CITU 1988 West Bengal
CITU – 1988 West Bengal
CITU – 1988 West Bengal
What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves (University of Chicago Press, 2024) is a history of…
In spring 2024, several students in my Wicked Science (or “Transdisciplinary Problem-Solving”) course made zines as a final project to illustrate a wicked problem of their interest. These…
Amsterdam, like other European cities, hosts growing populations of non-native parakeets. An anthropologist unpacks what shifting attitudes toward these birds reveal about humans. ✽ When I came to…
Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos, draining the lifeblood of…
明けましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願いします。 Happy New Year! VAoJ hopes for a wonderful, peaceful and meaningful 2025 for all! Please forgive the lateness of our New Year’s greetings. These photos span the…
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet Shannon Ward: Your book deals centrally with the biopolitics of language oppression, charti…
In Policing Patients, Elizabeth Chiarello examines the role of prescription drug monitoring programmes (PDMPs) in the opioid crisis in the US, arguing that they transform healthcare into patient…
Door Ton Salman – Oudjaar…. En dan begint zomaar een heel nieuw jaar! Spiksplinternieuw! En we wensen elkaar geluk, en moois en gezondheid, en vrede. Da’s ons ritueel.…
After an amazing match… in which Xuan Son bent his leg way out of shape, and that final rolling goal… I’d watched the second half of the game…
Article numbers and rejections are ‘up’. I tried to explain what I see as the current trend in journal-editor-land and wrote this to reassure a colleague that ‘its…
What are faculty thinking about generative AI? In my role at our faculty center, I speak to faculty often on the problems they face teaching in the…
Cuban resourcefulness is on full display in Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke 2020), as sociologist Sujatha Fernandes presents an array of strategies not just for survival but for the invention…
Nara Milanich’s Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (Harvard University Press, 2019) explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological…
Attacks on justice-oriented research (rather that valid criticism of research) is escalating. What is your plan if it happens to you?
Attacks on justice-oriented research (rather that valid criticism of research) is escalating. What is your plan if it happens to you?
What aspects of Natural History Museum samples contribute to the perpetuation of colonialism? And how can we conduct anti-colonial research with them?
What aspects of Natural History Museum samples contribute to the perpetuation of colonialism? And how can we conduct anti-colonial research with them?
How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph…
In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country’s lawyers are female, but…
I. Introduction In 2010 India found itself mired in a medical crisis of diplomatic proportions. The crisis was precipitated by a paper (Kumaraswamy et al 2010) published in…
Written by Neil Turner The study of Maroon sites is a rich and virtually untapped area that can advance our …
Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland (Routledge, 2024) explores ways in which queer families from Central and Eastern Europe complicate the mainstream picture of queer kinship…
In a reference within Trần Gia Thảo Vy’s essay on Malinowski I notice that old Bronio’s volume “The Sexual Life of Savages” (on kinship systems and beliefs, so…