Dr. SunAh M. Laybourn’s Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants (NYU Press, 2024) explores the experiences of Korean adoptees, the largest population of adult transnational adoptees in the…
Sociologist Neil M. Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between. In 2022, Los Angeles became the US…
[Near] Madeng [Bai] Town, Jianchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited June 5, 2023. This is the thirteenth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the…
Human rights are avowedly universal but must be translated by local activists to make sense in specific contexts, a process Sally Engle Merry called vernacularization. Human rights progress…
An anthropologist in the West Bank explains how Israel’s prison regime dehumanizes Palestinians, who nevertheless dream of freedom and resist erasure. CAMERAS ON CARCERAL VIOLENCE In December 2023,…
Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai interact with the city’s so-called superficial spaces to…
Terrains of Traditions and Taste From the North in Safad (where my father is from) and Galilee to the South East in Al-Lydd (where my mother is from)…
Some just asked me if I can see the camas tips now, to which I replied: Meaning, Yes! Camas is doing well at Minto-Brown, the
Harris, Will (2023) A Bold Return to Giving a Damn. One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food. With Amely Greeven. Viking. ISBN 9780593300473. 304 pages. Ellen Messer…
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https://press.umich.edu/Books/L/Listening-with-a-Feminist-Ear2 Anaar Desai-Stephens: One of the primary interventions of the book is this beautiful idea of “listening with a feminist ear…
Shuanglang [Bai] Town, Dali [County-Level] City, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China (2013). Visited December 11, 2013. [These images are from 2013, but Shuanglang was also visited Ma…
A poet-historian in Tanzania remembers those who have passed but who are still nearby. “Bila Mwili” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones…
[Suojia (a.k.a. Suoga) [Longhorn] Miao Eco-Museum], Longjia [Miao] Village, Suoga Miao, Yi, and Hui Ethnic Township, Liuzhi Special District, Liupanshui [Prefecture-Level] City, Guizhou, China. [A…
Maarten Couttenier’s Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922) (Routledge, 2023) examines the history of Belgian physical anthropology in the long nineteenth century and discusses how the notion of…
When did Christianity become cool? How did an Australian church conquer the world and expand into Brazil, a country with its own crop of powerful megachurches? In her…
Gaodang [Buyei, Buyi] Village, Ningxi Subdistrict, Zhenning Buyei and Miao Autonomous County, Anshun [Prefecture-Level] City, Guizhou, China. Visited March 15, 2015. This is the tenth post in t…
Following the 2011 wave of revolutions and protests in North Africa and the Middle East, new discussions of individual freedoms emerged in the Moroccan public sphere and human…
ATTN SAFN MEMBERS: Plan and submit your sessions for the joint 2024 American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting in Tampa Florida. The time has come to start planning and…
I had occasion to revisit this from 2007 again today: politics-of-catsDownload
Guandong Town, Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited December 9, 2014. This is the nineth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the…
By Hannan van Rooij – In 2022, with a group of friends I was planning to participate in the Mongol Rally. This is a contest where people drive…
Lijiang [Old] Town [a.k.a. Dayan Old Town], Gucheng District, Lijiang [Prefecture-Level] City, Yunnan, China. Visited June 6, 2023. This is the eighth post in the series: Villages and Towns…