Tying Knots

Anthropologist of the Week: Saul Tuckers and Action Anthropology

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2023/09/%E6%AF%8F%E5%91%A8%E4%BA%BA%E7%B1%BB%E5%AD%A6%E5%AE% B6%EF%BC%9A%E7%B4%A2%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%A1%94%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF%E4%B8%8E%E8% A1%8C%E5%8A%A8%E4%BA%BA%E7%B1%BB%E5%AD%A6/ Author / Yu Kun Sol Tax is a name that will always appear in the history of anthropology in various fields, such as the famous “action anthropology” (action anthropology), the founder of “Current Anthropology” (Current Anthropology), and the world. Anthropology linkage within the scope, the World Anthropology Series with a […]

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Revisiting Part 1 of Picun Migrant Work Museum: A commemoration not to be forgotten

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2023/10/%E5%86%8D%E8%AE%BF%E7%9A%AE%E6%9D%91%E6%89%93%E5%B7% A5%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A6%86%E4%B9%8B%E4%B8%80%EF%BC%9A%E4%B8%8D%E4%B8%BA% E5%BF%98%E5%8D%B4%E7%9A%84%E7%BA%AA%E5%BF%B5/ Pi Village is a city-side village located in the east of Beijing. It is close to the Capital Airport. Instead of the busy planes, the workers living there have witnessed the development and defunctionalization of the capital with their own hands and eyes, blood and tears, as well as their

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Anthropologist of the Week | In Memory of Hans Belting (1935–2023)

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2023/10/%E6%AF%8F%E5%91%A8%E4%BA%BA%E7%B1%BB%E5%AD%A6%E5%AE% B6-%E6%82%BC%E5%BF%B5%E6%B1%89%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E8%B4%9D%E5%B0%94%E5%BB%B7%EF %BC%88hans-belting%EF%BC%8C1935-2023%EF%BC%89/ Professor Hans Bertin, a German art historian, art critic, and graphic anthropologist, passed away in Berlin on January 10, 2023. Professor Bertin, who worked at the Karlsruhe State Academy of Design, the University of Munich, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Hamburg during his lifetime, was an important

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Book News | New English Books in Anthropology | March-April 2023

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2023/07/booklist-en-new-2023-0304/ This column will organize and introduce anthropology-related works on a regular basis, so that everyone can understand the dynamics of the academic world and stimulate further thinking and discussion. As the summer vacation is approaching or already approaching, we have compiled a total of 17 new English anthropological works published in March

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Watch My Body | An Unusual Watching Exercise

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2023/06/shift/ In May 2023, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago, USA launched an immersive experience called “SHIFT”. Participants followed black disabled actors to explore various spaces of the art museum. These actors carried their own canes, manual wheelchairs, electric wheelchairs up and down the stairs, or connected to the scene through

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“Denied Accessibility”

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2023/05/against-access/ In the summer of 2023, the second deliberation draft of the National People’s Congress draft of the “Barrier-free Environment Construction Law” is in full swing. Barrier-free construction regulations in Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, Zhuhai and other places have been implemented in recent years, combined with government information disclosure, smart city, civilized city construction

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Nobel Laureate Pebble: Ancient human genetic research may help understand modern health

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2022/10/paabo/ Where do humans come from? Where are you going? These have always been questions anthropologists have been tirelessly trying to answer, and Pebble’s research has been exploring these questions for decades based on the development of genetic theory and technology. In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to

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Indigenous Peoples in the City: Rio de Janeiro (Part 2) | Indigenous Perspectives Series & World Anthropology

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2022/10/in-rio-de-janeiro-indigenous-people-fight-to-undo-centuries-of-erasure/ As shown in the ” I am an aboriginal, not a mixed -race” shared earlier, in a multi-integrated society, there are many aboriginal people who are not included in the statistics. In the ongoing 2022 Brazilian census, a movement to mobilize self-declaration of indigenous status has also emerged, and it is expected

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For Mass Education: The Chinese Typewriter in the Eyes of Zhou Houkun

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2022/10/chinese-typewriter-2/ The torrent of modern Chinese history is full of multiple collisions and fusions of cross-cultural politics, language, and technology. Text and text communication technology is one of the prominent ones, and the research on Chinese typewriters in recent years is an excellent entry point. Yushengzhi previously published the book review “Typing, Body

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Learning from the Source: Performance Art and the Climate Crisis in Contemporary Brazil | Indigenous Perspectives Series & World Anthropology

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2022/09/learning-sources-performance-and-climate-crisis-four-brazilian-works/ As a translation of the series “Brazil Indigenous Perspectives”, this article turns its perspective to topics such as performance performance, public participation experience and community practice in the field of contemporary art. In the face of macro and subtle themes such as the Anthropocene, colonial history, climate change, species and cultural extinction,

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“Friend Translation” | International Sign Language Day

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2022/09/friendterpreting/ September 23rd is International Day of Sign Languages. In recent years, under the framework of the “Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities”, the United Nations has advocated states to promote sign language learning, raise social awareness of linguistic diversity, and legislate to protect the right of deaf people to access

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The story of knotted rope | Anthropological topics I want to explore (2)

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2022/08/knotting-proposals-2/ On July 25, 2020, Yushengzhi published its first article , and it has been two years since then. To celebrate Xiao Yu’s 2nd birthday, we will continue the “knotting story painting” that was carried out on the first anniversary: ​​co-creation by sharing stories and ideas with each other. – Last year’s collective

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The story of knotted rope | Anthropological topics I want to explore (2)

Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2022/08/knotting-proposals-2/ On July 25, 2020, Yushengzhi published its first article , and it has been two years since then. To celebrate Xiao Yu’s 2nd birthday, we will continue the “knotting story painting” that was carried out on the first anniversary: ​​co-creation by sharing stories and ideas with each other. – Last year’s collective

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