Multispecies Anxiety in France’s Bedbug Autumn
In the final evening of an archival research trip across France last September, I was thrilled to see that a cinema in Quartier Latin was screening Atlantic City…
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Dismantling the Walls in Our Heads
The Berlin Wall fell more than three decades ago—but political, social, and economic divides between East and West Germany continue to reverberate, even among those born after Reunification.…
Curtis Smith, “Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors” (Routledge, 2022)
Through compelling ethnography, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors (Routledge, 2022) reveals the creative and ambitious methods that social service providers use to house their clients despite the…
Radical action for Palestine: Here’s what to do
Are you struggling to know what to do about Palestine right now? As an organizer, I have advice for you. Please share this article widely (here it is…
Interstellar Dreams vs. Earthly Realities: Rethinking Space Exploration With Savannah Mandel
Have you ever wondered if reaching for the stars is humanity’s most urgent priority? Is it the thrill of exploration, the endless possibilities, or our desire to ensure…
A Pedagogy of Care in Troubled Times
Many of us have likely seen a copy of the UBC’s new President’s statement on ‘respect and compassion’. I take this as an opportunity to reflect on…
NAPA Has Standards! Webinar
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hcm calls gandhi a reformer but marx, and darwin, revolutionaries
Toàn tập, tập 2, 1925/2011, p174 “Gandhi is a reformer, not a revolutionary. He called on the English to make reforms in their governance of India but he…
Join us for the 2023 Careers Exposition
Transcript 0:12 [NAPA Logo] 0:12 [40th Anniversary NAPA Logo Changing Size] [Toronto CN Tower] [On Screen Text] The NAPA Careers Expo is just days away! Join us to…
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Trashing an American Icon
Anthropologist Derek Freeman became Margaret Mead’s biggest critic, trying to undo her research in American Samoa and her reputation as a famed anthropologist. Who was Derek Freeman, and…
Paper: Media anthropology & the archives
Budka, P. (2023). Media anthropology and the archives: On exploring and reconstructing sociotechnical life, histories, and biographies. Paper at EASA Media Anthropology Network Workshop: “Theor…
Yasmine Musharbash: Monsters & Crises
On November third, 2023, Yasmine Musharbash joined us at the Anthropology Friday seminar to discuss her research on monsters and crises. https://blogs.helsinki.fi/anth…
For a Feminist Anthropology of Finance: Exemplifying the Gens Approach
In this blog post, I introduce the contemporary landscape of the anthropology of finance with a particular focus on the concept of financialization as viewed through the thought-provoking…
Not even Israel can block the sun
The title of this statement is a direct quote from Gazan-based journalist Muhammad Smiry, who took footage of how people in Palestine recharge their phones and cameras on…
Saw this driving to work today (on the outskirts of Hirakata-shi, Osaka)
What is this? When my wife saw it, she called it a zombie bus. With a little checking I found out she wasn’t far from the truth. A…
The Rumour of Calcutta at Foreign Publishers Agency on Jawaharlal Nehru Road. In the window! – after 27 years.
From a time before the city had a five word name (K.F.K.A.C), photogenic proof of the rupee version of Rumour in the window, re-released after 27 years…
Thinking with “Thinking with an Accent”: A Roundtable Conversation
A conversation between Slava Greenberg, Michelle Pfeifer, Vijay Ramjattan, Pooja Rangan, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar In 2021, as our co-edited book Thinking with an Accent: T…
Generation & gender change in reindeer herding – opportunities in Lapland
Congratulations to our research partners from the Sattasniemi Paliskunta in Lapland for their young empowering activism, which is now increasingly noticed also by journalists (see below). Great …
B Camminga, “Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) tracks the conceptual journeying of the term ‘transgender’ from the Global North—where it…
Maarx Darwin Malthus Hegel
How to read this one – and fun. Marx’s handwriting, that Engels had such trouble to decipher later on (and used some interesting help) is here well hard…
Coastlines, Climate, and Comics: In Conversation with Dr. V. Chitra
How can we use comics to present ethnographic research in new and unique ways? In this episode, we talk with Dr V Chitra about the fieldwork and comics…
We Are All the South
A Call from Birzeit University Union of Professors and Employees to academic and cultural communities worldwide On the twenty-seventh day of the genocidal war being waged by the…