Texas Herping: May 2 & 4, 2020
Dr. Sarah Pollock and I braved the scorching heat (>95F) to look for snakes around little water around Culebra Creek Park. Special Guests: Lots of ribbons snakes and…
The Impoverishment of the COVID Future
From Wikimedia Commons As I complete this essay, the quarantine imposed on Baltimore stretches into its second month, and I continue teaching online amid terror and despair.&nbs…
A Historiography of Belonging: Wendy Wickwire and the Anthropological Legacy of James Teit
Wendy Wickwire. At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging. 400pp., 5 maps, 26 b/w illus., notes, index. Vancouver and Toronto: University of British Columbia Press,…
Recent stuff to read
Co research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom with Do Thi Xuan Huong, In Education Philosophy and Theory, 2020, with supplement rept_a_1752187_sm3452 The Pecuniary Animus of the University in …
The Enduring Mystery of the Human-Horse Story
Archaeologists unearth an ancient habitation site in Western Mongolia, seeking clues to the early history of domestic horses. William Taylor This article was originally published at The C…
Quaran-Teens 2020: How Communication Has Changed through Quarantine
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams were cancelled, they decided they would…
Co-research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom
New paper: Co-research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom Do Thi Xuan Huong & John Hutnyk 50 free ‘eprints’ for those who want to read it now –…
A Politics of numbers? Digital registration in Kenya’s experiments with universal health coverage by Ruth J. Prince
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Sacred Site worshipping for good health in Corona times
Yamal has a legally protected sacred sites inventory: here, Angalskiy Mys Today in the morning I was just about to brew my breakfast coffee, when my friend Mikhail…
Christina Dunbar-Hester on her book, Hacking Diversity
Interview by Héctor Beltrán https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182070/hacking-diversity Héctor Beltrán: In your ethnographic work with voluntaristic open technology communities across…
Radfahren, Abstand und Schimpfworte
Sauer werde ich am ehesten beim Radfahren. Wenn mir die Vorfahrt genommen wird, wenn zu eng überholt wird, wenn ich sonstwie gefährdet werde. Um meine Angst, meine Wut,…
Radfahren, Abstand und Schimpfworte
Sauer werde ich am ehesten beim Radfahren. Wenn mir die Vorfahrt genommen wird, wenn zu eng überholt wird, wenn ich sonstwie gefährdet werde. Um meine Angst, meine Wut,…
Storbykonferansen 2020 ønsker forslag til sesjoner
Er det noe 2020 har lært oss, er det hvor raskt og drastisk byene våre kan endres. Da covid-19-pandemien kom til Norge opplevde vi en nedstenging av byene…
Muslim NGOs Facing COVID-19 in France #MUHUM
Since the beginning of the Covid-19, Muslim NGOs have been at the forefront of the crisis in France. Their implication at the national level challenges negative stereotypes on…
Experiencing Corona Virus in the Andes
LUCIA STAVIG A mix of huaynos, cumbia, and bird song still greet the sun in the Andean community in which I am riding out the month-long quarantine. At…
Rezension zu Jannis Hergesell/ Arne Maibaum/Martin Meister: Genese und Folgen der Pflegerobotik — verfasst von Henning Mayer
Die Pflegerobotik hat Konjunktur. Zumindest, wenn man den gegenwärtigen medialen, politischen und unternehmerischen Diskursen rund um die Frage nach den ersten Räumen der Pilotierung von ,sozialverträ…
The Bubble: A New Medical and Public Health Vocabulary For COVID-19 Times by Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
Bubble, bubble, Mum, Mum, give bubble! The task of keeping a two-year-old busy at home during a national ‘Level 4’ lockdown to prevent the spread of global virus,…
Ep #57 Narratives of Loss: Baptiste Brossard talks Alzheimer’s Disease & Social Dimensions of Ageing
The Familiar Strange · #57 Narratives Of Loss: Dr Brossard on Alzheimer’s, Looping Effects & Resuscitating Past Personhood “I’m giving mundane examples here, but it can be a…
تاملات کرونایی (۴)
«فاصلهگذاری» و زمان دراز ِ اجتماعی در کروناویروس بخش اول: از جوامع اولیه به روستانشینی کرونا ویروس تا امروز (اردیبهشت ۱۳۹۹ / آوریل ۲۰۲۰) یعنی حدود پنج ماه…
ساختارگرایی در ادبیات
ساختارگرایی در ادبیات، رابرت اسکولز، ترجمه فرزانه طاهری، تهران، نشر آگه: ۱۳۸۳ در پیشگفتار نویسنده می گوید که در این کتاب به وجوه ساختارگرایی در ادبیات تکیه میشود…
فاجعه کرونا؛ فریادِ بیداری ما!
نویسنده: دَنی دُرلینگ [۱] برگردان مجتبی لرزنگنه رشد جهانی درحال حاضر کاهش یافته است اما برای نجات زمین از فجایع طبیعی کافی نیست. اگر به همین صورت پیش…
اسطوره و نماد در ادبیات و هنر
گفتوگوی ابوالقاسم اسماعیلپور مطلق و فروغ اولاد با جلال ستاری کتاب «اسطوره و نماد در ادبیات و هنر» (گفتگو با جلال ستاری) اثر مشترک ابوالقاسم اسماعیلپور مطلق و…
Det rökfyllda väntrummet
Hur skulle du reagera om du satt i ett väntrum och det började ryka från ett av väntrummets angränsande rum? Skulle du lugnt sitta kvar, skulle du fly…
Clean in Times of Covid-19: on Hygiene and Pollution by Mandy de Wilde
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, air pollution and greenhouse emissions decrease, or so news reports say. The satellite images of China in lockdown provided a first striking example. In…