On borrowed time: Living with chronic terror in the United States’ insulin crisis by Erin V. Moore
As the United States began closing its borders in March 2020, Americans with diabetes, already under threat from the coronavirus, faced another …
Visualising solidarity
At the occasion of the open access launch of his book Ironies of Solidarity: Insurance and Financialisation of Kinship in South Africa …
Ep #76 The Sounds of Fieldwork & Choosing Your Field Site: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #76 The Sounds of Fieldwork & Choosing Your Fieldsite: This Month on TFS This week we’d like …
Psychiatric Becomings in Times of War. A Short History
Dr Ukshini, her back turned towards us in her white doctor’s coat, was busy preparing Turkish coffee over a small gas cooker. …
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Hi all, 22 of our ComDev students presented great theses last week, the semester is slowly winding down & your favorite weekly …
Your Life is Data – Wie erleben Studierende die Pandemie? (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Laura Siebert Mein Leben als Material für meine anthropologische Forschung? Genau diesen Ansatz verfolgt die sogenannte …
Manon Garcia, “We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives” (Princeton UP, 2021)
We are here today with Manon Garcia, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives, published this year, 2021, …
Alice Elliot, “The Outside: Migration As Life in Morocco” (Indiana UP, 2021)
The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco (Indiana UP, 2021) traces how migration has come to occupy a striking place in the lives of …
SAR Press Top Reads: Place, Environment, and Change
When life seems to be changing day by day, if not hour by hour, we look to sources of information that we …
Seeking Participants for a New Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis Initiative
Request for Information The Creation and Division of Wealth and the Long-term Consequences of Inequality: Views from Archaeology Precis: The
Sex in Sport: Men Don’t Always Have the Advantage
Many sporting events, like the Paris Marathon, have separate categories for men and women. Michel Stoupak/NurPhoto/Getty Images As the Summer Olympics gear …
Call for a new Discard Studies Managing Editor
Starting in the early fall of 2021, we are looking for a new Managing Editor to oversee and carry out regular operations …
Book Review: What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Social Mobility? by Lee Elliott Major and Stephen Machin
In What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Social Mobility? Lee Elliott Major and Stephen Machin give an account of the long …
Talking Ethnographic Fiction with Alexandros Plasatis
What does ethnography look like when presented as fiction? In this episode, we talk with Alexandros Plasatis, author of the new book Made …
Tae-Yeoun Keum, “Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought” (Harvard UP, 2020)
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought (Harvard UP, 2020) is an ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato’s basic enterprise and influence, …
Predicting Across Time and Space by Bettina Ng’weno
Every day for the month of March 2021, I watched the numbers of Covid-19 cases in Kenya climb and climb. Family and …
Just Food: Because It Is Never Just Food
David Beriss Today was day one of this year’s best little food conference. Organized by the Association for the Study of Food …
How Migrant Filmmakers Practice Archival Activism
Participants of FunKino, a collaborative filmmaking laboratory in Italy, discuss ideas for storyboarding in 2019. FunKino—Cinema for Inclusion project promoted by Zabbara …
Wednesday Round Up #53
Excerpt from Jack Gilbert’s Poem “Moreover” What we are given is taken away, but we manage to keep it secretly. We lose …
Ryanne Pilgeram, “Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West” (U Washington Press, 2021)
What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out: Contested …
Cécile Fromont, “Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition” (Penn State, 2019)
Edited by Dr. Cécile Fromont, Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (Penn State University Press, 2019), demonstrate… Visit …
David Skarbek, “The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, …
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “The Inheritance” (Duke UP, 2021)
Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not through blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adige—the region …