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Hi all,A truly global set of readings from Canada, Brazil, South Africa, Tuvalu, Myanmar, India, Kenya, on topics such as influencer well-building to long term effects of baby…
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Terah J. Stewart, “Sex Work on Campus” (Routledge, 2022)
Terah J. Stewart’s book Sex Work on Campus (Routledge, 2022) examines the experiences of college students engaged in sex work and sparks dialogue about the ways educators might develop a…
Konstantinos Retsikas, “A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
In A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Konstantinos Retsikas has anthropological investigation into the different forms the economy…
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Contingent Labor
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology The seventh episode of Hiring Rituals focuses on contingent labor in … More
Maria Kastrinou: Looking at ethnic cleansing in Palestine from the occupied Syrian Golan
The unfolding genocide in Palestine today is a continuation of Israel’s 75-year-old occupation and ethnic cleansing. This article provides a perspective on the ongoing tragedy from the vantage…
Navigating the Unreal: Virtual Reality in Psychiatric Treatment
“Three men are constantly speaking to me behind my right ear,” says Pia Oxenvad, a young woman experiencing auditory hallucinations. “It feels like they are standing right behind…
Laurence Ralph Reckons With Police Violence (EF, JP)
In the third episode of our Global Policing series, Elizabeth and John spoke back in 2020 with anthropologist Laurence Ralph about The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence (U Chicago Press, 2020). The book…
Gaza and the coming age of the ‘warrior’
‘Is it ethical to write something ‘interesting’ about a massacre as the massacre is unfolding?’ I keep asking myself. ‘Is this not a form of exploiting the dead…
The Power of Collective Identity: Brad Deutser on Building Human-Centered Organizations
What is the importance of belonging in the workplace according to research? And what are some key actions that business leaders can take to create a fantastic work…
Ancient Pollen Is Hiding in a Surprising Place
A paleoecologist explains what pollen in fossilized mammal urine can reveal about past ecosystems and environmental change. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been repu…
Briana L. Wong, “Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience” (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and ’70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverberate through the community.…
Stefan Tanaka, “History without Chronology” (Lever Press, 2019)
In this interview, we talk with Stefan Tanaka, professor emeritus of UCSD and a specialist in modern Japanese history. He is author of two books on modern Japan, Japan’s Orient: Rendering…
Resilience Through Urban Weeds
Author: Carolina Némethy and Miguel da Cruz Resilience Through Urban Weeds This article is written in collaboration with Miguel da Cruz, a visiting student from Brazil. Weeds are…
Commemorating the Anthropological Contemplations of Professor Gerald Sider with Gerald Sider
The following are my speaking notes for a roundtable presentation at the CASCA/AAA meetings in Toronto. I’m not able to be there so I share my comments here…
Into the Light
Christianity and colonization deeply reshaped Samoan culture starting in the 1830s, complicating how anthropologists Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman saw the Pacific Islands. The first Christian missi…
Nudging – review
In Nudging, Riccardo Viale explores the evolution of nudging (behavioural mechanisms to encourage people to make certain choices) and proposes new approaches that would empower rather than paternalise…
Belly Versus Bin: How Digital Autoethnography Brought Me Back From the Brink of Disordered Eating
Content and Trigger Warning: This post contains commentary and reflections about disordered eating. Food(ie) Fixation In September 2019, I responded to an advertisement by a Dutch university for a…
Textured Definitions: A Glossary Made by Ravines in Guatemala City
By Mel Ford, Department of Anthropology, Rice University Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2022 Roy A.…
Edith Podhovnik on her book, Purrieties of Language
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/purrieties-of-language/DE1A04A7E248AFCA72D8F94FE0917D6F?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark Katja Politt: The boo…
Our History is Our Mandate
An edited talk delivered at the London School of Economics and Social Sciences on Nov 7th 2023 I spend a great deal of time researching and teaching about…
Emily H. C. Chua, “The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China’s Digital Era” (U Michigan Press, 2023)
China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evolving arrangements that run from cooperation and…
Session: Narratives & temporalities of infrastructure
Together with Giuseppe Amatulli (Carlton University), I am organizing the session “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience” at the meeting of the American Anthropologi…
Tears, Terror, Tragedy and Trauma: My Manipur
Praying my Manipur returns to its normal happy self (Dr.) Geetika Ranjan Professor Department of Anthropology North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong geetikaranjan19@gmail.com I am writing about Manip…