We Can Know No Innocent Futures
Is it for a lack of knowledge? The genocide in Gaza is being livestreamed. Daily, images, videos and voice notes proliferate faster than they can be witnessed or heard…
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30 Minute Methods 2023 #2
Dec 19, 2023 16:00 (Time Zone: UTC+7)Professor Joyce C.H. LiuLimit as Method-Phương Thức Giới Hạn Link cho zoom meeting của cả ba seminar:https://us05web.zoom.us/j/ 89191284691?pwd= G8V…
Rosa Luxemburg bây giờ và hơn bao giờ hết – Hay tại sao Rosa là người nên đọc vào thời điểm này
Rosa Luxemburg bây giờ và hơn bao giờ hết – Hay tại sao Rosa là người nên đọc vào thời điểm này
Personal Transformation in the Settler Experience – a tall tale.
I’ve been to meetings were settler folks talk about how transformative their First Nation community visit is for them. They share these experiences as a kind of validation…
Cristina A. Pop, “The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania” (Rutgers UP, 2022)
In The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania (Rutgers UP, 2022), Cristina Pop examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological…
Chetan Choithani, “Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines the role of migration as a livelihood strategy in influencing food access among rural households. Migration…
Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry White, “Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture” (U California Press, 2023)
What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food. From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through…
Swift channelling Brion Gysin?
epigraph in Nancy’s book on Hegeland jokes: The Speculative Remark. 1973/2001.p. 73.
Scientists In Support of Palestine
We will not be silent in the face of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and we hope we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. As scientists…
Scientists In Support of Palestine
We will not be silent in the face of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and we hope we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. As scientists…
Scientists In Support of Palestine
We will not be silent in the face of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and we hope we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. As scientists…
David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, “Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies” (Cornell UP, 2023)
The essays in Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies (Cornell UP, 2023) address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan…
dialectic and teleology
“a methodological issue … to forestall one of the most notorious and inveterate stereotypes of Hegel discussion, namely the thesis-antithesis-synthesis formula. It is certain that there are ple…
Anthropologists on Palestine
Amid the war on Gaza and long before, anthropologists have been speaking out against Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Here’s a curated list of their perspectives as scholars and…
Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance
One of the eight national dances of India, bharatanatyam, partly originates from the area around Tranquebar. During the time that Tranquebar was a Danish colony, devadasis, women who…
No Links I Liked 501-Why I am taking a break from my weekly #globaldev content curation
As I briefly mentioned in the 500th anniversary post at the beginning of December, my weekly Links I Liked post will take a break in the new year.I…
The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #2
Well, by now most of you have heard the news that this blog is closing down. That whole conversation was happening in the last couple of months, but…
Integrating Tribal Perspectives into an Oregon Trail history.
Recent work on correcting histories of settlers societies has been highly popular. The 2019 Exhibit at Five Oaks Museum, Washington County by Stephanie Littlebird Fogel
Can We Understand One Another?
The Mead-Freeman controversy draws to a close, with some answers to who was right and who was wrong. But, in the end, can anyone ever really understand cultures…
Medicalization and resocialization: the future of social medicine
Social medicine, an approach that centres the social conditions of life as the cause of health and illness, can be thought of as an effort to ‘resocialize’ medicine.…
Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2
Natasha Roth-Rowland is a writer and researcher at Diaspora Alliance, a former editor at +972 Magazine, and an expert on the Jewish far right. She joins anthropologists Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian midway…
Best of SAPIENS 2023
In another year of exceptional challenges and hardships, anthropologists tackled a range of issues and questions about what it means to be human. Here are some of SAPIENS’…
The Trillion Dollar Plan to Transform Waste: Dan Nienhauser’s Vision for a Cleaner Future
In the episode of This Anthro Life, the dialogue investigates waste transformation and how waste can be converted into useful energy and materials. Dan explains his work with…