The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco
Alice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by tracing its hold on everyday life in what…
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Looking back, looking forward
Pushmi-Pullyu, by Kerim Friedman 2021 The blog may be shutting down, but I’m not! I started blogging in 2001 and my personal blog, Keywords, is still going strong.…
Archaeology of power and identity: the political use of the discipline
Archaeology of power and identity: the political use of the discipline. 1
Jenny Trinitapoli, “An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi” (U Chicago Press, 2023)
A decade-long study of young adulthood in Malawi demonstrates the impact of widespread HIV status uncertainty, laying bare the sociological implications of what is not known. An Epidemic…
Teaching ‘how to anthropology’ alongside ‘how to university’ in an introductory cultural anthropology class
I have taught our large introductory cultural anthropology course (ANTH 101) on and off since 2014, and every couple of years I redesign it based on conversations with…
Knightscope Five (NYPD Robot)
by Ashley Prather – “Well, kill me now ’cause I let you down/I swear one day I’m gonna leave this town” ‘New York City Cops’ by The Strokes…
Vincent Ialenti, “Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now” (MIT Press, 2020)
Based on twelve years of anthropological exploration, Vincent Ialenti’sDeep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now (MIT Press, 2020) is an engaging guide on deep time learning…
Brian Brown and Virginia Kuulei Berndt, “Body Art” (Emerald Publishing, 2023)
Body art, especially tattoos and piercings, has enjoyed an explosion of interest in recent years. However, the response of many health professionals and researchers to this phenomenon is…
A Rhinoceros in the Library: Marx’s Sources on India
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Alex de Jong: Geert Wilders’ election victory: The left must concern itself with being a real opposition
Last week, Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom Party (PVV) won the largest number of parliamentary seats in the Dutch national elections. The political figure is known internationally for his…
Hannah Foster takes the page 99 test
Page 99 is found in my second chapter where I discuss how English becomes iconized (Irvine and Gal 2000) as an elite index through practices of learning English…
Seu und die Magie des Waldes 1
“Lafulafu a tama seugogo” is an old Samoan proverb that teaches the importance of not judging another person by his or her appearance alone…
June Hee Kwon, “Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers” (Duke UP, 2023)
Migration is a theme intertwined with hopes and dreams. In Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers (Duke UP, 2023), June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the…
We Can Know No Innocent Futures
Is it for a lack of knowledge? The genocide in Gaza is being livestreamed. Daily, images, videos and voice notes proliferate faster than they can be witnessed or heard…
30 Minute Methods 2023 #2
Dec 19, 2023 16:00 (Time Zone: UTC+7)Professor Joyce C.H. LiuLimit as Method-Phương Thức Giới Hạn Link cho zoom meeting của cả ba seminar:https://us05web.zoom.us/j/ 89191284691?pwd= G8V…
Rosa Luxemburg bây giờ và hơn bao giờ hết – Hay tại sao Rosa là người nên đọc vào thời điểm này
Rosa Luxemburg bây giờ và hơn bao giờ hết – Hay tại sao Rosa là người nên đọc vào thời điểm này
Personal Transformation in the Settler Experience – a tall tale.
I’ve been to meetings were settler folks talk about how transformative their First Nation community visit is for them. They share these experiences as a kind of validation…
Cristina A. Pop, “The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania” (Rutgers UP, 2022)
In The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania (Rutgers UP, 2022), Cristina Pop examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological…
Chetan Choithani, “Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines the role of migration as a livelihood strategy in influencing food access among rural households. Migration…
Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry White, “Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture” (U California Press, 2023)
What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food. From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through…
Swift channelling Brion Gysin?
epigraph in Nancy’s book on Hegeland jokes: The Speculative Remark. 1973/2001.p. 73.
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…
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…