Cómo acabar de una vez por todas con las "sectas"
Imagen del episodio “La alegría de la secta”, de “Los Simpson”,en que la familia es “captada” por la secta de los movimientatios Artículo publicado en El Periódico de…
Ethics are for everyone: Anthropologists talk shop on ethics in design, technology and business – July 23, 2020
Discussions of ethics in technology and design have become more mainstream in recent years with the growth in power of digital tech. While companies have the ability to…
Apartheid, Aggression und Arbeitskonflikte. Zur politischen Geschichte von Mobbing
Dass „Mobbing“ ursprünglich im Zusammenhang mit Rassismus thematisiert wurde, weiß heute niemand mehr. Vergessen ist ebenso, dass die Warnung vor „Bullying“ mit einem Plädoyer für Disziplin und Körper…
World élite? Latvia, national identity and the pandemic
An introduction to somewhere less observed Research on Covid-19 is a hot topic worldwide, and, recently, the Latvian government has also launched its own emergency research programme. We,…
Empty Beds and Mounting Deaths: COVID-19 and U.S. Healthcare’s Systemic Failures by Miao Jenny Hua
It was afternoon in early April and I was only two-thirds of the way through my 12-hour shift. Between checking on how one patient was breathing and whether…
A Nepalese Region Reclaims Its Holy Water
The Budhi Gandaki River, shown here downstream from Nubri Valley, rushes with icy turquoise water. Madison Wrobley “I’ve been told this is the longest suspended water system in…
Kregg Hetherington, “The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops” (Duke UP, 2020)
By the time Bolivian President Evo Morales was deposed in December 2019, it had become increasingly clear that Latin America’s Pink Tide – the wave of left-leaning, anti-poverty…
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La desigualtat situada
La foto és de Yanidel Resposta a Jaume Estalrich, doctorand LA DESIGUALDAD SITUADA Manuel Delgado Contesto amb retard les teves consideracions a classe i per escrit sobre “el…
Zombie Knowledge: Toward a Deeper Conversation between Black Studies and Multispecies Anthropology
Monsters, the nightmarish figures we conjure in the dark, reflect our own culturally and politically specific anxieties. They are a dark mirror: a terrifying rendering of a social…
Richard H. Robbins: The Economy After Covid-19
Richard H. Robbins, SUNY Plattsburgh One feature of both the economic recession of 2007/2008 and the present Covid-19-induced economic collapse is increased central bank bouts of quantitative easi…
Privilege and pressure: international students in Germany during Covid-19
The complexities of today’s world have enabled an ever extending exposure to stress, often a combination of stress factors of an existential nature that threaten the balance of…
In the Journals – Prisons and Pandemics
Prisoners’ Round by Vincent Van Gogh via wikimedia Welcome back to In the Journals! My name is Ally, I am a graduate student beginning a Master’s in Anthropology at…
Enlisted Laborers of Public Health: overlaps in the work of soldiers in historical perspective by Pamela Maddock
In April, a friend relayed her experience of getting a test for COVID-19 at a drive-through site at a university in Rhode Island, describing “dozens of camouflaged National…
Lionel Wee and Robbie Goh on their book, Language, Space, and Cultural Play
Interview by Ida Hoequist https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-space-and-cultural-play/327DE07D95DC80767188DE0AA9139EDD Ida Hoequist: In this book, you combine affect theory with an …
Zwischen Abschluss und Arbeitslosigkeit: Hochschulabsolventen teilen ihre Zukunftsängste
Aufgrund der Coronakrise schwächelt der chinesische Arbeitsmarkt, zeitgleich steigt 2020 die Zahl von Chinas Hochschulabsolventen auf ein Rekordhoch. Im Netz berichten Uniabgänger über den schwierigen…
Emerging from Lockdown: “Moral pioneering” in Everyday Practices for Women in Europe and North America (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Sydney Howe As Europe and North America begin to ease lockdown restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, this essay looks broadly at…
Próximo número: 20 de Julio
La entrada Próximo número: 20 de Julio aparece primero en anthropologies.
#Review: Genocide Never Sleeps
Genocide Never Sleeps is an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of the contested terrain of international criminal law from an anthropological perspective. Targeting a broad audience that…
Turistofobia
Foto de Cassie Jhonson Artículo publicado en El País, el 12 de julio de 2008 TURISTOFOBIA Manuel Delgado La manera como el fenómeno turístico afecta la vida de…
What can we do to help Native peoples?
I have made a career researching the native peoples of western Oregon. For the past 20 years, I have spent thousands of hours each year researching the tribes.…
Covid-19 arrived in the Yamal tundra
It was probably a matter of time, but I thought until today ‘how great that the tundra is still free of infections’. The reindeer herders strategy of avoiding…
Stellenausschreibungen 29. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
während des Studiums nach dem Studium mit Erfahrung Während des Studiums Minijob: Projektkoordination für das Programm ProSiB (Pro Sonntagsöffnung in Bibliotheken) (w/m/d)Stadtbibliothek HerfordF…
On Vulnerability, Resilience, and Age: Older Americans Reflect on the Pandemic by Sarah Lamb
Every morning, Americans wake up to fresh news of the heavy toll the coronavirus pandemic is exerting upon vulnerable older people—from the likelihood of developing a more severe…