Waiting as Productive Fieldwork
Several weeks into my fieldwork at one of the Integrated Tribal Development Agencies (ITDA) in Telangana, a federal state in India, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I…
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De universiteit is divers, vooral als je zeven vinkjes hebt
door Bram van der Heijde – Als ik mensen vertel over mijn baan krijg ik vaak dezelfde vraag terug: “Oh, dus je bent eigenlijk niks meer gaan doen…
Jacqueline Kinghan, “Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this book locates, describes and defines a…
Ways of Knowing: Lessons on Agroecological Transitions from a Pothwari Farm
Contemporary agroecological farming is a knowledge-intensive form of production that can maximize the productivity of energy flows, which are central to the productive forces. Cumulatively, it is sugg…
Subcontinental Media
I am very happy to have got this out, thanks to all at and in the journal: Please email me to get a pdf if you have not…
Contesting academic cultures of power abuse
Trigger Warning: This article addresses power abuse in academia and describes some such extreme boundary violations explicitly and in detail.1[1] Abstract: The author examines how, under which promoti…
Felt Expertise
Upon her arrival in Madrid, Anita felt free. Having grown up in rural Ecuador as the youngest of seven siblings, her life so far had been shaped by…
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in South Africa
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our fifth podcast episode explores how South African anthropology departments hire. … More
Diana Espirito Santo on her book, Spirited Histories
Interview by Diego Maria Malara https://www.routledge.com/Spirited-Histories-Technologies-Media-and-Trauma-in-Paranormal-Chile/Santo/p/book/9781003140818 Diego Maria Malara (DMM): You are k…
Jessica P. Cerdeña, “Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers” (U California Press, 2023)
Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers (U California Press, 2023) centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and…
Stephen Davies, “Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are” (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, Stephen Davies’s Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are (Bloomsbury, 2020) takes in…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Arrival in Tokyo / Return to Monzen Nakacho and Izakaya「Daruma」(6/27/23)
I bid my farewell and thanks to Yokohama and took a train to Monzen Nakacho in Tokyo. I walked past Daruma on my way to the hotel, and…
RG China(s) Colloquium: Summer Semester 2023
Our monthly colloquium resumes this May. See our dates below! These regular meetings are intended to facilitate discussion and exchange within the group. They will provide a forum…
The RG China(s) congratulates Prof. Dr. Jean-Bapiste Pettier
The RG China(s) congratulates Prof. Dr. Jean-Bapiste Pettier for starting a new position as a professor for social and cultural anthropology, focus East Asia/China at Friedrich-Alexander Universität E…
Plädoyer für eine wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit China in Anbetracht ethischer Bedenken
Die Regionalgruppe China(s) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie setzt sich aus Forschenden der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie sowie der Sinologie zusammen, die mit qualitat…
Anti Fascist Bataille – Robyn Marasco
This was a very welcome intervention (two years back, but I just found it now). https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/67465334/Bataille_s_Anti_fascism-libre.pdf?1622374503=&response-con…
Tina Shrestha, “Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York” (U Washington Press, 2023)
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic…
Raoul Coutard
Raoul Coutard was camera-person on nearly all Godard’s major 1960s films, including Á bout de souffle, Bande à Part, Le Mépris, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, and then…
Linda J. Seligmann, “Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands” (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Quinoa’s new status as a superfood has altered the economic fortunes of Quechua farmers in the Andean highlands. Linda J. Seligmann journeys to the Huanoquite region of Peru…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Yokohama Chinatown at Night: Selected Shots (6/26/23)
BONUS VIDEO! (a shop in Yokohama in Japan plays a melody of western Christmas carols…) SEE ALSO! “Yokohama Chinatown: Selected Shots” on VAoJ, 9/1/19: https://visu…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Sometimes a short diversion helps to put research matters into different contexts – Yokohama Bay Cruise (6/26/23)
This was my second trip to Yokohama. The first in 2019 was only an afternoon in Chinatown. This time I thought exploring the bay area would be good.…
Antroperspektiv gör sommaruppehåll
2023 inleddes med en turbulent vår, lokalt likväl som globalt, vilket på olika sätt har varit utmanande för många. Att få återkomma till Antroperspektiv för att ta del…
Building Bodies for Thought: The Podcast
Allegra Editor Ian podcasts together with Thread guest editors Aja Smith & Anne Line Dalsgård as they explore ‘Building Bodies For Thought a thread in which theorising and…
Dinah Hannaford, “Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care” (Stanford UP, 2023)
Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the…