Which Kashmir? Pakistan wala ya India? Konsa Kashmir? Pakistan’s or India’s?
Last year, after the AAA meeting in Vancouver…
A Year of Siege:
One of the most significant historic transformations in the modern era of state and nation building is currently playing out through modalities of border warfare, permanent emergency and…
No existen cuerpos sin identificar
La foto es de Caroline Simpson Consideraciones a la gente del OACU a propósito del anonimato, relacionadas con el artículo Sociedades anónimas. Las trampas de la negociación, publicado…
Plants, Pathogens and the Politics of Care: Xylella fastidiosa and the Intra-Active Breakdown of Mallorca’s Almond Ecology
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
A connected world breeds a disconnected human
Day one (very nervous!) and I had my first Microsoft team meeting at 9:30am. Everyone gave their update on the week – it was like starting a movie…
Author Interview: Q and A with Dr Paul Ian Campbell, author of Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for ‘Black’ Ex-Professional Footballers
In this author interview, we speak to Dr Paul Ian Campbell about his new book, Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for ‘Black’ Ex-Professional Footballers: ‘From Being Idolised to…
Vanita Reddy, “Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture” (Duke UP, 2016)
Vanita Reddy, in her book Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture (Duke University Press, 2016), locates diasporic transnationality, affiliations and intimacies through the analytic of beauty. Through her analysis of Asian Visit…
Soziologiemagazin 01/2020 – Paradigmenwechsel – ist erschienen
Als im Sommer 2019 der Call zu dieser Ausgabe entstand, protestierten junge Menschen im Rahmen von Fridays for Future und Extinction Rebellion, um auf die Klimakrise aufmerksam zu…
VIRUS, un mundo por descubrir
Hace ya 40 años que la comunidad científica dio por erradicada la Viruela, una enfermedad vírica que protagonizo una de las epidemias más devastadora de la historia de…
On Un-Naming Barrows Hall
There are many complicated issues here about how to judge, remember, and commemorate the past, which are not easily resolved. But I hope we can agree that we…
Cattle-Headed People and Round-heads
I am not a linguist, but have a lot of experience researching and using native languages especially Chinuk Wawa, Kalapuyan, and Athapaskan languages. In recent research, I found…
Wednesday Round Up #8
The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis This is why better theory and a wider range of evidence and samples matter (both of which anthropology can provide) –…
El espacio público no existe
La foto es de Sara Piazza Artículo publicado en el número de primavera de 2011 de Barcelona metrópolis contemporánea El espacio público no existe Manuel Delgado Se escucha…
Why Capitalizing “Black” Matters
An intergenerational photo of a Black family in Texas captures the enduring legacy of both community and family. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images In the last few weeks, major media…
¿Qué es la magia?
Fotograma de “Les maïtres fous”, de Jean Rouh (1955) Fragmento de la introducción de La magia. La realidad encantada, publicado por la Editorial Montesinos en 1992. ¿QUÉ ES…
Vita Peacock: The slave trader, the artist, and an empty plinth
On 7th June 2020, the bronze statue of Edward Colston in the English city of Bristol was pulled down by Black Lives Matter protesters with a rope, rolled…
Mal was anderes: Stellen in der Region Dresden samt Chemnitz und Görlitz
Immer im Herbst bin ich in Dresden. Das ist ja noch etwas hin, aber ich habe mal geschaut, was auf dem “Markt” so los ist. Darum heute hier…
REDUX: Boredom at #EASA2014
Originally published on February 6, 2015. On August 2nd, 2014, Allegra ran a panel titled ‘Boredom, Intimacy and Governance in ‘Normalized’ Times of Crisis’ at the EASA 2014…
El poder de la moda
La ropa, los adornos y los complementos, han sido una forma de exteriorizar el estatus dentro de la mayor parte de las sociedades durante la inmensa mayoría de…
Remembering Michael Silverstein
Like many people, I was deeply, deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Michael Silverstein, a member of my dissertation committee. Although I knew he was ill,…
El rey está desnudo: antropología de la realeza.
“Cuando el rey está desnudo y el poder es impotente, ¿en qué consiste el ejercicio del Estado, el hecho de gobernar, sino en jugar deliberadamente con las apariencias?” …
همگرایی تاریخی با میراث بزرگ فرهنگی اندیشه اجتماعی
معرفی و نقد مهمترین و تاثیرگذارترین کتابهای تاریخ انسانشناسی و جامعهشناسی از قرن نوزدهم تا امروز (۱) مقدمه همگرایی تاریخی با میراث بزرگ فرهنگی اندیشه اجتماعی ستون هفتگی…
سرشت دو پارهی جهان در تفکر پیشینیان
بررسی تاریخ تفکر انسان همواره بر ما آشکار خواهد کرد که انسان ها در طول تاریخ چگونه اندیشیده اند و جهان را چگونه یافته اند؟ چه فهمی از…
مجموعه عکس «بدن و کشاورزی» (۳)
کشت و برداشت برنج، جان فعالیتهای کشاورزی در شمال ایران است. برنج با رنج بدن زنان و مردانی به دست میآید که ماهها خود را وقف زمین میکنند…