Guest on The Sausage of Science Podcast
I was a guest on The Sausage of Science podcast with Dr. Chris Lynn, discussing my research. Listen below.
I was a guest on The Sausage of Science podcast with Dr. Chris Lynn, discussing my research. Listen below.
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Budka, P. (2024). Comparison in anthropology – what to compare?. Paper at InfraNorth Workshop “Ethnography Beyond the Case Study: Possibilities and Limitations of Comparison”, Stock…
When producers for a popular Netflix series sought a permit to film on public lands in the U.S. Southwest, many Native leaders objected. A Hopi tribal official, Stewart…
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The RG China(s) congratulates Prof. Dr. Sarah Hanisch for starting a new position as Professor of Economics, Business Communication, and Politics of the East Asian Region at HTWG…
A perpetual tension exists between history and change, which is an issue long explored by historians and social scientists. Reckoning with Change in Yucatán: Histories of Care and Threat…
Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer (U California Press, 2024) unpacks the problems and privileges of pursuing a career of passion by exploring work inside craft…
It is an intuitive truth that religious beliefs are different from ordinary factual beliefs. We understand that a belief in God or the sacredness of scripture is not…
This is a comic that explores the affective experience of sharing a built environment and material cultures, making and re-making more-than-human kinship, and dealing with anticipatory grief with…
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As you have likely gathered from recent posts, I’m seeking opportunities to deepen my understanding of women’s health and get involved in this emergent space. On Friday I…
For years I’ve been keeping bookmarks and links to news about Porgera for my own scholarly record. Because there is another surge in fighting again I thought it…
My dissertation analyzed the work of self-described Thai “design activists” who designed a building’s form, programming, and m…
In a dystopian short story, an anthropologist imagines an alternate world in which Kashmiris are forbidden to dream. Republished by permission from English Language Notes, 61(2): 15–18. Copyright…
How can social scientists work together with research participants to create new knowledge on issues of public concern? Our experiences studying Instagram with young adults showed us that…
On this podcast today, I am joined by three scholars: postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt, Gil Hizi; assistant professor at Sun Yat-sen University, Xinyan Peng;…
China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing desertification.…
Ehaab D. Abdou’s book Education, Civics, and Citizenship in Egypt: Towards More Inclusive Curricular Representations and Teaching (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) explores how to render curricular representations more inclusive and how…
Dr. Aviad Moreno is himself an incarnation of entwined homelands. He is an Israeli whose grandfather moved from Morocco to Venezuela, sent his son back to Morocco to study.…
In this episode of This Anthro Life, we’ll dive into how anthropology is reshaping tech investment by examining human culture and its influence on innovation. You’ll discover how…
By Peter Versteeg – “It’s just a chemical reaction,” was the response of a fellow student, a psychologist. I had just presented my “spiritual biography,” a part of…
Fire Bodies was written in response to the death of my partner and the embodied experience of climate catastrophic events. […] The post Fire bodies appeared first on…