What the Anthropology of Smell Reveals About Humanity
Former first lady Michelle Obama savors the scent of a Douglas fir tree presented to the first family for Christmas in 2010. Rod Lamkey/Getty Images Vivian,* a Washington,…
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Carla Power, “Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism” (One World, 2021)
In the Pulitzer Prize finalist book Home, Land, Security: Deradicalisation and the Journey Back from Extremism (One World, 2021), Carla Power explores: what are the roots of radicalism? Journalist Carla…
What the Anthropology of Smell Reveals About Humanity
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Looking Into the World of Frog Gigging
Frog hunters, known as “giggers,” search for bullfrogs in southern Indiana. Saish Solankar The moon emerged out of the clouds at a few minutes past midnight, reflecting on…
Looking Into the World of Frog Gigging
The moon emerged out of the clouds at a few minutes past midnight, reflecting on the murky water of a forest pond. I watched as Wyatt*, the organizer…
Unearthing a Fragile Root of Democracy
By Pia K. R. Beiermann, second-year student of CADS This Saturday I wake up slowly, a bit later than usual. Still in a morning fogginess best described as…
Omar Kasmani, “Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke UP, 2022), Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan’s most important site…
Teemu Taira, “Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion” (Brill, 2022)
Teemu Taira‘s book Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill, 2022) demonstrates through methodological reflections and carefully chosen case studies a new way to conduct the…
Gina Louise Hunter, “Edible Insects: A Global History” (2021)
From grasshoppers to grubs, an eye-opening look at insect cuisine around the world. An estimated two billion people worldwide regularly consume insects, yet bugs are rarely eaten in…
Claire L. Wendland, “Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-first century, about one…
Day 2 of A Citizens’ Hearing: Examining Canada’s Covid Response
The Citizens’ Hearing is, “an independent inquiry into Canada’s response to Covid-19. We will hear evidence from scientists, legal experts, and healthcare providers, as well as test…
Céline Cantat: The reception spectacle: on Ukrainian displacement and selective empathy at Europe’s borders
Since the beginning of the Russian offensive on Ukraine on February 24th, over 5 million people have registered for temporary protection programmes and other schemes across Europe. By…
The vital afterlife of Chernobyl cemeteries
Every year, after Easter, hundreds of families from all over Ukraine gather in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. People converge toward the now-deserted area to perform rites called…
Difficult Truths: Confronting Irish Industrial Schools
[no-caption] Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images This article was originally published at Otherwise magazine and has been republished with permission as a lightly edited excerpt. CONST…
Difficult Truths: Confronting Irish Industrial Schools
This article was originally published at Otherwise magazine and has been republished with permission as a lightly edited excerpt. CONSTELLATIONS The 1918 Spanish flu altered the course of…
Day 1 of A Citizens’ Hearing: Examining Canada’s Covid Response
From Wednesday, June 22, through Friday, June 24, 2022, a combined effort by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance and Fearless Canada, brought three full days of testimonies that were stre…
What is the Great Replacement Theory? – A primer
A good video primer of the far right and mainstream ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theories by DW NEWS with experts from the field
Book Review: The Truths of Monsters
By Vivian Asimos Limpár, Ildikó (2021) The truths of monsters: coming of age with fantastic media. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. Positioned in the intersections of Monster…
Emanuel Moss takes the Page 99 test
On the 99th page of my dissertation, “The Objective Function: Science and Society in the Age of Machine Intelligence”, the first full paragraph describes how machine learning researchers…
De-Colonizing Toda Ethnography
(W.H.R.Rivers and the Toda) Professor Promode Kumar Misra PATRON UIAF Former National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research Email ID: pramodkumarmisra@gmail.com Nilgiris the habitat of the…
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, “Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG” (Lexington Books, 2022)
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon’s edited volume Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG (Lexington Books, 2022) examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing…
Frans de Waal, “Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist” (W. W. Norton, 2022)
In Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (W. W. Norton, 2022), world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal…
Arctic Midsummer – party time with pagan roots
In the European Arctic Midsummer nowadays marks mostly the start of the summer holidays. But at the roots of this big holiday, celebrated on or close to the…
Introducing: “Disaster X”
Disaster X is a new publication, that is tied to this site: it is available on Substack. Here I just want to briefly introduce the material that already…