Ubusuna Shrine prepped and (almost) ready to go (?)…
There have been big changes at our local shrine in the last year. The local elders, who have been in charge of preparations for most of the shrine…
There have been big changes at our local shrine in the last year. The local elders, who have been in charge of preparations for most of the shrine…
Even before 2026 began, many American Folklore Society (AFS) members were already getting a first glimpse of Journal of American Folklore (JAF) 139 (551), the Winter 2026 issue.…
In April and May 1856 Joel Palmer hired 60 men to be the Grand Ronde Guards, to build a fence and control access and egress to the Grand…
Quizás no te sorprenda si te digo que fue en China donde se inventó la pirotecnia. ¿Pero y si te dijera que los chinos también inventaron la pólvora…
This is Romeo, a friendly buck (breeding male goat). Photo by Amanda Kaminsky, 2025. Amanda KaminskyUniversity of Michigan Why don’t Americans eat more goat meat? I initially started…
My last post on community problems and this post on community collaborative problem solving have unintentionally come together as bookends and an appropriate way to ring out the…
Ives, Sarah. Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea. Duke University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8223-6993-6 xv + 255 pp. Yingkun Hou (Southeast Missouri State Un…
The first three of the photos in this series were from July of this year at a park in my neighborhood. But maybe the timing might be better…
This year I taught my undergraduate course Anthropology for Liberation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington after a two year break. As readers of this blog will…
اکبر احمد[۱]، برگردان: آذر جوادزاده ابوریحان بیرونی دانشمندی شگفتانگیز و چندساحتی بود که آثارش حوزههایی چون اخترشناسی، ریاضیات، ژئودزی (زمینسنجی) و بسیاری رشتههای دیگر را دربر میگرفت. هزار…
فیلم (پسر) به انگلیسی (The Son)، فیلمی درام به کارگردانی فلوریان زلر است که از فیلمنامهای به نویسندگی خودش و کریستوفر همپتون ساخته شده است و در سال ۲۰۲۲ منتشر شد. این فیلم بر اساس…
Just to add to the frenzy; RIP. see original at (h/t Neil D): https://youtu.be/ai2As4XFZDY?si=g3zLRAGS_yumwvyl See also: More marsten mats One more on Marston Mats (perhaps my fav…
Papa Noel cremat a la catedral de Dijon el Nadal de 1951 Fa anys em van encarregar un pròleg per la traducció al català “Le père Noël supplicié”,…
بهرام بیضایی (۱۳۱۷-۱۴۰۴) در زادروزش، پنجم دیماه درگذشت؛ در تبعیدی ناخواسته، که بیشتر از هرکسی در برابرش مقاومت و مبارزه میکرد، اما سرانجام ناچار شد آن را بپذیرد……
طرح موضوع در مورد این که شهر «رشت» از چه زمانی به عنوان شهرِ مرکزِ گیلان درآمد، در هیچ سندی که تا کنون میشناسیم دیده نشده است. تصور…
Recently, I came upon a number of postcards of soldiers at the Grand Ronde Reservation. It was a common practice to turn photos into postcards. On Ebay these…
There’s been a lot of commentary written about the tragic Brown and MIT shootings the past two weeks. As we struggle to process the traumas, the anthropologist in…
La fotografia és de Saul Leiter Comentari per a Laia Serós, estudiant del màster en Antropologia i Etnografia de la UB SOBRE LA DESCRIPCIÓ Manuel Delgado Has de…
La foto és d’Àngel Garcia i està presa de interviu.es Paraules dites a la Xarxa el 10/7/13 en relació a l’assentament d’immigrants africans al carrer Puigcerdà, al barri…
La foto procede de facebook.com/Yanidel Apuntes para Dario Suárez, doctorando en la UB, enviados en octubre de 2019 Los límites del anonimato Manuel Delgado Empecemos con los atributos…
Two left-over shops from x-mas shopping in Kyobashi. New taco and hamburger shop near work… Bonus Shots (w/ sources): https://www.facebook.com/mongolialive.org/posts/because-i-cant-wai…
Suspicion appears to sit largely in the nose: we might say that something ‘stinks,’ ‘smells off,’ that we ‘smell a rat,’ or perhaps ‘something fishy.’ Such suspicious smells…
Image 1: Gated community ‘Vila Ingles’ in São Paolo. Photo by Cornelius Kibelka In urban Brazil, portarias–entry halls and porters lodges–and their staff absorb the circulation of people…