SAFN in Seattle at AAA 2022!
Join SAFN at AAA this November in Seattle! We look forward to welcoming Dr. Mythri Jegathesan as our invited speaker at the SAFN + C&A reception on Friday night at Zaika restaurant just…
Category: English
Über Jazz
I’ve argued (in Pantomime Terror) that Adorno wrote ‘Über Jazz’ as a way to talk about Nazi marching music. People forget that – even though by then he…
China – do we care?
Some of us Arctic anthropologists may not have China on the immediate radar of their interest. However, China has become an increasingly important player in the Arctic, through…
Discovering wellbeing traditions in the Czech Republic
ByJosephine PlattMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2021–2023 A limp, plastic sack is waiting for me on a therapy bed, and I’m being gestured to strip off and climb…
Research Assistant positions in natural and social sciences
CLEAR is hiring multiple part-time (8-30 hours/week, flexible) research assistant positions to work on a variety of projects in the natural and social sciences.
Nadine Weidman, “Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America” (Harvard UP, 2021)
A historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why a polarized discourse about nature versus nurture became so entrenched in…
Anima Adjepong, “Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra” (UNC Press, 2021)
Beyond simplistic binaries of the dark continent or Africa Rising, Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged…
Thomas Baudinette, “Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Shinjuku Ni-chome is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city’s gay male community. Typically understood as a “safe space” where same-sex attracted men…
Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki, “Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying” (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki’s edited volume Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying (Berghahn Books, 2021) explores…
Why Indigenous Fire Management Works
Three researchers use a study of the cypress pine in Arnhem Land, Australia, to explain why large-scale, institutional fire management is inferior to sustainable cultural burning. This article…
An Ethnography of San Francisco by Thai writer Rong Wongsavun now published in English
‘Rong Wongsavun (1932-2009) was a prolific Thai author and photographer who began publishing in the 1950s, continuing until he passed away in 2009. Throughout his life spent writing,…
Article: Indigenous media
The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology Budka, P. (2022). Indigenous media: Anthropological perspectives and historical notes. In E. Costa, P. G. Lange, N. Haynes & J. Sinanan (Eds.),…
Ratan Kumar Roy on his book, Television in Bangladesh
Interview by Sharonee Dasgupta https://www.routledge.com/Television-in-Bangladesh-News-and Audiences/Roy/p/book/9780367354459 Sharonee Dasgupta: The book starts from the question trying to …
RG China(s) Colloquium: Winter Semester 2022/23
Next up: 28 Friday, October, 12:30–13:30 Isabel Briz Hernández (Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) ‘Miscellaneous care’: Bridging the In-between of Translational Science…
Gabriel Levy, “Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion” (MIT Press, 2022)
In Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (MIT Press, 2022), Gabriel Levy argues that collective religious narratives and beliefs are part of nature; they are the basis…
Robyn D’Avignon, “A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa” (Duke UP, 2022)
In A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Duke University Press, 2022), Robyn d’Avignon, Assistant Professor of History at NYU, retraces the history of gold mining…
My Stories of Struggle: Anchoring the ‘Personal’ in a Production Preoccupied with the ‘Propriety’ of ‘Science’
I conceive of the ‘personal’ as a reflexive device that is aligned with the outcome of empirically based observation. As I have stated, my awareness of my aversion…
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in Norway
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our third podcast episode explores how Norwegian anthropology departments hire. Every … More
IAS Talk on Arabs before Islam
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What Happens if Chinese Smartphones Teach English Lessons in Tanzania?
English is the dominant global language of the world, it is the language of power, and control. But it is not the only language, and different people have…
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Long-distance running tips for beginners
Here’s everything you need for outstanding running progress: Form habits! Many people get excited to run, start strong, and fizzle out after a short season, claiming, “I tried…