Scientists In Support of Palestine
We will not be silent in the face of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and we hope we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. As scientists…
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Scientists In Support of Palestine
We will not be silent in the face of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and we hope we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. As scientists…
David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, “Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies” (Cornell UP, 2023)
The essays in Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies (Cornell UP, 2023) address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan…
dialectic and teleology
“a methodological issue … to forestall one of the most notorious and inveterate stereotypes of Hegel discussion, namely the thesis-antithesis-synthesis formula. It is certain that there are ple…
Anthropologists on Palestine
Amid the war on Gaza and long before, anthropologists have been speaking out against Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Here’s a curated list of their perspectives as scholars and…
Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance
One of the eight national dances of India, bharatanatyam, partly originates from the area around Tranquebar. During the time that Tranquebar was a Danish colony, devadasis, women who…
No Links I Liked 501-Why I am taking a break from my weekly #globaldev content curation
As I briefly mentioned in the 500th anniversary post at the beginning of December, my weekly Links I Liked post will take a break in the new year.I…
The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #2
Well, by now most of you have heard the news that this blog is closing down. That whole conversation was happening in the last couple of months, but…
Integrating Tribal Perspectives into an Oregon Trail history.
Recent work on correcting histories of settlers societies has been highly popular. The 2019 Exhibit at Five Oaks Museum, Washington County by Stephanie Littlebird Fogel
Can We Understand One Another?
The Mead-Freeman controversy draws to a close, with some answers to who was right and who was wrong. But, in the end, can anyone ever really understand cultures…
Medicalization and resocialization: the future of social medicine
Social medicine, an approach that centres the social conditions of life as the cause of health and illness, can be thought of as an effort to ‘resocialize’ medicine.…
Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2
Natasha Roth-Rowland is a writer and researcher at Diaspora Alliance, a former editor at +972 Magazine, and an expert on the Jewish far right. She joins anthropologists Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian midway…
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’…
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.…