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I am lucky to have a prosperous and happy life, so I feel like I have little to complain about. However, during the crush of mid-career responsibilities it…
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Is it Going to Be Okay? / Est-ce que ça va aller?
Introduction This is is a multilingual comic that serves as a meditation on the infrastructures of COVID-19, care, and time. In the spirit of the multilingual spaces I…
How the Early Battle Over Race Science Was Lost
Celebrated 19th-century biologist Ernst Haeckel pushed race science as his little known protégé Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay defended Indigenous rights. A biological anthropologist reflects on the impacts …
Review: Extreme Weight Loss
Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich. Extreme Weight Loss: Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery. New York University Press. New York. 2021. ISBN: 9781479803958. pp.213 …
Tom Mould on his book, Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America.
Interview by Fionnán Mac Gabhann iupress.org/overthrowing-the-queen Fionnán Mac Gabhann: Overthrowing the Queen represents one of several objectives devised as part of a collaborative proje…
Stop stereotyping ‘girls with a migration background’
In sport policy research and media reports, culture, ethnicity and religion are constantly framed as contradictory to sport participation. Jasmijn Rana and Kathrine van den Bogert argue that…
Bad-faith academic publishing-the case of “Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research”
It is only February and we already have another case of “how did this get through peer review??!!” in social science #highered. The piece in question is an…
Joseph Plaster, “Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin” (Duke UP, 2023)
In Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin (Duke UP, 2023), Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to…
The Woods Lament For Me
Poet-anthropologist Jason Vasser-Elong revitalizes stories of interwoven lineages of his African-descent ancestors and those who were Native American. The Woods Lament For Me – Listen —For Will…
How to approach a research proposal
No matter where I have taught, one job that often challenges graduate students is the writing of a research proposal. When first encountered, it is a peculiar piece…
17th Century Judaeo-Persian Manuscript
This is a beautifully illustrated text, a copy of a text first written in the 14th century. You can examine it at https://smarthistory.org/the-ardashirnama-judeo-persian-manuscript/?fbclid=IwAR2H…
Ep #102: Gender in the Mines & Anthro Origin Stories: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #102: Gender in the Mines & Anthro Origin Stories: This Month on TFS We are back for 2023! This month we welcome our…
Nicholas Mirzoeff, “White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness” (MIT Press, 2023)
From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing—and a strategy for dismantling them. White supremacy is not only perpetuated…
Normalising the Abnormal: Trinity College Dublin Decides what to do with its Collection of Stolen Skulls
Ciarán Walsh (curator.ie) Charles R. Browne, the first graduate in academic anthropology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), went to Inishbofin in 1893 with a plan to collect skulls…
Interview with CBC’s Daybreak North on Indian Status Cards
On air interview, Thursday, February 16, 2023. Link to CBC audio clip. [00:00:25.010] – Carolina The all native basketball tournament is underway right now in Prince Rupert. But…
Fabio Duarte and Ricardo Alvarez, “Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and Space” (MIT Press, 2021)
Why technology is most transformative when it is playful, and innovative spatial design happens only when designers are both tinkerers and dreamers. In Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and Space (MIT…
Links & Contents I Liked 472
Hi all,Sometimes a picture says more than those proverbial 1000 words and before we delve into the not-so-great news from around the #globaldev & #highered worlds let’s think…
Congratulations! APLA’s 2022 Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
The 2022 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology was awarded to James H. Smith for “The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR…
Marnia Lazreg, “Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan” (Berghahn Books, 2020)
Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the…
The tale of the travelling sneaker: From Western Rejects to Nairobi’s Mtumba Hustle
ByGabriella SantiniPhD Anthropology I met Esther, a bit by chance, as I was exploring Nairobi’s streets after a Kiswahili class. Esther is a 24-year-old Kenyan entrepreneur. She owns…
With the Fall of a Tree, Archaeology Returns to Liberia
Following a devastating Civil War, archaeologists are helping Liberia rewrite a more inclusive history and forge a more diverse future. ✽ In 2019, in the aftermath of a…
Controversy in Swedish Missionary Studies
A PhD dissertation defence, in some countries called a viva, is usually a ceremonial event only attracting a few other academics from the same field, and perhaps the…
Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, “When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier’s Story” (Duke UP, 2015)
When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier’s Story (Duke UP, 2015) is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian…