“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…
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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…
Purity, Danger, and Handwashing
Author: Michael Dunford is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Culture History and Language. His research asks how how agrarian economies and agrarian ecologies intersect with…
Melissa Kagen, “Wandering Games” (MIT Press, 2022)
In Wandering Games (MIT Press, 2022), Melissa Kagen analyzes wandering within different game worlds, viewed through the lenses of work, colonialism, gender, and death. Wandering in games can be a theme,…
Nadim Bawalsa, “Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948” (Stanford UP, 2022)
Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. By 1936, an estimated 40,000…
Growing Up Woodbrook
These are my comments from the recent book launch for Growing Up Woodbrook Professionally, sometimes there is something you really want to happen but it doesn’t and that…
#UBCBoG Faculty Elections – last chance to vote
Voting in the UBC Board of Governors’ faculty elections ends at 4pm on December 8th. If you haven’t yet voted and want to here’s how: To Vote Go…
Irene Hilden, “Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive’s Acoustic Legacies” (Leuven UP, 2022)
Dealing with the colonial archive entails acknowledging the inability to know everything, accounting for the archive’s limited and incomplete condition. Dealing with the colonial archive is not merely…
Teemu Taira, “Atheism in Five Minutes” (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
Atheism in Five Minutes, by Professor Teemu Taira, is part of Equinox Publishing’s “Religion in 5 Minutes” series. It offers insights into a number of commonly held questions…
Links & Contents I Liked 464
Hi all,This afternoon I am going to leave the virtual space & join colleagues to explore an exhibition in Malmö on dreams, images & mobile phones. In the…
Chris McMorran, “Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan” (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Today I talked to Chris McMorran about his new book Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2022). Amid the decline of many of Japan’s rural communities, the hot…
Gregory Shushan, “The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife” (White Crow Books, 2022)
In The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife (White Crow Books, 2022), historian of religions Gregory Shushan explores the relationships between extraordinary experiences and beliefs in life after death.…
Memory, loss and living in a post-disaster village
Eighteen years after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, Annemarie Samuels visits her long-term research village in Aceh where old and new grief is met with prayer.
In Memoriam: Pat Courtney Gold (1939-2022)
In Memoriam: Pat Courtney Gold (1939-2022) …
Bernard Cohn TOC
Bernard Cohn was an important anthropologist and historian of India. His 1987 volume An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays can be hard to find in digital.…
Female African warriors and their brave fight against the African slave trade by Jehron Muhammad
The film “The Woman King,” directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring award-winning actress Viola Davis, though receiving much acclaim, has …
Atoll Ways of Being with the Ocean
A perspective from low laying atolls brings climate discourses and practical realities together. Tokelau experiences with political intervensions employed by overseas agents range historically from in…