He was, quite politely, declining to come and talk in my Representations/Visual Anthropology class, and fair enough. I also appreciate the irony – surely fully intended – of…
Marie Gorm Aabo Even before I started my fieldwork on sound, tinnitus, and soundscapes, I had a feeling that I […] The post Gut Feeling appeared first on…
「Intersectionality in Japanese Deaf Communities」 Abstract: Are Deaf people in Japan simply disabled, or a linguistic minority, or both? Various physical conditions and individual situations combine…
I’m excited to announce that the Calm Tech Institute (CTI) just announced the launch of Calm Tech Certified™, a certification program designed to help companies create products that…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the second part of our October edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict the daily life experiences and health hardships encountered by young…
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital media, feminist and queer culture, and…
Leonardo Custódio: Cameras, Narratives and Actions in Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Complexos (Finland/Brazil 2020) is a 26-minute-long film that […] The post Moved appeared first on Allegra…
The call for looking at taxonomies of difference in global humanitarianism is a powerful reminder to consider how differences—as well as, we argue, affinities—shape humanitarian practices. Prompted by…
My dissertation investigates the semiotics and politics of contemporary (Yucatec) Maya-language media in the Mexican Yucatán.* Page 99 appears in chapter two, which examines how announcers at a…
This comment on the British Left was buried I guess, but had cause to think of it again today: “…the Left collapsed under the weight of a sectarian…
A poet-anthropologist celebrates relatedness across difference in a poem that honors the festivals of Navratri, Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Day of the Dead, and Halloween—all of which draw…
LIVIA SAPERE To: Giorgia Meloni Palazzo Chigi Piazza Colonna, 370 00187 Roma (RM), Italy Dear Giorgia Meloni, I am writing to address the decision of your government to…
Mónica Degen Steps to move and change Steps can be both those we take every day, one foot after the […] The post Steps appeared first on Allegra…
What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of India’s Darjeeling Hills, Quinine’s Remains: Empire’s…
I call this series “Univer(sal)ity Capitalism: Built on the Bones of Faculty, Staff and Students” (October 2024).
Gutted to know Dave passed today.
Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentialism among some groups, or the idea that our…
From: (1846) Course of lectures on dramatic art and literature. Translated by John Black. Revised, according to the last German ed. by A.J.W. Morrison.
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the angels…
Check out the Demystifying Language Project’s (DLP) new site for high school teachers, students, and academics: https://demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/ This week features a great article,…
From @thepeoplestribunal “After 50 years of state excuses we are pleased to announce this collaboration in the form of the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings. The People’s Tribunal…
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish despite…