Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortune-telling cafes where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals can navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life.
Focuses on the figure of the puta—the whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine sexual excess—Rodríguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina... Læs mere
Chronicles the rise and fall of the avant-garde music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn... Læs mere
Examines short form audiovisual media—from TikTok mashups to Beyoncé’s Lemonade—to offer techniques for understanding digital media. Forays into... Læs mere
Genevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation building during the turbulent transition between Spanish, US, and Japanese empires.
The contributors to The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass outline the present transformations of the social sciences, explore their connections with critical humanities, analyze the challenges of alternate paradigms, and interrogate recent endeavors to move beyond the human.
Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the avant-garde music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and early 2010s.
Carol Vernallis examines short form audiovisual media—from TikTok mashups to Beyoncé’s Lemonade—to offer techniques for understanding digital media.
Follows activists across Europe as they struggle to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization. Drawing on ethnographic... Læs mere
Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of... Læs mere
Traces the creation of Indigenous custom as a legal category and its deployment as a strategy of resistance to empire in colonial Mexico.... Læs mere
Cohen focuses on art activism after the turn of the twenty-first century that confronts the slow violence perpetuated... Læs mere