Relationships Carved From Clay Bring New Partners to Museums
Brian Vallo at SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center. Photo: Adria Malcolm for The New York Times …
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Imagining Other Worlds at the India-Pakistan Border
For decades, soldiers at the border between Attari, India, and Wagah, Pakistan, have staged an elaborate ceremony for onlookers. An anthropologist reflects on the ceremony as a legacy…
Madam Cistern
The following monologue was originally written in Portuguese for the ongoing theatrical project Dramaturgias da água e da seca (Water and Drought Dramaturgies), developed by Pavilhão da Magnólia,…
Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas on her book, Genres of Listening
Interview by Sarah Muir https://www.dukeupress.edu/genres-of-listening Sarah Muir: In the book, you describe the extraordinary history and contemporary status of psychoanalysis in Buenos Ai…
A Honeysuckle Basket by Joan Shoemaker (Cherokee)
Pictured here (Figure 1) is a seed pot-style (i.e. globe shaped with a small opening) basket by Joan Shoemaker (b. 1937) (Cherokee Nation) (then) of Locust Grove, Oklahoma.…
The Woman’s Health Strategy for England neglects the realities of being a woman
NAOMI HANSEN House of Commons London SW1A 0AA stephen.barclay.mp@parliament.uk Dear Sir Barclay, I am writing to you today in regards to the Women’s Health Strateg…
Social Anthro#2: Kinship – Given or Made?
When you start to reflect upon the meaning of this blog's title, I would like to invite you to first think about the following questions: Why is it…
Karen E. Rignall, “An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis” (Cornell UP, 2021)
Karen E. Rignall’s book An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis (Cornell UP, 2021) details the fraught dynamics of rural life in the arid periphery of…
Sophie Bjork-James, “The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family” (Rutgers UP, 2021)
The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family (Rutgers University Press, 2021) provides an account of how a theology of the family came to dominate a white evangelical tradition…
Satsuki Takahashi, “Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape” (U Washington Press, 2023)
Both before and after the 2011 “Triple Disaster” of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, anthropologist Satsuki Takahashi visited nearby communities,…
Exploring Pedagogy and Teaching for a Post-Racist Imagination
In this episode, Janine de Novais discusses her new publication on Brave Community and teaching for a post-racist imagination. The episode is about the role of pedagogy in…
NEW article on Urban Reconstruction in Xinjiang by Madlen Kobi
This article investigates the relatively little explored urban development in China’s Northwestern Uyghur homeland of XUAR (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). Based on 12 months of ethnographic field…
NEW article on thermal practices to cope with summer heat in Chongqing by Madlen Kobi
Until the 1990s and the spread of air-conditioning, cooling down during the hot, humid, and windless summers in the city of Chongqing (Southwest China) was mainly practiced outdoors:…
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Hi all,I hope many of you are still on or about to leave for Global Northern summer holidays and I hope even more so that you are in…
Paying more attention to long-term caregivers in contemporary China
CHENGYUE PENG (to No. 57 An Ding Men Wai Da Jie, Dong Cheng District, Beijing) Dear Ms Sun: I am writing to advocate more concern for long-term caregivers,…
Sarah Muir, “Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Argentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a long history of economic volatility. In 2001–2002, a financial crisis led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating…
Colonizing Mars or Colonizing the Earth? A Reflection on Landscape and SpaceX in Texas
By Robert Kopack, University of South Carolina § I was startled awake by a faint voice announcing something across the humid, coastal air. Maybe it was a shift…
What Pots Say—and Don’t Say—About People
Archaeologists long abandoned the simple notion that “pots are people”—that people’s identities directly correspond with the pottery they made and used. What, then, can ceramics reveal about past…
Esra Özyürek, “Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany” (Stanford UP, 2023)
At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country’s Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets…
Xenia A. Cherkaev, “Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice (Cornell UP, 2023) is a historical ethnography of the property regime upon which Soviet legal scholars legislated a…
In the House that Jack Built
The heat promised to be oppressive in the courtyard of the house that Jack built. Yet there was hope as guests…
Writing Indigenous Oral Tradition to Fight a Dam
In the northern Philippines, the Isnag are documenting their Traditional Stories to sustain their culture and fight a legal battle against dams that would inundate their homelands. ✽…
Taken Rapanui Heritage project
In 2020, amidst the COVID pandemic, the tourism industry came to a complete halt, leaving Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) almost entirely isolated from the rest…
Letter of concern regarding the UK’s Criminal Justice System and its handling of Rape and Serious Sexual Assault cases, with regards to Operation Soteria’s one year review.
MACKENZIE DEARSLEY Letter Directed To: The Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP, Home Security & MP for Fareham Government representative of Home Office’s Operation Soteria initiative. T…