Antropologi, humanekologi och pengarnas magi
Alf Hornborg: Vår kollektiva rörelse mot katastrof är i sista hand inte en konsekvens av hur ekonomer tänker utan av hur de pengar är utformade som formar deras…
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A while back campus and community planning tweeted out a praise tweet on their campus vision 2050 plan. In it they mentioned a community connectors program. When I…
Board protocols coming down
When one is a public academic there are many pitfalls one might encounter. This is compounded by being an elected member of the board of governors. Here is…
The Illness Experience of a Forty-year-old Hispanic Woman
Different cultural upbringings can determine a person’s illness experience. The relationship between the experience of a patient, and in turn, a course of treatment is inherently valuable to…
The Astounding Origins of Chaco Canyon Timber
In a nearly treeless desert, Ancestral Puebloans built Great Houses with more than 200,000 massive log beams. Where they got the wood has long puzzled archaeologists. THE QUESTION…
David Baumeister, “Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race” (Northwestern UP, 2022)
While Immanuel Kant’s account of human reason is well known and celebrated, his account of human animality (Thierheit) is virtually unknown. Animality and reason, as pillars of Kant’s…
The Human Roots of Japan’s Cherry Blossoms
Most cherry blossom trees planted in Japan today are the iconic pale-pink somei-yoshino variety—but its reign may be coming to an end. SAKURA FEVER I was in Japan…
Dissertation Manuscript Outline: Human-Javelina Relations in Texas
Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of…
The Power of Criminal Prosecutors
“Criminal.” It’s a label that can follow someone around for much of their life. But how does a person become a criminal? Anyone who is in prison has…
Paleoanthropology: The Ancestor Worshipping Death Cult
Firstly, this is satire. I love all of my paleoanthropologist friends. Paleoanthropology is a scientific discipline dedicated to illuminating our evolutionary history. However, it is also a low-k…
Universal public services: the power of decommodifying survival
One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition. Capitalism…
Catherine Wanner, “Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine” (Cornell UP, 2022)
Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine (Cornell UP, 2022) reveals how and why religion has become a pivotal political force in a society struggling to overcome the…
Akiko Takeyama, “Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club” (Stanford UP, 2016)
Welcome to Tokyo’s Kabuki-chō red-light district, where Professor Akiko Takeyama started her ‘affective ethnographic’ fieldwork to explore the host clubs in which ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling…
The Use of Patent Information to Investigate Algorithmic Systems
During my master’s degree, I wanted to study the idea that some social media platforms had tools for guiding users’ behavior in a certain direction. Even though this…
Nick Bartlett on his book, Recovering Histories
Interview with Yun Chen https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344136/recovering-histories Yun Chen: Recovering Histories is an ethnography of the entanglements between individuals’ lived expe…
Dimitris Xygalatas, “Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living” (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
Ritual is one of the oldest, and certainly most enigmatic, threads in the history of human culture. It presents a profound paradox: people ascribe the utmost importance to…
In the Event of Flooding
An Indigenous poet-anthropologist speaks to the survivance of Native communities in the face of colonialism and genocide. “In the Event of Flooding” is part of the collection Indigenizing…
Anthro Boycott 2.0
Supporters of academic boycott during the annual business meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Denver, Colorado, November 21, 2015. Photo by Alex Shams. Responding to the petition…
Gwen Burnyeat, “The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy Amid Disinformation in Colombia” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society…
Jennifer Lynn Kelly, “Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine (Duke UP, 2023), Jennifer Lynn Kelly explores the significance of contemporary solidarity tourism across Occupied Palestine. Examining the relationships among race,…
KENNETH AR KENNEDY – PIONEER OF HUMAN SKELETAL BIOLOGY IN INDIA
Subhash R. Walimbe Retired Faculty, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006 subhashwalimbe@gmail.com Prof. Kenneth AR Kennedy is in true sense the most noteworthy name in Ind…
Ep#104 We let ChatGPT write this title: “”ChatGPT: The Future of AI-Assisted Conversations”
The Familiar Strange · Ep#104 We let ChatGPT write this title: ""ChatGPT: The Future of AI-Assisted Conversations" It’s been a while… We’re back, this time with Familiar Strange…
Crooked Cats
This book is a rich cultural analysis of how people live with big cats in India in times of the Anthropocene and climate change. As people are increasingly…