Black Japanese: the African Diaspora in Japan
Written by Neil Turner Almost three decades ago, while at graduate school in California studying anthropology, I had a colleague …
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Piers Kelly on his book, The Last Language on Earth
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-last-language-on-earth-9780197509913 Carolina Rodriguez Alzza: Could you tell how was your first approach to the Eskaya language, and how did Eskaya…
Benjamin Lorr, “The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket” (Penguin, 2020)
This episode of the New Books in Economic and Business History is an interview with New York writer Benjamin Lorr. Benjamin Lorr is the author of Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain,…
Here’s to a better 2024…
I arrived at Ubusuna Jinja shortly after midnight. On my way I could smell the smoke from the two blazing barrel fires at the shrine. The rain had…
There and back again
The East Cape road heading to Cabo Pulmo. Around 2012. Photo: Ryan B. Anderson. It’s fitting that I’m writing my last post for this site in Cabo Pulmo,…
Arabian Nights: abriged too far (longest-kept trinket-exotica)
The 1821 Galland version of the Thousand and One Nights. “slightly abridged” with eight full colour drawings by Joan Kiddel-Monroe. 1965 reprint, Dent & Sons. …
Kathleen Klaus, “Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Kathleen Klaus, Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco has written a terrific book, Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making published in 2020…
Anaïs Nin to Edgard Varèse.
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Last post of the year 2023
By the SpW editorial team – Tidings When the dead call at your doorGive them sweets and presents,Candlelight and hot chocolateDon’t be afraid butWish them goodwillThey will pass…
Brazil is going to eat you up! {part 5}: trying to not eat myself
This is not an academic text. Wow. It has been several months since I last posted something here in AD. It’s kinda weird trying to survive a pandemic…
Healthcare in the age of inequality
I had just begun my year of social service when I met a patient I will never forget. Let’s call her María. She was around 50 years old…
CELEBRATING TRANSGRESSION
Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of CulturesA book in Honour of Klaus Peter Koepping Edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk 2005 rao_15hutnykDownload
2023 in Review
Image from https://stock.adobe.com/. Welcome to CASTAC 2023 in review! In this post you will read about the wonderful work that our CASTAC team and community has put together.…
The Path to Long-term Happiness: A New Theory on Mental Health and Neurodiversity
The traditional view of mental health often focuses on the absence of mental illness, but a new theory is emerging that emphasizes the importance of neurodiversity and individual…
Antti Lindfors Interviews Nicole Starosielski on Media Hot and Cold
This is a conversational interview between Professor Nicole Starosielski (UC Berkeley) and me, Dr. Antti Lindfors (University of Helsinki), discussing Nicole’s book Media Hot and Cold (2022, Duke…
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins on her book, Waste Siege
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27959 Hazal Corak: Waste Siege focuses on multiple forms of waste which accumulate and assume political status in Palestine. It introduces us to waste profe…
Sukhmani Khorana, “Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency” (Bristol UP, 2023)
Sukhmani Khorana’s book Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency (Bristol UP, 2023) unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around…
Jafari S. Allen, “There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life” (Duke UP, 2022)
In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life (Duke UP, 2022), Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what…
Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #3: The Blogroll (plus)
As promised, here’s a list of the anthropology and archaeology blogs that are still active from Jason Antrosio’s archive from 2017. I found one site that’s actually not…
Nessette Falu, “Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2023) Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against…
Can the Palestinian speak?
It is sadly nothing new to argue that oppressed and colonised people have been and are subject to epistemic violence – othering, silencing, and selective visibility – in…
James Cummings, “The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) by Dr. James Cummings explores the everyday lives of gay men in Hainan, an…
Bunk is not Bunn: A Silly Claim about the Origin of Coffee
In a non-academic website called Atlas Obscura, there is an article with the entertaining title: “Before Drinking Coffee, People Washed Their Hands With It.” The article was written…
Grounded in Clay Reception at The Met, New York
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery Reception at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 10, 2023. …