Jalan Jalan (104): The First One of 2024
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Thomas Baudinette, “Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture” (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Thomas Baudinette’s Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2023) explores the contours of fandom, and in particular the mainstreaming of queer romance,…
Fieldwork in prison
By Lilian Ebbelaar – During my time conducting fieldwork in a prison I have learned multiple things by actually doing fieldwork. The most important things I have learned…
Review: The Globalization of Wine
David Inglis and Anna-Mari Almila eds. 2019. The Globalization of Wine London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN: 978-1-4742-6499-0. pp. 232. Yingkun Hou (South East Missouri State University) Befo…
Mara Buchbinder on her book, Scripting Death
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520380202/scripting-death Hyemin Lee: Readers might be curious about your intellectual trajectory as well as the motivation behind the years-long research and …
Kathryn Mathers, “White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation” (Routledge, 2022)
In White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation (Routledge, 2022), Kathryn Mathers interrogates the white savior industrial complex by exploring how America continues to present…
Re-vaulting
Everybodyism – see footnote 1. New Poetics/from the Re-vaults of almost forgotten heroes Nobody finishes everything – here are some that won’t get done soon… I gue…
The Politics of AAA in Action: From Pseudo to Epitomizing Events
Introduction When corresponding with a colleague about the 2023 American Anthropological Association Meeting in Toronto, I caught myself referring to the association’s business meeting as a “hist…
Redefining Accessibility, Inclusion, and Human Rights with Victor Pineda
How does the interplay between big systems-level questions and fundamental human questions in accessibility, disability rights, and human potential? In this captivating episode of This Anthro Life, we…
Mala Beads
Author: Richard Fraser Mala Beads Of the nearly 7 million ethnic Tibetans living in China today, approximately 4 million live outside the Tibet Autonomous Region. Nearly 2 million…
Book Review: Janelle Lamoreaux’s Infertile Environments
Infertile Environments: Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men, by Janelle Lamoreaux (Duke University Press, 2023). The World Health Organization recently called to cente…
Vera Lazzaretti and Kathinka Frøystad, “Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence: Rethinking Religious Offence and Its Containment” (Routledge, 2022)
Drawing on the extensive empirical field research of six scholars of religion and politics, Vera Lazzaretti and Kathinka Frøystad’s Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence: Rethinking Religious Offence and Its…
Darnise C. Martin, “Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church” (NYU Press, 2005)
Darnise C. Martin’s Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church (NYU Press, 2005) draws on rich ethnographic work in a Religious Science church in Oakland, California, to illuminate…
Tulasi Srinivas, “Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics” (SUNY Press, 2023)
Tulasi Srinivas’ edited volume Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics (SUNY Press, 2023) brings together historians and ethnographers of South Asia, including leading and emerging scholars, to consider the…
Eva van Roekel, “Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
In Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Eva van Roekel grounds her research in phenomenological anthropology and the anthropology of emotion to offer…
Tulasi Srinivas, “Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics” (SUNY Press, 2023)
Tulasi Srinivas’ edited volume Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics (SUNY Press, 2023) brings together historians and ethnographers of South Asia, including leading and emerging scholars, to consider the…
Thomas DeGloma, “Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities” (U Chicago Press, 2023)
In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social landscape. There are countless examples: An anonymous whistleblower was at the heart of President Trump’s first impeachment, an…
What Is “Natural” for Human Sexual Relationships?
A biological and anthropological researcher explains how humans’ diverse ways of mating might have evolved. ✽ Marrying more than one person constitutes a crime across most of the…
SAR Receives $900,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is honored to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $900,000 from the National Endowment for the…
Dismantling the “Man the Hunter” Myth
Two biological anthropologists analyze archaeological and physiological evidence to debunk enduring assumptions about the gendered division of labor in ancient times. This article was originally publ…
Luft aus anderen planeten
Stefan George Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten.Mir blassen durch das dunkel die gesichterDie freundlich eben noch sich zu mir drehten. Und bäum und wege die ich liebte…
Fault Lines: Curator Q&A with Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu
Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu (Kanaka ʻOiwi/Native Hawaiian) is a fifteen-year veteran of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, where she developed scores…
This Militarization
A poet-anthropologist conveys her life when she was coming of age under the increasing mobilization of military forces in Indian-occupied Kashmir. If you missed the introduction to “This…
Documenting the Kashmir Conflict Through Poetry
SAPIENS’ 2023 poet-in-residence sketches the history she speaks to in three poems from Indian-occupied Kashmir. “Speak up for your lips are not sealed, and your words are still…