Ethnographic Postcards: The Good Polyester
Polyester is widely considered an unsustainable fabric polluting our environment but in Ghana, it is seen as a sustainable, good material. The post Ethnographic Postcards: The Good Polyester…
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How Do We Heal?
A poet-anthropologist who is a Passamaquoddy tribal member lights a path toward healing both within the field of archaeology and in reflecting on the voices and presence—past, present,…
RECONSTRUCTING NARRATIVES AND HISTORICTY OF CASTE
Shalina Mehta Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology (retd.) Department of Anthropology Panjab University Chandigarh Shalinamehta137@gmail.com Many a doctrine is like a windowpane. We see trut…
Call for Submissions: Editors’ Forum on Popular Culture Representations of Anthropologists
We are excited to announce our very first “Editors’ Forum.” As part of this initiative, we are calling for blog submissions on the fascinating topic of “Popular Culture…
Alexa Hagerty, “Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains” (Crown, 2023)
In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for marks…
sNAPAshots: Mohini Mehta
https://practicinganthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023.04.01_Mohini-Mehta-sNAPAshot.mp4 0:10[On Screen Text – Scrolling] sNAPAshots Interviewer 0:10 Welcome back to season two of sNAPAshots….
sNAPAshots: Chad Morris
https://practicinganthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023.04.01_Chad-Morris-sNAPAshot.mp4 0:00 [NAPA Logo] Interviewer 0:11 Welcome to sNAPAshots: Conversations with Practicing, Professional, and App…
Eli Elinoff, “Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand” (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern…
Austerity: An Economy of Words? Pt. 2
Written by Keith Hart The originality of Keynes Commerce waxed and waned throughout the agrarian era, until the market became …
The mental tangles of classification
Citational politics often means citing a diverse group of authors, but often that will bring up the political and practical problems of categorization.
Links & Contents I Liked 477
Hi all,Any weekly review post that features a link to Robert Chambers’ work is a good post ;). More seriously, lots of new research, reflections & reporting from humanitarian…
Ioannis Gaitanidis, “Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?” (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Ioannis Gaitanidis’ book Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (Bloomsbury, 2022) critically examines the spirituality phenomenon in contemporary Japan by looking at the main actors involved in the discourse:…
Det sociala arbetets marknadsplats – en flanerande professors betraktelser
Magnus Dahlstedt: Innan föredraget flanerar jag med etnografens blick runt, tittar på folk, följer deras rörelseschema. Så småningom går det alltmer upp för mig. Det jag under lång…
First SAR Centennial Medal Presented to N. Scott Momaday
On February 25, SAR President Michael F. Brown, Ph.D., presented SAR’s first ever Centennial Medal to author N. Scott Momaday for distinguished service to SAR and the world.…
The Good Enough Life
Today’s book is: The Good-Enough Life (Princeton UP, 2022) by Avram Alpert. We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest,…
Laurah E. Klepinger, “Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots” (Lexington Books, 2022)
Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots (Lexington Books, 2022) is an ethnography about local wageworkers in the Indian branches of a transnational yoga institution and…
Can Digitizing Gravestones Save History?
An anthropologist is digitizing gravestones at Burial Hill, a historic cemetery in Plymouth, Massachusetts, that holds the remains of some of the first Pilgrims. Documenting these unique records…
Editorial Note: Introducing the new Engagement team
The Sierras in California. Photo by: Ángela Castillo Engagement is happy to announce a new editorial team starting in 2023! Ángela Castillo-Ardila, Colin Hoag, Jia Hu…
Tomaso Ferrando: Beyond Speculation
On May 21, 2022 the cover of The Economist left no space to the imagination: a set of skulls replaced the grains of a wheat straw, and the…
All balls have colors but some balls are more colorful than others
By Peter Versteeg – The opening images of the documentary “White Balls on Walls” show us an ivory tower: a huge building, shining white, almost sterile, a stronghold…
Paper: Relational infrastructures
Budka, P. (2023). Relational infrastructures: Transportation and sustainability in the Subarctic town of Churchill, Canada. Paper at Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Rovani…
materialism and truth
Do we spend too much time worrying about truth and its manipulation of the senses, priority of matter etc., Rene Descartes owes us much as the destructive consequences…