Tipu Sultan’s rocket man
Great discussion of iron smelting for coins and guns by Amitabha Ghosh in Aniruddha Ray (ed) “Tipu Sultan and his Age” . Asiatic Society 2002, Park Street. Much…
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Hi all,I’m looking forward to the weekend like anybody else & leave you with a fresh #globaldev review that features articles that are as absurd, shocking, unsurprising &…
David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, “People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown’s new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference…
Emily Channell-Justice, “Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine” (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine (U Toronto Press, 2022) explores the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests – a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine –…
Designing the Future of Global, Remote Work with Fredrik Thomassen
Show Notes Building a New Labor Market for Global Design Talent with Fredrik Thomassen More and more businesses are switching to remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But…
Little Experiments in Worldmaking with Amor Mundi Lab
The AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab transpires as a collaborative space for emerging scholars, artists, scientists, and practitioners of all kinds working in the Global South with…
A Major Museum’s Attempt to Center Native American Voices
Chicago’s Field Museum recently unveiled their new Native North America Hall, redesigned with input from Native collaborators. But does it go far enough to address past harms? ✽…
Inna Perheentupa, “Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources” (Policy Press, 2022)
Inna Perheentupa’s book Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources (Policy Press, 2022) is a nuanced and compelling analysis of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2023
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won over the years. Indeed, as noted below, Dr.…
Ted Conover, “Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge” (Knopf, 2022)
Today I talked to Ted Conover, author of Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge (Knopf, 2022) In May 2017, Conover went to Colorado to explore firsthand a rural way of…
Margret Grebowicz, “Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans” (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Margret Grebowicz’s Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animal—in something…
Virginia R. Dominguez and Brigittine M. French, “Anthropological Lives: An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Anthropological Lives: An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology (Rutgers UP, 2020) introduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. It focuses on the work…
Oct 22 1965 Sydney arrests
The report on this 1965 anti-war protest is marginally better than most current press release churnalism, of course it favours the Police and the future PM McMahon (who…
Ubyssey election profile transcript.
Last Friday I was interviewed by The Ubyssey for a profile piece on faculty candidates for the current board of governors’ election. This is a slightly cleaned up…
Barbara Harris Combs, “Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society” (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society (U Georgia Press, 2022) asserts that anti-Black racism is not better than it used to be; it is just performed…
The Dangers of Ancient Apocalypse’s Pseudoscience
Reviewing Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse, an anthropologist explains how its host Graham Hancock devalues both archaeology and Indigenous heritage. This article was originally published at The Conversa…
Uncovering Ethnography in Creative Practice Research with Machines
A live performance of Oliver Bown’s Zamyatin system with clarinetist François Houle This blog post comes out of a discussion with Ritwik Banerji about the ‘hidden’ role of…
Gun Safety is a Philosophical Issue
YES to far more sensible gun-purchase background checks and restrictions. YES to more comprehensive mental health treatment options. Credit: pikisuperstar via www.freepik.c…
“NARMADA MAN” TURNS 40
Celebrating RUBY JUBILEE YEAR of a historic find Contributed By Subhash R. Walimbe Former Faculty, Deccan College PGRI, Pune subhashwalimbe@gmail.com December 5th, 1982 is indeed an unforgettable day…
Another New Resident Scholar Book: Undocumented Saints
Did you know that La Santa Muerte (“Saint Death”) is worshipped by some residents of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands? Likewise Santa Olguita, a feminist saint associated with border womenR…
Niku T’arhechu T’arhesi takes the page 99 test
“Yes,” I said. My answer left you like a glutton without food—unsatisfied. Before you could request thick ethnographic details, I handed you page 99 of Endangered Words and…
Mary-Frances O’Connor, “The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss” (HarperOne, 2022)
For as long as humans have existed, we have struggled when a loved one dies. Poets and playwrights have written about the dark cloak of grief, the deep…
Reclaiming relationships and thinking differently about people in healthcare systems: reflections on insider-fieldwork, access and inclusion
SARAH YARDLEY Instead of trying to construct healthcare systems that don’t rely on people knowing each other, our energies would be better spent focused on creating mechanisms that…
Cristina Civantos, “Jamón and Halal: Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía” (Amherst College Press, 2022)
In this episode, I interview Dr. Christina Civantos (University of Miami, FL, USA) about her open access book Jamón and Halal: Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía (Amherst College…