In the Journals, June 2020, Part 1 by Jung Eun Kwon
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry The Disenchanted Self: Anthropological Notes on Existential Distress and Ontological Insecurity Among ex-Mormons in Utah (open access)E. Marshall Brooks This p…
Now more than ever, Ghana’s Christians don’t need false prophets
The Akan of Ghana have a proverb which encourages us to simultaneously imagine and dissect the vicissitude of issues, circumstances or events: sɛ wo dwene papa a, dwene…
“Die Hoffnungsvollen” – Lektürenotizen
Heute darf ich einen Beitrag teilen, der in Kooperation mit dem Eire Verlag entstanden ist. Anna Lemke las den Roman “Die Hoffnungsvollen” von Anna Sperk (Transparenz-Hinweis: Wir haben…
COVID-19 and the extraordinary normality of the War on Drugs by Jennifer L. Syvertsen
As if it were not challenging enough during the “normal emergencies” [1] of the United States-led War on Drugs, research and advocacy for sane drug policies becomes even…
Call for Articles: Somatosphere Special Series
Working Definitions: Making and Unmaking “Medical Anthropology” around the World Somatosphere Special Series Editors: Professor Paschal Kum Awah (Chair, Anthropology, University of Yaoundé I) a…
An open letter to my neighbor who accused me of stealing
Recently while shopping in my San Francisco neighborhood, I was racially profiled and accused of stealing by another customer. This was not the first time I was racially…
بوطیقای شهر (۸۳)
پیرسانسو برگردان ناصر فکوهی و زهره دودانگه رودخانه این اصل بدیهی به قدر کافی وسیع است تا بتواند بسیاری از پدیده‌ها را توضیح دهد. وقتی انسان گریزان در…
کودک جهانی یا محلی؟ (۱)
کریستین س. موران و لیوا س. چانگ برگردان یوسف سرافراز چکیده (۱) کودکانِ سرتاسر جهان در محیطی جهانی‌شده که از عوامل بسیاری همچون اینترنت، تلفن‌های همراه و فرهنگ…
انتشار شماره ۱۵۴ فصلنامه اطلاعات حکمت و معرفت
شمارۀ ۱۵۴ فصلنامۀ اطلاعات حکمت و معرفت با عنوان «فلسفۀ تطبیقی در ایران» منتشر شد. محمدحسن یعقوبیان دبیر ویژه‌نامه دو جریان اصلی را در فلسفۀ تطبیقی در سنت…
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…