Anne Allison, “Being Dead Otherwise” (Duke UP, 2023)
In contemporary Japan, death isn’t what it used to be. Anne Allison’s Being Dead Otherwise (Duke UP, 2023) examines the changing realities of death as a personal and social phenomenon and…
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DUE TO FALLING ENROLLMENTS, WE WILL NO LONGER OFFER COURSES IN ROMULAN AT STARFLEET ACADEMY
Inspired by things linked in these recent posts, I wrote something for McSweeney’s.
Rodanthi Tzanelli – New Spirit of Hospitality: Designing Tourism Futures in Post-Truth Worlds
Tzanelli disturbs the normative premises on which much tourism and hospitality research are predicated to make space for imaginations whereby the represented can manage their representations, a…
What Ancient Egyptians Knew About Meteorites—Long Before Modern Astronomers
An Egyptologist’s study of hieroglyphic texts has revealed that ancient Egyptians likely understood the celestial origins of iron-rich meteorites. ✽ “(The king) Unis seizes the sky and splits…
The Wild Pantry
Plants and Their Stories Finally, it’s time. As a team we have arrived in Cambodia—a geographer and an anthropologist embarking on a journey that we have joyfully planned…
Naisargi N. Davé, “Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being (Duke UP, 2023), Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal…
Introduction: Metabolic thinking and the predicaments of growth in Africa
Metabolic thinking deals in bounded organisms, regulated systems, and the calculated (self)-optimisation of responsible, profitable, and healthful nutritive and energetic transactions. But critical s…
The toxic imperial metabolism of Senegalese peanuts
The identification of aflatoxin in the 1960s troubled plans for Senegalese peanuts. Blamed for the acute poisoning of English poultry fed with Brazilian peanut meal, this fungal metabolite…
Dillon Ludemann takes the page 99 test
The subject of my dissertation, the anonymous image-board forum called 4chan, is a space that, while many who know of it often have a very strong, negative reaction…
Rik Peels, “Life without God: An Outsider’s Look at Atheism” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
In Life without God: An Outsider’s Look at Atheism (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rik Peels explores atheism from a new perspective that aims to go beyond the highly polarized debate about…
sNAPAshots: Erica Hawvermale
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript 0:00[NAPA Logo] Interviewer 0:11Welcome to sNAPAshots, conversations with prac…
Daniel R. Reichman, “Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Progress and development have long been important issues in anthropology and social sciences. Based on extensive archives and ethnographic fieldwork, Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos,…
Full time Coordinator, IndigeLab Network
The Coordinator will oversee the day to day logistics of running an international Indigenous Network.
Christian Krohn-Hansen, “Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic: Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods” (Stanford UP, 2022)
The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of new, good jobs has been remarkably weak. How have…
Let there be Light: Frontiers of techno-Solar Capitalism
I grew up in an area surrounded by miombo woodland, located approximately 200 kilometres southeast of Lake Tanganyika. In the early 1990s, when I was five, my father…
Remembering Oscar Salemink (1958-2023)
by Ellen Bal, Freek Colombijn, Ton Salman, Irene Stengs and Marjo de Theije – Our friend, former colleague, and eminent anthropologist Oscar Salemink passed away on 23 September…
My time as a care worker and how it made me an anthropologist.
This story is inspired by a project organized by the Society for the Anthropology of Work: “Jobs we had.” Work was simply something most of us knew was…
Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home
I am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you and what we push out of each…
Understanding Tribal Signals: A Conversation with an Evolutionary Anthropologist
The episode emphasizes how understanding our innate human drives and dispositions is critical, as awareness allows us to work with them constructively. In particular, humans have a “tribe…
Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge – review
In Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge, João Biehl and Vincanne Adams assemble reflections on the role of anthropology in understanding healthcare in today’s world of…
Do Strict Criminal Penalties Protect Animals From Abuse?
In Mexico, a growing animal protection movement often promotes harsh criminal punishment for those who abuse animals. But are these strategies working, or do they lead to further…
Review Plenary DGSKA 2023 “Contested Knowledge: Museological Perspectives”
The plenary “Contested Knowledge: Museological Perspectives” at the 2023 meeting of the German Anthropological Association…
Past and Present Approaches to the Management of Red Deer
An archaeologist weighs the pros and cons driving debates around the rising population of Scotland’s renowned animal and explains what historical archaeology could add to the conversation. This…
Naveeda Khan, “In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South” (Fordham UP, 2023)
Based on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South (Fordham UP,…