] Anna Shvets/Pexels It’s morning in Houston, Texas, for Jeremy* and his team of engineers, and nearly evening in a small town north of Bucharest, Romania, for Costa…
Brotgelehrte-Transparenz: September-Statistik
Nach der Flaute im August lässt sich ein deutlicher Anstieg der Klickzahlen für September verbuchen. Das freut uns natürlich sehr. Noch mehr freuen wir uns über die erste…
In Memoriam: Sally Engle Merry
Meg Davis Sally Engle Merry got more of a kick than anyone I know from not only thinking big and aiming high herself, but helping other scholars to…
El Forat de la Vergonya
La imagen corresponde al desalojo de la plaza y está tomada de grupotorturga.com Artículo publicado en El País el 10 de octubre de 2006. EL FORAT DE LA…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1930s
This is a fifth post in a series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society…
Dutch superiority the cause of so many Covid-19 infections?
Some people, including medical experts and politicians, imply that Dutch superiority causes so many Covid-19 infections. Erik Bähre reflects on the nationalist rhetoric that prevents the Netherlands f…
Dutch superiority the cause of so many Covid-19 infections?
Some people, including medical experts and politicians, imply that Dutch superiority causes so many Covid-19 infections. Erik Bähre reflects on the nationalist rhetoric that prevents the Netherlands f…
کاملاً تحت کنترل؛ مستندی با استفاده از دوربین کرونایی
این فیلم به خاطر صراحتش در نگاه به گذشته، بسیار تکان دهنده است(نئون). (تصویر از پشت حائل نایلونی گرفته شده است) مستند کاملاً تحت کنترل، سه هفته…
The 1930s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
This is the sixth post in the series looking at the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations scholars and scholarship from the work and…
Alexey Golubev, “The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia” (Cornell UP, 2020)
The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia (Cornell UP, 2020) is a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era.…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1960s
In a fourth series post on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society, I pick up…
Aging, Vulnerability and Questions of Care in the Time of COVID-19
Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin & Marcia C. Inhorn To cite this article: Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin & Marcia C. Inhorn …
The Emergence of COVID-19: A Multispecies Story
Eben Kirksey To cite this article: Eben Kirksey (2020) The Emergence of COVID-19: A Multispecies Story, Anthropology Now, …
Italia moderna – diciotto
Ein zweigeschoßiger Bau auf quadratischer Grundfläche irgendwo in Oberitalien:Das Besondere ist vielleicht das quadratische Format sowohl des Grundrisses als auch der Fenster. Das Ganze wirkt so auf d…
Sarah Besky on her book, Tasting Qualities
Interview by Shulan Sun https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520303256/tasting-qualities What do you see as the main focus and argument of this book? My main aim in the book is to develop a…
Sound Politics in COVID-19 Brooklyn
Last spring, New Yorkers participated in the 7:00 p.m. clap to show solidarity with “essential workers” and assuage feelings of isolation. They used noisy cacerolazos to mobilize collectiv…
Becoming ‘not ready’: the case of the moving threshold in a dementia prevention trial by Natassia Brenman
In a behavioural testing room of a clinical research facility, a well-dressed, white-haired woman is undergoing a battery of cognitive, neurological, and physiological tests. The facility, flanked by…
آپارتمانهایی بیریشه برای آدمهایی بیریشهتر
در سالهای دهه ۱۳۴۰، همانگونه که میدانیم سیاست فرهنگی رژیم پیشین ملغمهای بود از تضادها: از یک سو، نوعی دموکراسی فرهنگی آغاز شده بود که در بسیاری موارد…
Kristina M. Lyons, “Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural communities as they attempt…
Stellenausschreibungen 43. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
Die erste Woche der Schul-Herbstferien ist vorbei, doch von Ferien kann nicht wirklich die Rede sein. Angesichts der aktuellen Situation ist das wohlverdiente und lang geplante “In-den-Urlaub-f…
A Pack Basket Among the Lisu in Yunnan, 2004
If you click here, you will be taken to a Getty Images photograph by Zhang Peng/Light Rocket. The image shows a Lisu woman on her way to a…