Writing Life (no. 21): An interview with Ruth Behar by Natashe Lemos Dekker
Image 1: One of Ruth’s writing spaces filled with family and childhood photos, art and objects that inspire her and that are filled with memories. On the laptop…
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Plantas para alejar las malas vibras
Aquí se puede leer mi ponencia del Congreso Internacional sobre la Amazonía Peruana II, titulado “Plantas para alejar las malas vibras: Observaciones etnbotánicas de la Amazonía urbana.” …
Object Project: A Conversation Between Us and Our Future Grandchildren
ByJihai LiBSc Anthropology, 2021-24 This is an assignment of the undergraduate module ‘Introduction to Material and Visual Culture’. The assignment requires each student to choose one of the…
Hilan Bensusan, “Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox” (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
In Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox (Edinburgh UP, 2021), Hilan Bensusan clarifies the logic and structure of an essentially situated and indexical metaphysics that is paradoxical and can also be regarded…
Ipek Demir, “Diaspora As Translation and Decolonisation” (Manchester UP, 2022)
This innovative study engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase, it should illuminate a specific angle of migration or…
Sarah Abel, “Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome” (UNC Press, 2021)
Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult…
Eugenia Roussou, “Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The ‘Evil Eye’ in Greece” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Eugenia Roussou’s book Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The ‘Evil Eye’ in Greece (Bloomsbury, 2021) thoroughly illustrates the novel synthesis of Christian religion and New Age spirituality…
Florian Köhler, “Space, Place and Identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century” (Berhahn Book, 2020)
Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and…
Ryan Thomas Skinner, “Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country” (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Contemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive reputation, despite an undeniable tradition of racism within its borders. In the face of this contradiction of culture and…
Beauty Filters: New Tech, Old Problems
Retaining a youthful appearance is a laborious and painful exercise, often rife with invisible labor. Digital beauty tech has made it much easier. Rather than altering our own…
How Diverse Was Medieval Britain?
An archaeologist explains how studies of ancient DNA and objects reveal that expansive migrations led to much greater diversity in medieval Britain than most people imagine today. This…
Campaign: week one
I extend my thanks to those colleagues who have already voted, and to those who let me know they were supporting me. I always feel honoured to be…
Carl Rommel on his book, Egypt’s Football Revolution
Interview by Jessica Winegar https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/rommel-egypts-football-revolution Jessica Winegar: The study of sports has been somewhat marginal in the field of anthropology….
Discussion on ethnographic collections
14 November 2022. The lecture room at the Münchner Volkshochschule (Munich adult education centre) was filled and…
Treading softly while jumping through hoops: ethnographic adventures in pursuit of palliative medication work-as-done in hospice, hospital and at home
DR SALLY-ANNE FRANCIS & DR SARAH YARDLEY “I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” (W.B.Yeats) “A rapid, focused ethnography…
Pierre Minn, “Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti” (Cornell UP, 2022)
Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initiatives, many are implemented within the secular…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Ep #99 The Conference Extravaganza: AAS &AAA: This month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #99 The Conference Extravaganza: AAS &AAA: This month on TFS This week we’re back with a conference extravaganza! With the AAS and AAA’s…
THEY KNEW
Hey everyone — long time, no see! Not much has happened in the two years since I’ve updated this website — just a global plague, an attempted coup,…
UNSUNG SAVIOUR DILIP MAHALANABIS
TRIBUTE BY: Prof. Kaushik Bose, Head of Department, Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore – 721102, West Bengal, INDIA. e-mail: kaushikbose@cantab.net DILIP MAHALANABIS (12th …
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ANTHROPOLOGY AND MONUMENTS
Prof. P. C. Joshi Former Vice Chancellor I/C And Senior Professor Department of Anthropology University of Delhi, Delhi – 110 007 Email: pcjoshidu@gmail.com Study of monuments is part…
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Hi all,There seems to be some kind of sporting event going on in Qatar this week & a settler colonial holiday is celebrated in the US-enjoy if you…