Knowing Food: SAFN at the 2023 ASFS/AFHVS Meeting
Jennifer Jo Thompson The 2023 joint meeting of the Association for the Study of Food in Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (ASFS/AFHVS) was held…
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Marine Anthropologist, Man, Who Lived With Fishermen And Temple Gods: Life And Works Of PRG Mathur
Contributed By: Prof. P.K. Misra Patron, UIAF pramodkumarmisra@gmail.com PRG as I affectionately called him is no more, this was the saddest news for me. We were colleagues at…
The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the…
Book Review | Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants by Donghyun Danny Choi et al.
In Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants, Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner and Nicholas Sambanis present the results of field work experiments conducted in Germany to understa…
How Power Pervades Portrayals of Human Evolution
An evolutionary scholar examines racist and sexist depictions of human evolution that continue to permeate science, education, and popular culture. This article was originally published at The Conver…
Becoming a Socialite: How Virtual “Fakeness” Produces Material Realities among Urban Chinese Gay Men
Real, Unreal, and Whatever Else In-between On Chinese gay dating apps, “fake profiles” are a constant concern: photos might have been altered or biometrics might have been fabricated.…
Infrastructuring Gens
The Gens Manifesto gracefully opened a new debate in economic anthropology, a field that since the financial crisis of 2008 had been dominated by studies of financialisation. There,…
The Museum – a play
What follows is a fictionalised play that draws on actual events, conversations, and incidents that we have witnessed or experienced working inside museums. Museums are in a bit…
Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity
Prehension is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we take for granted: the importance of…
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are off-topic, or even topic-less. In Reading the…
Alessandra Ciucci on her book, The Voice of the Rural
Interview by Nicco La Mattina https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo141940160.html Nicco La Mattina: In The Voice of the Rural, by attending to competing aesthetic disco…
Paper: Digital & transport infrastructures in remote Canada
Budka, P. (2023). Digital and transport infrastructures in remote Canada: Notes on ownership and control. Paper at InfraNorth Workshop “Ethnographies of Infrastructure”, Vienna, Austria: …
Book Review: Citizen Designs: City-making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand by Eli Elinoff
In Citizen Designs: City-making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand, Eli Elinoff explores citizenship struggles and the political engagement of residents living in Northeastern Thailand. Unlike tra…
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Anti-Boycott Laws?
Anthropologists are often quick to decry the law as a fig leaf for the exercise of raw political or economic power. Yet when holding bureaucratic sinecures, anthropologists’ daily…
Orit Avishai, “Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel” (NYU Press, 2023)
Until fairly recently, Orthodox people in Israel could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fold. But within the span of…
Daniel E Agbiboa, “Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context” (U Michigan Press, 2022)
In Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context (U Michigan Press, 2022), Daniel Agbiboa takes African insurgencies back to their routes by providing a transdisciplinary…
Leela Fernandes, “Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State” (U Washington Press, 2022)
Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water…
CFF: Tromsø Educational Film Festival (deadline: 15 September)
We are pleased to announce TREFF (Tromsø Educational Film Festival) – a festival that combines education and film. We are a festival connected to UiT the Arctic Univsersity…
Chris Hann: Thanks, Türkiye
How does Recep Tayyip Erdoğan do it? In Spring 2023, the economy is in a mess, inflation accelerating, and corruption rife. Government aid in the wake of a…
Links & Contents I Liked 486
Hi all,Botched biodiversity projects in Guinea, harmful algorithms in Jordan, tea pickers destroying machines in Kenya, sugar & global health in Barbados, plus stories about UN leadership &…
East Finnmark – interethnic borderland now and then
A Russian vessel named “Saami” in a Norwegian wharf in Kirkenes in June 2023: the borderland reality on the ground continues as a lived experience even at times…
SUBTRACTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS
The following curated collection of fragments outlines two main strategies used over the last ten years in the creation of contemporary artworks to memorialise events: subtraction and accumulation.…
Archive of Articles on 2023 Cuts at VUW and Otago
If you have any links that can be added, please email me. News Stories “University redundancies undermine Government’s own science strategy – academic” (RNZ, June 14) …