I Was Penalized for Learning a Language at Home
A researcher explains why the Fulbright-Hays fellowship should change its rules that have kept native and heritage speakers from working where their languages are spoken. ✽ Each year,…
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Oil in Suriname: a light at the end of the tunnel?
by Eva Koemar – “Our current president – he must be from the afterlife, he says that he sees the light at the end of the tunnel. Nobody…
The Nunavut Arctic College and mobilization of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in Nunavut research
This Inuit-led project ireviewed over three and a half thousand documents relating to research in Nunavut and involving Nunavummiut between 1996 and 2022.
The Nunavut Arctic College and mobilization of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in Nunavut research
This Inuit-led project ireviewed over three and a half thousand documents relating to research in Nunavut and involving Nunavummiut between 1996 and 2022.
Education as a New Battleground for the Far Right
Far-right parties have become increasingly concerned with education as a policy field – what is their ideological content, where does it fit into party strategy, and what less…
Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley Book Launch Events and Subscriber Offer
Dear subscribers. The time is nearly at hand for the book launch, the official release is November 14th, 2023. Many people have already said they
Navigating the Labyrinth of Perception: Wisdom, Language, and Post-Trauma Growth
How does language shape our understanding of experiences? How do we navigate trauma and find growth amidst adversity? Join us in this thought-provoking episode of This Anthro Life…
The Problems With Coming of Age
A famed anthropologist’s controversial research in American Samoa reveals the biggest questions about growing up and being human. This special SAPIENS podcast season, co-hosted by Doris Tulifau and…
Rhoda Kanaaneh, “The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America” (U Texas Press, 2023)
From the overloaded courts with their constantly changing dates and appointments to the need to prove oneself the “right” kind of asylum seeker, the asylum system in the…
Buddhist Healing in Contemporary Japan (with Rev. Nathan Jishin Michon)
Dr Pierce Salguero talks with Rev. Nathan Jishin Michon, a postdoctoral fellow at Ryukoku University and an ordained priest in the Shingon Buddhist tradition. Our conversation touches on…
Staring Contest
It’s 3 in the morning. I’m sitting at the end of the hallway of the boomerang-shaped intensive care unit (ICU) where I work, looking into the darkness beyond…
Jonathan A. Gómez takes the page 99 test
From my first steps towards considering how Black Americans hear and represent themselves in musical sound, I have wanted to address the question of how Black musicians can…
To Wear the Wind
A tribal scholar from the state of Nagaland in India engages with the loss of traditional cultural practices and locates the creation of a new world order where…
Diversity According to Whiteness
Author: Dr. Holly Walters, a cultural anthropologist at Wellesley College, United States. Her ethnographic work focuses on religion, pilgrimage, and politics in the Nepal Himalaya…
Diversity According to Whiteness
Diversity according to whiteness is not about who should occupy the spaces of public discourse, so much as it is about who should have the power to decide…
The work of plants
Though plants are indispensable for human survival, their contributions to human existence and history are often underappreciated. To underline some of the contributions of plants to wider environmen…
Metabolism and capacity: history and labour in post-apartheid South Africa
I start with the question, why was it necessary, from 2008, for Mondi South Africa to spend R50 million (USD 8 million) a year on a nutrition intervention…
Miscommunicating metabolism: hunger, method and the practice of public health
Over the past five years I have been conducting research on everyday eating and the emergence of Non-Communicable Diseases in the West African city of Dakar, Senegal. Working…
‘How pesticides enter the body’: Porosity and growth in Western Kenya
Skin, nose, mouth In a remote church building in the Southwest of Kenya, Arthur Ouko was training farmers on ‘responsible use of pesticides.’ He was instilling the importance…
“When the city eats the forest”
Kinshasa, its traffic and street vendors, receded as we drove past the international airport on the national road following the Congo River. “It’s been recently re-asphalted”, said the…
Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier, “Homelessness in the 21st Century: Living the Impossible American Dream” (Routledge, 2023)
An accessible and engaging introductory text on homelessness and housing policy, this timely book uses a sociopolitical framework for understanding issues of homelessness in the United States. The…
Indigenous Varieties in Lebanon: An Embrace of Phoenician Terroir
Lebanese white grapes, for wine and arak. Photo: B for Bacchus. Samira BecharaUniversity of New Orleans I am a budding historian researching wine in Lebanon, particularly French policy…
The Ignorance of the Jahiliyya
This is an excellent Youtube talk by Ahmad al-Jallad on the evidence from the rock inscriptions and graffiti from the Arabian Peninsula. Also check out his excellent book…
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Hi all,My favorite quotes from our alumni meeting last week were from a student who described our course far better organized than meetings she has experienced in the…