UiT MVA programme international applications (deadline: 15 November)
The deadline for international (non-EU) applicants for the Master of Visual Anthropology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (for the autumn 2023 semester) has been moved two…
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A Somali Archaeologist Is Championing Heritage in the Horn of Africa
An interview with Sada Mire dives into the difficulties and rewards of preserving history and letting local perspectives guide heritage management in Somalia and Somaliland. ✽ Somalia and…
The Future of Rules: A Discussion with Lorraine Daston
Which rules do we obey and which ones can we find a way around? What distinctions can be drawn between rules, models to be emulated and algorithms. Lorraine…
Making a Multispecies Community in the Texas Hill Country: AAA2022 Talk
Below is a recording of the talk I am giving in person at the 2022 annual American Anthropological Association meeting on November 10. Video of my talk
Who gets to be an author?
Who gets to be an author in contemporary ethnographic anthropology and who does not? And how does inquiry into the norms of authorship expose problems surrounding academic labor…
SAFN Student Member Get-Together at AAA 2022!
For those of you who plan to be in person at the American Anthropological Association conference this week in Seattle, Washington, we have an exciting informal opportunity for…
Julia Hildebrand on her book, Aerial Play
Interview by Maximilian Jablonowski https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-2195-6 Maximilian Jablonowski: While reading your book, one learns about your “transformation in a dron…
Željka Matijasević, “The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death” (Lexington, 2021)
Borderline personality disorder is no longer a secret. Many people who are not therapists know what it is and see it as a fitting description for their personal…
Aisha Khan, “The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World” (Harvard UP, 2021)
In The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2021), Aisha Khan explores how colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that…
Rapid ethnographies in the NHS
STEPHANIE KUMPUNEN Long-form ethnography is a long-term investment…but rapid ethnography can help sometimes Traditional long-form ethnography on health and care services has proven es…
Ethnography.com launches on Youtube thanks to Chinese Smartphones in Africa
Greetings Ethnography.com aficionados! My previous post “What Happens if Chinese Smartphones Teach English Lessons in Tanzania?” is now on Youtube. Keeping up with the times, Tony and I…
Thomas G. Cowan, “Subaltern Frontiers: Property and Labour in the Neoliberal Indian City” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
In urban and peri-urban areas across the Global South, politicians, planners and developers are engaged in a voracious scramble to refashion land for global real estate investment and…
Harris Solomon, “Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma (Duke UP, 2022), Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients,…
Platypod, Episode Five: CASPR – CASTAC in the Spring 2022
This episode presents a recording of CASPR 2022, or the CASTAC in the Spring 2022 mentoring event, organized to encourage dialogue on breaking down binaries that have separated…
Heritage Forensics Is Tackling Devastating New Forms of Cultural Erasure
In the Caucasus, researchers are using aerospace technology to expose the clandestine obliteration of Armenian cultural heritage. These new methods of archaeology will prove necessary in the global…
CAUTION! Planetary Boundary Ahead!
BySara MahdiAnthropology, Environment, and Development MSc, 2022-23 I am certain that I am not alone when I think to myself, “Have we really, truly, permanently changed the planet?…
How Tech can Democratize Scientific Knowledge with Eric Olson
The vast majority of published scientific literature and new research is hidden behind paywalls. Worse, what few accessible papers available online are oftentimes written in jargon, i.e., specialist…
Geetanjali Srikantan, “Identifying and Regulating Religion in India: Law, History and the Place of Worship” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Judicial debates on the regulation of religion in post-colonial India have been characterised by the inability of courts to identify religion as a governable phenomenon. Geetanjali Srikantan’s book Identifying…
Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, “Curious Minds: The Power of Connection” (MIT Press, 2022)
Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what’s left out of the…
Gurpinder Singh Lalli, “Schools, Space and Culinary Capital” (Routledge, 2022)
Gurpinder Singh Lalli’s book Schools, Space and Culinary Capital (Routledge, 2022) introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the…
92 Janet McIntosh on “Let’s Go Brandon,” QAnon and Alt-Right Language (EF, JP)
Elizabeth and John talk with Brandeis linguistic anthropologist Janet McIntosh about the language of US alt-right movements. Janet’s current book project on language in the military has prompted thoughts about…
Elena Maria Reichl: End of Hell? Brazil’s Election and a Community Kitchen of the MTST
On 30/10/2022, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) of the Workers’ Party won an exceptionally close runoff election against the current far-right president of Brazil, Jair Messias Bolsonaro.…
E. Moore Quinn on the edited volume Women and Pilgrimage
https://cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10.1079/9781789249392.0000 It is interesting, and often useful, once a project has come to fruition (that is, seen the light of print), to breathe deepl…
PhD position in Indigenous Quantitative Methods
New position for a PhD student on a project about Indigenous Quantitative Methods based in the Geography Department at Memorial University