ESpero Canada Expansion – Online Gallery!
As the NFT projects started to draw more attention, my friends from the US decided to join us and co-found an international branch of ESpero, ESpero North America.…
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ESpero: We Created An APP!
It was mentioned in my blogs earlier this year that I founded my own company, ESpero. We started by creating NFTs to document the cultures and historically iconic…
Efram Sera-Shriar, “Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022) examines British anthropology’s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late…
Munira Khayyat, “A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon” (U California Press, 2022)
What worlds take root in war? In A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (U California Press, 2022), anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the…
Kelly I. Aliano, “The Performance of Video Games: Enacting Identity, History and Culture Through Play” (McFarland, 2022)
When viewed through the context of an interactive play, a video game player fulfills the roles of both actor and spectator, watching and influencing a game’s story in…
Amal Sachedina, “Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman” (Cornell UP, 2021)
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman (Cornell UP, 2021) explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in…
Links & Contents I Liked 466
Hi all,This is the final weekly #globaldev post for 2022. A special section on ‘localization’ & articles on EA, greenwashing & countries like Haiti or DRC in crisis…
Philippe Peycam, “Cultural Renewal in Cambodia: Academic Activism in the Neoliberal Era” (Brill and ISEAS, 2020)
How far did post-UNTAC Cambodia exemplified an expanded Habermasian public sphere? What happened when a range of aid agencies, private donors, activists and academics showed up with all…
CITES CoP19: Combatting species extinction through wildlife trade regulation
BySonia DhandaPhD Anthropology On 14–25 November 2022, government representatives from over 160 countries convened in Panama City for solutions to the biodiversity crisis and negotiations on w…
"What’s your Nation?"
“What’s your Nation?” That’s one of the first questions I got asked in the First Nations Longhouse shortly after I was hired at UBC in 1996. I’d been…
Film Day Rewind
Written by Paloma López, Educator, Indian Arts Research Center Sunday, November 6 was Film Day at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC). The School for Advanced…
President’s Circle Annual Winter Party: Fireside Chat
On a cold and rainy December night, the School for Advanced Research (SAR) welcomed sixty members of the Presi…
DEI Network Meeting: Special Issue Launch
This year, DEI went into the holiday season by introducing the recently published Special Issue “Across Mobile Online and Offline Spaces: Reflections on Methods, Practices, and Ethics” (ed. by…
Social Anthro#1: Introduction to Social Anthropology
Recently I started taking a course in Oxford about social anthropology. Intrigued by its various anthropological theories and perspectives, I would like to share what I have learned…
Samuel J. Redman, “Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums” (Harvard UP, 2022)
In Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Harvard University Press, 2022 for paperback edition), Samuel J. Redman, Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts,…
Batja Mesquita, “Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions” (Norton, 2022)
A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together. We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt…
Belonging: A Conversation with Geoffrey Cohen
Why do we feel the need to belong, and what happens when we don’t? This episode explores: What it takes to belong. Why it physically hurts to be…
Best of SAPIENS 2022
In a year of continuing global conflagrations, anthropologists investigated a wide range of pressing and curious questions about humanity’s past, present, and future. Here are the editors’ picks…
Mërzitna: A conspiracy of emotion
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Emotion and talk about emotion are “simultaneously embodied and discursive ways of commenting on the possibilities, limitations, frustrations, and outcomes which an individual faces …
A Native Alaska Community’s Reckoning With Vaccine Hesitancy
An anthropologist’s research with Tlingit communities in Alaska shows they have good reasons to be skeptical about vaccines. They know their history. ✽ New COVID-19 boosters are now…
An anthropological chronicle from EASA 2022
I invite you to share in a partial and subjective review of the exhausting academic marathon that was the 17th congress of the European Association of Social Anthropologists…
What makes a job ad “terrible”?
On September 18, 2021, Dada Docot launched what she called “Search for 2021 Worst Anthro Job Ads.” Taking place on Twitter, this “contest” brought public attention to conversations…
Reconstructing the Willamette Valley Camas Swales
In recent work I have begun to document the various wetlands of the Willamette Valley from before settler changes took effect. Our best, and most