Podcast on Gulf Almanac Lore
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Three New Mexico Organizations Join Together to Host the Twelfth Annual Pueblo Fiber Arts Show Memorial Day Weekend
Photo courtesy: Louie Garcia (Tiwa/Piro), the artist of this traditional Pueblo weaving. The New Mexico Pueblo Fiber Arts Guild, in collaboration with the Poeh Cultural Center and School…
Daniel Martin Varisco, “Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is the first in English to survey indigenous knowledge of seasonal, astronomical, and agricultural information in Arab…
The Rebellion Recorded on the Rosetta Stone
An archaeologist explains how recent archaeological finds in Egypt expand our knowledge of a violent revolt discussed on the now-famous Rosetta Stone. This article was originally published at…
An Infinity of Traces
I have spent the last few years studying the financialization of water utilities in Europe and the insurgencies that often accompany them. These insurgencies tend to arise from…
A New Precipice in Time: Maria Beatrice Di Brizio’s History of Tylorian Anthropology
Maria Beatrice Di Brizio Histoire du concept de couvade: Edward B. Tylor et l’ethnologie victorienne Histoire des sciences humaines (series) L’Harmattan, 2021 636 pages …
Anat Rosenberg on her book, The Rise of Mass Advertising
Interview by Astrid Van den Bossche, Kings College London Oxford University Press Astrid Van den Bossche: One striking focus of your book is the presence and treatment—legally, culturally,…
Culture and Personality with special emphasis on Margaret Mead
Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to…
Samantha Nogueira Joyce, “Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities” (Lexington Books, 2022)
In Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities (Lexington Books, 2022), Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations of Blackness on Brazilian TV, interrogating the role of mass media in developing…
Selcen Küçüküstel, “Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia” (Berghahn, 2021)
Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia (Berghahn Books, 2021), focuses…
When I See Spring in Your Eyes/yeli bU’ vuċh canen Ạċhen mnz nō bhar
A poet-anthropologist from Indian-occupied Kashmir speaks of hope as inherited through memories of resilience in the past and present. “When I See Spring in Your Eyes” is part…
Waqas Butt, “Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan” (Stanford UP, 2023)
Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state institutions and informal economies. What do these…
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, “We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism” (Bristol UP, 2023)
The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring…
Book forum: Todd Meyers’s All That Was Not Her by Eugene Raikhel
This book forum brings together seven scholars and artists to discuss Todd Meyers’s All That Was Not Her (Duke 2022). A profoundly introspective and original book, All That Was…
Danger Muskox and Danger of Muskoxen wool prices
My first personal meeting with muskoxen (Оvibos moschatus, in Latin “musky sheep-ox”) happened in Alaska in one of the Wildlife Conservation Centres there. That time I was surprised…
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THERE IS ALSO AN ARTICLE VERSION: Congratulations, we’re delighted to let you know that your article is now on Taylor & Francis Online. Studying tourism means going to have a…
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the hinge moment in the text of capital, before whuch the ersheinungsform of commodities gives way to the secret of value extraction, also erschent als, of course, yet…
Association for the Study of Food and Society Racial Justice Research and Pedagogy Fellowships
Very exciting opportunities from our colleagues at the Association for the Study of Food and Society! As food studies scholars and practitioners, we are keenly aware of transnational…
The Psychedelics Industry Is Booming—but Who’s Being Left Out?
Three researchers discuss the possibilities and problems arising as psychedelic plant medicines, held sacred by many Indigenous communities, move into the global mental health and tourism industries. …
Sapir and Goldenweiser, White and Redfield
Investigating the biographies of Leslie White, Robert Redfield, Edward Sapir, and Alexander Goldenweiser. White studied with Goldenweiser in New York. Goldenweiser and Sapir were exact contempora…
Twitter’s Blue Tick Is a Fake Signal
Evolutionary theory can help us better understand the recent debacle about social media platforms’ popular symbol as a signaling problem. This article was originally published at The Conversati…
Capitalism, Acts of Labor and their Contested Recognition
Questions about capitalism, labor and class are currently receiving new interest, especially as inequalities are on the rise – along with a sense of crisis of the world…
How Disability Teaches Us to Change the World with Brooke Ellison
People with disabilities often face accessibility issues in physical environments, such as a lack of ramps, narrow doorways, and inaccessible transportation. Every barrier is a reminder that designs…