Alasita: La feria aymara
Enero es un mes de intensa actividad en los talleres artesanales de las ciudades de El Alto y La Paz…
Category: English
Goofy was a plant.
“one half of them who perish in London, dye of Phthisical and Pulmonic distempers; that the inhabitants are never free from Coughs” John Evelyn 1661 The biggest trick…
Namita Vijay Dharia, “The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction” (U California Press, 2022)
What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold stories of the people, politics, and production chains…
David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck, “Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this…
Slurs
Defoe is as good at mocking Robinson as anyone, despite swallowing a thesaurus. In volume three: ”poor, wild, wicked Robinson” (316) “a churl, a morose, sour disposition, a…
Links & Contents I Liked 468
Hi all,Davos came & went, but there are also other important stories from Afghanistan, Brazil, on faux carbon offsets, value/poverty chains, peace intermediaries & much more!And another brand…
Hil Malatino, “Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad” (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Fatigue, disorientation, numbness, envy, rage, burnout. What good could come from thinking about trans experience and these bad feelings? In Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad (University of…
Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar
How do farmers struggle for land and democracy in Myanmar’s hybrid political system? How might a feminist approach to this question look like and enable novel findings? In…
Interview with CBC Radio, Jan 17, 2023.
Interview with CBC Radio, Jan. 17, 2023. I did an interview with CBC January 17th that contributed to a web story on that day and short news items…
“The task was to fit their bodies into these infrastructural worlds.” Food, Bodies, and Ethnicities in the Work of Krishnendu Ray
David Sutton In this eighth interview in the series on the development of Food Anthropology I sit down with Professor Krishnendu Ray (NYU). We discuss Professor Ray’s initial…
Greenland’s South: Inuit pastoralists in a rapidly changing Arctic environment
The first thing flying into Kangerlussuaq, Greenland reminds us that this is ‘properly’ Arctic. For most people who call the North home, the Arctic is further up North…
Master’s positions (MA & MSc) in plastics and justice-based research methods
CLEAR has four Master’s positions (MA or MSc) for September 2023
A Tree’s Tongue
A Nigerian poet-anthropologist witnesses the powerful rising up of ancestors through the revival of a tree in the Igbo village of Ogbodu. “A Tree’s Tongue” is part of…
Indigenizing What It Means to Be Human
SAPIENS offers a curated collection of poems and stories that center Indigenous values, worldviews, and insights, creatively reimagining anthropology and the human experience. ✽ Anthropology’s fraugh…
Malini Ambach et al., “Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives” (HASP, 2022)
For many centuries, Hindu temples and shrines have been of great importance to South Indian religious, social and political life. Aside from being places of worship, they are…
Don’t pursue a PhD as skills training for “the industry”!
Based on another recent conversation on LinkedIn-this time far more productive and polite compared to my previous experience, I want to expand a little on the answer I…
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…
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…