CFP: ASFS/AFHVS 2025 Food Cultures and Social Justice
Food Cultures and Social Justice The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference 2025 Call for Proposals…
Food Cultures and Social Justice The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference 2025 Call for Proposals…
Hyemin Lee: Your book, Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau, offers an insightful exploration of the anthropological question of how senses…
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…
Anthropologist David Graeber’s celebrated theory of “bullshit jobs” continues to provide a critical window into why modern work is often so useless, soul-sucking, and absurd. This article was…
In Born to Rule, Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves examine how Britain’s elite continues to reproduce itself through entrenched structures of privilege, despite the appearance of increased meritocra…
Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin (Berghahn Books, 2024) by Dr. Meghana Joshi engages with how demographic anxieties and reproductive regimes emerge as forms of…
Publishing is confusing and complicated. There are often barriers to understanding it fully. And the process is very rarely fully transparent. So, I’m sharing my experiences of the…
From Andheri to Goregaon—it’s five kilometers. Half an hour by Ambassador in the north Mumbai traffic. Windows down—through them, the usual fumes: chai, wood smoke, diesel exhaust. Plus,…
https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/millennial-north-korea Haeeun Shin: Could you share about your intellectual trajectory of Millennial North Korea? What triggered you to have an interest…
ByLily HiggittMSc Anthropology, Environment and Development, 2022-23 This reflective piece highlights the ethical and political barriers I encountered whilst researching and co-hosting a UCL A…
DORA FREITAS April 2024 James Cleverly House of CommonsLondonSW1A 0AA Dear Home Secretary, James Cleverly, On the 4th of December 2023, you announced during a parliamentary debate…
As the predominantly Muslim Chinese who claim ancestry from Persian and Arabic-speaking regions in Central Asia and the Middle East, the Hui people in China have received relatively…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of our October edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopolitical tools and spatial…
“In ‘The Working Day’, Marx reports that the appointment of Mr. H. S. Tremenheere as Commissioner of Inquiry coincides with the occurrence of “several public meetings and ……
A key part of the experience of migration is not being in full control of one’s circumstances and doing. In this episode, Ingrid Piller speaks with Marco Santello about his…
12 years in the making and my guide to Shaligram interpretive traditions has finally been published! It’s available from TLS Press on all platforms where books are sold!…
Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday lives, and entangle power relations, identity, and hierarchies. Walled-In: Arctic Housing…
Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi’s Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books…
Hey Adam! “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Dear brothers and sisters, today I would […] The post The Imam Chatbot: A Digital…
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
The following are speaking notes to an informal talk I gave in the UBC Anth Dept., October 9, 2024. Given time constraints the spoken version was condensed. Not…
We can strive to fix our healthcare system, but the influence of the food science industry in the U.S. is disastrous. If it remains unaddressed, will Americans ever…