Category: English
Growing Up Woodbrook
These are my comments from the recent book launch for Growing Up Woodbrook Professionally, sometimes there is something you really want to happen but it doesn’t and that…
#UBCBoG Faculty Elections – last chance to vote
Voting in the UBC Board of Governors’ faculty elections ends at 4pm on December 8th. If you haven’t yet voted and want to here’s how: To Vote Go…
Irene Hilden, “Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive’s Acoustic Legacies” (Leuven UP, 2022)
Dealing with the colonial archive entails acknowledging the inability to know everything, accounting for the archive’s limited and incomplete condition. Dealing with the colonial archive is not merely…
Teemu Taira, “Atheism in Five Minutes” (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
Atheism in Five Minutes, by Professor Teemu Taira, is part of Equinox Publishing’s “Religion in 5 Minutes” series. It offers insights into a number of commonly held questions…
Links & Contents I Liked 464
Hi all,This afternoon I am going to leave the virtual space & join colleagues to explore an exhibition in Malmö on dreams, images & mobile phones. In the…
Chris McMorran, “Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan” (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Today I talked to Chris McMorran about his new book Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2022). Amid the decline of many of Japan’s rural communities, the hot…
Gregory Shushan, “The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife” (White Crow Books, 2022)
In The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife (White Crow Books, 2022), historian of religions Gregory Shushan explores the relationships between extraordinary experiences and beliefs in life after death.…
Memory, loss and living in a post-disaster village
Eighteen years after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, Annemarie Samuels visits her long-term research village in Aceh where old and new grief is met with prayer.
In Memoriam: Pat Courtney Gold (1939-2022)
In Memoriam: Pat Courtney Gold (1939-2022) …
Bernard Cohn TOC
Bernard Cohn was an important anthropologist and historian of India. His 1987 volume An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays can be hard to find in digital.…
Female African warriors and their brave fight against the African slave trade by Jehron Muhammad
The film “The Woman King,” directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring award-winning actress Viola Davis, though receiving much acclaim, has …
Atoll Ways of Being with the Ocean
A perspective from low laying atolls brings climate discourses and practical realities together. Tokelau experiences with political intervensions employed by overseas agents range historically from in…
Lan Anh Hoang, “Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty” (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Vietnam and Russia share a common socialist history dating back to the Cold War. But since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and Vietnam’s đổi mới reforms, Russia…
Henni Alava, “Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion” (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Bloomsbury as part of the New Directions…
Adieu, Bruno Latour!
By Barbara Arisi and Jean Segata In order to celebrate the mes de los muertos (month of the dead), we write this obituary. We pay homage to one…
Student Governors call out lack of #UBCBoG Transparency
UBC-V student governors took to twitter November 30th to call out #UBCBoG’s lack of transparency. December 5th’s full meeting of the board has a mere one hour of…
How a Song Bridged Diné and Ndebele Worlds
An anthropologist recounts a magical moment of songwriting collaboration between Diné (Navajo) and Ndebele artists gathered for the WOMAD Festival in South Africa. ✽ In October, I traveled…
Writing Life (no. 21): An interview with Ruth Behar by Natashe Lemos Dekker
Image 1: One of Ruth’s writing spaces filled with family and childhood photos, art and objects that inspire her and that are filled with memories. On the laptop…
Plantas para alejar las malas vibras
Aquí se puede leer mi ponencia del Congreso Internacional sobre la Amazonía Peruana II, titulado “Plantas para alejar las malas vibras: Observaciones etnbotánicas de la Amazonía urbana.” …
Object Project: A Conversation Between Us and Our Future Grandchildren
ByJihai LiBSc Anthropology, 2021-24 This is an assignment of the undergraduate module ‘Introduction to Material and Visual Culture’. The assignment requires each student to choose one of the…
Sarah Abel, “Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome” (UNC Press, 2021)
Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult…