Celebrating the Bustling All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
Tulsa and eastern Oklahoma are the center of my personal universe. That place is where my heart resides. Normally, I would be there right now contributing to the…
Reproduksjon i Norge belyst av den antropologiske treenighet: kjønn, slektskap og religion
Photo by @sharonmccutcheon Debatten om bioteknologiloven og eggdonasjon Introduksjon I denne teksten vil jeg se på hvordan reproduksjon blir påvirket av faktorer som kjønn, slektskap og religion og…
How to Globalize Clean Energy
This blog was co-authored with Cecilia Han Springer, who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Abstract Renewable…
مناسک مذهبی درمان بیماران در میانرودان
فلسفه خلقت انسان در الهیات میانرودانی خدمت به خدایان بود و هر گونه تساهل در انجام این کار عقوبت شدیدی را به دنبال داشت. بیماری، مرگ، شکست در…
تاریخ فرهنگیِ بدن و بدنمندی در ایرانِ عصر جدید: (۲۱)
فعالیتهای معطوف به «بدن زیبا» در قلمرو روزمره امروز ما با برچیده شدن سنگربندی ها در جامعه مدنی، عرصه های جدیدی به ظهور میرسند که محور عملیاتی خود…
متخصصان حرفهای اعتقادات: غیبگو، مکاشفهگر، مرتاض و…
دیوید جک الر برگردان جبار رحمانی ساحر: ساحران عموماً کسانیاند که اعتقاد بر اینست میتوانند نیروهای معنوی را از طریق ابزارهای «تکنیکی» خاصی و نوعاً برای ا مور بد…
Sharing responsibilities, coping with the coronavirus: why Swedish and French response strategies are not that different by Morgan Meyer
Citizens, governments and academics spend much time these days with one activity: making comparisons.[1] National response strategies to cope with the coronavirus are compared, as well as whether…
Population Ageing and COVID-19 Infections in Sri Lanka by Kalinga Tudor Silva
This essays builds on my previous research on history of malaria epidemics in Sri Lanka, intergenerational support mechanisms for elderly and ongoing research work on identity, infection and…
A window of opportunity
Our slowed-down, cooled-down, scaled-down lives during the pandemic are evidence that quality of life does not depend on high productivity and frantic consumption. Suddenly, it has become respectable…
On Juneteenth, our fight for full freedom requires that we persist
What we are witnessing today is encouraging for many reasons, among them the fact that we’re seeing a new generation of Americans from all races and backgrounds standing…
Ten Film Scenes Every Stay-At-Home Cinephile Should Know
Ted Gideonse is a medical anthropologist who studies the effects of public health discourses about HIV and drugs. As people with more than a passing understanding of biology…
Imagining Rural Immunity
Political myth-making about America’s rural “heartland” is doubly pernicious, increasing rural vulnerability to COVID-19 and ignoring the disintegration of rural health services. In March 2020, Fair…
How to Start a Meditation Practice
I came to meditation because my brain is always running. The part of an academic’s job that requires me to think and theorize sometimes grows much larger than the…
Saving Anthropology from COVID-19
Higher education is at a crossroads. Can we adapt to the ongoing challenges and create transformative educational courses for an uncertain future? As colleges and universities started shutting…
Sign Languages as Disaster Entertainment
Sign language interpreters have become social media celebrities of our coronavirus moment. But signing is not a form of light entertainment; it should be lifesaving information. Dutch health…
The Funny Wrath of Italy’s Viral Mayors
In March 2020, a video of Italian mayors scolding citizens for failing to stay at home went viral. Only ostensibly insignificant, these clickable white men reveal new forms…
Coloring for Anthropologists
Get creative with our coloring page produced in collaboration with March Mammal Madness. Image description: A gorilla stands in mid-stride. Charon Henning March Mammal Madness is a bracket-based tourn…
Social Inequality in Times of Pandemics
We should not expect COVID-19 to behave in the same way as historical pandemics of plague. But both show how inequalities exacerbate mortality outcomes. It’s a gorgeous, warm…
On Living through Plagues and Wars in Lebanon
In much of the Global North COVID-19 is wreaking existential havoc. For the war-seasoned Lebanese in the throes of an economic meltdown and ongoing protests, it is yet…
فرازگفتارها
.”Le meilleur gouvernement est celui où il y a le moins d’hommes inutiles” Voltaire بهترین حکومت، حکومتی است با کمترین آدمهای بی خاصیت. ولتر، نویسنده و فیلسوف…
غزلوارگی در اشعار موسیقی قومی ایران
اندیشه غزل در موسیقی قومی از دو جهت قابل بررسی است: اول این که این اندیشه خود به طور فرهنگی و اساسی در این موسیقی موجود بوده و…
بوطیقای شهر (۸۲)
نقاشی: Incendiaries In a suburb, 1941 By Henry Carr ** پیرسانسو برگردان ناصر فکوهی و زهره دودانگه زمان شهری، انسان گریزان را زیر فشار میگذارد و از او…
جهانیشدن و فیلم مستند؛ به سوی نمایش فرهنگهای محلی
همراه با گسترش روزافزون فناوریهای صوتی – تصویری، اقبال مخاطبان و سرمایهگذاری شرکتهای مختلف از گوگل تا تلویزیونهای ملی، مستندهای عظیم و پرهزینهای در سالهای اخیر ساخته شدهاند.…
شهر، دین و خشونت
نشست یک صد و شصت و یک یکشنبههای انسانشناسی و فرهنگ با همکاری اداره کل مطالعات اجتماعی و فرهنگی شهرداری تهران یکشنبه ۵ اسفند ۹۷ ساعت ۱۶ الی…