A Story of Icelandic Skulls
An anthropologist journeys to the Arctic Circle and finds a surprising story about the human remains that end up in museum collections. “Prime harvest”—that’s how one early 20th-century…
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NEW article on state, family, and the scaling of care by Christof Lammer
The minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) in the People’s Republic of China has been claimed to be the „world’s largest cash-based social policy.“ Examining the making of d…
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, “The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games” (U California Press, 2023)
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games (University of California Press, 2023) creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic…
The Borders of Normality
How can we describe the shifting ways in which racism intersects with other systems of oppression in the present? As an anthropologist who has researched the contemporary German…
Michele Friedner on her book, Sensory Futures
Interview by Timothy Y. Loh https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sensory-futures Tim Loh: Congratulations on this exciting new book! Your first book, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban …
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, “Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South” (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd’s book Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South (U Georgia Press, 2022) explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues…
Heidi J. Larson, “Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start–and Why They Don’t Go Away” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines’ necessity — along with questions around their side effects — have gone…
a love letter to my qáqnaʔ
A sqilxʷ poet and artist who currently lives in Mohkínstsis, Treaty 7 in Canada speaks to their grandmother of longing and connection, wanting to wake up the medicine…
Uddipana Goswami, “Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency” (Routledge, 2022)
Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency (Routledge, 2022) forward Assam (and Northeast India) as a specific location for studying operations of gendered power in multi-ethnic, conflict-habituated…
Spring Break continued: My favorite izakaya
No smoking… great! No photos… disappointing! And maybe I should not have taken and then posted this photo. But in my quest to fight the funk and have…
sNAPAshots is back this April 1st!!!
sNAPAshots Season 2 Drops Next Saturday!! The post sNAPAshots is back this April 1st!!! first appeared on NAPA.
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Hi all,Back from short trips to Austria & Germany-as a proud co-supervisor of a freshly minted doctor & inspired board member of an alumni association of the German…
Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil, “Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness” (Princeton UP, 2023)
How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house…
Msysh: The power of the eye
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Patiently Edona explained to me, “Evil eye gets unleashed when someone thinks ‘Oh this is good, this is nice.’ It will also happen when someone thinks that…
SELF-HELP GROUPS: PATHWAY TO STRENGTHENING AGENCY OF ADIVASI WOMEN
A Case study from Kalam Village, Kalahandi District By Madhulika Sahoo (1) and Sanghamitra Bhoi (2) Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Director Student Welfare and Placement, Kalahand…
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) in time of crisis. Observations from ethnographic fieldwork on board LNG carriers
Introduction November 2022, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. I am sipping evening tea with Dario, an electrician from Ukraine, one of the 25 seafarers working…
Why the world needs anthropologists? Because they make a difference!
By Barbara van Male. A freelance journalist, a UX-researcher, a policy advisor in radicalisation, a researcher in water management, and a senior officer at an NGO walk into…
Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)
If you have ever gotten excited over buying a new object only to feel let down once you acquire it, then today’s discussion will be relevant to you.…
Andrea Acri and Paolo E. Rosati, “Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins” (Routledge, 2022)
Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins (Routledge, 2022) explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting ‘magical’ and…
What Molars and Math Reveal About the Human Brain
A paleoanthropologist explains what fossilized teeth—analyzed through a recently developed mathematical equation—can tell us about how brains have developed in utero over millions of years of human ev…
Camas Journal 2023: Baby Camas, Mowing, Cultural Fire
This year I tried to get out there into the field when the camas is beginning to erupt from the ground. I am not sure I have seen…
Kufun + Fun = CoFuFun at Tenri Station Plaza
CoFuFun is an open space for special events, gatherings and for children (and adults) to play. It was produced by Nendo, a not-for-profit arts and architectural group, to…