Pirámides
El papel del estado en la economía es algo que se supone resuelto desde la formulación de John M. Keynes del mecanismo de la demanda agregada. Simplificando, para…
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Do Not Adjust Your Dial (Ep. #18 Re-release)
Apologies strange familiars. We had some technical difficulties this morning and you might have noticed an podcast briefly go out this morning that wasn’t supposed to. Just a…
CRISPR: Rewriting the story of humanity and evolution through gene-editing
ByTarisha KaushikBSc Anthropology The technology of CRISPR (“clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”) has revolutionised the world of biology and evolution yet w…
Plough in Tunisia
I am always intrigued by old photographs of traditional ploughs in the Middle East. The picture above is from a 1925 travel book by Norma Lorimer entitled By…
Teaching Culture through Tourism: Agency, Authenticity, and Colonialism
In this contribution, Karoline Guelke discusses how studies of tourism can help students overcome common misperceptions of other cultures as static and unchanging. During one of my first…
När goda intentioner slår fel – nyanlända flyktingars erfarenheter av Etableringsprogrammet
Nina Gren: I en kontorsbyggnad nära stadens centrum fylls ett stort rum med människor. De samlas runt tre olika personer – tolkarna mellan svenska och arabiska, svenska och…
Sparduschkopf
Die Konfliktforschung zu Gast in Konstanz, tagt mit Seeblick und endlich wieder in Präsenz. Das Militär kam schon ein paar Tage zuvor in der Ukraine am Schwarzen Meer…
Islamic Science Fiction Writing
Check out an interesting podcast on Muslim writing on science fiction.
Big Ocean States: Reclaiming Sovereignty through Maritime Borders
In this blogpost, Milla Vaha provides an analysis of state sovereignty and maritime borders with a focus on the large ocean states of the Pacific who are “powerfully…
Quarandream With Me: The World After Covid
ByPepe WeischerBSc Anthropology Quarantining, the systematic confinement of the ill, has been in practice for at least a thousand years, but never on the scale seen in 2020,…
Spiritual Aliens, DJ Shamans, and Us: Experiences of liminality and communitas within the psytrance rave
ByIzzy DaviesBSc Anthropology Coming from the Latin limen, meaning ‘threshold’, the anthropological concept of liminality is taken to refer to ambiguous moments or spaces both inside and outside…
David Graeber LSE Tribute Seminar: Bureaucracy
Chair: Alpa Shah Discussant: Michael Herzfeld If the previous week in our series focused on the imagination, this week considers what for David Graeber was its antithesis: bureaucracy.…
January in Yemen’s Agricultural Calendar
From the Facebook site of al-Amth?l al-zir?‘iyya f? Tih?ma.
Heritage out of Control: Don’t trash my holocaust
It was an ordinary, unseasonably cool, summer day in a sleepy town just forty minutes outside of Berlin. Oranienburg once was home to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, one of…
Understanding Covid Vaccine Resistance
Sheba Mohammid and Daniel Miller Right now, Trinidad and Tobago are suffering amongst the highest death rate from Covid in the world. As small islands, everyone seems to…
Coastal resilience during the pandemic lockdown in Fiji
In this post, Håkon Larsen discusses the crucial role of coastal resources in Fiji during the COVID-19 pandemic, by drawing on some of the materials from his master’s…
A letter for the 97%
ISOBEL THORLEY Dear Elizabeth Truss, Nadine Dorris and Priti Patel, As the Minister for Women and Equalities, Minister of State Mental Health, and Home Secretary, I am writing…
Ecological engineering illustrated in a painting
Check out this painting. Kungkarrangkalpa Tjukurrpa, 2015 by Australian indigenous artists Exhibition opens at The Box, Plymouth (and thanks to cousin Clair Drever for drawing my attention …
Catching a Looter
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has conducted a major investigation into an antiquities dealer who bought looted materials from archaeological sites and museums. Read about it here…
SITW Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE ANCESTORS Chapter 1&…
SITW Endorsements
Keith Hart Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes (Berghahn, Spring 2022) Keith Hart’s Self in the World is the story of a brilli…
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Gathering Impressions of London’s Walthamstow Wetlands
ByPhoebe Hamilton-JonesMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology alumnus Standing on the exposed edge of Lockwood reservoir on a bitingly cold, grey day, the noise I am struck by first…
How to Write an Op-Ed: A Free SAPIENS Workshop
Do you have an opinion that you hope can change the world? In this free online webinar, SAPIENS’ editor-in-chief Chip Colwell explains the ins-and-outs of writing op-eds or…