Call for Contributors: In the Journals by Anna Zogas
Somatosphere is looking to recruit 3-4 people to assist with our ongoing “In the Journals” feature. “In the Journals” is a monthly roundup of newly-published journal articles. Below,…
Decentering Metabolism: Peripheral and Southern Diffractions by Maurizio Meloni
In the last few years, a renewed interest in metabolic exchange, and in ideas of a porous and permeable body, has come from disciplines like microbiomics, nutrigenomics, and epigenetics. Moreover, a…
Wahl des RatSWD
Die Wahl der Mitglieder für den RatSWD (Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten) beginnt in Kürze. Wahlberechtigt sind alle promovierten Wissenschaftler_innen, die an einer wissenschaftlichen Einric…
New Publication by Anni Kajanus, together with Narges Afshordi and Felix Warneken, on how children’s understanding of hierarchical relations develops in China and the UK.
A. Kajanus, N. Afshordi*, & F. Warneken (2020), Children’s understanding of dominance and prestige in China and the UK, Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(19), 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j…
Head circumference by Emily Yates-Doerr
For Spanish click here. In the early months of 2016, as global media sources incited fear among pregnant women that Zika would result in babies with small heads…
The Social Life of Metrics by Rosario García-Meza
For English click here La vida social de las métricas Guatemala es uno de los países de Centroamérica que ha reportado en la última década uno de los…
Rezension zu „Reflexivität und Erkenntnis“ von Alina Brehm und Jakob Kuhlmann, verfasst von Flora Petrik
„Naja, ich mein, so viel können wir ja auch nicht falsch machen.“ Alina Brehm, Reflexivität und Erkenntnis Das Zitat Brehms, das den Leser*innen in Form eines Interviewausschnitts am…
The Dirt
Discard studies is an emerging field that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. To…
31. Januar: „Lange Nacht der kleinen Fächer“
Womit befassen sich eigentlich die Baltistik, die Jugendbuchforschung oder die Digital Humanities? Am Freitag, 31. Januar ab 18 Uhr können sich Studieninteressierte, interessierte Bürgerinnen und Bürg…
Anthropology gets a little more open (access)
Still locked, the gate pulls open ever so slightly more. Photo: Ryan Anderson, 2020. There’s news in the world of open access anthropology. The gates have opened, just…
Catholic Education at Grand Ronde Reservation
The Federal government’s role regarding Indian people was to figure out what to do with them. Tribes were in the way of American expansion and, removal of the…
Nicholas Emlen on his book, Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/language-coffee-and-migration-on-an-andean-amazonian-frontier Interview by Gaya Morris This book is an ethnography of multilingualism in the Alto Urubamba Valley, on …
This morning Twitter Kissed Culture Hard on the Mouth
Originally published on Medium, January 21, 2020 Recently the marketing team at Twitter put culture at the heart of what they do, in that most precious territory, the…
„Alt-Right” und neue Medien: Zur Normalisierung rechtspopulistischer Propaganda
Die „alternative” Rechte in den USA entstand aus der Distanzierung von den „traditionellen“ Neo-Konservativen. Ihren Aufstieg und ihre Normalisierung verdankt die „Alt-Right“ einem aggressiven Antife…
CFP: ART
Image Description: An illustrated image of black splotches of paint on a white background overlaid with the word “ART” written in pink. American Anthropological Association Polish your len…
Nationalisme – een kwestie van goede smaak
DOOR TON SALMAN Nationalistische betogen kunnen zelden bekoren. Ze zijn altijd wat gezocht. En wat hooghartig. En contingent. Immers: hebben de Nederlanders nu werkelijk unieke kwaliteiten, van he…
Ut av fagsiloene – vi trenger nye begrep i dagens urbanisme
Gjesteinnlegg av Ingvild Tjønneland, masterstudent i urbanisme ved AHO Tverrfaglighet, samarbeid og sirkulær økonomi er en del av løsningen for en bærekraftig utvikling, men har vi et språk…
Links & Contents I Liked 350
Hi all, It feels good to kick-off the new year with a small anniversary post; this is link review 350 and it certainly won’t be the last one…
Wie, es gab eine Revolution?
Vielleicht eignen sich Niederlagen besonders gut für politische Mythen, denn sie umgibt eine Aura von Reinheit. Sie sind unbesudelt von den Kompromissen und der Tagespolitik, die auf Siege…
Anna M. Gade, “Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations” (Columbia UP, 2019)
The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies. Anna M. Gade, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, outlines severa… Visit…
Gesellschaftsgestaltende Rolle von Museen: Antrittsvorlesung von Dr. Mirjam Wenzel
Die Direktorin des Jüdischen Museums Frankfurt, Dr. Mirjam Wenzel, hat gestern bei einer Festveranstaltung auf dem Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität ihre Antrittsvorlesung als Honorarprofess…
What Really Happened at Herculaneum?
The volcanic Mount Vesuvius is visible above the ruins of Pompeii, now an archaeological site in Italy. Marc Proudfoot/Flickr When Mount Vesuvius, on the west coast of Italy,…
Rick Bayless, Plucky Jollibee, and Globalization
David Beriss I receive a lot of restaurant industry email. Despite the deluge, sometimes the emails provide glimpses into the industry that I would not otherwise get. For…