جستارهایی در آموزش عالی، علم و بحران کرونا در ایران
به گزارش اداره کل روابط عمومی وزارت علوم، این کتاب شامل چهار بخش «آموزش عالی و تحولات آن»، «مسئولیت اجتماعی دانشگاه»، «اموزش مجازی در دانشگاهها» و «حال و…
Call for APLA Graduate Student Representative!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is currently accepting applications for a third Graduate Student Representative to the section’s Board of Directors. The successful applican…
[مجموعه عکس]: قرنطینه (۱)
کرونا به سبب وسعت و گستردگی درگیری میتواند تا سالیان پیش رو سوژههای نابی برای اهالی فرهنگ و هنر اعم از ادبیات، شعر، سینما و نمایش، عکاسی، موسیقی…
لوی استراوس و بیم و امیدهای جهانیشدن
شاید بهترین شروع درباره کلود لوی-استراوس این پاراگراف از یادداشتی باشد که مارشال سالینز با عنوان «در باب انسانشناسی لوی-استروس» نوشته است که در وبلاگ انجمن انسانشناسی آمریکا…
هرگز شما را نخواهم بخشید
«ما چطور قادریم فولکس خود را برانیم، در حالی که مردههایمان را رها کردهایم؟» مَتیو یون برگردان سارا سمیعی ژولی چند روز پیش مادرش را از دست داد.…
دستگاه و موسیقی ایران
در این نوشته به پیدایش “تن رهبر”، یکی از مهم ترین عوامل دگرگونی موسیقی کهن به موسیقی دستگاه ایرانی اشاره می کنیم و در پی آن به رساله…
Introduction: Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus (new series)
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Josh Babcock. Ph.D. Candidate in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research examines the public co-construction of languag…
From HIV to COVID19: Anthropology, urgency, and the politics of engagement by Thurka Sangaramoorthy
These comments were originally prepared for the “COVID-19 and Anthropology: Disease, Social Justice, and Well Being” Webinar hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Section on…
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Hi all, It has been a while since I published my last book review-so I’m glad that a new one for Keenie Meenie is up now!The Covid-19 section…
New Preface to Globalization from Below: The World’s Other Economy by Keith Hart
IV. The informal economy has taken over the World The idea of an informal economy was born in the 1970s when the post-war era of developmental states was…
Listen to Black Women…please?
I woke up at 11:01 this morning. I was too tired and too sad to go on a long walk with my pitbull, Nala. But regardless of my…
Corona-Ninjas and Corona-Hyenas: COVID-19 Rhetoric in Poland (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Izabella Main, Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk „Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life…„ Mikhail…
Keenie Meenie (book review)
Like most of my readers I have had a hard time these past few weeks to stay focused enough to read longer texts so it took a bit…
Katie Horowitz, “Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness” (Routledge, 2019)
Published by Routledge in 2019, Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness is a comparative ethnography of drag king and drag queen performances in Cleveland Ohio. It uses…
Jyoti Puri, “Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India” (Duke UP, 2016)
In Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India (Duke UP, 2016), Jyoti Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show…
Towards A Bright Post-Apocalypse
ERIC ORLOWSKI It was Walter Benjamin (1974 [1940]) who observed that we only experience history such as it is, when it stands still. However, he referred more so…
Husain Sastranegara Airport Bandung
Since there are the new airport .It is quiet airport on a limited. Airport still a complex with military base. The international Airport Husein Sastranegara is a site…
The Rumour of Marx. Happy May Day.
Emailing a friend today – a Leftist of significant standing, and seven decades – who has found joy in reading Marx after attending a workshop here. She writes:…
Pathways for the Post-COVID New Old World
Part 5 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. Some are openly proclaiming, “you don’t want to waste a crisis,” as they calculate how the crisis could become a…
The Symbolic Power of Virus Testing
Protests against stay-at-home orders to prevent the spread of the coronavirus have occurred across the country, as shown here in front of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing.…
Living in the forest
A new article on the consequences for biological and cultural diversity of sustainable development in the Congo Basin – just out in Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article…