Authorship in the post-academic, post-human age
In 1964, when describing the threshold for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said that while he couldn’t define precisely what constituted…
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Reflectie op de Nederlandse verkiezingen: Links snurkt en navelstaart – net als antropologen
Door Wiebe de Jong – Een aardverschuiving in de Nederlandse politiek, radicaal-rechts krijgt voet aan de grond in de polder, Nederland neemt een ruk naar rechts. Dit zijn…
Medical anthropology: Global health and social inequalities
The Covid-19 pandemic showed how closely connected health issues are to global contexts and social inequalities. Medical anthropologists study these connections and examine the impact on individual a…
AABA Statement supporting Trans Lives
The AABA, along with several other organizations, has just released a statement in support of trans lives. Here’s an excerpt: The American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the American…
Sex, Lies, and Science Wars
The Mead-Freeman controversy reaches its climax. Scientists, scholars, and Samoans debate the nature of sexuality, culture, and truth. After anthropologist Derek Freeman publishes Margaret Mead and S…
Charlotte Al-Khalili, “Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023)
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023) by Dr. Charlotte Al-Khalili explores the Syrian revolution through the experiences of citizens in exile.…
Algorithmic Imaginations in Agriculture: Automation?
In 2022, I was conducting my doctoral dissertation research on data-driven, automated digital farming technologies (drones, autosteering, sensors, GIS, smartphones, Big Data) in Turkey. Amidst the glo…
A Walla Walla Band Visits the Oregon Institute: A Battle Creek Story
Recently, I was made aware of another alternative story of the Battle of Battle Creek. Previously, I published an essay about stories of Klamath and
Matthew Wolf-Meyer discusses his book, Unraveling
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/unraveling Toni Nieminen: First of all, thank you! Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age is a brilliant and a profound piece of w…
Carl Gösta Widstrand 1928-2023, in memoriam
NOTIS. I november dog Carl Gösta Widstrand i Ottawa, Canada. Han var född i december 1928, ochblev alltså nästan 95 år gammal, skriver Ulf Hannerz i en kort…
Ceri Houlbrook, “‘Ritual Litter’ Redressed” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Ritual deposition is not an activity that many people in the Western world would consider themselves participants of. The enigmatic beliefs and magical thinking that led to the…
Sayan Dey, “Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean” (Anthem Press, 2023)
Usually, discourses on the planetary evolution and the movements of slaves remain restricted within the narratives and scholarships of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and hardly engage with the…
Sahlins biography update: September to November
The past few months have been very busy ones, but I wanted to write a quick update on my progress just to keep myself honest and provide a…
Let’s Agree . . .
That the deaths of civilians killed by the IDF targeting Hamas leaders, command centers, and weapons caches are tragedies. That the continuing occupation of the West Bank and…
Episode 9: The humanness of humanity has a history
In the 9th episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews anthropologist Mark Goodale on the history of human rights. The humaneness of humanity has a history. And…
American Anthropological Association 2023 Talk: Making Pigs Dirty: Conflicting Perspectives on Javelinas and Hogs in Texas
I co-chaired a panel at the 2023 meeting of the American Anthropological Association titled “The America Animal.” Abstract: Other-than-human animals comprise a large part of the so…
Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) 2023 Conference at Meiji Gakuin University Shirokane Campus, December 2-3
Subtitle: アレ！VAOJ@AJJ 2023… Once again, the AJJ is meeting with a wide range of interesting participants, research topics and presentations. Of special note is a two panel first…
How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Some recent data
Here is a list of studies, surveys and polling results that shed some light on popular perceptions of post-growth and post-capitalist ideas. I will seek to update…
Dealing with the Dutch Elections
by Freek Colombijn – Few people will have missed the fact that the PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid, Party for Freedom) has been the big winner of the…
Paper: Infrastructural disruption, entanglement, and change in Northern Manitoba, Canada
Budka, P. (2023). Infrastructural disruption, entanglement, and change in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at American Anthropological Association (AAA)/Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Annual M…
Anger on the move
24 November 2023. Gaza: at least 14,854 people killed, including 6,150 children and 4,000 women; and at least 36,000 injured. At least 6,800 missing. The Al Jazeera ‘Israel–Gaza…
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Hi all,Capitalism suggests that today is Black Friday in connection with another holiday in the US, so why not treat yourself to some free readings instead 🙂 ?!?News…
From Despair to Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism
Allegra Lab · From Despair To Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism TRANSCRIPT OF THE AUDIO ESSAY (listen if…