Brazil is going to eat you up! {part 5}: trying to not eat myself
This is not an academic text. Wow. It has been several months since I last posted something here in AD. It’s kinda weird trying to survive a pandemic…
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Healthcare in the age of inequality
I had just begun my year of social service when I met a patient I will never forget. Let’s call her María. She was around 50 years old…
CELEBRATING TRANSGRESSION
Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of CulturesA book in Honour of Klaus Peter Koepping Edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk 2005 rao_15hutnykDownload
2023 in Review
Image from https://stock.adobe.com/. Welcome to CASTAC 2023 in review! In this post you will read about the wonderful work that our CASTAC team and community has put together.…
The Path to Long-term Happiness: A New Theory on Mental Health and Neurodiversity
The traditional view of mental health often focuses on the absence of mental illness, but a new theory is emerging that emphasizes the importance of neurodiversity and individual…
Antti Lindfors Interviews Nicole Starosielski on Media Hot and Cold
This is a conversational interview between Professor Nicole Starosielski (UC Berkeley) and me, Dr. Antti Lindfors (University of Helsinki), discussing Nicole’s book Media Hot and Cold (2022, Duke…
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins on her book, Waste Siege
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27959 Hazal Corak: Waste Siege focuses on multiple forms of waste which accumulate and assume political status in Palestine. It introduces us to waste profe…
Sukhmani Khorana, “Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency” (Bristol UP, 2023)
Sukhmani Khorana’s book Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency (Bristol UP, 2023) unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around…
Jafari S. Allen, “There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life” (Duke UP, 2022)
In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life (Duke UP, 2022), Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what…
Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #3: The Blogroll (plus)
As promised, here’s a list of the anthropology and archaeology blogs that are still active from Jason Antrosio’s archive from 2017. I found one site that’s actually not…
Nessette Falu, “Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2023) Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against…
Can the Palestinian speak?
It is sadly nothing new to argue that oppressed and colonised people have been and are subject to epistemic violence – othering, silencing, and selective visibility – in…
James Cummings, “The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) by Dr. James Cummings explores the everyday lives of gay men in Hainan, an…
Bunk is not Bunn: A Silly Claim about the Origin of Coffee
In a non-academic website called Atlas Obscura, there is an article with the entertaining title: “Before Drinking Coffee, People Washed Their Hands With It.” The article was written…
Grounded in Clay Reception at The Met, New York
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery Reception at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 10, 2023. …
Creative Collective: Re-inventing Empikas — a photo essay
ByGabriella SantiniPhD Anthropology The ban on female circumcision in Kenya has put an end to Empikas — the only rite of passage ceremony for Maasai girls in Siria,…
Hemsökelser från Gaza
Jag har forskat om det palestinska samhället i olika omgångar under de senaste 20 år. Omfattande kränkningar av mänskliga rättigheter och direkt fysiskt våld har alltid förekommit, men…
Reconstructing the Anthro Blogosphere with RSS
To start, let me pour one out for Anthrodendum, the anthropology blog that may not have started it all, but which was for many the one pre-social media…
Family planning projects: unpacking the spectacle of women’s empowerment in Uttar Pradesh, India
Introduction Contraceptives are considered ‘the greatest life-saving, poverty ending, women-empowering innovation ever created’ (Gates 2019, 18). ‘Family planners’ – the global constellation of bi…
Accelerationist possibilities in an ecosocialist degrowth scenario
I want to make a brief intervention here to highlight an aspect of degrowth climate mitigation strategy that has so far been inadequately developed. It is widely…
Adrienne E. Strong, “Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania” (U California Press, 2020)
Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania (University of California Press, 2020) is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a…
Trent Masiki, “The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism” (UNC Press, 2023)
Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to…
Milei, Crowds, and Concrete Waves in Argentina
I am home, reading Stefan Helmreich’s new book, A Book of Waves (2023). The news on TV then catches my attention: I see images from the inauguration of…
SAR Produces Podcasts
The School for Advanced Research is now producing podcasts starting with stories from Grounded in Clay curator…