ByFelix StephensBSc Global Humanitarian Studies This is a fictional piece about an ethnographer attending the funeral of a famous writer. It explores the power of different mediums, how…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/incommunicable Daniel Krugman: This book is clearly a cumulation of thinking throughout your career arriving at a generative and fruitful apex. When was the first mo…
In two poems, an anthropologist speaks to the timelessness and constant change of the minority language Griko in the Italian landscape. ✽ The story of the minority language…
Written by Keith Hart CLR James and the idea of an African revolution Events in Tunisia and Egypt have brought …
Prof Nikos Papastergiadis ISSH2024 4 parts – keynote presentation to ISSH2024, the 3rd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities, at Ton Duc Thang University…
Dr Ken Fero ISSH2024 Session B12 An Obstinate Memory. Presented at Ton Duc Thang University on 27 July 2024, 3rd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences…
The time is finally (FINALLY!) upon us! Outward Spirals, the guide to Shaligram interpretive traditions, will go on pre-order from TLS Press starting August 31st! As soon as…
This episode is the first of two episodes this season on Muslims in China. Here Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talk to Darren Blyer about his book Terror Capitalism:…
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent…
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Beginning in 2016, the Turkish government accused anyone with the messaging application ByLock of terrorism. An anthropologist investigates the risks of this kind of digital evidence. ✽ Summer…
“Camming” and “Beot-bang“[1] With the development of digital technologies, online spaces have transformed many aspects of individuals’ lives by creating infrastructures t…
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That’s right, after six and a half years of toil (and fun) spread between a rainforest in Cameroon and a library and office in London, the thing is…
In Significant Emotions, Ashley Frawley critiques the trend of pathologising distress caused by socio-economic problems (like cost-of-living pressures and insecure, low-paid employment) as “ment…
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies. In Cameroon, French Polynesia, Papua…
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit…
Budka, P. (2024). Planes, trains, ships and rockets: Infrastructural temporalities and entanglements in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Soc…
In Speak Out!, Milo Miller curates a selection of writings by one of the first and most important Black radical organisations of the 1970s, the Brixton Black Women’s Group.…
Middle-class, conservative women in Pakistan have found a political voice as supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party—putting them at odds with the secular women’s movement their own daughters…
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“I am not reading all of that, but fuck Chu May Paing. What a fraud.” I didn’t see the comment on Facebook when it was first posted. I…
Fuchsia Dunlop. 2023. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food New York:: Norton, ISBN: 978-0-393-86713-8 466 pp. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State University) Best dish to start…