What Is Anthropology?
The “study of humanity” applies to many fields, but anthropology looks at people in a unique way. Orbon Alija/Getty Images What is anthropology? The word “anthropology” literally means…
What Type of Governmentality is This? Or, how do we govern unknowns by Robert D. Smith
In Le Temps, a French newspaper, anthropologist Julie Billaud wrote that the governance of COVID-19 represents “a move towards a biopolitical mode of governance that aims to manage…
Horizons, Not Curves: Creating Space for Radical Care in a Pandemic
By Randall Burson II and Angela Ross Perfetti § “If you have an R0 of 2 — two more cases on average for every person infected — the…
Sammelband „Migration, Religion, Gender und Bildung“
Beiträge zu einem erweiterten Verständnis von Intersektionalität Im Zentrum dieses Bandes stehen nationale und internationale Querschnittsperspektiven von Gender, Flucht und Migration im Zusammenhang …
#Afterlives: A Trajectory and the Curatorial Turn
Where did afterlives fever come from? These reflections suggest a trajectory. Today, amid a lively eruption of usages, afterlife has moved away from longstanding meanings in religious, archaeological…
Honey, let we tell you! A speculative trans-species storytelling of the Maya Forest borderlands
Note: This is a piece of speculative fiction inspired by an Ursula K. Le Guin story. While, sadly, the ability to read complex bee texts is not “real,”…
How to teach anthropology in a pandemic? by João Biehl
“… a deadly pestilence is in our town, strikes us and spares not, and the house of Cadmus is emptied of its people while Black Death grows rich…
Purpose of Living Anthropologically
In a time of global convulsion, I’m rethinking the purpose of Living Anthropologically as a blog and website. And yes, that image up there is borrowed from the…
Compassion and sacrifice during COVID-19 by Felix Stein
COVID-19 highlights the limits of compassion and the need for sacrifice in contemporary capitalism Compassion with the leader When the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized over…
انتشار کتاب هشت گفتار درباره باستان‌شناسی و تاریخ سیستان و بلوچستان
اطلاعات کتاب‌شناختی: هشت گفتار درباره باستان‌شناسی و تاریخ سیستان و بلوچستان، سیّدمنصور سیّدسجادی، ۴۷۸ صفحه، نوبت چاپ: ۱، سال انتشار ۱۳۹۸، قیمت: ۸۰۰۰۰ تومان، نشر آبی پارسی. درباره…
ویروس کرونا و محیط دانشگاه‌ها
برگردان مهسا شیخان مقاله «ویروس کرونا و محیط دانشگاه‌ها:آموزش عالی در آمریکا چگونه می‌تواند پاسخ به ویروس کرونا را سامان‌دهی کند؟» نوشته پابلو ایلنز، جاناتان لا و همکاران…
بازگشت به خیابان‌های فاخر قدیم… این است آرزوی ما!
وقتی می‌شنوم «خیابان» فورا نخستین خیابان‌های سرزمینم جلوی چشمانم مجسم می‌شوند! خیابان‌هایی که بعدها برای اروپاییان الگو قرار گرفتند تا بلوارهایشان را بسازند؛ اول خیابانی در قزوین زمانی…
تحلیل گفتمان کاربردی: فرهنگ عامه، رسانه‌ها و زندگی روزمره
اطلاعات کتاب‌شناختی: تحلیل گفتمان کاربردی: فرهنگ عامه، رسانه‌ها و زندگی روزمره، آرتور آسا برگر، برگردان حسین پاینده ما در جهانی زندگی می کنیم رسانه ها هزاران الگوهای فرهنگی…
از کرونا تا اعترافات تولستوی
دیروز تو یه هوای ابری و بارونی دم دمای مشق سحر از ماهشهر حرکت کردم و غروبی به تهران رسیدم مثل این چند ساله که برایم تکرار خوش…
Defining Wellbeing: Tensions in the World Bank’s approach to Universal Health Coverage by Marlee Tichenor
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…
COVID-19 impacts in the Arctic: anthropological research gaps / ideas?
Dear all, I’m contributing to an expert document on the impacts of COVID-19 in the Arctic. I think it is essential that we highlight research gaps that we…
Die Integrationskurse werden evaluiert
Eine erste Analyse des Zwischenberichts Von: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt Prof. Dr. Thränhardt hat den Zwischenbericht des Bundesamts für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF) analysiert: Die Evaluation d…
Sabina Perrino on her book, Narrating Migration
https://www.routledge.com/Narrating-Migration-Intimacies-of-Exclusion-in-Northern-Italy-1st-Edition/Perrino/p/book/9781138584679 Interview by Daniela Narvaez Daniela Narvaez: In your book, you reflec…
Quaran-Teens 2020: Materiality and Production in Pandemic: A High School Perspective
[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…
How to Make Sense of “Traditional (Chinese) Medicine” In a Time of Covid-19: Cold War Origin Stories and the WHO’s Role in Making Space for Polyglot Therapeutics by Helen Tilley
Note: I wrote this for anyone trying to “teach the virus,” something I will soon be doing myself. The question in the title is meant to signal that…
Ethical inversions due to COVID-19: Pandemic and local ironies in managing responsibilities by Viviana L. Toro Matuk
On Friday March 21th 2020, the Fula men, who live in the town of Gabu, in the northeast of Guinea-Bissau, did not meet to pray in their mosques.…
The power of bingo during COVID-19 by Carrie Ryan
As lockdowns impose physical distancing, communities are imagining new ways to connect, and there is one surprising, shared tactic communities across the world are using to bolster social…