Darwin’s Political Wackiness
In the updated 1844 edition of the Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin offers his view on political systems (as indeed many do about the acephalous societies of South…
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Nuremberg, Covid, and Anthropology: Never Again
Today, August 20, 2022, marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the trials of medical professionals at Nuremberg. Central principles and fundamental rights were enshrined as a…
Hiring FT or PT research writer
CLEAR is hiring a research writer to aid in the write-up of academic articles and/or community reports and whitepapers on the following topics: plastic pollution monitoring and laboratory…
Hiring full-time & part-time research positions in Indigenous methodologies and feminist STS (fall 2022)
CLEAR is hiring one part-time (~10 hours/week) and one full-time (30-35 hours/week) research assistant position for the fall of 2022. The positions will start in September or October…
Modernizing the US Coast Guard’s Miscarriage Leave Policy
JULIEANN THOMAS March 1, 2022 Rear Admiral Eric Jones Assistant Commandant for Human Resources (CG-1) United States Coast GuardWashington, DC 20593 United States of America Dear…
Nicky Falkof, “Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa” (Manchester UP, 2022)
Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa (Manchester University Press, 2022) looks at the pervasive culture of fear in South Africa. It reveals how narratives of fear…
Người Cầm Lái
A Opera-play Người Cầm Lái (April 2022) presented Ho Chi Minh as the helmsman. By ‘The People’s Public Security Theatre, it celebrates ‘the beloved President’s 132nd birthday (1890-2022)&…
Celebrating 100 Years of Santa Fe’s Indian Market
The School for American Research (SAR) started the Santa Fe Indian Market one hundred years ago this September. SAR’s first director,…
Book Review: Driving With Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity by Jonathan Purkis
In Driving With Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity, Jonathan Purkis argues that the nature of hitchhiking and its place in the world has important things to tell…
Carmen Martínez Novo, “Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) led the Ecuadoran Citizens’ Revolution that claimed to challenge the tenets of neoliberalism and the legacies of colonialism. The Correa administration promised to advance…
Caleb Simmons, “Singing the Goddess Into Place: Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad” (SUNY Press, 2022)
Singing the Goddess Into Place: Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad (SUNY Press, 2022) demonstrates how folk narratives reflect local context…
Why Do (Some) Humans Love Chili Peppers?
An anthropologist traces the origins and world travels of one of his favorite kinds of plants. ✽ As someone who grew up in the Philippines, I have always…
Subhas gutted in HCMC (fire at 76 Hai Ba Trung, 1.7.2022)
July 1st, Ho Chi Minh City – 76 Hai Ba Trung – After a fire that started in an picture framing shop*, a large part of the house…
‘Lévi-Strauss: A Biography’ by Emmanuelle Loyer
Emmanuelle Loyer. Lévi-Strauss: A Biography. Translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff. New York: Polity Press, 2018. xi+744 pp., illus., notes, list of works, archives, index. There…
Fiona Moore, “Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World” (U Toronto Press, 2021)
In Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World (U Toronto Press, 2021), Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates in London and Toronto, along…
How Deaf and Hearing Friends Co-Navigate the World
For deaf people in the U.S., accessibility has become synonymous with provisioning professional sign language interpreters. But in everyday life, deaf people’s experiences of “access” often include mo…
Selected Ho Chi Minh, in translation.
Have this in my hand, having helped translate a part of it, cannot recommend it more highly. The full Đường Cách Mệnh trans will follow next year, also…
Lisa Uperesa, “Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game” (Duke UP, 2022)
Since the 1970s, a “Polynesian Pipeline” has brought football players from American Sāmoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the collegiate and professional levels.…
The Problems of Evolution as a “March of Progress”
The idea that evolution is a hierarchy of complexity with humans on top lurks in everything from biology classes to politics. It’s time to unlearn this false and…
Life Last Week
JFK’s coconut shell encased in plastic, via Wikimedia Commons After a bumpy election, James Marape returns for a second round as prime minister of PNG. I’m optimistic about…
Tomas Matza on his book, Shock Therapy
Interview by Natalja Czarnecki https://www.dukeupress.edu/shock-therapy Tomas Matza on his book, Natalja Czarnecki: In your ethnography of the popular “psychotherapeutic turn” in po…
Book Review: The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power by Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou
In The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power, Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou explore how digital technologies are shaping experiences of migration today, focusing particularly on the 2015…
Redressing Transgender Healthcare in the UK
KATERINA DOWNING University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT 12/05/2022 FAO: Cass Review Team NHS England PO Box 16738 Redditch B9…
William Matthews, “Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination” (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Today I spoke to anthropologist William Mathews about his new book, Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination (Berghahn Books, 2021). This book explores how humans are unique in their…