A Pedagogy of Care in Troubled Times
Many of us have likely seen a copy of the UBC’s new President’s statement on ‘respect and compassion’. I take this as an opportunity to reflect on…
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hcm calls gandhi a reformer but marx, and darwin, revolutionaries
Toàn tập, tập 2, 1925/2011, p174 “Gandhi is a reformer, not a revolutionary. He called on the English to make reforms in their governance of India but he…
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Trashing an American Icon
Anthropologist Derek Freeman became Margaret Mead’s biggest critic, trying to undo her research in American Samoa and her reputation as a famed anthropologist. Who was Derek Freeman, and…
Paper: Media anthropology & the archives
Budka, P. (2023). Media anthropology and the archives: On exploring and reconstructing sociotechnical life, histories, and biographies. Paper at EASA Media Anthropology Network Workshop: “Theor…
Yasmine Musharbash: Monsters & Crises
On November third, 2023, Yasmine Musharbash joined us at the Anthropology Friday seminar to discuss her research on monsters and crises. https://blogs.helsinki.fi/anth…
For a Feminist Anthropology of Finance: Exemplifying the Gens Approach
In this blog post, I introduce the contemporary landscape of the anthropology of finance with a particular focus on the concept of financialization as viewed through the thought-provoking…
Not even Israel can block the sun
The title of this statement is a direct quote from Gazan-based journalist Muhammad Smiry, who took footage of how people in Palestine recharge their phones and cameras on…
Saw this driving to work today (on the outskirts of Hirakata-shi, Osaka)
What is this? When my wife saw it, she called it a zombie bus. With a little checking I found out she wasn’t far from the truth. A…
The Rumour of Calcutta at Foreign Publishers Agency on Jawaharlal Nehru Road. In the window! – after 27 years.
From a time before the city had a five word name (K.F.K.A.C), photogenic proof of the rupee version of Rumour in the window, re-released after 27 years…
Thinking with “Thinking with an Accent”: A Roundtable Conversation
A conversation between Slava Greenberg, Michelle Pfeifer, Vijay Ramjattan, Pooja Rangan, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar In 2021, as our co-edited book Thinking with an Accent: T…
Generation & gender change in reindeer herding – opportunities in Lapland
Congratulations to our research partners from the Sattasniemi Paliskunta in Lapland for their young empowering activism, which is now increasingly noticed also by journalists (see below). Great …
B Camminga, “Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) tracks the conceptual journeying of the term ‘transgender’ from the Global North—where it…
Maarx Darwin Malthus Hegel
How to read this one – and fun. Marx’s handwriting, that Engels had such trouble to decipher later on (and used some interesting help) is here well hard…
Coastlines, Climate, and Comics: In Conversation with Dr. V. Chitra
How can we use comics to present ethnographic research in new and unique ways? In this episode, we talk with Dr V Chitra about the fieldwork and comics…
We Are All the South
A Call from Birzeit University Union of Professors and Employees to academic and cultural communities worldwide On the twenty-seventh day of the genocidal war being waged by the…
Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi, “The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan” (NIAS, 2022)
The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan (NIAS Press, 2022) is an edited volume of ethnographic research organized around a cluster of key themes such…
Learning builds from vulnerability and discomfort
“If you aren’t scared shitless, you aren’t learning,” the prof said to us. We all laughed. The prof doubled down, “Learning should shake you, disturb you, confront you…
Community organizers were arrested for providing a safe supply. They need our solidarity.
Skip to the action steps You know how we’ve been fighting to legalize and regulate drugs, so people have access to a safe supply? Well, two community organizers…
James K. Beggan, “How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict” (Lexington Books, 2022)
For the last twenty-thousand years, dogs and people have shared a unique bond in the animal kingdom. In How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict (Lexington Books, 2022), Dr.…
Graham Denyer Willis, “Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil” (U California Press, 2022)
Every year at least 20,000 people go missing in São Paulo, Brazil. Many will be found, sometimes in mundane mass graves, but thousands will not. Keep the Bones Alive:…