Malut dé, malut kita: trolleando a antropólogos.
“La gente tiene una manera descuidada de hablar de un ‘mentiroso nato’, tal como se habla de un poeta nato. Pero en ambos casos, están equivocados. La mentira…
Tag: humor
La risa que mata: antropologÃa del humor subversivo
“No con la cólera, sino con la risa se mata ¡Adelante, matemos el espÃritu de la pesadez!” (Asà habló Zaratustra. Friedrich Nietzsche.) “Omumneepo”. Asà llaman a los ataques…
No es mi circo, no son mis monos: expresiones divertidas en todo el mundo.
“No es mi circo, no son mis monos”, así lo expresan en Polonia (y ahora en todo el mundo, en realidad) un “me importa un bledo”, “un comino”,…
Lächelnd die Welt als kurios entdecken. Jacques Tati und der Autoverkehr
In den Metropolen ist die Sehnsucht nach einer Verkehrswende groß. Doch der Trend zum Auto ist ungebrochen. Könnten Filme mit anderen Bildern vom Autoverkehr daran etwas ändern? Die…
El discordianismo, una religión diferente
Read Time:11 Minute, 48 Second La existencia de religiones satíricas es de sobra conocida: tenemos la religión pastafari, con su fa…
Asomos del paraíso: una interpretación parcial de la (son-)risa como interacción social
Vaya por delante la advertencia al lector que se encontrará en este texto un lenguaje que se aproxima peligrosamente a lo metafísico, casi poético. No pretendo con esto…
Amy Garey takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation ends with a quote from a 2019 comedy festival, “KVN is, KVN lives, KVN will continue to live!” It sums up one of…
„Volk“ und Ironie. Mit ständiger Rücksicht auf den Rechtspopulismus
Populismus und ironische Kommunikation erscheinen zunächst als unvereinbar. Der Appell ans Volk scheut gewöhnlich die Ironie, die als arrogant und elitär gilt. Was hat es zu bedeuten, wenn…
Playing with Conspiracy Theories
What might viewing conspiracism as a form of play tell us about the workings of contemporary culture, our capacity for critical thinking, or how we build new understandings?…
"Cuenta, pajarita, cuenta": un cuento palestino de sumud.
“Si los cuentos representan una radiografÃa de nuestra cultura, entonces, el tratamiento que en ellos se hace de la figura femenina contiene grandes dosis de realidad.” Sharif Kanaana,…
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Stories of Change Among the Clackamas at Grand Ronde
The Clackamas Come to Grand Ronde Reservation Preparing to Leave The Clackamas are addressed in letters as living in small encampments near Oregon City. They likely had a…
Guerilla Graffiti: Sabotaging Homeland
Greetings from Bhubaneshwar! I’m on leave in India working on projects far removed from Egypt and the Middle East, but I’m also reviewing materials and cleaning up things…
Magdalenas Termin: Wenn verschiedene Anliegen zusammenfinden
Übersetzung von Elena Radwan – An diesem Mittwochmittag, nachdem Cedric* mir die Haare geschnitten hatte, verbrachte ich einige Zeit in der Küche von Mastercut, als ich bemerkte, dass…
#Fieldwork among comedians: A Danish anthropologist trying to be funny
“Why are stand-up comedians better anthropologists than I am?” A few years ago, I started asking myself that question. As an anthropologist, I am supposed to know about…
Learning to Make People Laugh: A Semiotic Anthropology of Stand-up Comedy
The Open-Mic Anthropologist The first time I performed stand-up comedy was in December 2015, at an open-mic club called On the Rocks. Gripped by nerves, I worried I…
Flight 1095
Coming home from Phoenix on Friday, I found myself sharing the plane with Aidy Bryant, Vanessa Bayer, and Bret Stephens. Bryant and Bayer are SNL players. Stephens (below) is Foreign…
AAA Meeting Schedule is Up: There’s a .gif for that
It is that time of year. Our major conference, though months away, is already starting to take shape. Yesterday, notices of acceptance went out. If you are like…
Why I Sometimes Wish I Were an Armchair Anthropologist
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
Why I Sometimes Wish I Were an Armchair Anthropologist
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
Why I Sometimes Wish I Were an Armchair Anthropologist
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
Why I Sometimes Wish I Were an Armchair Anthropologist
No figure in the discipline is more despised than that smug Victorian fixture, the Armchair Anthropologist. The best antidote for this regrettable legacy is Fieldwork, philosopher’s stone of…
Preemptive Anthropology: FAQs
Remembering the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, here is a bit of dark humor written as the bombs rained over Baghdad: Anthropological ethics must evolve…