SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
Photo credit: Samantha Brown The 2023 SAFN Student Research Award goes to Samantha Brown for her project entitled, “Fermented Futures: The Place of Iginneq in Danish Fine Dining.”…
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Den svenska byggbranschen idag: reflektioner från ett fältarbete hos fackföreningen Solidariska Byggare
ESSÄ. Migrantarbetare inom byggbranschen utgör en rörlig reservarmé i en ekonomi som förslummats av en hög efterfrågan på billig arbetskraft. Människor som utgör denna arbetskraft hamnar i prekaritet…
Exploring Far-Right Community Building through Netnography
This piece examines how far-right online communities on the social media platform Gab Social are built through identity-building narratives.
Money as a Form of Religious Life
by Keith Hart Religion belongs to a set of terms that also includes art and science. The last, whichbegan as …
Links & Contents I Liked 500
Hi all,500, eh?In the spirit of my curated link review this will not be a special weekly feature of interesting readings-and then again it will be…as the year…
Print Politics Zine
How do zines offer different possibilities of connection and expression for anthropologists? For this year’s AAA meeting in Toronto, I participated in a roundtable organized by Stephanie Sadre-…
Social medicine as a state of exception: rethinking responsibility and public medicine through mutual aid events in Japan
If you fall into a pit, you can climb out, but once you slip from a sheer cliff, you canno…
Review: National Dish
Anya von Bremzen. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home. New York: Penguin Press. 2023. ISBN: 9780735223165. pp. 340. Rich…
Friendship is Kinship from Another Mother
Friendship is kinship by another mother. (This was originally published on-line as a guest blog in the International Culture and Cognition Institute. ) Why is this so important…
Everyday War: How Small Intimate Moments Shape Wartime Realities in Ukraine with Greta Uehling
How do civilians strategically engage with conflict while seeking everyday peace? How do power dynamics and asymmetries impact the ability of civilians to strategically engage with conflict while…
Treasure Hunters Pose Problems for Archaeologists
Two scholars discuss the challenges of accurately studying underwater archaeological heritage—among them, unauthorized acquisitions. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has …
Authorship in the post-academic, post-human age
In 1964, when describing the threshold for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said that while he couldn’t define precisely what constituted…
Reflectie op de Nederlandse verkiezingen: Links snurkt en navelstaart – net als antropologen
Door Wiebe de Jong – Een aardverschuiving in de Nederlandse politiek, radicaal-rechts krijgt voet aan de grond in de polder, Nederland neemt een ruk naar rechts. Dit zijn…
Medical anthropology: Global health and social inequalities
The Covid-19 pandemic showed how closely connected health issues are to global contexts and social inequalities. Medical anthropologists study these connections and examine the impact on individual a…
AABA Statement supporting Trans Lives
The AABA, along with several other organizations, has just released a statement in support of trans lives. Here’s an excerpt: The American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the American…
Sex, Lies, and Science Wars
The Mead-Freeman controversy reaches its climax. Scientists, scholars, and Samoans debate the nature of sexuality, culture, and truth. After anthropologist Derek Freeman publishes Margaret Mead and S…
Charlotte Al-Khalili, “Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023)
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023) by Dr. Charlotte Al-Khalili explores the Syrian revolution through the experiences of citizens in exile.…
Algorithmic Imaginations in Agriculture: Automation?
In 2022, I was conducting my doctoral dissertation research on data-driven, automated digital farming technologies (drones, autosteering, sensors, GIS, smartphones, Big Data) in Turkey. Amidst the glo…
A Walla Walla Band Visits the Oregon Institute: A Battle Creek Story
Recently, I was made aware of another alternative story of the Battle of Battle Creek. Previously, I published an essay about stories of Klamath and
Matthew Wolf-Meyer discusses his book, Unraveling
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/unraveling Toni Nieminen: First of all, thank you! Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age is a brilliant and a profound piece of w…
Carl Gösta Widstrand 1928-2023, in memoriam
NOTIS. I november dog Carl Gösta Widstrand i Ottawa, Canada. Han var född i december 1928, ochblev alltså nästan 95 år gammal, skriver Ulf Hannerz i en kort…
Ceri Houlbrook, “‘Ritual Litter’ Redressed” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Ritual deposition is not an activity that many people in the Western world would consider themselves participants of. The enigmatic beliefs and magical thinking that led to the…
Sayan Dey, “Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean” (Anthem Press, 2023)
Usually, discourses on the planetary evolution and the movements of slaves remain restricted within the narratives and scholarships of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and hardly engage with the…