Care and its Resistances
I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit the Gens manifesto, which, as the authors state in the interview, serves as a “declaration of an intention, a call…
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Racial anthropology from Germany to India
“Race” has travelled the world along with many anthropologists. Racial knowledge—as the set of thinking that apprehends human diversity through essentializing relatively fixed categorizations of peopl…
A Better Way to Namasté
Namasté is no longer just a pleasant Hindi greeting, but an English lexeme; a unit of language in the form of a word or phrase that has become…
Bonnie Urciuoli on her book, Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/UrciuoliNeoliberalizing#:~:text=Bonnie%20Urciuoli%20is%20Professor%20Emerita,diversity%20in%20U.S.%20higher%20education. Ilana…
Annabel’s amazing school zine project on Ho Chi Minh
done in class 2, in 2022, Nottingham. anabels-2023-zine-project-on-hcmDownload
One of my greatest accomplishments as a professor: Turning a French student into a Hanshin fan!
Continuing the theme of having great pride in my students… In my Globalization class we spend some time talking about global sports and I use baseball as an…
Tribal Reactions to the 1851 Treaties
In the history of treaty making , there were two treaty periods for western Oregon, 1851, and 1853 to 1855. The 1851 treaties, 19 of them, were negotiated…
My students continue to make me proud…
My student (from several years ago), Dan, is the guy with long hair drinking and rocking out. Video: VALKYRIE ZERO – Frogs Of The Round (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2wj5gHFoCA
Artificial Intelligence (AI) & ChatGPT in development and humanitarian work-a curated collection
As AI, ChatGPT & broader discussions on the tools & technology behind it enter the digital #globaldev discussion sphere, I started a curated collection of articles & podcasts…
Tazeen M. Ali, “The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam” (NYU Press, 2022)
The Women’s Mosque of America (WMA), a multiracial, women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is the first of its kind in the United States. Since 2015, the WMA has…
This Anthro Life 2023 trailer
Just a little trailer for 2023 new listeners to This Anthro Life! Learn more about the podcast here: thisanthrolife.org This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network,…
Awards! Money! Food!
I’m running a field school in Puerto Rico with a focus on ethnography and food sovereignty. Here I am raising my cup of morning coffee to all of…
Links & Contents I Liked 484
Hi all,Welcome to another review after the weekly tour-de-Internet to highlight some great #globaldev readings; global governance, human rights, US arms sales, UN peacekeeping, the capitalistic histor…
10 Kwacha (Zambia)
and other coins, mostly no longer worth the money they are printed on.
oh Yoko
Yoko Ono handed this artwork to me on arrival at her show somewhere in shoreditch about 2000. Christies auction house offers considered… dm me with your bids. This…
Beatriz Dujovne, “‘Don’t Be Sad When I’m Gone’: A Memoir of Loss and Healing in Buenos Aires” (Toplight Books, 2020)
The monumental sense of dislocation we experience after losing a loved one can be life-altering. There is no script for grieving–each individual passes through their own phases of…
Har Etnografiska museer spelat ut sin roll?
Helena Wulff: Etnografiska museer måste förnya sig. Men inte genom publikfriande tillfälliga utställningar som har producerats utan etnografisk expertis utan genom att anlägga ett kosmopolitiskt persp…
Ethnographic Postcards: The Queen of Online Shopping
Online shopping platform Pinduoduo is gaining popularity in China among older adults, who are often overlooked as users of new technologies. The post Ethnographic Postcards: The Queen of…
Setting Traps: For an Insurgent and Joyful Science
While visiting the exhibition by the artist Xadalu Tupã Jekupé at the Museum of Indigenous Cultures in São Paulo, one of the works caught my attention. It was…
A View of the End of the Semester…
This is a a view from the 4th floor window in the Center for International Education, a popular spot for students to watch the sunset. During the semester,…
Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken, “Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach” (Routledge, 2022)
Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken’s Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach (Routledge, 2022) explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on…
Party
Sheila Liming talks about the party, social gatherings that occasion joy and dread and various emotions in between. The party is both a pause and an acceleration in…
The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse
To learn what conditions are really like for Amazon workers, an anthropologist has joined their ranks. ✽ My first day of work in an Amazon warehouse I was…
Call for Posts: Disputed Water Worlds
Chorros Blancos Waterfall, Cajamarca, Colombia. Photograph by Ángela Castillo-Ardila, 2019. How do people and other beings relate to water across its multiple forms and scales? Water exists in…