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’…
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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…
Sunset
Photo by Jason Blackeye via Unsplash Dear readers, We are sorry to say that after eighteen years, we are going to be shutting down this blog at the…
New Book Announcement: A LONG time in the making! “Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body”
Finally! The new book edited by Kaori Fushiki and Ryoko Sakurada has been published! The origins of this book go back to May, 2014 and the panel “Anthropology…
Nettrice R. Gaskins, “Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom” (MIT Press, 2021)
Today I talked to Nettrice R. Gaskins about Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom (MIT Press, 2021). The growing maker movement in education has…
David Carey, Jr., “Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador” (U California Press, 2023)
Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador (University of California Press, 2023) explores how, in the early to mid-twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and…
Border Porosities: Movement of People, Objects, and Ideas in the Southern Balkans
Petroleum engineering may seem like an odd place to find metaphors for the field of border and borderlands studies. Yet, in her new book Border Porosities: Movement of…
30 Minute Methods Prof Brett Neilson 12.12.2023
PHƯƠNG PHÁP TRONG 30 PHÚT Trường Đại học Tôn Đức Thắng, Ban Công tác phía Nam Hội Xã hội học Việt Nam và Transit Asia Research Network, 2023-3024…
Arpan Roy: “Is this Narrow Coastal Strip Worth All this Blood?” Bassel Al-Araj on Armed Struggle in Palestine
By taking control of 22 Israeli military bases and localities, sequestering over 200 hostages, and killing more than 1,000 civilians and soldiers (although many details remain ambiguous), Hamas…
White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route
Rexhepi’s White Enclosures is an insightful book exploring the co-construction of race and borders along the Balkan route. It puts racial exclusion in the Balkans in conversation with…
Platypod, Episode Eight: CASPR 2023
Download the full transcript of this episode. CASTAC in the Spring 2023 The 2023 edition of CASPR: CASTAC in the Spring discussed digital ethnography and its multiple facets.…
“Character for tax (税) picked as kanji of 2023” – and I my salary is less than it was two years ago…
Photo and story from Japan Today, 12/12/23. I would have actually voted for “(Hanshin) Tigers” as the kanji of the years. But… The money that I now actually…
Nishaant Choksi on his book, Graphic Politics in Eastern India
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/graphic-politics-in-eastern-india-9781350159587/ Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway: Your fascinating book argues that script serves as a “critical semiotic modality thro…
Learning needs not be fun
by Tamara Soukotta “This will be fun.” Perhaps you have heard a similar promise made at the beginning of a course or a workshop. I certainly did hear…
Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman, “Capitalism and the Senses” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman’s Capitalism and the Senses (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday…
Jesse Dart, “Feeding the Hustle: Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry” (Lexington Books, 2022)
Food is increasingly a subject of interest in social sciences: how we cook, consume, and share food is relevant to our social lives. In Feeding the Hustle: Free Food…
PHƯƠNG PHÁP TRONG 30 PHÚT // 30 Minute methods at TDTU
Link cho zoom meeting của cả ba seminar:https://us05web.zoom.us/j/ 89191284691?pwd= G8Vsvybn0dycwjVtpeIEliPPAZppgv .1 Meeting ID: 891 9128 4691 Passcode: nTfap7 Tuesdays 4pm in Vietnam…
Sahana Ghosh, “A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands” (U California Press, 2023)
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in the borderlands of northern Bangladesh and eastern India, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands (U California Press, 2023)…
Wells. The future society as an investment opportunity.
1895. The Time Machine discussing the prospect of time travel: “Then there is the future,” said the Very Young Man. “Just think, One might invest all one ‘s…
Job! PhD Candidate: Migrant Muslim Foodways – The intersections of food, migration, and religion
Are you eager to study the intersections of food, migration, and religion? Do you seek to develop an innovative research project that furthers academic debates in these fields?…
Tom Özden-Schilling, “The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science After the War in the Woods” (Duke UP, 2023)
In The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods (Duke University Press, 2023) by Dr. Tom Özden-Schilling explores the afterlives of several research initiatives…
2023 Christine Wilson Graduate Award Winner!
Amanda Kaminsky SAFN is pleased to announce that Amanda Kaminsky is the winner of the 2023 Christine Wilson Graduate paper award! Kaminsky, a PhD student at the University…
2023 Christine Wilson Undergraduate Award Winner!
Hunter Calvert SAFN is pleased to announce that the annual Christine Wilson undergraduate paper award winner is Hunter McKenzie Calvert for his paper on “Relationships as Infrastructure: Unde…
Reframing Hamas
On November 24th, 2023, a temporary ceasefire paused Israeli bombardment[1] and Hamas-led retaliation in Gaza. The pause was intended to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza, as thousands of…