We have long lacked a biography of Erving Goffman. Partly this can be explained by Goffman’s direction for his papers not to be opened to researchers after his…
Just as “Der Optimismus ist Pflicht” (optimism is a duty) – as Popper is frequently (though perhaps apocryphally) credited with […] The post Soliciting Slaps – Notes from…
زمانی که در فاصله پیروزی هیتلر در نیمۀ دهۀ سی تا شروع جنگ جهانی دوم، نابودی نهادها و نظام دموکراتیک دولت آلمان و کشتار مخالفان سیاسی نازیها و…
آرتفرها[۱] (نمایشگاههای تخصصی هنر) به عنوان رویدادهایی چندوجهی، مرز میان خلاقیت هنری و سازوکارهای بازار هنر را ترسیم میکنند. این نمایشگاهها بستری فراهم میکنند که در آن هنرمندان،…
By Joost Blokker – Flower wreaths were placed at the Jewish Children monument in The Hague on Yom HaShoah, a day on which Jewish communities around the world…
In Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025), anthropologist Dr. Greta Lynn Uehling illuminates the untold stories of Russia’s occupation of Crimea…
Weil man die multiethnische US-Gesellschaft in der Realität nicht mehr „entdiversifizieren“ kann, versucht sich die Trump-Administration an der „damnatio memoriae“: der symbolischen Tilgung von Erinne…
بخش چهلوهشتم/ طبقه (Classe)/ ک.م.هان/ برگردان: فریبرز مجیدی بحث و جدل در طول نسلهای پیدرپی موجب آن نشده است که مرکزیت مفهوم طبقه در علوم اجتماعی چندان تغییری…
برداشتی عمیق از میراث فرهنگی در جریان گردشگری محلهمحور فراغت در فرهنگ ایرانی مبتنی بر غایتمحوری، پرهیز از ابتذال و آسیبرسانی به ارزشهای اصیل ملی و دینی است.…
Camilla Annerfeldt joins to discuss Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome (Bloomsbury, 2025). This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides…
The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir (Wipf and Stock, 2024) is a narrative of a Christian family in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Based on diary…
The academic year is finally winding down and many of us are hoping to travel— for research, fun, or a … More
Too often these days our world, or community, is horribly divided and divisive. And not just by the actions of the present administration, but it seems everything and…
SAR Moments: Revisiting the Skeletons of Roopkund Lake AI Summary with minor edits by SAR Team …
Revisiting the Skeletons of Roopkund Lake AI Summary with minor edits by SAR Team Roopkund Lake Located in India’s Himalayan mountains is Roopkund, a small glacial lake that…
In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo…
Since 2018, personal data collected, stored, or otherwise processed in the European Union must comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). I would like to share some…
George Floyd, an African American man, was murdered by a white police officer on May 25, 2020, after being suspected of using a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. This incident…
After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides. In the new book Something Between Us, he…
A personal note: Dr. Mark Bookman was an incredible scholar, the foremost expert on historical and contemporary disability issues in Japan, a wonderful and caring person any my…
اشاره: یکی از پرسشهای اساسی در بررسیهای تاریخی گیلان این است که در سپیده دم تاریخ یعنی زمانی که انسان در نواحی کوهپایه و کوهستان حضور داشت و…
In this interview with LSE Review of Books Managing Editor Anna D’Alton, Danny Dorling discusses his new book, The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future which…
What can soldier humour tell us about international relations? To begin with, humour is a universal social practice …
As the influx of processed foods threatens traditional diets in rural Mexico, an intergenerational community is forming to keep people healthy. Milpa is an ancestral way of farming…