Erroneous Tropes in Narratives of Removal to the Coast Indian Reservation
Digging through previously collected digitized documents, I found several accounts of removal of the tribes to the Siletz Reservation. These are worthy …
Ep #46 Reconfigurable: Elanor Huntington talks engineering, anthropology, & how we’re making our world
“Not only do we need engineers working alongside anthropologists to do good quality engineering, I also think that we need to do …
Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition.
via Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition. Available from Aakar Books Here. Rest of the world here (bloomsbury paperback in November) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-8949 …
Are Mixed-Income Neighborhoods the Best Answer for Public Housing?
The Plan for Transformation brought new mixed-income developments to Chicago, such as those shown here, as a novel solution to public housing. …
Indigenous Survival Politics in the Promotion of a National Discourse
In January 2018, 10 members from an Ainu traditional performance group, Sapporo Upopo Hozonkai (Sapporo Upopo Preservation Society, hereafter SUH), traveled from …
Links & Contents I Liked 337
Hi all, A busy week with lost of enjoyable teaching on historical aspects of #globaldev is wrapping up & I’m glad to …
‘Rescuing’ food: Dumpster Diving as Political Activism
It is already dark, past 10 pm, and Dora, Emil and I are riding our bikes to the backyards of local supermarkets …
194 – Christine Folch
Dominic and Cymene take a trip down MTV memory lane to the romantic 1990s on this week’s podcast. Then (16:00) we welcome …
Rapping Blackness
As a biracial man, there’s something visceral about being in a room full of black people of all shades, from across the …
Neanderthal Bones: Signs of Their Sex Lives
In a cave tucked into the limestone hills of the Asturias region of Spain, there lie the remains of a group of …
Doctor Andrew Graan featured on the BBC World Service documentary series ‘Detours’
University lecturer Andrew Graan was featured on a BBC documentary series ‘Detours’ in their episode on fake news. The episode “Doctor Fake …
Review: Reconstructing Obesity
Megan B. McCullough and Jessica A. Hardin, eds. Reconstructing obesity: the meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings. Berghahn. New York, …
William Suárez-Gómez and Ismael García-Colón: Puerto Rico: Resistance in the world’s oldest colony
In July 2019, Puerto Rico was in turmoil. An organic movement asking for the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló emerged throughout this …
I am not a slave
I am not a slave. I am not a trafficking “survivor” or a victim. I’m among the most marginalized and dehumanized persons …
“At Home and Abroad: Reflections on Collaborative Museum Ethnography at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures”
I am happy to note the publication of a paper in Museum Anthropology reporting on, and considering, the work of two collaborative …
RE: Email in the Field
How can anthropologists engage with email in organisational ethnography? This blog explores email as a ritualised practice that draws attention to both …
#Review: Queer Festivals
Konstantinos Eleftheriadis’s Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe is a much needed and welcome addition to a small but …
Special Issue: “Religious Dynamics in Post-Revolutionary Egypt”
The social science journal Social Compass released a special issue in French and English on “Religious dynamics in post-revolutionary Egypt” (or “Dynamiques …
Do You Dream What I Dream?
Anthropologist Roger Lohmann sees a ghost in a dream while working in Papua New Guinea. Even though he knows it’s just a …
Two Schools at Grand Ronde Indian Reservation, 1863
There are a few reports that open the windows wide to a vision of the reservation, its changes, its struggles, and its …
The Sargassum Question
Close-up of sargasso, Puerto Morelos, 2019. Photo by the author. Sitting in her office, I could smell the sharp scent of hydrogen …
Things That Are Not Alive, but Which May Be Alive in a Certain Way: An Interdisciplinary Essay on a Relational Theory of Life
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, AgroParisTech, INRA § This blog post is adapted from a paper given at “Anthropology Off Earth,” Collège de France …
Cóc Linh Tuệ Giác
Cỏc Linh Tuệ Giác = something like the image of the Holy Toad in culture and history. Going to read this cultural …