The Siren: A Requiem for Colonialism through Love Death Robots
By Savannah Mandel “Jibaro” makes me wonder if we should listen more closely to the call of Sirens. This 17 minute long, Love Death Robots episode has me…
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Stevie Suan on his book, Anime’s Identity
Interview by Wendy Goldberg https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/animes-identity Wendy Goldberg: How fixed is Japan’s perceived cultural dominance for anime? How could cultural do…
Comparative Adversaria – of Gandhi and Marx
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Lee D. Baker, “From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954” (U California Press, 1998)
On today’s podcast we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Dr. Lee D. Baker’s book From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (University of…
CFF: NAFA2023 (deadline: 21 April)
Only three weeks left to submit your film for the 42nd NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival. This edition will be held in Copenhagen 24-26 August 2023. To submit…
Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 1
Falkof’s book discusses the everyday experiences of fear and moral anxiety in the city of Johannesburg in post-apartheid state South Africa. Drawing on narrative accounts from political protests,…
The Path
A poet-anthropologist reflects on the musings of an older Noni woman from Cameroon who critiques anthropology’s past as a handmaiden of colonialism in responding to her daughter’s chosen…
Post- Eiffel??
A comment in David Biggs’s, generally very engaging, 2010 book Quagmire. One part early on seemed to clang like a cheap scooter hitting the railings of an old…
Piro Rexhepi, “White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route” (Duke UP, 2022)
In White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route (Duke UP, 2022), Piro Rexhepi explores the overlapping postsocialist and postcolonial border regimes in the Balkans that are designed to…
Shailaja Paik, “The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India” (Stanford UP, 2022)
Shailaja Paik’s book The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford UP, 2022) is an important reflection on the question of Dalit women and their sexuality…
Marx in Algeria – the penultimate trip
In a post script to a letter he sent before leaving Algeria in his penultimate year, Marx, is recovering, a little, from pleurisy, and trying to enjoy himself –…
Links & Contents I Liked 471
Hi all,A great week of teaching is coming to its close-colleagues from Brazil, the US, Pakistan, the Netherlands & Finland joined us virtually in our Glocal Classroom in…
Maritime borders in a rising sea
In this blogpost, Ernst Nordtveit draws upon legal perspectives to discuss projections of sea level rise and reflect upon regional strategies in the Pacific that view maritime boundaries…
Jessica Barnes, “Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt” (Duke UP, 2022)
Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. In Staple Security: Bread…
How to use health technologies to “kill one little deer in the dark forest”
There is a global push towards making AI more ethical and transparent. As critical contributions on the topic of AI have pointed out: even when computational applications are…
The Long Journey Home
Pegi Vail (New York University) In the most recent issue of AJEC (Volume 31 Issue 2), my colleagues and I focused on ‘World Fairs, Exhibitions and Anthropology: Revisiting Contexts of…
What Do Archaeologists Do?
Archaeologists use a wide variety of methods to explore a fascinating range of topics about human history, culture, and behavior. Here’s an overview of the ways archaeologists preserve…
Mary Ann Hinsdale and Stephen Okey, “T&T Clark Handbook of Theological Anthropology” (T&T Clark, 2020)
The T&T Clark Handbook of Theological Anthropology (T&T Clark, 2020) is a ground-breaking volume that gathers together the voices of veteran theologians and some of the most promising emerging scholars…
A New Hope? Japanese Retirement Migration to Malaysia
In post-growth Japan, some people are looking to Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia, as a source of new hope. A notable change in the recent pattern of global migration…
Reminder: Third Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
A quick reminder! The deadline for entering the 3rd annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photo contest is February 16. Details on how to enter are below. Fame and glory…
Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler on their book, The American Stamp
Interview by Pauline Turner Strong http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-american-stamp/9780231208246 Pauline Strong: Congratulations on the publication of your book! I very much enjoyed reading…
Leslie Bow, “Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings…
Combat Sex: Pleasure of War in Africa
This blog post is part of the Experience of War conference, March 24, 2023, funded by the WARFUN project. Traditional war practices, such as killing are not easily linked…