The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project
As many of us already know, in the last decade or so we’ve seen some big changes with anthropology & archaeology online, particularly in relation to blogs. In…
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2023 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award Winner!
We are happy to announce that the 2023 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Erica Zurawski (University of California Santa Cruz), with her project titled “Spatial F…
Weaving Stories: Two Women Speak
Author and poet Sia Figiel and activist and anthropologist Doris Tulifau share their stories of being Samoan women. They also discuss the violence and challenges they’ve faced and…
Kein Tag Ohne Hitler
Rainer Maria Rilke: Words gently end at the edge of the Unsayable… — This morning the weight of generations of violence erupted with the coffee pot in the…
Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community – review
In Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community, Katherine Millar analyses “support the troops” discourses in the US and UK during the early years…
Studying the Sensible Side of Love in the Netherlands
During last year’s Fieldwork NL course, second-year students conducted ethnographic research on maintenance. Inspired by U.A. Fanthorpe’s poem ‘Atlas’, they explored deathcare workers, millers, and au…
Adventures in chatGPT #3: Jack Kerouac Edition
When I first heard about chatGPT, the main thing I was concerned about, like many others, was that students would use it instead of writing their own work.…
Adeline Masquelier on her book, Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo37805918.html Rahul Advani: In your book Fada, you attend to the ways in which young men in urban Niger facing economic uncertainty sign u…
Paper: Community transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada
Budka, P. (2023). Community transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at STS Austria Conference 2023, Vienna, Austria: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 27-29 November. Abstract …
Amya Agarwal, “Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
What is the significance of gender and masculinities in understanding conflict? Through an ethnographic study conducted between 2013 and 2016, Amya Agarwal’s book Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in…
Letter in support of EASA Executive Committee’s Statement on the situation in Gaza
We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by the current, ongoing attacks on academic freedom we are experiencing across Europe. We write this letter in full support of the…
The Unforgiven
“How can we ever forgive them?” I find myself asking over the past month and a half. I do not raise the possibility of forgiveness to suggest a…
Chhaya Kolavalli, “Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City” (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Chhaya Kolavalli’s book Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City (U Georgia Press, 2023) documents how whiteness can take up space in U.S. cities and policies…
SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
Photo credit: Samantha Brown The 2023 SAFN Student Research Award goes to Samantha Brown for her project entitled, “Fermented Futures: The Place of Iginneq in Danish Fine Dining.”…
Den svenska byggbranschen idag: reflektioner från ett fältarbete hos fackföreningen Solidariska Byggare
ESSÄ. Migrantarbetare inom byggbranschen utgör en rörlig reservarmé i en ekonomi som förslummats av en hög efterfrågan på billig arbetskraft. Människor som utgör denna arbetskraft hamnar i prekaritet…
Exploring Far-Right Community Building through Netnography
This piece examines how far-right online communities on the social media platform Gab Social are built through identity-building narratives.
Money as a Form of Religious Life
by Keith Hart Religion belongs to a set of terms that also includes art and science. The last, whichbegan as …
Links & Contents I Liked 500
Hi all,500, eh?In the spirit of my curated link review this will not be a special weekly feature of interesting readings-and then again it will be…as the year…
Print Politics Zine
How do zines offer different possibilities of connection and expression for anthropologists? For this year’s AAA meeting in Toronto, I participated in a roundtable organized by Stephanie Sadre-…
Social medicine as a state of exception: rethinking responsibility and public medicine through mutual aid events in Japan
If you fall into a pit, you can climb out, but once you slip from a sheer cliff, you canno…
Review: National Dish
Anya von Bremzen. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home. New York: Penguin Press. 2023. ISBN: 9780735223165. pp. 340. Rich…
Friendship is Kinship from Another Mother
Friendship is kinship by another mother. (This was originally published on-line as a guest blog in the International Culture and Cognition Institute. ) Why is this so important…
Everyday War: How Small Intimate Moments Shape Wartime Realities in Ukraine with Greta Uehling
How do civilians strategically engage with conflict while seeking everyday peace? How do power dynamics and asymmetries impact the ability of civilians to strategically engage with conflict while…