The Household’s Basket: Households in a basket
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a 2 part essay. Like most EU countries during the past year Greece has been faced with…
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Returning to UNC-Charlotte Approaching the 4th Anniversary of a Mass Shooting in My Class
Tomorrow, I get on a plane to fly to Charlotte, NC to attend the unveiling and dedication of a new memorial for Reed, Riley, and the other victims…
Richard Bauman on his book, A Most Valuable Medium
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://iupress.org/9780253065186/a-most-valuable-medium Ilana Gershon: What inspired you to study early commercial sound recordings? And what problems did these …
‘Everything shifted.’ On the impact of studying anthropology and the value of bringing those skills to work
By Barbara van Male – ‘When it came to major issues such as migration, climate crisis, inequality, I often felt a sense of unease. How could I to…
On Flores Island, Do Ape-Men Still Exist?
Islanders have long claimed ape-like humans, remarkably similar to the fossil species Homo floresiensis, survive in secluded forests of Indonesia. An anthropologist investigates why. Excerpted from Be…
Adorno on youth and discipline – whats not to love here
“There is absolutely no question that productive thinking today can take the form only of one that works through breaks and fractures, whereas any thinking which is simply…
Stepan Georgevich Shaumian – not to be forgotten.
Besides the usual wiki stuff, I would welcome any recommendations on Shaumian. Or Shaumyan as Louis Aragon spells his name in The History of the USSR (1962) –…
What Day is It? Depends on whose Calendar You Consult
Just when you think you know what day it is, along comes this research on the ancient Mayan calendar. By fifth grade, most schoolchildren know that a week…
Birding in Ruins: Multispecies Encounters and the Ecologies of Evidence
As we walked by some of the former shrimp ponds in an abandoned aquaculture farm, we approached a scene I easily overlooked until Julian asked me to document…
2023 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Fellow Janna Avner Works with Light
Written by Olivia Amaya Ortiz. Koyukon Athabascan creative, Janna Avner (she/her),…
The Oxymoron of Sustainable Aviation: Do we really want green solutions?
ByLuna Kvarnstrøm MelgaardMSc Anthropology, Environment, and Development Why is the aviation industry worth talking about? We have all heard how harmful the aviation industry is to the clim…
The Conversion of Julio Tiwiram
What is shamanic power? And how does it affect modern politics in Indigenous Amazonia? In this episode, we follow the life of a young Indigenous activist fighting for…
Lucien van Liere and Erik Meinema, “Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence: Things of Conflict” (Brill, 2022)
How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations,…
New! the Berreman-Yamanaka Global Equity Award
Source: https://mailchi.mp/berkeley.edu/new-the-berreman-yamanaka-global-equity-award?e=237d513adb Thanks to JH for forwarding this to me.
What could a European Abolitionism look like?
With the global surge of the Black Lives Matter movements, a renewed interest in the history, theory, and politics of abolitionism has emerged. I understand the intellectual aspect…
Meta-Reflection as a Teaching Tool
This semester I taught a new course called “Wicked Science,” which examines the challenges posed by wicked problems — those problems that defy solution because of fundamental di…
Review: Have You Eaten Yet?
Cheuk Kwan. Have You Eaten Yet?: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World. Pegasus Books. New York and London. 2023. ISBN: 978-1-63936-334-6. pp. 260. …
Ewald Engelen: Another ‘populist’ shake-up in the Netherlands: the BBB revolt
The shock among the Dutch chattering classes on 16 March was palpable. The right-populist Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) – established in 2019 by a small communications firm, bankrolled by…
Deborah Puccio-Den on her book, Mafiacraft
Interview by Elliott Wiseman https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo46770602.html Elliott Wiseman: In the introduction, you establish Mafiacraft as an inversion of wi…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston, “The Transgender Studies Reader Remix” (Routledge, 2022)
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston about The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (Routledge, 2023). This…
Apparition in Sugarland
A poet-anthropologist evokes a popular myth that speaks to the repercussions of—and possibilities of repair from—U.S. violence in the Philippines during colonialism. “Apparition in SugarlandR…
How global fashion brands failed Rana Plaza’s survivors
by Rebecca Prentice The survivors of the deadly supply chain disaster were paid ‘rights-based’ compensation from global brands; it wasn’t sufficient to help rebuild their lives The Rana…
Notes on Beuret.
An annotation of someone’s article abstract is probably a bit unfair. I’ve managed some awful ones myself. Sigh. Here I was, stuck in a long meeting, listening to…