My Life in Fragments by Zygmunt Bauman – review
My Life in Fragments presents the life and thought of the late sociologist Zygmunt Bauman through an assemblage of letters he wrote to his daughters. Combining biography and broader reflections…
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Romit Chowdhury, “City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport” (Rutgers UP, 2023)
In South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men.…
Female Truck Drivers in China Navigate Gender Norms on Douyin
It’s dark outside: 4:34 AM. I am peering through a truck’s windshield, gazing at a seemingly endless stretch of highway. “Female truck driver Li Ping is live streaming,”…
‘The Passion of Private White’ by Don Watson
Don Watson The Passion of Private White Scribner, 2022 336 pages, 24 plates I found reading this book both a humbling and a deeply moving experience. It is…
NIAS gone!
This is not at all good. Announcement: NIAS is closing down! Courage, cleverness and tenacity have not been enough. After years of spirited resistance, it is now time…
Antti Lindfors contemplates page 99 of his dissertation
Page 99 of my dissertation, titled “Intimately Allegorical: The Poetics of Self-Mediation in Stand-Up Comedy”, consists of the thesis’ reference literature. More precisely, this page showcases some o…
Applying anthropological techniques to achieve your strategic goals for North West Cancer Research.
CHRISTINA PHILPOTT Dear Alistair Richards, My name is Christina, I’m studying MSc Biosocial Medical Anthropology at University College London. My discipline examines the many different factors …
Ruchi Chaturvedi, “Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
In Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India’s divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in Kerala between…
Open for Business: London Walks with Gender, Sex and Class
Why do most historical accounts fail to mention women? And not only women but just about every ordinary non-famous non-rich person that ever was, even in accounts of…
Jennifer Cearns, “Circulating Culture: Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange” (UP of Florida, 2023)
“In this subtle and beautifully crafted ethnography, Cearns invites us to travel through the many Cuban circuits of exchange that give shape to mutating histories of connection within…
Reissue in India of The Rumour of Calcutta!
After 27 years… The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation. Publication Day! This is the 30 year anniversary edition (well, 27 years) finally out…
Three Ways of Looking at Pueblo Art
Installation view of “Grounded In Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery,” at the Metropolitan Museum …
SETI: Signs in space/ Enacting space
[From the SETI project, “A Sign in Space” (https://asignin.space/)] “To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow world of…
Improving access to hospice care in the UK
RAPHAEL ARDANI The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP …
Jamila Rodrigues, “Sufi Women, Embodiment and the ‘Self’: Gender in Islamic Ritual” (Routledge, 2023)
Jamila Rodrigues’s new book Sufi Women, Embodiment and the “Self”: Gender in Islamic Ritual (Routledge 2023) uses her dance and performance studies background to study women’s hadra or zikr experiences of a Naqshbandi Sufi…
Renyi Hong, “Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life (Duke UP, 2022), Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being “passionate about your work” as an affective project that encourages people to endure…
Anthropology-Psychology interface
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Antropologins naturliga plats mitt i världen
Antropologin kanske inte har alla svar, men vi är övertygade om att vi ställer några av de rätta och viktiga frågorna. Tvärvetenskap är ett steg i rätt riktning…
Whisper Networks: A Discussion with Carrie Ann Johnson
What is a Whisper Network? What can you gain from being in one, and what is expected of the network members? Not everybody is invited is into a…
Ethnography and Ethnology
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Ethnography and Ethnology
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Between Pain and Relief: Morphine’s Ambiguities in India
The root of the word morphine is Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. Neil Gaiman’s contemporary reimagining of the character in his magnum opus Sandman likewise thrusts upon…
Summer anthropologies #2: Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 2)
Postcard with interior view of the Colosseum by Francis Frith, circa 1870. In part one of this installment, I mentioned Leslie White’s call to expand the purview of…
Over Thirty Past SAR Artist Fellows Show Work at the 2023 Santa Fe Indian Market
Max Early at the 2019 Santa Fe Indian Market. It’s been 101 years since the …