موسیقی ماریاچیهای شهر مکزیکو
عکسی که در بالا مشاهده می کنید یکی از گروه های موسیقی ماریاچی درمیدان گاریبالدی درشهر مکزیکو است که من آن را در سال ۱۹۸۲ گرفته ام. ماریاچی…
جای خالی نگاه جامعنگر به تهران (در تهیه و اجرای طرحهای شهرسازی)
نشست یک صد و شصت و هشتم یکشنبههای انسانشناسی و فرهنگ با همکاری اداره کل مطالعات اجتماعی و فرهنگی شهرداری تهران یکشنبه ۱۲ خرداد ۹۸ ساعت ۱۶ الی…
Review: Women on Food
Druckman, Charlotte + 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters (2019) Women On Food. New York: Abrams Press. 400 pp. ISBN 978 1 4197 3635 3; eISBN…
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“The sea cannot know itself as yet unborn until the eye of the storm passes above its tumultuous skin, blinking.” I remember when lions came for the weak…
Links & Contents I Liked 371
Hi all, Welcome to what is probably going to be the pen-ultimate #globaldev link review before a well-deserved summer break in July! It has been a busy week…
Epistemic and Temporal Disjunctions: (Re)Mapping “Suicide Risk” Epigenetics Through Birth Cohorts by Stephanie Lloyd
The McGill Group for Suicide Studies (MGSS) has garnered significant attention for its epigenetic models of suicide risk. These models suggest that early life adversity may set people…
Whose Space is this? A Multispecies Auto-Ethnography of Viral-Human Negotiations in the Contact Zone (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Oleg Zurmühlen Just as this intimidating encounter of an orang-utan in the city SARS-CoV-2 reshapes the spatial and temporal organization of…
»Muji« und »Uniqlo«: Japanologische Studie zur Markeninszenierung in Japan
Japan gilt spätestens seit dem Slogan „Cool Japan“ weltweit als „Lifestylenation“. Die Imagekampagne aus den frühen 2000er Jahren hatte es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die japanische Populärkultur und…
Interdisziplinäres Seminar konzipiert virtuelle Ausstellung zu Richard Strauss
Interdisziplinäres Seminar konzipiert webbasierte Ausstellung zum Komponisten Der Frankfurter Weinhändler Manskopf sammelte Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts über 20 000 Exponate für sein privates musikhist…
Ayesha Siddiqi, “In the Wake of Disaster: Islamists, the State and a Social Contract in Pakistan” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Over the last couple of decades, a number of books written both by the academics and journalists have appeared on many dysfunctions of the Pakistani state, a few of…
#Review: An Ecology of Knowledges
Micha Rahder’s An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation is an ethnographically rich account of the dense conservation networks and politics that operat…
Rethinking the house as a public health technology of preparedness by Imogen Bevan
The main public critique levelled at the UK government’s “Stay Home” campaign was its failure to be implemented fast enough, and the abandonment of community contact tracing in…
A Petition to Change the Name of Lane County
In this new period of “wokeness” there are calls for the elimination of racist names and statues from our institutions. Christopher Columbus statues have been torn from…
In the Vault: Miniature Basket Illustrates the Big Impact of Tiny Things
Carol Emarthle-Douglas (Northern Arapaho/Seminole), Round Dance, 2016, rattan round reed, raffia, dyes, silk, and glass, SAR.2017-6-1AB. Ph…
Thank You, Dan, For All The Keys
Below find the eighth in a series of guest posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. Swan’s retirement from the University…
Working Definitions: Making and Unmaking “Medical Anthropology” around the World by Paschal Kum Awah
Somatosphere Special Series – Call for Contributions Editors: Professor Paschal Kum Awah (Chair, Anthropology, University of Yaoundé I) and Elizabeth Durham (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Pri…
The Photo Album
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE I I am looking through a series of matt photos that are organised in an album. They have each been carefully placed behind individual plastic sheets that…
In the Journals, May 2020, Part 2 by Arbel Griner
Health, Risk & Society Risk and preventing perinatal HIV transmission: uncovering the social organisation of prenatal care for women living with HIV in Ontario, Canada Allyson Ion , Saara Gree…
Feminise the pandemic: Covid-19 and gender inequality in South Africa
Like all countries around the world, South Africa is now dealing with the uncertainty of navigating in uncharted waters, as it moves from full lockdown to a gradual…
The metropolis and mental life in the age of COVID-19: Delaying descent into the blasé attitude by Rafael Wainer
The COVID city: Class, physical isolation, and virtual connection At the time of writing this we are all experiencing what the classical sociologist Émile Durkheim would call a…
DEI Website Launched!
Our new website is now online. In the blog, we will be presenting and discussing various research activities, projects and events in relation to “the digital” at the…
What Parsnips Taught Me About Nature
Growing and harvesting this food helped the author connect with nature. Stuart Lang As the rain fell on my hands, washing away the soil, I threw the last…
Call for abstracts: Storbykonferansen 2020
Er det noe 2020 har lært oss, er det hvor raskt og drastisk byene våre kan endres. Da covid-19-pandemien kom til Norge opplevde vi en nedstenging av byene…