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…
Temporary Marriage an Approved Way of Submission
Research Article Temporary Marriage-An Approved Way of Submission Kameel Ahmady www.kameelahmady.com Kameel.ahmady@gmail.com Abstract Temporary marriage is a multi-dimensional topic. It allows Mus…
The Nexus between the Temporary Marriage and Early Child Marriages
Research Article The Nexus between the Temporary Marriage and Early Child Marriages Kameel Ahmady www.kameelahmady.com Kameel.ahmady@gmail.com Abstract The present study is a step towards d…
Giancarlo de Carlo (3) – Ausflug nach Riccione
In Cesenatico an der Adria baute Giancarlo de Carlo eine Art Feriensiedlung. Leider steht sie heute leer und ist dem Verfall preisgegeben, wie man sagt. (Das ist Teil…
Sam van Schaik, “Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and Enchantment through the Ages” (Shambala Publications, 2020)
As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic…
Elizabeth Ferry and Stephen Ferry, “La Batea” (Red Hook, 2017)
La Batea is an unconventional book. A collaboration between anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry and her photographer brother Stephen, it combines text and images to paint a picture of the…
#Failures: Failed to belong – (Re)Negotiations of care in a Tanzanian social welfare office
Every day, women, men, and children sit on the wonky wooden benches in front of the social welfare office, patiently waiting to present their matters to one of…
Cuestión de clases
Bases sociológicas para el apoyo a la monarquía La monarquía es una forma de Estado que ha estado presente a lo largo y ancho del mundo desde tiempo…
Otello heute. Diversität und Repräsentation auf der Opernbühne
Verdis Otello gehört zum Opernkanon und wird in der Schweiz regelmäßig aufgeführt. Die Oper, ihre Geschichte sowie heutige Inszenierungen erlauben es, ein kritisches Licht darauf zu werfen, wie…
3-2-1 Launch! Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory
The pandemic slows all work beyond bare necessity, but good things can happen amid the difficulties of the present. Over the summer, with a small but mighty crew…
روشنفکران و پتانسیل اختلافات قومی
گفتگوگر: قاسم منصور آل کثیر پس از فرایند دولت – ملتها که اغلب همراه با یکسانسازی فرهنگی بود، بعد از مدتی هویتهای اقلیت در مقابل فرهنگ یا گفتمان…
ساختارشکنی از اقتدار دولت، در جامعهشناسی پیر بوردیو (۲)
گرچه «تمیز و تشخیصِ ناخودآگاهانه ی» قلمروی رفتاریِ عادت واره ها ، کم و بیش بحث هایی هستند که در جامعه شناسی های فی المثل نمایشی و یا…
شهرهای کوچک: تجربه شهری آنسوی کلانشهر
شهرهای کوچک: تجربه شهری آنسوی کلانشهر، دیوید بل و مارک جین *، انتشارات راتلج، ۲۰۰۶. کتاب شهرهای کوچک به کاوش در مورد فعالیتهای اقتصادی، سیاسی، اجتماعی-فضایی و فرهنگی…
هرتزوگْ دِمُرُن و معماریِ مواجه
هرتزوگْ دِمُرُن و معماریِ مواجه؛ [آنتی] پاردایم اتمام یا ورود به وضعیت مـِتـا[۱] نوشته ی آرش بصیرت[۲] دفتر معماران هرتزوگْ دِمُرُن به سال ۱۹۷۸ در شهر بازلِ سوییس…