The Rebirth of Birthcare: An Enquiry on Midwifery Care
‘The midwife tells the woman in labour that she sees she is having a hard time during the contractions. “The strength of them is good, after breaking the…
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Omotayo’s book, You Can’t Go to War Without Song
https://iupress.org/9780253063212/you-cant-go-to-war-without-song/ Tayo Jolaosho died on October 21, 2021, months before their book was published in July 2022. We honor their work and memory …
James C. Rhoads et al., “Cultivating Q Methodology: Essays Honoring Steven R. Brown” (Bookbaby, 2022)
Cultivating Q Methodology is a collection of essays is in honor of Professor Steven R. Brown, the preeminent scholar of Q methodology. Q methodology, innovated by the British physicist/psychologist William…
What If Neanderthals Had Outlived Homo Sapiens?
An anthropologist considers how different the world might be if Neanderthals—and hence, their ways of navigating relationships with the environment and one another—had survived the gauntlet of evoluti…
Kureishi metamorphosis
This is Hanif Kureishi’s study, and I am looking forward to his next book that will be greater than Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, with Italianate stylings. He had a…
SAFN Awards for 2023!
Award Winning Cheese! Photo: David Beriss Ryan Adams The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition offers five awards annually. Please follow the links below for application…
Statement from UBC President and Provost (finally, three months after METL story broke)
A Message to UBC Vancouver Indigenous Faculty and Staff Members on behalf of the President and Vancouver Provost To quote the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan, “Truth before…
When Coffee Is Like Angel Cake With Strawberry Jam
An anthropologist delves into the rarefied ritualistic world of specialty coffee, where highly trained brewers and judges compete to determine which beans reign supreme. Excerpted from Making Better…
Paulina Laura Alberto et al., “Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil,…
The Ideology of Innovation in India
Science and Technologies scholar Lilly Irani talks her book, Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India, with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. Irani’s work examines the…
Towards a History of Philosophical Anthropology: A Review of Carroll (2018)
Jerome CarrollAnthropology’s Interrogation of Philosophy from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth CenturyLexington Books, 2018256 pp., references, index Anthropology and philosophy are today well-e…
Review: Palm Oil
Max Haiven Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire. Pluto Press, London, 2022. ISBN 9780745345826. Leonidas Vournelis (Baruch College) Max Haiven’s Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire explores an…
Third Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
St. Joseph’s Day Altar, New Orleans. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day (February 16). If you have food anthropology…
Stephen Chrisomalis on his book, Reckonings
Interview by Grace East https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044639/reckonings/ Grace East: Reckonings whisks us away on a journey through time and space and introduces us to how people en…
Marlene Schäfers, “Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
“Raise your voice!” and “Speak up!” are familiar refrains that assume, all too easily, that gaining voice will lead to empowerment, healing, and inclusion for marginalized subjects. Marlene…
Eric A. Stanley, “Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable” (Duke UP, 2021)
Content note: This episode contains discussions of suicide, as well as allusions to graphic anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Black violence Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don’t…
On Émile Durkheim’s “The Elementary Forms of Religious Life” (1912)
Today I talked to Steven Lukes about Émile Durkheim’s classic The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). Lukes is the author of Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical…
Chris Bilton et al., “Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process” (Edward Elgar, 2022)
How does creativity work? In Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process (Edward Elgar, 2022), Chris Bilton, a Reader at University of Warwick’s Centre for Cultural…
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, “Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in…
Carwil Bjork-James, “The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia” (U Arizona Press, 2020)
In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politically, rivaling and at times exceeding voting booths…
Benjamin Hegarty, “The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia” (Cornell UP, 2022)
In The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia (Cornell UP, 2022), Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, one of Indonesia’s trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way…
Consumed: The Myth and Reality of Cannibalism
Cannibalism has been used for centuries to define the lowest form of humanity, but the story isn’t as straightforward as it may seem. Turns out, there may be…
Eternity Now: Talking about Mysticism with the Apostle to the Gangs of LA
Jesuit Father Greg Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in East LA, the world’s largest and most successful gang intervention and rehabilitation program. He talks about this…
Tanya Katerí Hernández, “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality” (Beacon Press, 2022)
Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality (Beacon Press, 2022) will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for…