Anthropology and absurdity: Introduction
Anthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are staying with the strange…
Read MoreAnthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are staying with the strange…
Read MoreBased on “Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)” by Zilberg Elana. I…
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Read MoreThe sun had already set when the night-long live broadcast of a kohoḿbā kankāriya ritual in a Sri Lankan town begins. A larger-than-life image…
Read MoreAll achievement is threatened by the machine, as long as it dares to take its place in the mind, instead of obeying. That…
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