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Hi all, It has been a busy week with quite a few bad news story from inside the #globaldev industry-ranging from WFP, to UNICEF UK, Amnesty & Tearfund-but…
Heribert Barrera i el catalanisme racista
Josep Anglada signant en el llibre de condolències per la mort d’Heribert Barrera Consideracions a propòsit dels condols per la mort d’Heribert Barrera, publicades el 4 de setembre…
#failures: Living Out of Synch
In their introduction to this thematic series, and the symposium that preceded it, Berisha, Mafizzoli and Ojani invite us to reflect on what happens when breakdown becomes the…
Denise E. Bates, “Basket Diplomacy: Leadership, Alliance-Building, and Resilience among the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, 1884-1984” (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Before the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana became one of the state’s top private employers—with its vast landholdings and economic enterprises—they lived well below the poverty line and lacked…
Wo man Ungers eine Träne nachweinen könnte
Schon verrückt: Da organisierte die Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin vor runden 14 Jahren eine Einzelausstellung für den Architekten Oswald Matthias Ungers, die erste Einzelarchitektenausstellung in die…
Vivir en una irrealidad: de la zombificación al síndrome de Cotard
“La cara norte del corazón” de Dolores Redondo, te sumerge en el apasionante y la vez terrorífico mundo de los “muertos vivientes”, el Vudú y del muy desconocido…
Honoring a Life of Creativity and Artistic Talent
Honoring a Life of Creativity and Artistic Talent …
Wednesday Round Up #17
How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past They came up with equations to describe how the brain might in theory encode time indirectly. In their scheme,…
Wie man einen Forschungsstand überlebt. Oder: der Prozess der Verordnung ohne GPS
Zu jeder wissenschaftlichen, also auch jeder kulturanthropologischen, Forschung gehört als Basis ein aktueller Forschungsstand. Dieser soll zeigen, was bisher zu dem jeweiligen Thema erforscht wurde, …
A Mammoth Find Near Mexico City
Archaeologists, restorers, and laborers have worked together to uncover thousands of late Pleistocene animal remains. Melitón Tapia, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico …
SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Alina R. Méndez and the Bracero Program
It is imperative that we include social reproduction in conversations about immigration reform. The braceros and unauthorized migrants who…
Reading the Assamese Folktale of Tejimola through an Inter-Species Lens: Understanding Life as a Verb instead of a Noun
By Paloma Bhattacharjee, National Museum Institute, New Delhi § The Capacity of Stories Burhi Aair Xadhu (loosely translated as Grandmother’s Tales) is a corpus of Assamese folktales coll…
Kommunalwahlen in NRW 2020. Was heißt das Ergebnis für die kommunale Migrationspolitik?
Eine deskriptive Kurzanalyse, erstellt von der Sektion Stadt und Region des RfM e.V. Bekannt ist die Aussage „Integration findet vor Ort statt“. Diese so phrasenhaft anklingende Redensart drückt…
Half for me and the rest for the bees
By Salma Bel Lahdab El Hommad Hatidze Muratova, a fiftyish-year-old Turkish speaking woman, accompanied by her old mother and her precious bees, lives in the middle of a…
How the informal economy took over the World – Part 2 by Keith Hart
The dialectics of form “General Forms have their vitality in Particulars, and every Particular is a Man” (William Blake). Most readers of this book live substantially inside…
Don’t make me laugh: How getting it wrong shapes interspecies entanglements in the Batek’s forest
“yeʔ kan plŋal!” “lawac!” “hɛy yeʔ leh!” “Don’t laugh!”, “It’s taboo!”, “We shouldn’t!” Naʔ Srimjam kept admonishing us one afternoon that she, her sister Naʔ Badək, and I,…
Berit Brogaard, “Hatred: Understanding Our Most Dangerous Emotion” (Oxford UP, 2020)
What is it that makes hatred so addicting? In her new book Hatred: Understanding Our Most Dangerous Emotion (Oxford University Press, 2020), Berit Bogaard explains. Berit is a…
David Tavárez, “The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico” (Stanford UP, 2011)
David Tavárez is a historian and linguistic anthropologist; he is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at Vassar College. He is a specialist…
El hombre león de Hohlenstein Stadel: más que una estatuilla
El arte paleolítico supone uno de los grandes enigmas de la prehistoria. Siempre ha supuesto un reto para los investigadores, quienes han intentado acercarse desde diferentes enfoques interpretativos,…
El cuento del espacio púbico
La foto es de Careimi y está tomada de curiouscope.wordpress.com/ Prímeros párrafos de la introducción de El espacio público como ideología (La Catarata, 2013) EL CUENTO DEL ESPACIO…
Do Black Lives Matter in Outer Space?
Artist Peter Williams explores Afrofuturist themes in this painting titled “He Was a Global Traveler.” (Peter Williams, “He Was a Global Traveler,” 2020, oil on canvas, 72 x 96…
Poking Living Things with a Stick: The Culture of Forensics with Lilly White
When most people think of forensics or forensic anthropology the first thing that comes to mind are TV shows like CSI or Bones, or maybe in Six Feet…
Digitale Ethnografie in Corona-Zeiten III
Der dritte Teil der Blogserie, in der sich 5 studentische Feldforschungsprojekte zur Coronavirus Pandemie vorstellen. Dieses Mal: Normalität in Zeiten von Corona – Forschungsübung im Methode…
The Narrative of LGB in Iran and the Chronic Closet
Research Article The Narrative of LGB in Iran and the Chronic Closet Kameel Ahmady www.kameelahmady.com Kameel.ahmady@gmail.com ABSTRACT By using snowballing and Grounded Theory approach, a r…