Creative Collective: Re-inventing Empikas — a photo essay
ByGabriella SantiniPhD Anthropology The ban on female circumcision in Kenya has put an end to Empikas — the only rite of passage ceremony for Maasai girls in Siria,…
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Hemsökelser från Gaza
Jag har forskat om det palestinska samhället i olika omgångar under de senaste 20 år. Omfattande kränkningar av mänskliga rättigheter och direkt fysiskt våld har alltid förekommit, men…
Reconstructing the Anthro Blogosphere with RSS
To start, let me pour one out for Anthrodendum, the anthropology blog that may not have started it all, but which was for many the one pre-social media…
Family planning projects: unpacking the spectacle of women’s empowerment in Uttar Pradesh, India
Introduction Contraceptives are considered ‘the greatest life-saving, poverty ending, women-empowering innovation ever created’ (Gates 2019, 18). ‘Family planners’ – the global constellation of bi…
Accelerationist possibilities in an ecosocialist degrowth scenario
I want to make a brief intervention here to highlight an aspect of degrowth climate mitigation strategy that has so far been inadequately developed. It is widely…
Adrienne E. Strong, “Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania” (U California Press, 2020)
Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania (University of California Press, 2020) is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a…
Trent Masiki, “The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism” (UNC Press, 2023)
Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to…
Milei, Crowds, and Concrete Waves in Argentina
I am home, reading Stefan Helmreich’s new book, A Book of Waves (2023). The news on TV then catches my attention: I see images from the inauguration of…
SAR Produces Podcasts
The School for Advanced Research is now producing podcasts starting with stories from Grounded in Clay curator…
The Search for Dignity and Respect: An Exploration of Human Universals
How do narratives shape our understanding of shared human experiences like dignity and respect? And, in what ways can an emphasis on human universals through inclusive narratives help…
The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco
Alice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by tracing its hold on everyday life in what…
Looking back, looking forward
Pushmi-Pullyu, by Kerim Friedman 2021 The blog may be shutting down, but I’m not! I started blogging in 2001 and my personal blog, Keywords, is still going strong.…
Archaeology of power and identity: the political use of the discipline
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Jenny Trinitapoli, “An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi” (U Chicago Press, 2023)
A decade-long study of young adulthood in Malawi demonstrates the impact of widespread HIV status uncertainty, laying bare the sociological implications of what is not known. An Epidemic…
Teaching ‘how to anthropology’ alongside ‘how to university’ in an introductory cultural anthropology class
I have taught our large introductory cultural anthropology course (ANTH 101) on and off since 2014, and every couple of years I redesign it based on conversations with…
Knightscope Five (NYPD Robot)
by Ashley Prather – “Well, kill me now ’cause I let you down/I swear one day I’m gonna leave this town” ‘New York City Cops’ by The Strokes…
Vincent Ialenti, “Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now” (MIT Press, 2020)
Based on twelve years of anthropological exploration, Vincent Ialenti’sDeep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now (MIT Press, 2020) is an engaging guide on deep time learning…
Brian Brown and Virginia Kuulei Berndt, “Body Art” (Emerald Publishing, 2023)
Body art, especially tattoos and piercings, has enjoyed an explosion of interest in recent years. However, the response of many health professionals and researchers to this phenomenon is…
A Rhinoceros in the Library: Marx’s Sources on India
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Alex de Jong: Geert Wilders’ election victory: The left must concern itself with being a real opposition
Last week, Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom Party (PVV) won the largest number of parliamentary seats in the Dutch national elections. The political figure is known internationally for his…
Hannah Foster takes the page 99 test
Page 99 is found in my second chapter where I discuss how English becomes iconized (Irvine and Gal 2000) as an elite index through practices of learning English…
Seu und die Magie des Waldes 1
“Lafulafu a tama seugogo” is an old Samoan proverb that teaches the importance of not judging another person by his or her appearance alone…
June Hee Kwon, “Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers” (Duke UP, 2023)
Migration is a theme intertwined with hopes and dreams. In Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers (Duke UP, 2023), June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the…