Workbook on colonialism, mapping, and oil
Artist Emily Roehl worked with CLEAR to create a workbook around the question: “How might we think about the tensions in attempting to address colonialism in mapping some…
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Collective Consent for research projects
When a researcher asks to use CLEAR as a study site, we use a collective consent process to decide together.
Links & Contents I Liked 451
Hi all,After a little summer flu health break last week, Aidnography is almost back to the usual routines just as the new semester is about to start next…
Brahma Prakash, “Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, the vision that enables as well…
Kareem Rabie, “Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank” (Duke UP, 2021)
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the…
Review: Translating Food Sovereignty
Canfield, Matthew C. Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance. Stanford University Press. Stanford, Ca. 2022. pp.264. ISBN:978150363104. R…
An Archaeology of Personhood and Abortion
Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures. ✽ After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade…
Robinson Vols 1 & 2.
Crikey, would you have paid 35 grand (in 2017) for just parts one and two of the original Robinson – this was missing the third part. Bargain at…
Interactive Science Museums: Replicating Science Without a Context
“We want a different museum. One where people are not afraid to interact with the objects” were the words[1] of one of the promoters of the ITINTEC museum,…
Global South Asia on Screen
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An urgent and important initiative to move forward with EU support of Arctic research together with Indigenous communities
I would like to encourage you with this post to fill in a short anonymous survey on your experiences and challenges with the co-creation of knowledge here: https://survey.hifis.dkfz.de/351545…
Call for Papers: PoLAR First Article Mentoring Workshop
PoLAR invites submissions for its newly launched first article mentoring workshop, in which scholars who have not yet published a peer-reviewed article with PoLAR are invited to submit…
Brett Scott, “Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets” (Harper Business, 2022)
In Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets (Harper Business, 2022), Brett Scott tells an urgent and revelatory story about how the fusion of Big Finance and…
Alfie Bown, “Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships” (Pluto Press, 2022)
We are in the middle of a ‘desirevolution’ – a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always, new technologies –…
A Reader’s Question About Surviving the Ice Age
An anthropologist describes the multiple ice ages of the Earth’s past and how our species survived the most recent one. This article was originally published at The Conversation…
NAFA2022: Film Programme Out
The film screening programme for the 41st NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival has now been published on the festival website. The festival will be held in Romania, in…
PrEP on Trial: the Future of HIV in Indonesian Policy Worlds
In 2012, the first pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs, billed as a pill a day to prevent HIV, were authorized for use in the United States. Heralded as a…
Book Review: Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles
In Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London, Caroline Knowles takes readers on a journey through London to discover how it has become a haven for plutocrats and the super-rich. Full of…
Adrienne Edgar, “Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia” (Cornell UP, 2022)
Adrienne Edgar’s Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples—Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2021) is an outstanding study of the evolution of intermarriage practices in Kazakhstan and…
Peeling Back the Myth of a “White” Midwest
The popular image of the U.S. heartland as only a place of rural, hardworking white farmers has always been a larger-than-life myth. In a new book, Imagining the…
Elliott Oring on his book, Joking Asides
Interview by Emily Bianchi https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/2920-joking-asides Emily Bianchi: I was wondering what brought you to write Joking Asides: The Theory, Ana…
Book Review: They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria by Daniel E. Agbiboa
In They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria, Daniel E. Agbiboa challenges simplistic understandings of corruption by offering a captivating study of Lago…
Tribe in the evolutionary scheme of social type
Tribe in the evolutionary scheme of social type Different words like French Tribu, English Tribe and Latin Tribus were used to designate social divisions among the…
Tribe as a Pre-political and pre-contractual society and in the evolutionary schema (Morgan and Maine)
Class lecture on the concept bilingual, meant for my students Introduction Different words like French Tribu, English Tribe and Latin Tribus were used to designate social…