#Book Symposium: Tasting Qualities
How does one reproduce the taste, smell and appearance of any craft based/ industrially produced food commodity? Tea is one of the many beverages with roots in colonialism.…
#BookSymposium: Tasting Qualities
Sarah Besky’s ethnographically and historically rich study of the Indian tea industry begins with a deceptively simple question: what makes a good cup of tea? The answer, it…
#BookSymposium: Tasting Qualities
As I write this, in the uncertain and tumultuous times of early June 2020, there is a storm brewing in the world of British tea drinkers. On June…
Gamle nordiske personnamn og oppkallingsskikkar
Kva slags namn hadde me i Norden i jernalder og vikingtid, og kva rekna ein for oppkalling på denne tida? Her får du ei kort innføring i ein…
Minjeong Kim, “Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and “Multiculturalism” in Rural South Korea” (U Hawai’i Press, 2018)
Studies on marriage migration often portray marriage migrants as victims of globalization and patriarchy. Although there are intersecting oppressions among female migrant workers, the tendenc… Visit New Books…
Sara Luna, “Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border” (U Texas Press, 2020)
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years…
Gregory Forth, “A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019)
Gregory Forth, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has studied the Nage people of the eastern Indonesian…
Tadschikistan: kleiner Sprachenguide
Du willst nach Tadschikistan reisen und mit ein paar Worten mit den Menschen dort in Kontakt kommen? Mach dich fit für eine Reise in dieses faszinierendes Land. Dieser…
Atmospheres of change
This month, Chileans will decide whether to set in motion a process to change the country’s dictatorship-era constitution while marking a year since the beginning of a popular…
What If There Is Life on Venus?
In the throes of a pandemic that has underscored the fragility of human life on Earth, news has come of possible life on another planet, with the detection…
Moveamus.
Gesundheitszeit, nicht wahr? Ohne ernsthafte Debatte freilich, was Gesundheit außer der Abwesenheit von Corona sei, ob es sinnvoll ist, so etwas Fragiles und subjektiv Empfundenes wie Gesundheit zum…
Tagung „Alle reden über Integration“ & neue Initiative MIF
Das Migrations- und Integrationsforum Baden-Württemberg (MIF) hat auf ihrer Tagung „Alle reden über Integration“ Fragen des Verständnisses, der Vermittlung und Verwertung von Erkenntnissen…
Teren Sevea, “Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic ……
Li Zhang, “Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy” (U California Press, 2020)
The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and pr… Visit New…
Wednesday Round Up #20
Laziness Does Not Exist I’ve been a psychology professor since 2012. In the past six years, I’ve witnessed students of all ages procrastinate on papers, skip presentation days,…
Connectedness in a Time of Pandemic
Right now, many of us are reevaluating what it means to be connected. In the United States, we often think of connectivity as having wireless broadband service, or…
Are We in the Same Boat? Ethnographic Lessons of Sheltering in Place from International Seafarers and Algerian Harraga in the Age of Global Pandemic
Stephanie Love & Liang Wu To cite this article: Stephanie Love & Liang Wu (2020) Are We in the Same Boat? Ethnogra…
Reconstituting China in a Time of Pandemic
Eric S. Henry To cite this article: Eric S. Henry (2020) Reconstituting China in a Time of Pandemic, Anthropology Now, 12:…
COVID-19 Dispatches from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Tram Luong To cite this article: Tram Luong (2020) COVID-19 Dispatches from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Anthropology Now, 1…
Jag vill ogärna definiera pojken men…
När man konstruerar en frågelista i syfte att samla in narrativt material, så läggs mycket tid på att fundera på hur man egentligen ska ställa frågorna man vill…
What are Effective dietary Supplements for weight loss?
What are Effective dietary Supplements for weight loss? DIETARY supplements (biologically active additives) are a combination of biologically active substances of mineral and vegetable origin, some ar…
Conversation with Francisco Martinez on his work on post-socialist ruins
Interview-review of Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia (Winner of the Early Career Scholars Award 2018 of the European Association of Social Anthropologists) Keiti Kljavin, Lecturer at…
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