Grounded in Clay Exhibition Debuts in New York
Blog by Helen Brooks, Director, Leadership Giving, School for Advanced Research Ju…
Category: English
27 words for elephant
In English, an elephant is an elephant. Ok, we have words for a group of elephants (a herd) and baby elephants (a calf), but these are general words…
Extinguishing the Idea That Hobbits Had Fire
Research has overturned earlier claims that a diminutive human relative, Homo floresiensis, lit fires—but big stories die hard. SMOKING HOT HOBBITS When you think “the hobbit,” a certain…
Brenda E. F. Beck, “Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures” (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Brenda Beck discusses her lifelong work on a Tamil folk legend, resulting in a graphic novel, an English translation and Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures (U Toronto Press,…
Ramon Karmen 1955 Vietnam
Magnificent colour film of Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, and others, including the heroic fighters of Vietnam before, leading to, and after the victory at Dien Bien…
Two (Satyajit Ray 1963) and Amar Lenin (Ritwik Ghatak 1970) [for ease of access]
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 and This is it.
Piecing Together the Puzzle of Oman’s Ancient Towers
In recent years, the Omani government has invested in archaeology and heritage tourism to boost its economy—renewing interest in mysterious 4,000-year-old stone towers that dot the Southeastern Arabia…
Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova
In Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova, Eleanor Knott presents a comparative study of how people living in Crimea and Moldova identified with Russia and Romania, respectivel…
Does Data Really Save Lives? Considerations in Digitising Health
SERENE LIM To: Simon Bolton, CEO of NHS Digital Boar Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 6AE Dear Mr. Bolton, “Data saves lives” has played a central role in…
Anthony Russell Jerry, “Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica” (UP of Florida, 2023)
Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica (UP of Florida, 2023) delves into the ongoing movement toward recognizing…
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, “The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become” (NYU Press, 2023)
For decades, parents across America have asked their kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” The answer is, “Duh, yes.” Peers, as parents well know,…
Rahil Roodsaz, “Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging” (Berghahn Books, 2022)
Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Western societies. While the acceptance of…
New Standards for Museums with Native American Collections (SMNAC) Now Available
Image: SMNAC Core Group meeting in 2019. Photo by Elysia Poon, courtesy School for Advanced Research …
A New Take on an Old Fossil Hints at Ancient Migrations
Two anthropologists explain how an enigmatic human fossil jawbone—and its 3D-printed reconstruction—may evidence an early Homo sapiens presence in Europe and shed new light on evolutionary diversity a…
Vincanne Adams, “Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move” (Duke UP, 2023)
Vincanne Adams’s book Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move (Duke UP, 2023) is part of a broader trend in anthropology that is developing new methods and…
Lisa Mitchell, “Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections (Duke UP, 2023), Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government…
Hippocrates Against Protocols: Experiments, Experience, and Evidence-Based Medicine in Brazil
Image of a statue of Hippocrates (460 BC – 377 BC), considered the “father” of Western medicine.Source: Pixabay, no coyrights Introduction In this text, I address processes in…
Review: Edible Economics
Ha-Joon Chang. Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World. New York: Hachette Book Group, 2022. Xxvi + 192 pp. ISBN #9781541700543 David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) T…
Sonia Livingstone on her co-authored book, Parenting for a Digital Future
https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/parenting-for-a-digital-future-9780190874704?cc=us&lang=en& Interview by Ashley McDermott Ashley McDermott: Your work looks at how techn…
Introduction to the Third Annual Advocacy Letter Series
CARRIE RYAN In the coming weeks, the third annual Advocacy Letter Series will feature 22 student letters that call for change on a wide range of health topics,…
Lea Taragin-Zeller, “The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land” (NYU Press, 2023)
In recent years, Israeli state policies have attempted to dissuade Orthodox Jews from creating large families, an objective that flies in the face of traditional practices in their…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: There’s more to Shitamachi than Izakaya and Tachinomiya (really…) – putting Monzen Nakacho into a greater context (6/27/30 – 6/30/23)
Set I: Jalan Jalan in Monzen Nakacho… Absolutely no political endorsement here; my interest is the reference to supporting shitamachi. Set II: Fukagawa Fudodo Temple …
Scientists are a step closer to defining when the human age began
This week I had the chance to chat with NPR’s Rebecca Hersher about the latest news coming out of the Anthropocene Working Group in which the golden spike…
