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Hi all,Botched biodiversity projects in Guinea, harmful algorithms in Jordan, tea pickers destroying machines in Kenya, sugar & global health in Barbados, plus stories about UN leadership &…
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East Finnmark – interethnic borderland now and then
A Russian vessel named “Saami” in a Norwegian wharf in Kirkenes in June 2023: the borderland reality on the ground continues as a lived experience even at times…
SUBTRACTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS
The following curated collection of fragments outlines two main strategies used over the last ten years in the creation of contemporary artworks to memorialise events: subtraction and accumulation.…
Archive of Articles on 2023 Cuts at VUW and Otago
If you have any links that can be added, please email me. News Stories “University redundancies undermine Government’s own science strategy – academic” (RNZ, June 14) …
Anthropology for pressing issues: climate change and inequality, Tuesday 20 June 14:00 Rovaniemi
Prof John Ziker introduces his research and plans in the European Arctic. The anthropology team is pleased to announce a rather spontaneous talk by our visiting professor at…
Dr. Louis Olsen (MOCA 1 of 2)
Louis comes to visit me in my office I am very saddened by the recent passing of my friend, colleague and fellow anthropologist, Dr. Louis Olsen. My deepest…
Marielle Risse, “Houseways in Southern Oman” (Routledge, 2022)
Houseways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2022) explores how houses are created, maintained and conceptualized in southern Oman. Based on long-term research in the Dhofar region, it draws on anthropology, sociology,…
How Microbes Became Friendly: Visualizations of the Microbiome in Public Media
The biology, as astonishing as it is, does not tell us what it will mean. -Stephan Helmreich, “Homo Microbis” (2014, 4) Within microbiome research, the human body can…
SAR Honored for Architectural Stewardship by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation
In a public award event held at San Miguel Chapel on May 18, the School for Advanced Research received the Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s 2023 Preservation Award for…
Unearthing Culinary Pasts—With Help From Llama Poop
A food archaeologist investigates everyday eating and lean times among the ancient Moche of Peru through a remarkable discovery of thousands of llama “beans.” A DAY IN THE…
(Update) They turned the closed bakery into bicycle parking…
The local bakery that closed earlier this year (VAoJ, 2/15/23) has been gutted and turned into bicycle parking.
Daniel E. Agbiboa, “They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria” (Oxford UP, 2023)
Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to…
Francis Cody, “The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization” (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Not merely the act of representing events with words or images, a “news event” is the reciprocal relationship between the events being reported in the news and the…
2023 Native Arts Speaker Series Wrap-Up
By Paloma Lopez, Educator, Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research The 2023 Native Arts Speaker Series, Grounded in Clay Conversations, has ended. This year we partnered…
Malini Ranganathan et al., “Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City (Cornell UP, 2023) illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global storytelling about how states and elites abuse entrusted…
Platypod, Episode Seven: An Anthropology of Data, AI, and Much More
Download the transcript of this interview. For this episode of Platypod, I talked to Dr. Tanja Ahlin about her research, work, and academic trajectory. She’s currently a postdoctoral…
What Bigfoot Teaches Us About Public Mistrust of Science
In the 1960s, credentialed scientists, including physical anthropologists, hunted for the legendary Sasquatch. How did they fall for the hoax? ✽ In the late 1960s, Bigfoot seemed to…
A Caste Theory of Asylum Management?
The theoretical framework I wish to introduce here is somewhat experimental in nature. I was trained in sociology in Delhi University, where I completed my masters before heading…
Kapitalismuskritik als Sprachmagie
Im August 2019 besuchte ich in Nairobi eine Veranstaltung mit dem klangvollen Titel Why does nobody speak about capitalism in Kenya? Die Veranstaltung war das Ergebnis einer Kooperation…
SAR Announces 2023-2024 Native Artist Fellows
SAR Announces 2023-2024 Native Artist Fellows …
Amanda Cullen takes the page 99 test
Frankly, I was hoping that page 99 of my dissertation would capture the voices of one or more of my participants. Unfortunately, what I arrived at was the…
Feeling What We Are/A’yel jtaleltik
An anthropologist and writer from the Tseltal community speaks back to a colonialist history of suppression—instead claiming his identity, language, and people. “Feeling What We Are/A’yel jtalel…
Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, “Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions” (Orient Blackswan, 2018)
We live in times where theory is often understood as irrelevant in the real world. It appears to have no practical results. This has been further complicated in…
Osman Balkan, “Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
On any given day, the remains of countless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in ancestral soils. Others are laid to rest in countries…