Category: English
Courtney Adams Wooten, “Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women’s Reproductive Choices” (Utah State UP, 2023)
Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Womens’ Reproductive Choices (Utah State University Press, 2023) examines how millennia of reproductive beliefs (or doxa) have positioned women who choose not to…
sNAPAshots: Natalie Muyres
Transcript 0:00[NAPA Logo] Welcome to sNAPAshots conversations with practicing professional and applied anthropologists. Let’s meet our next guest Natalie Muyers. Natalie Muyres 0:21Hi, I’…
Anthropology Meets Journalism: How Two Fields Can Save Each Other
In this episode, Emily Kennedy shares her unique journey of discovering the concept of ethnographic journalism. Journalists now face unprecedented issues like harassment, lack of public trust, and…
On the Quandaries of Aquatic Forensics
A team of scientists, including an anthropologist, explains the challenges and methods for locating, identifying, and retrieving human remains from underwater. This article was originally published a…
A Human Economy for Emergent World Society
Written by Keith Hart World society has been formed as a single interactive network in our time. Universal means of …
Jae DiBello Takeuchi, “Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan” (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023)
Jae DiBello Takeuchi’s Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023) examines dilemmas faced by second language (L2) Japanese speakers as a result of…
Shirogaki-cho Summer Festival (July, 2023)
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Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms
“Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms and Our Academic Freedom A Call for Solidarity” Not usually a petition signer, but in this case there is informative text and urgent reasons…. …
The fallacies of GDP reductionism: A response to Warlenius
Rikard Warlenius has written an article on what he calls “the limits to degrowth”. In it, he states that because degrowth researchers argue the climate crisis cannot…
Reighan Gillam on her book, Visualizing Black Lives
Interview by Karina Beras https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=36yhr7ew9780252044410 Karina Beras: What motivated you to pursue this ethnographic participatory research with Afro-Brazi…
Cold Hubris and Fundo
A poet-historian reflects on the legacy of colonial-era collecting practices in Tanzania that tore Black Indigenous ancestors from their communities and history. ✽ Euro-American colonial collections o…
A Letter to the National Medical Commission of India: Improving doctor-patient relationships.
ANANYA CHOYAL To Dr Suresh Chandra Sharma Chairperson of the National Medical Commission Pocket-14, Sector – 8, Dwarka Phase – 1 New Delhi 110077 …
Shaul Shenhav, “Analyzing Social Narratives” (Routledge, 2015)
Analyzing Social Narratives (Routledge, 2015) is one of the concise and informative volumes in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods, whose titles we have been featuring on New Books in Interpretive…
Omolade Adunbi, “Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria” (Indiana UP, 2022)
How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based economy? Focusing on the special economic zones resulting from China’s trading partnership…
Spivak doing Spivak things
Once the preambles are done, there is hardly a sentence that could not be a credo, a warning, and an injunction to slow down and try to learn…
sNAPAshots: Natalie Muyres
0:00[NAPA Logo] Natalie Muyres 0:00I think there’s just so much to learn about the human experience from anthropology. As an anthropologist, it’s important to be curious to ask…
Mayur R. Suresh, “Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts” (Fordham UP, 2022)
In Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts (Fordham UP, 2022), Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtrooms are made habitable. Where India’s…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Returning Home on the “Izakaya Shinkansen” (6/30/23)
This research trip has been in part driven by Japanese television media productions such as shows about izakaya/tachinomiya and meshi tero dramas. The influence that guided my last…
Irina Carlota Silber, “After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador” (Stanford UP, 2022)
After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador (Stanford UP, 2022) builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber’s nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow…
Sarah E. Vaughn, “Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation” (Duke UP, 2022)
Sarah E. Vaughn’s Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation (Duke UP, 2022) examines climate adaptation strategies that upend the neat divisions of linear temporality separate the past, present, and…
The Hidden Toll of the Pandemic: Adolescent Social Isolation and Its Relevance as of Today
FAYEZA AHMED To Professor Chris Whitty Chief Medical Advisor and Expert Advisor Department of Health and Social Care 39 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0EU Dear Professor Ch…
Melissa Gatter, “Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency” (American University in Cairo Press, 2023)
Azraq refugee camp, built in 2014 and host to forty thousand refugees, is one of two official humanitarian refugee camps for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Time and Power in…