Name and Draw: An Exploration of Communicating Traditional Knowledge in the Work of Abel Rodríguez
Indigenous peoples possess a close and complex relationship with their surroundings and have gathered from their traditions and life experiences invaluable and extensive knowledge of a wide range of academic research areas.
What Water Teaches: Wissenschaft in the Age of Sea Level Rise
Does the sense of urgency occasioned by global warming and sea level rise have the power to reshape the humanities? Insofar as sea level rise will affect thousands of institutions of education and culture in coastal cities, the answer is yes.
Academic Precarity in American Anthropology
In this article the authors seek to understand why a standard of professional success is being maintained in anthropology—indeed, normalized—despite the fact that it is presently unattainable by all but a few.
After the Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad in South Asia
This essay addresses how the events of 1857–58 minoritized and racialized Indian Muslims, with particular attention to the use of jihad as a rhetorical concept in the colonial period.
Climate Change, Cultures, Territories, Nonhumans, and Relational Knowledges in Colombia
Introduction Climate change (CC) has led not only to environmental transformations, but also to economic, and political responses of various…
Clive Bell’s "Significant Form" and the Neurobiology of Aesthetics
Though first published almost one century ago, and though its premise has been disputed, Clive Bell’s essay on aesthetics in his book Art still provides fertile ground for discussing problems in aesthetics, especially as they relate to neuroesthetics. In this essay, I begin with a brief account of Bell’s ideas on aesthetics, and describe how they focus on problems of importance to neuroesthetics.
The New Humanities?
In this essay, I examine the future state of the humanities, as has been done by others many times in the past, but in the context of the current positioning of the university and the future world to come as they pivot toward a quantifiable and technological future that conforms to STEM models.
Health, Illness, and Memory
As a cancer patient in remission, the author considers the meaning of health and illness as they relate to language and to his own experience growing up in Argentina during its brutal military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.
Frames of Thought
This think piece employs a graphical format to argue against a traditional hierarchy in which words are more respected and valued in the world of knowledge than images.
Human Impact on Geospheric Processes in the Critical Zone Exemplified by the Regional Water Exchange Between the Mexico City Metropolitan Area and the Mezquital Valley
The aim of this contribution is to show how humans have altered the water balance in the basin of Mexico and created an agroecosystem that has profoundly changed Critical Zone processes in a 90,000-hectare area in the Mezquital valley.
Common Currencies: British Music and Europe in the Age of Brexit
The notion of "British music" represents some kind of unavoidable supreme fiction among a crowd of invented traditions, canons, and genres. But if national markers of the British are (in every sense of the word) insular, their flow of signs, like the flow of peoples migrating across our planet daily, will never be done.
From Local Knowledge: Ecological Relationships in the World of Water
This essay focuses on the supportive efforts of Tropenbos International Colombia to bring to light the vast knowledge and close relationship indigenous peoples in the Colombian Amazon have with their surroundings.
