Yotsuya Kakuuchi「Suzuden」・ 四谷の角打ち「鈴傳」
My first visit to Suzuden in the Yotsuya neighborhood in the southeastern part of Shinjuku ward in Tokyo was in July, 2024, after I gave a guest lecture…
My first visit to Suzuden in the Yotsuya neighborhood in the southeastern part of Shinjuku ward in Tokyo was in July, 2024, after I gave a guest lecture…
It is the third of our four days at the 2026 ST&HV Science and Technology Studies (STS) School. We file past laboratories populated by white-coated researchers and take…
Photo and headlines on display at「Daruma」: Arnold’s 1985 Visit to Japan: During his visit, Arnold heavily promoted the premier of his action film Commando (1985)… a moment from…
The admittedly slow, difficult, work of reading for the detail, while still critical – albeit of a ‘very heterodox Marxism’ – is still the criteria by which it…
Previous「Daruma」on VAoJ: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2019/08/izakaya-darumain-monzen-nakacho.html
“I just looked at the land and started building”. Our group of guests from Norway and Finland in our NAPA project “empowering green transition from the grassroots” sits…
“When we first met, we found ourselves working at the harbor’s edge—One cam gaffs the shirt. The swimmer beaches us: one arm free, the other digs.” Candy at…
Text and photos by Kara Nichols The Edwards Plateau Research Group’ Paint Rock Project is a collaboration between Native American communities and curious archaeologists. Since the first dig…
Alternative Ending: Previous「Daruma」on VAoJ: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2023/07/vaoj-s2023rt-arc-arrival-in-tokyo.html
Author’s editorial prelude: In what follows, I open up insight into a micro-moment of everyday scholarly life which shows itself through the body; like that slightly deeper breath…
In Tribal Reawakening and the Future of State-Building in Kuwait and Qatar, Maryam Al-Kuwari challenges the assumption that modern state-building has diminished the relevance of tribal identities in…
Thirty years of this book. Reminded today that it’s circa 700 rupees from Bloomsbury India if you like that sort of thing (real life copies I mean): The…
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2026 SAFN Student Research Award winner is Patricia Mathu. Mathu is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Purdue University. Her dissertation foc…
Dear readers and followers you may have noticed that in the last years, activity on this blog has become less, while the content of what has been posted…
“Most of these other agency heads are, in my opinion, car salesmen. They would sell anything and would probably also somehow sell their grandmother’s washing machine, probably also…
The Great Replacement theory is sanitized and mainstreamed in political debates through the policy proposal of ‘remigration’. As the conspiracy narrative is translated into the more palatable language…
From ‘Melbourne Journal of Politics’ 1986 originally, reprinted in The Postcolonial Critic, ed Sarah Harasym 1990 The Post-Colonial Critic Interview MJP with by Gayatri Chakravorty…
Aysel brought out her candles wrapped in stretch wrap and put them on the coffee table in the middle of our interview. She was very proud of showing…
This text is well worth your time… (I have, for this blogsnip, retitled it from a phrase in one of the early paragraphs, apologies, but some of this…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/screening-social-justice Kenzell Huggins: Screening Social Justice in many ways continues the important work in the ethnography of independent film that you started …
The anthropological project, tired and exhausted after years searching for ‘methodological absolution’, remains mired in a spiral of self-doubt and self-indulgent ‘crisis’. Anthropological teachi…
Sandhya Fuchs in conversation about her 2025 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology winner, Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes … More
Grace Sanders Johnson So now here is the question: what tools, what methodologies, if you will, do we need to develop to coax memory back into work, to…
Image by Sidney Regis Title: Antilles Serie: Repare the sea Technic: Black ink and gold ink on old map from the 1930s Size 44×57 cm 2023 Collection of the artist…