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Whose research ethics?
Still image from Circulating Objects – four stories about bocios, © Anna Lisa Ramella, video installation as part of the exhibition Object Biographies, curated by Margareta von Oswald…
Scott E. Simon, “Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa” (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Similar to countries like the US and Canada, Taiwan also has indigenous peoples who’ve existed before the arrival of colonizers, and continue to grapple with the legacy of colonialism…
AI, Climate Adaptation, and Epistemic Injustice
Amid global climate impacts, vulnerable communities—including indigenous peoples, farmers, fisherfolk, and low-income groups—are frequently expected to adapt, change, and build resilience to uncerta…
AI’s Truth, Lies, and Ethos
Summary: Conversational artificial intelligence is often a form of storytelling, and underlying some of AI’s stories is an artificial ethos that could be insidious. I am a cultural…
What Spider Games Say About Arachnophobia
Many people around the world fear spiders. But in the Philippines, the tradition of spider wrestling often brings people and arachnids in close proximity. ✽ A fear of…
António Tomás, “In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda” (Duke UP, 2022)
In his book, In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda (Duke UP, 2022), António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation’s capital as…
Monica Liu, “Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China’s Global Rise” (Stanford UP, 2022)
Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes-younger, more physically attractive brides from…
Representations of Political Violence in Museological Spaces
Museums have traditionally served as custodians of historical artefacts and of normative narratives, playing a crucial role in shaping our understanding of the past, of the political violence…
Trading Safety for Knowledge?
Introduction Enduring hardship and taking risks related to one’s personal safety have long been considered a part of anthropological fieldwork. Often, emotionally challenging and dangerous situations…
Can we talk about race and inequalities without talking about racism?
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Can we talk about race and inequalities without talking about racism?
INTRODUCTION Can we talk about race without talking about racism and inequalities? To answer this question, we must first understand what ‘race’ is. To understand what race is…
Reflections on not flying: one year on
Gareth E. Hamilton, University of Latvia Rail Baltica works outside Riga’s central railway station. Author’s photograph Today on the way to the office, I witnessed a small piece…
On Censorship and the American Anthropological Association’s Declining Democracy
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is awaiting the results of a membership vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions submitted in response to a solidarity call…
Why Store 41,000 Bison Bones?
An archaeologist explains why a museum keeps so many bones from the Jones-Miller site, an ice age bison kill on the North American plains. In the 1970s, archaeologists…
Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, “Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum” (Archive Books, 2022)
Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum (Archive Books, 2022) proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An ethnographic research approach is confronted with the demands…
Tokens, Voids, and Archives: Locating Berlin’s NFT Projects
I’m standing on the train platform of U Schloßstraße, an U-Bahn station in Berlin’s Steglitz neighborhood. In front of me is an artwork: a beauty advertisement depicting a…
Marlene Schäfers on her book, Voices that Matter
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo183627808.html Andrew Bush: The book makes crucial interventions that connect the study of liberal governance in Turkey to the comparative…
Victor Luckerson, “Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street” (Random House, 2023)
When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, in 1914, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming a national center of black…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Why are all these people standing in line at 3:50 in the afternoon? Public Tavern「Uosan」(6/29/23)
So why were these people standing in line a few minutes before 4:00 PM, especially on such a hot day? Waiting to get into the Public Tavern「Uosan」! I…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Izakaya「Daruma」- The Second Night (6/28/23)
I got there a little late that night because of my filedwork at Uosada. But they had saved my seat for me! It was another lively night! BONUS…
Ethnoarchaeology: My Glimpses
Subhash R. Walimbe Rtd. Faculty, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006 subhashwalimbe@gmail.com Why this write-up on ethnoarchaeology A few days ago, a colleague from UIAF s…
Brianna Holt, “In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So ‘Post-Racial’ America” (Plume Books, 2023)
Part memoir, part cultural critique, In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So ‘Post-Racial’ America (Plume Books, 2023) uses pop culture and author Brianna Holt’s own lived…
Shaping Bubbles of Time: Crossing Temporalities Through VHS, DVDs, and Gigabytes
ByDamian Andres SabatiniMA Material and Visual Culture, 2022-23 1998 marked a pivotal moment in the world of cinema, with the iconic sci-fi filmmaker from the 1970s, George Lucas,…