Robin Dunbar, “How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures” (Oxford UP, 2022)
What is the evolutionary purpose of religion, and are some individuals more inclined than others to be religious? Our species diverged from the great apes six to eight…
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Making embryos lively: The politics of embryo personhood when fertilization happens under a microscope by Manon Lefèvre
On May 25, 2022, Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt signed into law the strictest ban on abortion to date, a policy that prohibits the termination of any pregnancy “from…
Pallavi Banerjee, “The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program” (NYU Press, 2022)
The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program (NYU Press, 2022) is the first book to look at the impact of the…
Xinling Li, “Black Masculinity and Hip-Hop Music: Black Gay Men Who Rap” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
In Black Masculinity and Hip-Hop Music: Black Gay Men Who Rap (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), XinLing Li offers an interdisciplinary study of hip-hop music written and performed by rappers who are…
W. Puck Brecher, “Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History” (Association for Asian Studies, 2022)
In Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History (Association for Asian Studies, 2022), Brecher offers a brief overview of animals in Japanese culture and society from ancient times to…
Focaalblog: New Times? Confronting the Escalating Crises of Global Capitalism
Karl Polanyi Research Center for Global Social Studies and the Commission on Global Transformations and Marxian Anthropology – IUAES, in cooperation with the Working Group for Public Sociology…
Monstrous Matter, Out of Place
The following is an autoethnographic comic about my experiences re-understanding a new diagnosis through revisiting Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger. (And yes, the final panel is from a…
STS – the History of Science Fiction
Science fiction novels in our society; this is my research object. This object was first introduced and beloved among the people who understood science at a high level…
Digital Care and Community in Milan and Beyond
Author: Shireen Walton Upon the recent publication of the Italian translation of my monograph Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and Community in Milan and Beyond (published…
What is “Labour-Based Grading”?
(This is an explanation of Labour-Based Grading that I provided to a first-year anthropology class I taught in 2020.) Labour-based grading is not what you are used to,…
Jérôme Camal on his book, Creolized Aurality
Interview by Sara Isabel Castro Font https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo38870959.html Sara Isabel Castro Font: In this book you explore the sounds and practices of gwoka …
Elsa L. Fan, “Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China” (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China (U Minnesota Press, 2021) examines the unanticipated effects of global health interventions, ideas, and practices as they unfold in…
Sushmita Pati, “Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? Properties of Rent: Community, Capital…
The Collapse of the Canadian University and the Rise of the Church of Covid
February of 2022 was a particularly dark month, both in Quebec and in Canada generally. In Quebec, we had the expansion of the use of “vaccine passports” to…
Daniel Silva, “Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Daniel Silva’s Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022) examines the current boom of fitness culture in Brazil in the context of the white…
Roberto J. González, “War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future” (U California Press, 2022)
A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist. War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict,…
Kuba Szreder, “The ABC of the Projectariat: Living and Working in a Precarious Art World” (Manchester UP, 2021)
Labour has taken an about-turn. From Adam Smith’s proposal for specialisation which saw the factory line reorganised so that each worker needed to understand only a small aspect…
The collapse of national capitalism — a Sophoclean tragedy – Part 2 – by Keith Hart
After 1971 World economy has reverted since the break-up of the Bretton Woods system of fixed parity exchange rates to … More
Day 3 of A Citizens’ Hearing: Examining Canada’s Covid Response
The final day of hearings focused on family law in the context of courts that simply uphold, without any question, state doctrine on the Covid so-called “vaccines” and…
Forging Her Path: Dr. Adriana María Linares-Palma, 2021-2022 Paloheimo Fellow
Written by Kat Bernhardt, Advancement Associate, SAR With her sparkling dark eyes and guarded genuine smile, there is a big-hearted opennes…
On the Power and Nourishment of Multidisciplinary Inquiry: Remembering Adele H. Hite by Nutrire CoLab
We were saddened to hear of the passing of our dear colleague Adele H. Hite in April 2022. Adele was a co-founding member of the Nutrire CoLab and…
Review: Power Hungry
Cope, Suzanne (2022) Power Hungry. Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books. ISBN 9781641604536 Ellen Mess…
Mazyar Lotfalian on his new book, What People Do with Images
Interview by Michael Fischer https://www.seankingston.co.uk/publishing.html Michael Fischer: It is so great to see your book finally coming out in print: we’ve been talking about it in semi…