The WEconomy (book review)
As you may have heard if you are interested in Canadian #globaldev discussions, the Toronto-based WE charity has been involved in a bit of a political controversy. In…
What Scars Say About Sex and Stereotypes
[no-caption] Dean Krakel/Getty Images I recently noticed a curious phenomenon playing out on various television series. In Outlander, Scottish heartthrob Jamie Fraser’s back is seared wit…
Abolishing Immigration Detention: A Conversation with Deborah Boehm
Banner from a rally at the California State Capitol building in the fall of 2019. Photo by Deborah Boehm. …
Dekoloniales Flanieren. Mit Anton Wilhelm Arno durch…
Freitag, 21.8.2020, 17:00-19:00 Uhr Treffpunkt: U-Bahnstation Möhrenstrasse (Berlin) Wir stellen uns vor: Was würde der afrodeutsche Aufklärungsphilosoph Anton Wilhelm Arno wahrnehmen,…
Dekoloniales Flanieren. Mit Anton Wilhelm Arno durch…
Freitag, 21.8.2020, 17:00-19:00 Uhr Treffpunkt: U-Bahnstation Möhrenstrasse (Berlin) Wir stellen uns vor: Was würde der afrodeutsche Aufklärungsphilosoph Anton Wilhelm Arno wahrnehmen,…
Maile Arvin, “Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania” (Duke UP, 2020)
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white, and speculated that they were of Mediterranean or Ary… Visit…
Ed Bruner: In Memoriam
August 8, 2020 Ed Bruner at his home in Illinois (2005) Ed Bruner passed away yesterday, at 95–peacefully, at home. I wish my daughter and I could have…
The Corporate Menagerie – Thesis Eleven
An article on the malaise that afflicts the UK university system, applicable to the US and Australia too possibly, not wholly tongue-in-cheek and riffing on true stories. Everyone…
Book Review: Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin Farrell
In Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West, Justin Farrell examines the lives of the ultra-wealthy who make Teton County, Wyoming, the richest county…
Póximo número: 21/09/2020
La entrada Póximo número: 21/09/2020 aparece primero en anthropologies.
Jill A. Fisher, “Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals” (NYU Press, 2020)
Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175. You must…
Nadia Eghbal, “Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software” (Stripe Press, 2020)
Open source is the once-radical idea that code should be freely available to everyone. Open-source software was once an optimistic model for public collaboration, but is now a…
خودنمایی روشنفکرانه
آسیب اصلی خودنمایی روشنفکرانه به وجود آمدن هویتهای کاذب است که باعث توهم خود بزرگ بینی و در جا زدن شده و مانع پیشرفت میشود. آسیب دیگر خودنمایی…
موزه های ما در سال ۲۰۲۰
موزه های ما در سال ۲۰۲۰ چگونه باید به نظر برسند؟ چهار کارشناس صنعت و هنر دیدگاههای خود درباره گذشته، حال و آینده موزه ها را به اشتراک…
چهارشنبهسوری خطرناک چه زمانی متولد شد؟
گفتگوی فرارو با امیر هاشمی مقدم در زمان سامانیان در شبی از شبهای پیش از آغازسال نور، آتش افروخته میشود”؛ نویسنده «تاریخ بخارا» اشاره میکند «چنانکه عادت قدیم…
جنبش متابولیسم و زایش تکنوتوپیا (۱)
جنبش متابولیسم و زایش تکنوتوپیا؛ از اپیستمه تا تعرض یا چگونه تکنولوژی از خود عبور کرد قسمت اول ـ شـرق در مواجه با معاصربودگی، شهر، تکنولوژی و یوتوپیا[i]…
خوشه چینی در یادمان هایِ میراث فرهنگی
خوشه چینی در یادمان هایِ میراث فرهنگی:مطالعه، مشارکت، مساهمت چگونه بازدید های فرهنگی و تاریخی خود را غنا بخشیم امروزه حفظ، توسعه و ایجاد آثار ویادمان های تاریخی…
Conferences as Ecologies of Ideas: Epistemic Cultures of the Association for Social Anthropology of Oceania
A considerable portion of scholarly life is bound up with meetings of various kinds. For those located within academic institutions, office hours, departmental meetings, and university committees pl…
کردستان مرکزی در نیمه اول هزاره دوم پیش از میلاد
معرفی کتاب “کردستان مرکزی در نیمه اول هزاره دوم پیش از میلاد” [۱] نویسنده: کوزاد محمد احمد [۲] زبان کتاب: کردی انتشارات: بنکه ی ژین، سلیمانیه، عراق سال…
De potencias oscuras y causas vagabundas
La foto es de David Jonson Consideraciones para los estudiantes del Màster en Antropologia i Etnografia de la UB, a raíz de los disturbios en Londres y otras…
Cain and Able: A Reflection on Coronavirus
The story of Cain and Able from the Christian Holy Bible is common knowledge but to recap. Cain and Able both offer sacrifices to God: Cain offering produce…
Indigenous Cultures Have Archaeology Too
A resident burns off vegetation to clear his garden plot on lands that previously were part of an ancient village called Popo. Chris Urwin In late 2015, I…
40: Quarantine & The Origins of Computation
Quarantine is a number. Quarantine was the name given to the strategy of isolating potentially harmful populations for forty days in an effort to impede potential dangers. Deriving…
Shannon Ward takes the page 99 test
My dissertation, Learning Language, Transforming Knowledge: Language Socialization in Amdo, Tibet, examines young children’s social and linguistic development in China’s western borderlands. Based on …