Trust the organic?!
According to the latest report released by Switzerland’s main organic certification agency (BioSuisse), the country currently holds the world’s largest numbers in organic consumption per resident. In …
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Eldritch Priest, “Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains (Duke UP, 2022) Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm:…
When Women Answer the Call of Duty
From Syria to Ukraine, the sight of women taking up arms to fight for a cause calls audiences to attention. Why? ✽ In 2019, the video game Call…
Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)
In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary…
Seeking Shade and Strata: A Stroll Through SAR’s Ever-Evolving Campus Tour
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, 2020-2021 Anne Ray Intern I arrived mid-morning at the Reception Center, the summer sun already high and bri…
Mahmudul H. Sumon: What do we learn from hybrid governance in Bangladesh’s garments sector?
Global production networks, as we know today, have repeatedly failed to ensure the rights of workers and their health and safety. These failings have been exposed time and…
See You Later, Thick Data – Part 1
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”.…
On Victor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”
Victor Frankl was a leader in 20th century psychiatry. In 1942, Frankl was sent to a concentration camp in the Czech Republic. Frankl was already influential in the…
Global health meets sugar capitalism
After a long drive, Sheila and I arrive at the gates of a sprawling fifty-one square mile Malawian sugar plantation that belongs to Africa’s largest sugar company. An…
Misperceiving Life Expectancy in the Deep Past
An archaeologist explains that most people do not calculate life expectancy correctly. This leads to misunderstandings. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republis…
Ramadan as an anthropologist
By Lilian Ebbelaar Ramadan to me was always something that was so interesting. It had this kind of mysterious feeling and always felt strange to me. Why are…
Ellie D. Hernández et al., “Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces” (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Edited by Ellie D. Hernandez, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda García, Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Space (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) focuses on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of…
Humanitarian Techniques of Trust
“Trust in humanitarian action” was the top item on the agenda of the 33rd international conference of the Red Cross movement which took place in Geneva in December…
What Is Freedom in a Brazilian Favela?
In a new book, Minoritarian Liberalism, an anthropologist explores how favela residents of Rio de Janeiro create their own versions of liberty—even under conditions of violence, poverty, and…
All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa: Building Colonies without Colonization
First edition cover of 2010: Odyssey Two where the quote “all these worlds are yours except Europa…” is from. Beneath Europa’s frozen surface is an ocean thought to…
Making the Scientific Social, and the Social Scientific: A Review of Durba Mitra’s “Indian Sex Life”
Durba Mitra. Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 302 pp., 15 b/w illus., n…
Late Removals to the Grand Ronde Reservation from Umpqua Valley and Rogue River
As noted in several essays on this blog, removing tribes from their lands and to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation was not a perfect process. Most of the…
The Critic Retires: Fifty Years of Restaurant Writing
A few of Tom Fitzmorris’ many books. David Beriss What does it mean to be a restaurant critic for fifty years? I recently attended a dinner in honor…
It’s not all downhill: On becoming an older scholar
By Laura Miller. Expectations for academics are sometimes based on stereotypes. One idea is that people reach the apex of their creativity and intensity before diminishing energy and…
Chihab El Khachab on his book, Making Film in Egypt
Interview by Meg Morley https://aucpress.com/product/making-film-in-egypt/https://aucpress.com/product/making-film-in-egypt/ Meg Morley: How do/would you explain the central arguments of yo…
See You Later, Thick Data – Part 3
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”.…
Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman, “Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form” (Duke UP, 2022)
The contributors to Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke UP, 2022) assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a contemporary…
Technologies of Trust: Introduction
This post is the introduction of our thematic thread on Trust, curated by Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna), Shaila Seshia Galvin (Geneva Graduate Institute) and Ramah McKay (University of Pen…
Choosing Your Own Adventure: My Life as a Teenage Dungeon Master and How It Prepared Me to Become an Anthropologist
In many ways, Dungeon Masters are the ethnographers of their own worlds. Granted, we’re not exactly interviewing the people who populate them, and we’re inventing most of the…