Film Reviews: El Cacao and No Place to Grow
Emilia Noel PtakThe University of Vermont The films El Cacao and No Place to Grow, directed by Michelle Aguilar, invite viewers to consider food as a nexus, where…
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Lenin pretty clear on Capital
And maybe the overused quote about thorough study of Hegel is a touching nonsense too. ‘In his Capital, Marx first analyses the simplest, most ordinary and fundamental, most…
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Hi all,This week’s #globaldev review is a bit like a wedding outfit: We have something serious (crises in Sudan & Ethiopia), something old (10 years of conflict in…
“Footprints from White Sands” Webinar Enormously Popular
View the video recording here The Creative Thought Forum Linda S. Cordell Lecture was conducted online this year resulting in live event viewership from 360 computer, tablet, and…
Patricia Lange discusses The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media-Anthropology/Costa-Lange-Haynes-Sinanan/p/book/9781032007762 Media is fundamentally about connection. Around the world, life is being…
New Book in Sámi Studies Illuminates the Diversity of Sámi Worlds
A major contribution to Sámi Studies, The Sámi World presents a diversity of research topics from across Sápmi, providing rich and multifaceted understandings of Sámi worlds. The book…
Harmful Traditions Practice: A Comprehensive Study on female genital mutilation (FGM)
Harmful Traditions Practice: A Comprehensive Study on female genital mutilation (FGM) Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Iran KameelAhmady Social Anthropologist, University of Kent,…
Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Iran 2005-2015
Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Iran 2005-2015 KameelAhmady Social Anthropologist, University of Kent, Research Methods and MA in Anthropology Kameel.ahmady@gmail.com Abstract A …
British Channel 4 report on Kameel Ahmady in English (Long version)
British Channel 4 report on Kameel Ahmady in English (Long version) Kameel Ahmady, a British-Iranian academic sentenced for nine years and three months in prison and heavy fine…
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising https://kameelahmady.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/WitnessHistory-20220421-IranianRevolutionTheKurdishUprising-1.mp3 Witness …
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising Witness History The story of a boy caught up in the forgotten war for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979. During the…
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising The story of a boy caught up in the forgotten war for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979. During the Iranian revolution,…
A House on Water – A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran
A House on Water – A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran Kameel Ahmady Published May 16, 2022 This fieldwork study supports the view…
A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran
A House on Water A Comprehensive Study on Sigheh Mahramiat and Temporary Marriage in Iran 978-620-5-49696-1 The religious and traditional stratum of the Iranian society performs sigheh /…
Sanjeev Routray, “The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi” (Stanford UP, 2022)
In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city…
Ethics, Utopia and Materiality: Glimpses of Everyday Creativity and Hope in Indonesian Papua
The Asmat are an indigenous people of Indonesian Papua and are renowned for their artistic carving flair and complex life-cycle rituals. They also have big ambitions that reach…
Deniz Yonucu, “Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul” (Cornell UP, 2022)
In Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022), Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual…
Unsung Native Collaborators in Anthropology
Anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Margaret Mead could not have achieved success without their local assistants’ insider knowledge and extensive labor. ✽ Growing up a Brown girl…
See You Later, Thick Data – Part 5
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”.…
Three guest lectures
This semester we are proud to host two cutting-edge anthropology scholars as visiting professors here at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, Lapland: Hiroki Takakura, Center for Northeast Asian…
Alan Warde et al., “The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change” (Manchester UP, 2020)
Dining out used to be considered exceptional. However, the Food Standards Authority reported that in 2014, one meal in six was eaten away from home in Britain. Previously…
Vibha Joshi, “A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India” (Berghahn Books, 2012)
‘Nagaland for Christ’ and ‘Jesus Saves’ are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, north-east India. They express an idealization of Christian homogeneity…
Camilla Hawthorne, “Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean” (Cornell UP, 2022)
Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022) is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there…
Why AI Will Never Fully Capture Human Language
Researchers in artificial intelligence have made extraordinary strides in mimicking human language—but they still can’t capture the parts that truly make language human. ✽ The story begins with…