Towards a Subjective Phanerology of Small Marsupials
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, UMR CESCO, CNRS, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Center of Sustainability and Applied Ecology, Santiago, Chile; Institute of Ecology and Biodive…
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Connect the Dots: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck
In Connect the Dots: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck, Christian Busch contests the notion of blind luck, arguing that adopting a “serendipity mindset” towards all social and prof…
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, “Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America” (UNC Press, 2023)
Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America (UNC Press, 2023) examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the healthcare system in the…
Michael Baltutis, “The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance” (SUNY Press, 2023)
Michael Baltutis’ book The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance (SUNY Press, 2023) details the textual and performative history of an important South Asian festival…
Drawing More-than-Human Kinship
Introduction In my work as an anthropological ethnographer and illustrator, I have been working to connect seemingly disparate disciplines together—at times, even as a messy and rough bricolage.…
Scratching out a living: The Medieval Female Proletariat – A guided walk
As part of the Totally Thames Festival to be held in September 2023 I’m offering a walk I created, Scratching out a living by the river: The Medieval female…
The Persistence of Fukushima’s Fisherfolk
In a new book, an anthropologist with long-term ties to northeastern Japan shares stories of how fishing communities have continued making a living in uncertain waters after the…
Courtney Adams Wooten, “Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women’s Reproductive Choices” (Utah State UP, 2023)
Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Womens’ Reproductive Choices (Utah State University Press, 2023) examines how millennia of reproductive beliefs (or doxa) have positioned women who choose not to…
sNAPAshots: Natalie Muyres
Transcript 0:00[NAPA Logo] Welcome to sNAPAshots conversations with practicing professional and applied anthropologists. Let’s meet our next guest Natalie Muyers. Natalie Muyres 0:21Hi, I’…
Anthropology Meets Journalism: How Two Fields Can Save Each Other
In this episode, Emily Kennedy shares her unique journey of discovering the concept of ethnographic journalism. Journalists now face unprecedented issues like harassment, lack of public trust, and…
On the Quandaries of Aquatic Forensics
A team of scientists, including an anthropologist, explains the challenges and methods for locating, identifying, and retrieving human remains from underwater. This article was originally published a…
A Human Economy for Emergent World Society
Written by Keith Hart World society has been formed as a single interactive network in our time. Universal means of …
Jae DiBello Takeuchi, “Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan” (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023)
Jae DiBello Takeuchi’s Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023) examines dilemmas faced by second language (L2) Japanese speakers as a result of…
Shirogaki-cho Summer Festival (July, 2023)
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Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms
“Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms and Our Academic Freedom A Call for Solidarity” Not usually a petition signer, but in this case there is informative text and urgent reasons…. …
The fallacies of GDP reductionism: A response to Warlenius
Rikard Warlenius has written an article on what he calls “the limits to degrowth”. In it, he states that because degrowth researchers argue the climate crisis cannot…
Reighan Gillam on her book, Visualizing Black Lives
Interview by Karina Beras https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=36yhr7ew9780252044410 Karina Beras: What motivated you to pursue this ethnographic participatory research with Afro-Brazi…
Cold Hubris and Fundo
A poet-historian reflects on the legacy of colonial-era collecting practices in Tanzania that tore Black Indigenous ancestors from their communities and history. ✽ Euro-American colonial collections o…
A Letter to the National Medical Commission of India: Improving doctor-patient relationships.
ANANYA CHOYAL To Dr Suresh Chandra Sharma Chairperson of the National Medical Commission Pocket-14, Sector – 8, Dwarka Phase – 1 New Delhi 110077 …
Shaul Shenhav, “Analyzing Social Narratives” (Routledge, 2015)
Analyzing Social Narratives (Routledge, 2015) is one of the concise and informative volumes in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods, whose titles we have been featuring on New Books in Interpretive…
Omolade Adunbi, “Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria” (Indiana UP, 2022)
How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based economy? Focusing on the special economic zones resulting from China’s trading partnership…
Spivak doing Spivak things
Once the preambles are done, there is hardly a sentence that could not be a credo, a warning, and an injunction to slow down and try to learn…