On May 18th the worldwide museum community celebrates International Museum Day. This day is an occasion to raise public awareness on how important museums are in the enrichment of cultural exchange, development of society, and cooperation among people. For more information on the theme and calendar of events, visit the International Council of Museums webpage.
Viola Castellano’s new book Set to See Us Fail looks at how on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested within the child welfare system of New York. Here she tells us what drew her to this complex issue and what her work has revealed.
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Posted 17 May 2023
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Tagged: anthropology, anthropology of work, author interview, child services, family, inequality, New York, poverty, race, social work, welfare
Jean La Fontaine’s Witches and Demons: A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism just enjoyed its seventh anniversary. And since it remains as popular – and as timely – as ever we asked Jean if she would take a look back at her Berghahn classic (available in paperback and eBook). So many thanks to Jean […]
ANA BELÉN MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA is Associate Professor at ISSA School of Applied Management, University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). She teaches Business Communication, Academic Writing, and World Literatures in English.
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Posted 03 May 2023
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Tagged: anthropology, books, cultural studies, europe, forced mobility, identity, literary studies, media, migration, Nelson González Ortega, politics, refugees