Review: Black Food Matters
Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, eds. Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice. University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis. 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0814-0. pp. 302.…
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Designing Resilience – Behavioral Science Meets Humanitarian Action with Britt Titus
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SAPIENS Podcast Season 5 Trailer
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Gediminas Lesutis, “The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering” (Routledge, 2021)
Based on critical theory and ethnographic research, Gediminas Lesutis’ book The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering (Routledge, 2021) explores how intensifying geographies of extractive capitalism shape human lives…
Melanie Heath, “Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance” (Stanford UP, 2023)
In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles…
Erin Raffety, “Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China” (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China (Rutgers UP, 2022) traces the…
Far-right anthropologies
One of the things that surprised me most after I began doing research on European far-right youth activists was my research participants’ statements on how much they love…
Transpositioning, a Hypertext-ethnography
This is a work of hypertext-ethnography. It is based on my research of a small genetics laboratory in Tokyo, Japan where I am studying the impact of the…
Spring Break continued: I returned to Tenri/Ojiba after over three years… 陽気ぐらし
The weather was beautiful and Tenri was mostly quiet… Some changes here and there, a few due to COVID… More barrier-free in the shinden, many old shops closed,…
John P. O’Regan on his book, Global English and Political Economy
Interview by Bonnie Urciuoli https://www.routledge.com/Global-English-and-Political-Economy/ORegan/p/book/9781138811126 Bonnie Urciuoli: Can you say a bit about how your Marx reading group …
Jessica Grieser on her book, The Black Side of the River
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Street Piano at Kintetsu Tenri Station!
For more info: Street piano installation location information site https://pianomitsuketa.com/9404/ Kintetsu Tenri Station Street Pianohttps://ameblo.jp/koukishoji/entry-12733266099.html When I was play…
Citing toward Community, Citing against Harm
Here I want to think through the politics and ethics of citing against harm in academia.
Looking for the Lepchas
A poet of the Indigenous Lepcha community of the Eastern Himalayas is looking to find herself as she grapples with the legacy of writings and material that speak…
The full frontal attack on nonbinary and other ‘woke’ matters
By Michiel Baas. The University of Amsterdam has appointed a committee to investigate academic freedom within its institution. The reason for this is a complaint from lecturer Laurens…
Patrick L. Schmidt, “Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
Harvard’s Department of Social Relations made history in the 1950s and 1960s as the most ambitious program in social science in the United States. Dedicated to a synthesis…
Kate Sylvester, “Women and Martial Art in Japan” (Routledge, 2022)
Kate Sylvester’s Women and Martial Art in Japan (Routledge 2023) examines sport, gender, and society in Japan through the author’s extensive experience and ethnographic research as a kendo practitioner both…
Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan, “Tensions in Diversity: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles” (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Urban landscapes are complex spaces of sociocultural diversity, characterized by narratives of both conviviality and conflict. As people with multiple ethnicities and nationalities find their common destinies in…
Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
Where does the concept of “community” come from? How does it shape the lives of Hindus and Muslims in metropolitan Yangon? And how do these people navigate between…
Winners of SAFN’s 3rd Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
David Beriss We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The weighty decision was reached by a panel made up of…
CFP AAA/CASCA: Alternative Food Movements & Threat of Cooption
Scholars working in various communities that are advocating in favor of alternatives to the mainstream food system encounter groups with various ways that they frame their alternatives. We…
Ingrid Kummels on her new book, Indigenity in Real Time
Interview by Maria Eugenia Ulfe https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/indigeneity-in-real-time/9781978834781 María Eugenia Ulfe: Congratulations, Ingrid, for publishing this wonderful …
First Day of Spring Break! Trying to be happy (amidst the sorrows of this shitty year so far…)
Cherry blossoms on two trees popping early… the rest will pop soon! Special auto-ethnographic bonus: a (renewal) haircut, yaki niku and new friends…
John Miller, “The Philosophy of Tattoos” (British Library, 2021)
The Philosophy of Tattoos (British Library, 2021) by Dr. John Miller presents an impressively broad yet personal account, exploring tattooing as a unique expression of individual, cultural and national…