Cards and Codes: Spirituality and Magic in the (Bio)technological Era
This is not a scientific or technological project, but perhaps it is a project about science and technology. My proposal is to create a magical tool, a tarot…
This is not a scientific or technological project, but perhaps it is a project about science and technology. My proposal is to create a magical tool, a tarot…
Join me in a captivating new series on This Anthro Life as I explore the diverse career paths for anthropology graduates, emphasizing the immense value of anthropological skills…
Our “Smart” Devices Still Have a Blue Light Problem — But There Are Solutions Many appliances often glow bright blue at night. I recently spent the night at a friend’s house.…
Elysia Poon and Laura Elliff Cruz working with Met staff Sara Levin (Associate Conservator, Objects Conservati…
Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved through immigration court. With a national backlog surpassing one million cases, court hearings take years and most migrants will…
Professor Alberto Wilson at Arenas El Bombero with the Green Hornet Jr. (Avispón Verde Jr.) before he retired….
The proliferation of smartphones is transforming basic structures of human existence, experience, and performance. How do these machines change what it means to be human? Where is your…
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of…
Check it out! July 17, 2024, 18:00-19:30 Room 402, 4F, Building 2 Sophia University, Tokyo Abstract:「The Tachinomi Project」is a visual ethnography based upon the con- vergence of social…
Draft version only – going to update/redo his when the programme is settled….
Deep in the vault, I was surprised to find my first ever published essay starts with Derridaddy (basically a review essay – also with errors from the days…
Criminals and Gangmembers Anonymous, a 12-step recovery program, has proliferated in California’s carceral system. An anthropologist investigates the program, which sees criminality as a chronic addic…
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction…
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan Code: From Information Theory to French Theory Duke University Press, 2023 272 pages, 47 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index Editors’ Introducti…
https://beekeepingintheendtimes.com/Home Mira Guth: In the book, you write beautifully about the power of storytelling to both gather knowledge and incite action—from ethnographic stories of c…
The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. Patients were admitted to hospitals and never seen again. Social distancing…
Menghai Town (formerly Xiangshan Town), Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China Visited December 26, 2023 This is the twenty-sixth post in the series: Villages an…
In any kind of research, there is more than one way to interpret what we are observing. The Positivist intent though, would be to find the “correct” interpretation…
Online submissions for the festival Days of Ethnographic Film (DEF) 2025 are now open. The event will take place at the end of FEBRUARY 2025 at the Slovenian…
We were on the bus, traveling through the borderlands between Osaka and Kyoto Prefectures when the imojōchū began to kick in. We had just finished an hour-and-a-half of…
I’ll never claim to be a poet, but my first publications were angry letters to the local papers, and meandering poems about building, trees and insects. It is…
Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial…
Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds remain less likely to enter university than…
This basket was given to the Mission Mill Museum in the 1970s, probably 1974, by the McGilchrist family, they gifted a collection which was then