Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditions and substance use by considering the intersections between drug markets,…
The power of documentary to inspire action and agitate for radical change has developed alongside social struggles and mass movements for over a century. This article outlines the…
Thinking of returning to this problem of time – how everything has got more urgent, but nothing is moving at all – hyper-stagnation. From the reviews of Bad…
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Victor Alneng so appreciated the interview question style he read in ‘The Rumour of Calcutta’ he made me a t-shirt. From Vietnam, it has now returned home.
What happens when the elitist space of ‘Western’ classical music seeks to diversify itself? And what are the social effects worked through diversity discourses in classical music institutions? The…
Join us for the 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference! Focused on Imagination, Creation, and Critique, the conference will be held from May 29-31, 2025 at the…
Foreign policy played a minor role in the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in September. The vice presidential exchange between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz…
MAKE AMERICA THINK AGAIN. That’s the bumper sticker on my friend’s pickup and that’s what I hope for. I like evidence and data, and I detest TV talking…
Leonardo Custódio Sometimes, when I think about multiple processes of communication in doing research, I feel as if I become […] The post Clocks appeared first on Allegra…
is 50,000 enough in Palestine? 60,000+ in Sudan? 73,000 in Russia-Ukraine? 300k+ in Syria? 6 mill in Congo? When does it stop? Let’s celebrate with some games, like…
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It was certainly unexpected, when a student assistant, screening Prof. Dr. Erwin Stresemann’s personal estate in our university archive, foun…
Podcast with Cecilia Van Hollen, Professor at Georgetown University, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). This next epis…
A language scientist delves into historic and current efforts to catalog the planet’s 7,000-plus languages, uncovering colorful tales and Herculean challenges. ✽ As a scientist who has researched…
ByDavid EdgarPhD Anthropology “Aaah… ehhh… ohhhh…” says Pepe as he tries to find his own voice. Pepe is a dead hippopotamus—and the eponymous narrator of a wild, uncategorizable…
Áine Mangaoang: The nicest prison walls in the world? The prison begins, and ends, with the wall. Ten-feet tall, smooth […] The post Walls appeared first on Allegra…
Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton University Press, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, which explores the human connections that underlie our…
Queer men’s cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, safer sex, sexual racism and…
At Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, a new co-management plan brings together federal agencies and a consortium of Native American tribes—revealing deep tensions over land rights and…
Tony Platt The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley Heyday, 2023 xxi + 289 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index At the American…
Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (Cambridge UP, 2024). The conversation introduces listeners to the procedures involved in…
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…