Multimodal Methods in Anthropology
Today (April 26, 2024), our book, “Multimodal Methods in Anthropology” is released into the world. Here’s a song I’ve created for the moment using Udio, a text-to-song Generative…
Today (April 26, 2024), our book, “Multimodal Methods in Anthropology” is released into the world. Here’s a song I’ve created for the moment using Udio, a text-to-song Generative…
I am walking along a road on the outskirts of Leh town, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. It is October, just past the turn from summer to…
Imagine an environmentalist. Are you picturing a Birkenstock-clad hippie? An office worker who hikes on weekends? A political lobbyist? What about a modern day timber worker? This last group is…
Noting these to read later thanks Rani Djandam: Achmad Fedyani Saifuddin Here and here Heddy Shri Ahimsa-Putra Here and here Please recommend more…
Author: Carolina Némethy A Synthesis of the Multimodal Workshop 12th – 14th of March, we had the pleasure to invite several highly competent, international scholars to our multimodal…
“What starts here changes the world.” “Make it your/our Texas” Images via UT colleagues.
In The Front Room, Michael McMillan examines the significance of domestic spaces in creating a sense of belonging for Caribbean migrants in the UK. Delving into themes of resistance…
In Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, I found a musical roundabout. Large loudspeakers turn this otherwise innocuous infrastructure into an absurdist mashup of techno…
Entrance door to the infectious and parasitic diseases wing. Image by author. Luiza is a pediatrician and researcher specializing in infectious diseases who works at a teaching hospital…
NAPA invites professional, practicing, and applied (PPA) anthropologists to show your colors at the upcoming AAA meeting in Tampa, Florida Wednesday, November 20, 2024 – Saturday, November 23,…
How do the hidden costs of technology, like social media and search engines, shape our lives in unforeseen ways? In this compelling episode of This Anthro Life, we…
In the seventh season of the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of stories about how technology—in a variety of configurations—shapes humanity. Since the dawn of our…
Together with my colleagues Thijl Sunier and Jamal Ahajjaj, I have written a chapter “Activating Muslims: Citizenship in Dutch Islamic Schools” in the volume Difference and Sameness in…
It was a crowded, freezing Monday morning in late January, in the large university hospital in northern Italy where I was leading my fieldwork between 2017 to 2018. A…
I denna essä återvänder jag till det antropologiska fältarbete som jag genomförde under inbördeskriget i Acholiland, norra Uganda. Det är en resa mer än tjugo år tillbaka i…
In a new book, an anthropologist reveals the heavy tolls industries have placed on residents in this eastern U.S. city. Here, she explains how these burdens have only…
On April 30, 2019, a shooter entered my classroom on my last day of teaching at UNC-Charlotte. I was preparing to move to Texas to begin a doctoral…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/activist-affordances This interview was conducted in February 2023. Nate Tilton: How does activist affordances address the limitations of the social model of disa…
In Turkish-Dutch allotment gardens, gardeners, family and friends gather around the kuzine. The stove forms the centerpiece of gatherings, but is also central in the intricate relationship between…
Shuikou, Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited July 10, 2019 This is the Twentieth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the Southeast…
In Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City (U Michigan Press, 2024), Philipp Demgenski examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban…
On Monday, May 25th, 2020, Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canél, involuntarily found himself in the spotlight. Diaz-Canél had become the Cuban head of state two years before, and…
This week in my undergraduate museum practices course, we will discuss museum careers (and graduate school). For the first time since 2017, I have again done my calculations…