Walking Along Rivers, Feeling Through Infrastructures
By Laura Betancur Alarcón (Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems-IRI THESys at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and Ana María Arbeláez-Trujillo (Water Res…
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Infrastructural Ecologies, and the Politics of Knowledge: A Special Commentary
By Maira Hayat, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. The three essays by Habib, Alarcón and Arbeláez-Trujillo, and Mamidipudi take the reader to worlds of…
Exploring PFAS contamination’s impact on groundwater and environmental governance
By Colleen Linn, Wayne State University. Groundwater is difficult to observe (Ballestero 2019, Walsh 2018), and is an elusive substance despite being the most relied upon drinking water…
A Tale of Three Springs: The Masks and Desires of Water’s Infrastructure
By Peter Habib, Department of Anthropology, Emory University. I came across it on a blazing Monday, tucked away next to a small dikkān (corner store) and a complex…
The Taste of Dwindling Flows, Chowdy fish in the Little Rann of Kutch in India
By Sita Mamidipudi, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Too Salty Najma and her family are Muslim fishworkers who live half a mile away from…
On Permeable Waters and Landscapes: A Special Commentary
By Sayd Randle, College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University. Walking along a covered aqueduct’s path through the desert, water can seem remarkably contained, cleanly se…
The Many Worlds of Brine: Disputed Water Worlds in the Argentine Puna and Beyond
By Melisa Escosteguy (Non-Conventional Energy Research Institute-INENCO-CONICET, Universidad de Salta) and Maria Labourt (Department of Sociology, University of Southern California). Transform…
Seu und die Magie des Waldes 2
Now available in German: part 2 of Galumalemana Steven Percival’s educational story “Seu and the ruffled bird catcher”.
Bryce Henson, “Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil” (U Texas Press, 2024)
Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population’s African roots. Yet…
Legacy Of a Legendary Field Anthropologist
Professor Samita Manna, Former Vice-Chancellor, SKB University, Purulia, West Bengal, India Department of Sociology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal Email: samita.manna@gmail.co…
Hedwig Amelia Waters, “Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands: A Proportional Share” (UCL Press, 2023)
In the early 1990s, Mongolia began a transition from socialism to a market democracy. In the process, the country became more than ever dependent on international mining revenue.…
Youjin B. Chung, “Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania’s New Enclosures” (Cornell UP, 2024)
During the “global land grab” of the early twenty-first century, legions of investors rushed to Africa to acquire land to produce and speculate on agricultural commodities. In Sweet Deal,…
If someone falls, you help them get up
By Dilara Yentür – At 04:17 on February 6th, 2023 an earthquake ravaged the lands of southern Turkey and northern Syria. Buildings crumbled like sandcastles, roads tore apart,…
Review: ‘Reclaiming the discarded: life and labour on Rio’s garbage dump’ (2018)
by Holly Cawsey In June 2012, Rio de Janeiro saw the close of Jardim Gramacho, one of the largest landfills in the world. At its height, Jardim Gramacho…
Safety Dance: Covid Harm Reduction for the Rave Scene
No one wants to talk about this. We all hate it. We’re tired. Believe me, I feel that tiredness in my bones. And I know you’re busy and…
Jonas Tinius on his book, State of the Arts
Interview by Matthew Raj Webb Matthew Webb: Against the contemporary backdrop of right-wing nationalisms and populist sentiment across the world; in a country steeped in authoritarian state hi…
Henrietta Clive
A friend is in India and I am vicariously planning tours that would take more time than anyone has… I recently – well 3 years ago – read…
Dustin Kiskaddon, “Blood and Lightening: On Becoming a Tattooer” (Stanford UP, 2023)
Any tattoo is the outcome of an intimate, often hidden process. The people, bodies, and money that make tattooing what it is blend together and form a heady…
Paul Stoller, “Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Wisdom From the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times (Cornell University Press, 2023) describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a…
The Indian Struggle
“The ethnic diversity of India has never been a problem – for tgroughout her history sge has been able to absorb different races and impose on them one…
The Discovery of India
“we are too much under the bondage of slogans” Nehru 1947: 545)
Book Review: In Mediation with Difficult Kin: Bishnupriya Ghosh’s The Virus Touch
The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media, by Bishnupriya Ghosh (Duke University Press, 2023) In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and with various forecasts predicting likelihoods of a…
Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
Is Kiribati in the American lake, Indo-Pacific or Chinese Pacific? In this Episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to Rodolfo Maggio, a senior researcher at the University of Helsinki…
Merin Shobhana Xavier, “The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada” (U Toronto Press, 2023)
The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–1273) is a popular spiritual icon. His legacy is sustained within the mystical and religious practice of Sufism, particularly…