“The Two Singapores” is an ongoing interview miniseries run by Somatosphere to interrogate Singapore’s COVID-19 response, in particular in its handling of the explosion of cases among migrant…
Infographics have become a ubiquitous feature of the contemporary global health landscape, crowding the presentations and exhibition halls of conferences, the pages of annual reports, and the website…
Some Indigenous Mexican communities protect themselves against the novel coronavirus by using age-old practices. zug zwang/Flickr This article was originally published at The Conversat…
In 2019, Anja Marie Solheim compiled the Mare Nullius project’s online UN Documents and IPCC reports collections (have a look). In this blogpost she shares her own experiences…
The fragility of our infrastructures and modes of living seldom become as ubiquitously palpable as they have with the current COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of the corona virus…
Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Toronto Press) examines the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural… Visit New Books in…
Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality (Oxford UP, 2020) brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential…
Retomando el hilo del texto anterior volvemos a la segunda mitad del siglo diecinueve, época en que se fragua la ‘identidad homosexual’. Entendida como una anomalía médica de…
The 2020 UN General Assembly has just kicked off, marking a key highlight of the UN@75 year of celebration. This is the perfect time to share my review…
The Voigt-Kampff test as seen in Blade Runner (1982). All copyrights to film held by Warner Bros. In the opening scene of Blade Runner, a fictional diagnostic called…
سلبریتیهای اینترنتی جوشوآ گامسون-دانشگاه سانفرانسیکو برگردان: فردین علیخواه در سال ۱۹۶۸ اندی وارهول[۱] به طعنه گفت که «در آینده هر کس برای پانزده دقیقه مشهور خواهد ماند».…
Just clinging to the end of page 99 in my dissertation is a tentative question: “but should it really be that the presence of a model, even a…
Jeder will nach Berlin oder München, doch in Chemnitz stehen Wohnungen monatelang leer. In manchen ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands herrschen fast schon "chinesische Zustände", wo wir fast …
How do mental illnesses sound? What are the stakes of using machines to render the signs of psychiatric suffering audible? These questions drive the teams of psychiatric and…
Mit deutlich mehr Begeisterung als in der vergangenen Woche haben wir uns an die Auswahl von geistes- und kulturwissenschaftsaffinen Stellen in der Region gemacht, und der “Treibstoff” wa…
A great new book from Jamie Lorimer out soon from University of Minnesota Press. From the publisher’s website: Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk…
Jeder will nach Berlin oder München, doch in Chemnitz stehen Wohnungen monatelang leer. In manchen ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands herrschen fast schon "chinesische Zustände", wo wir fast …
La antropología se ha encargado de estudiar, a lo largo de la historia, la vida del hombre, su entorno, su cultura, sus costumbres, su lengua… todo ello expresado…
La eterna pregunta cuando una persona está estudiando y llega el momento de decidir qué carrera universitario o posgrado estudiar, es el momento en el que surgen las…
During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals—philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics… Visit New Books in Anthropology for the…
En días pasados repasaba algunas de las diferencias existentes entre los dos museos más significativos de Brazzaville, así como el trato institucional que reciben cada uno de ellos…
Artículo publicado en El Periódico de Catalunya el 3 de marzo de 2000, con motivo de uno de los juicios contra Pedro Varela, en relación con la Librería…
I am currently in the early stages of designing a multispecies project working with the Cofán, an Indigenous people of Amazonian Ecuador, and two species of peccaries (white-lipped…
نخستین تفاوتی که میان رویکرد روانشناختی و انسانشناختی نسبت به عشق وجود دارد، تمرکز رویکرد نخست، اغلب (به ویژه در رویکردروانکاوانه) بر روابط جنسی است، در حالی که…