Vita Peacock: The slave trader, the artist, and an empty plinth
On 7th June 2020, the bronze statue of Edward Colston in the English city of Bristol was pulled down by Black Lives Matter protesters with a rope, rolled…
Mal was anderes: Stellen in der Region Dresden samt Chemnitz und Görlitz
Immer im Herbst bin ich in Dresden. Das ist ja noch etwas hin, aber ich habe mal geschaut, was auf dem “Markt” so los ist. Darum heute hier…
REDUX: Boredom at #EASA2014
Originally published on February 6, 2015. On August 2nd, 2014, Allegra ran a panel titled ‘Boredom, Intimacy and Governance in ‘Normalized’ Times of Crisis’ at the EASA 2014…
El poder de la moda
La ropa, los adornos y los complementos, han sido una forma de exteriorizar el estatus dentro de la mayor parte de las sociedades durante la inmensa mayoría de…
Remembering Michael Silverstein
Like many people, I was deeply, deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Michael Silverstein, a member of my dissertation committee. Although I knew he was ill,…
El rey está desnudo: antropología de la realeza.
“Cuando el rey está desnudo y el poder es impotente, ¿en qué consiste el ejercicio del Estado, el hecho de gobernar, sino en jugar deliberadamente con las apariencias?” …
همگرایی تاریخی با میراث بزرگ فرهنگی اندیشه اجتماعی
معرفی و نقد مهمترین و تاثیرگذارترین کتابهای تاریخ انسانشناسی و جامعهشناسی از قرن نوزدهم تا امروز (۱) مقدمه همگرایی تاریخی با میراث بزرگ فرهنگی اندیشه اجتماعی ستون هفتگی…
سرشت دو پارهی جهان در تفکر پیشینیان
بررسی تاریخ تفکر انسان همواره بر ما آشکار خواهد کرد که انسان ها در طول تاریخ چگونه اندیشیده اند و جهان را چگونه یافته اند؟ چه فهمی از…
مجموعه عکس «بدن و کشاورزی» (۳)
کشت و برداشت برنج، جان فعالیتهای کشاورزی در شمال ایران است. برنج با رنج بدن زنان و مردانی به دست میآید که ماهها خود را وقف زمین میکنند…
معرفی کتاب «انسان و شهر»
انسان و شهر، اسدالله نقدی، همدان، انتشارات دانشگاه ابوعلی سینا، ۱۳۹۰ انسان و شهر، مفاهیمی فراتر از تعامل هستند که با هم دارای ارتباط هم زیستی و عاطفی…
Sobre la representació de la catàbasi de Crist
SOBRE LA REPRESENTACIÓ DE LA CATÀBASI DE CRIST Homenatge de Joaquín Yarza Manuel Delgafo M’he estat mirant el Descensus ad inferos del beat de Girona (970). Ha estat…
Archaeologists Respond to the Black Lives Matter Movement
Students work with archaeologist Alexandra Jones (center) on an excavation at the Estate Little Princess plantation in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Archaeology in the Community Amid th…
Processing a Pandemic: A Conversation with Alan Swedlund
To understand pandemics you have to know what’s going on in the small places because a pandemic is not uniform around the country or unifo…
Indigenous-led technology can boost biodiversity and ensure human rights
by Simon Hoyte, Alice Sheppard, Marcos Moreu, Megan Laws, and Jerome Lewis Over recent years there have been high profile legal challenges, investigative articles in the media, and…
Indigenous-led technology can boost biodiversity and ensure human rights
Simon Hoyte, Alice Sheppard, Marcos Moreu, Megan Laws & Jerome Lewis Extreme Citizen Science Research Group Over recent years there have been high profile legal challenges, investigative…
Das »Kleine Fach« Kunstpädagogik zwischen Kunstschaffenden und Vermittelnden
„Die Wissenschaft ist der Verstand der Welt, die Kunst ihre Seele“, stellte der russische Schriftsteller Maxim Gorki einmal fest. Die Kunstpädagogik an der Goethe-Universität versucht beides zu …
Double Injustice: Media Racism
Back in 2003 Imogen Bunting, whose birthday it would have been today, wrote this on the film INJUSTICE by Tariq and Ken. To date the film still has…
Jan Doering, “Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods” (Oxford UP, 2020)
With such high levels of residential segregation along racial lines in the United States, gentrifying neighborhoods present fascinating opportunities to examine places with varying levels of integration, and…
El binomio abismamiento-renacer en María Zambrano, y Tolkien. O de cómo afrontar la “nueva normalidad”
Introducción Según María Zambrano, abismarse implica: aceptar la propia limitación; vivir con pasión esa caída; ahondar, penetrar en el subsuelo; dejarse caer. Pero no hay que quedarse en…
Surveillant Materialities of Migrant (Im)mobility: Reconceptualizing Border Technologies
After lunch on the day I arrived at Casa Begoña Migrant Shelter in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México, Doña Paquita, a shelter director, came to fetch me from the comedor,…
"The Camera is our Weapon": Kayapó video warriors featured in new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
The Kayapó (Mebengôkrê) people of Brazil are living proof of the resistance and adaptability of Indigenous cultures. A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York …
Haitian migration and dreams in Chile: Questions for global mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Gabriel Abarca-Brown
I met Pierre (34)[1] in a northern Santiago neighbourhood during my ethnographic fieldwork early in 2018. He was one of the hundreds of Haitians who arrived in Chile,…
Eating Like an Alaskan?: Quarantine Reflections on the Anchorage Museum’s “What Why How We Eat” Exhibition
Abigail AdamsCentral Connecticut State University I’m writing from my dining room table and the CostCo bulk carton of matzoh peeks at me from a kitchen cupboard. I’m reminded…
Undercover Transports
A text from nearly ten years ago: mafiadoc.com_undercover-transportspdf-trinketization_5a0ca3f01723dd5ddbd2ebba