Shannon Mattern on her book, A City is not a Computer
Interview by Elliott Montpellier https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208053/a-city-is-not-a-computer Elliot Montpellier: You write that you questioned how to write about “the…
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Lecture: Von der Cyber Anthropologie zur Digitalen Anthropologie
On invitation of Christoph Bareither, I gave a lecture on the formations, the differences and similarities of cyber anthropology and digital anthropology for the colloquium “Digital Anthropolog…
Post-
An Indigenous poet-anthropologist writes to her daughter of the limits of her motherly protection. “Post-” is part of the collection Indigenizing What It Means to Be Human. Read…
Edgar Morin’s Leçons d’un siècle de vie by Robert Dingwall
Leçons d’un siècle de vie. Morin, Edgar. 2022. Paris: Pluriel. Edgar Morin is probably the most influential French sociologist that the English-speaking world has never acknowledge…
Workshop: Textile Arts and Heritage Practices in Southwest China
I am happy to be hosting a group of colleagues in Bloomington this week for a long-delayed (COVID…) writing workshop on “Textile Arts and Heritage Practices in Southwest…
Lots of pink at Koshien for Mother’s Day!
Screen shots from Sky A cable network. Hanshin Tigers vs. DeNA Yokohama Baystars. The umpires were wearing pink shirts and hats, the catchers were wearing pink chest protection,…
Nerina Weiss et al., “The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World” (Routledge, 2022)
Nerina Weiss. Erella Grassiani, and Linda Green’s book The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World (Routledge, 2022) focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within…
Sebanti Chatterjee, “Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality” (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sebanti Chatterjee’s book Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (Bloomsbury, 2023) is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality…
Allison Christine Meier, “Grave” (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Allison C. Meier takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour…
Claudia Liebelt, “Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey” (Syracuse UP, 2023)
In the past two decades, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increasingly common practice, especially among…
Daniel Ruiz-Serna, “When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories” (Duke UP, 2023)
In When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories (Duke University Press, 2023) Daniel Ruiz-Serna follows the afterlives of war, showing how they affect the variety…
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Hi all,When it comes to failing the Syrian people entities from the Arab League to the IOM & the Australian government feature in this week’s newsletter; the Taliban,…
When all positives are false: the emergence of an academic whodunnit
Many educators accept the idea that we need to systematically assess the performance of our students. Easily accessible writing tools complicate the practice of assessment: how do we…
Leyla Jagiella, “Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey” (Hurst, 2022)
In the powerful book Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey (Hurst Publishers, 2022), Leyla Jagiella reflects on her story as a trans Muslim living among a third-gender community known as Khwajasira…
Vad betyder det att bry sig om antropologi?
Lotta Björklund Larsen: Nästan hela SANT mötet hölls på engelska. Det är inte så märkligt då i stort sett all antropologisk forskning publiceras i engelskspråkiga tidskrifter. Som vår…
The Household’s Basket: Households in a Basket, Part 2
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY In part one of this essay, I briefly described the workings of the “Household’s Basket”, a policy by the Greek government designed to help…
Radio Guest: “Anthropologist traces the “multi-species politics” of javelinas and humans”
I was a guest on the Marfa Public Radio show, Nature Notes, discussing my research on human-javelina relations in Texas. Listen for a sneak peek at some of…
Copious Free Time: Evans-Pritchard Edition
Here are some pieces that I want to read but almost definitely will not get around to. Perhaps you will have better luck? Sean Kingston has an amazing book…
Worried about the impact of AI? SAR was ahead of the curve.
[Featured image courtesy of Mike MacKenzie, https://www.vpnsrus.com/, and Wikimedia Commons] Various SAR members have suggested that SAR bring to Santa Fe an expert to talk about the possibilities…
Pablo Semán and Ariel Wilkis: Rebellion of the bastards: the rise of the extreme right in Argentina
The growth of extreme right-wing forces in the Argentine political process expresses the combination of global trends and specific trends associated with local political history. It also expresses…
INDERA PAUL SINGH: A LEGEND IN INDIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Prof. Kallur Nava Saraswathy Professor of Biological Anthropology Department of Anthropology Delhi University, Delhi Email: knsaraswathy@yahoo.com Prof. Indera Paul Singh, fondly referred to as I.P S…
SAR Member Trip to Glorieta Pass and Pecos National Historical Park
By Melinda Sue Robbins, Grants Manager, School for Advanced Research …
Neighborliness Matters to Your Health
Drawing from cross-cultural research, an anthropologist shows how neighborliness can lessen wealth-based health disparities. DOES GOOD HEALTH REQUIRE WEALTH? The poorest people in the U.S. spend their…
Project update: One Ocean Week
In this project update blog post, read about OceanStates’ participation in the One Ocean Week with partners from the University of the South Pacific who visited us in…