“It’s mine, or maybe it’s for you” – this might be a good idea…
Japan Today’s “Picture of the Day” (10/22/26) by Sabria Meghraoui. Text: A Family Mart convenience store offers free sticky notes you can take for your snacks or bento…
Japan Today’s “Picture of the Day” (10/22/26) by Sabria Meghraoui. Text: A Family Mart convenience store offers free sticky notes you can take for your snacks or bento…
Sing, Muse, of the triumphs and tribulations of Latin American scholars gathered to discuss the fragile threads linking Science, Technology, and Society. Sing, Muse, of the congress held…
Cindy Barukh Milstein. 2024. Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice. London: Pluto Press. Constellations of Care is an anthology of answers […] The post Constellations of Care…
Two panels at Women’s Health Advocates in Chicago shared personal stories of breast cancer, maternal health, and fighting to be heard, plus a reminder to vote with women’s…
Mwanga is a 27 year-old pharmaceutical technician and was one of my closest associates during my 11-month stay in Morogoro Town, Tanzania, for fieldwork. After Mwanga graduated from…
Page 99 occurs in Chapter 2 of my dissertation, which is broadly about the historical dialectics of symbolism relevant to a majority Mayan municipality in Guatemala called Cunén.…
‘chickens take care of themselves, they live all around, withstanding by themselves’; they know how to ‘eat lizards, crickets, just to withstand and stay around here’ — João…
Against/For Translation. For all the ink splattered here to make the words appear, I am flummoxed and frustrated that there is never any excuse for translation. I am…
. . . Older mats below Mandalorian and Grogu got Marsten Mats like they reused some old John Wayne sets
In 2024, the German cabinet approved a draft law that expanded deportation criteria to include public expressions that “approve” or “promote” terrorism on platforms such as Instagram, TikTok,…
Fulya Pinar, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Middlebury College I have taught Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) in undergraduate courses on the Middle East and North Africa (SWANA) for four…
Whether through awe and wonder or death and grief, human-whale relations throw into relief important epistemic, ethical, spiritual, legal, and scientific tensions. Because whales migrate across oceans…
Brazil’s far right has failed to deliver on its promises of Christian morality, safety and order – yet voters rewarded it on 4 October. Drawing on everyday scenes…
This talk reflects on the author’s years of participatory, reflexive ethnographic filmmaking in northern Ethiopia, before turning to recent film projects in Tokyo. Japan is home to people…
Since the last post we’ve conducted two fieldwork trips to Lobeke National Park. Fair to say it’s pretty out of the way – three days by 4X4 on…
I came to Aotearoa to find out more about Pounamou and did not expect to be lead right back to Germany.
As always, with thoughts of, and contribtions from, dear friends… Why no noren this year (as opposed to 2023 and 2025)? I will let my Hanshin Tigers and…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-gabriel-of-madness/hardcover Rushnae Kabir: Urdu poets – Hindu and Muslim, past and present – are the primary interlocutors in your book. You show how contemp…
Door Eddy ter Stege – “Waarom zit je dan in deze klas?” zei de docent. Ik voelde mijn hart sneller kloppen en mijn lichaam warm worden. Het begon…
MINNA EYRE Dear The Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP, Secretary of State, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), I am a postgraduate Medical Anthropology student at University…
The page 99 test of my dissertation (Bae 2024) leads me to revisit the moment of breach at a Buddhist temple in a return-to-the-farm (gwinong) village in South…
Dear Colleagues, I am forwarding this message from David Anderson, recently fired from Aberdeen University for defending fellow workers’ rights in a bitter dispute that involves disbanding…
The far right and extreme right scored a sweeping victory in Brazil’s elections on 4 October. The presidency will be decided in a run-off on 25 October, but…