On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo (Duke University Press, 2025) by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped—and blocked—sovereign futures for those…
در مواجهه با تغییرات اقلیمی و عوارض ناشی از آن، سالها است که کنشهای محلی خصوصاً در کشورهای در حال توسعه، توانسته است در مقیاسهای گوناگون تأثیرگذار باشد.…
Kayashima Shrine is close to my house and famous because there is a train station right above it. The kami-deity associated with the shrine resides in a large…
Der Runde Tisch, an dem sich 1989 in Polen das sozialistische Regime und die demokratischen Opposition über einen schrittweisen friedlichen Systemwechsel verständigten, wurde vom aktuellen Präsidenten…
Hans Van Eyghen’s book The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (Routledge, 2023) assesses whether belief in spirits is epistemically justified. It presents two arguments in support of the existence of spirits…
And the shrine looked very different today… As I wrote in a previous post, due to the resignation of the local neighborhood shrine elders, it was unknown who…
It would take a book to itemize and admire all of the vital tasks and key accomplishments that Amy Skillman realized during her year as American Folklore Society…
REMID informiert ab sofort auch per Newsletter über Neuigkeiten aus dem Verein und der Religionswissenschaft. Im Newsletter weisen wir in unregelmäßigen Abständen auf neue Blogbeiträge, aktualisie…
Written by John P. Ruehl The 2025 U.S. housing market presents a paradox. Home sales are down, and there are …
Issue Contents President’s letter Dear NAPA Members, Another winter holiday season is upon us and it’s a time to reflect and prepare for a New Year. My family…
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Människor längtar efter gemenskap. Vi vill känna tillhörighet i en grupp och gör gärna saker som för oss samman. När jag var liten var nyåret något jag väntade…
by Peter Versteeg, and the SpW team When it’s dark, where do we go? Where can we stand? Are we looking back, searching for a light we once…
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…