Cosmic Interbeing
Summer, Eastern Oregon Do you think about space as someplace out there? As something in the future, somewhere you will never go? One of the most amazing things about…
Advocacy Letters: An Invitation by Emily Yates-Doerr
Somatosphere is launching a new series to share political and social advocacy letters. Please submit your open letters to emilyjf@gmail.com Dear Reader, We are launching this series to…
Guest Post: Feeling like “Colored Me” and the Inequities in the Intellectual Formation of Anthropologists [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Louis Philippe Römer. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Louis Philippe Römer is a Visiting Assistant…
Guest Series: Embodying Reciprocity: Relationality and Redistribution in the Practice of Anthropology
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest series edited by Schuyler Marquez, who has also authored this introduction. Schuyler Marquez’s work focuses on bringing classical anthropological questions on…
Wednesday Round Up #3
Wednesday Round Up #3 “Decolonize Maiz” is art work by Ernesto Yerena. You can purchase it from the Saguaro Gallery. Black Lives Matter: How the movement that’s changing…
The FBI’s Repatriation of Stolen Heritage
The sewing kit above is one of multiple items from a massive private collection held in Indiana that the FBI helped repatriate. This particular item is now in…
Idealismus, Sport und ein Gast: Julian Varnholt
Lange dachte ich, der Körper sei keine relevante Dimension für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen. Der Titel dieses Blogs, Brotgelehrte, folgt ja Schillers Unterscheidung von Brotgelehrten und philosophisc…
„In Isolation“ (Mai 2020), Dokumentation über die Zeit nach dem COVID-19 Lockdown (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Anna Ixy Noever Die Idee zu dem Film „In Isolation“ ist während der Zeit nach dem Corona-Lockdown im März…
DfID-FCO Merger in the UK-a curated collection
While highly unusual for the content you expect on Aidnography, this post features quite a few men, mostly British, who have been commenting on the announced merger of…
Charlotte Bruckermann, “Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China” (Berghahn Books, 2019)
Today I talked to Charlotte Bruckermann about her new book Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China (Berghahn Books, 2019). Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic……
Desescalada educativa
Los momentos que vivimos hacen que tras meses de confinamiento social y paralización económica sea el momento de volver gradualmente a una situación de normalidad. En esta vuelta…
Cultures of Hygiene: Interview with Claudia Liebelt
This interview was completed and edited between 25 and 29 May, 2020 over E-mail in Berlin. What is your current research during the Corona pandemic about? What…
Digital Impact on Human Lives
United States seen from orbit, photo by @nasa Humans and the digital – where we started and where we’re going “I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and…
Familismus in der Coronakrise
von Magdalena Müssig & Louka Maju Goetzke In der aktuellen Krisensituation der Corona-Pandemie können wir eine Privilegierung und Stärkung der Familie beobachten. Medien und Politiker:innen vermit…
Wrong, but Useful – for Whom? The Politics of Pandemic Modeling by Marit Tolo Østebø
On March 17th, after a tepid initial COVID-19 response, Prime Minister Boris Johnson began encouraging citizens to avoid non-essential social contact. President Donald Trump followed suit, introducin…
Nostalgie als Machtinstrument. Die osmanische Eroberung Konstantinopels im türkischen Fernsehen
Geschichte wird häufig von Politik vereinnahmt. In der Türkei dient die Erinnerung an die Osmanen der Selbstdeutung, Identitätsstiftung und ganz gegenwärtigen parteipolitischen Interessen. Umso wichti…
Pílla toksali ishaaissacha’chika hánglolihmat chokma amahoobatok…
The normal headnote follows here instead as a footnote.* Dan – Pílla toksali ishaaissacha’chika hánglolihmat chokma amahoobatok. Chokmat ishtoksaháli bíyyi’kattooka ithánali. Chimittibaatoksali’, chih…
Bác Hồ’s Security Detail Lesson
Theodor is in grade 2 of primary (7 years old) and they study Ho Chi Minh thought. Here is an example of their little parables about Bác Hồ…
Brushes with racism in Minnesota and why Black lives matter
Black lives matter across any geographical border. My research and my own racial encounters confirm what I have known in my soul: our fates are inextricably linked. And…
Removal of AMNH Statue
Eighty years after it was granted pride of place at the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, the installation titled simply…
کارول، ناباکوف، کوبریک و لولیتای ِ ابدی
لویس کارول (۱) رماننویس و عکاس بریتانیایی، شهرت خود را مدیون کتاب مشهوری است که سرچشمه هزاران اثر هنری دیگر در تمام عرصهها از فیلم و عکاسی تا…
متن و دانشگاه (۲)
متن و دانشگاه: بحثی در باب انگاره و تاریخِ یک نهاد منحصر به فرد* (بخش دوم و نهایی) لی هویناکی برگردان و تلخیص ملیحه درگاهی این تحول تکنیکی…
سینماگرانِ واژه و ایماژ
گفت وگوی دوراس / گُدار ـ گُدار / دوراس نامِ رویِ جلدِ کتاب “گفت وگوی دوراس / گدار” است ـ به قلمِ سیریل بِگَن. نامِ کتاب به زبان…
خاطره جمعی و شهر
موزهی هنرهای معاصر مصداقی برای ثبت خاطرهی جمعی چکیده فضای عمومی شهری(urban public space) جایی است که روابط اجتماعی در آن شکل گرفته، تکوین می یابد و نیز…