Ep # 91: The Hiking Middle Class & Perspectives on Perspectives This month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep # 91: The Hiking Middle Class & Perspectives on Perspectives This month on TFS Welcome back to the Familiar Strange! This week is…
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Yemen Film 1973
This exquisite film was produced in 1973 and filmed in 1972, thus representing Yemen half a century ago. It is now available on Youtube. The filmmakers were Karen…
Roundup, UBC Fields, and our Ecological Effects
I was walking by the field sponsored by Tourmaline Oil recently and one of the regular staff was spraying the margin under the fence with roundup. They said…
Markus Virgil Hoehne: Perpetuating conflict through democratization: Presidential elections in Somalia
Presidential elections will happen in Somalia on Sunday, 15 May 2022. This will most likely not bring peace and stability to the war-torn Somali society. To the contrary,…
Camas Journal, May 10, 2022 Minto-Brown Park
Visited again Minto-Brown park to see all of the camas fields. That field near the city has at this time a very thin population of camas, it seems…
Camas Journal, May 8, 2022
I returned today to Bush Park to take in the middle prairie and see how things are going. The weather has scattered spring rains all day. This year…
We Should Talk More About the Abortion Pill
In May 2018, activists took abortion pills as part of a protest against anti-abortion laws in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Many were dressed as characters from The Handmaid’s Tale,…
Source for Arabic pdfs
Here is a very useful source for downloading pdfs of Arabic texts on a wide range of subjects. Check it out here: https://ebook.univeyes.com/disciplines
Bringing Ageing to Life
Author: Charlotte Hawkins On 8th June, the ASSA team will host a workshop to bring together different anthropologists of ageing. This will include discussion of comparative papers from…
Book Review: The Religion of the Central Luo by Okot p’Bitek
LSE Professor Tim Allen reflects on the profound impact that Ugandan poet Okot p’Bitek‘s The Religion of the Central Luo had on his own approach to fieldwork among…
Michael G. Flaherty and K. C. Carceral, “The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison” (Columbia UP, 2022)
Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in…
Viral Entanglements in Malaysian Porcine Worlds
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this piece read by Kymberley Chu Content warning: This blog post contains photo…
The last free words of a cannabis prisoner
My friend Daniel Muessig went to prison today. A former criminal defense attorney himself, he sold cannabis in Pennsylvania, a state where it’s legal. But it’s still illegal…
Decolonising indigenous knowledge? Reading circle 12 May 2022 noon Finnish time
Indigenous knowledge, or better indigenous ways of knowing, have been key to anthropological debates on human-environment relations in the Arctic, even more so since climate change has increased…
Susan Seizer’s reflections upon retirement
What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about the story behind writing it? Oddly enough the article I am most…
We need to talk about skateboarding
Skateboarding is a skilful practice, a discipline of failure, and a global culture. Sander Hölsgens studies skateboarding as a tool for social good and reflects on three socio-political…
Biological Science Rejects the Sex Binary, and That’s Good for Humanity
Despite myths of “pink” brains and “blue” brains, human brains are mosaics of what have stereotypically been characterized as male and female traits. CSA-Printstock/Getty Images At the re…
Busting Myths About Sex and Gender
The belief that males are aggressive while females are nurturing is a dangerous myth. Evgeny Tchebotarev/Pexels Excerpted from the second edition of Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They…
The Fight to Save Cultural Memory with Charles Henry
Interdependence is the idea that the wellbeing of our world and for our physical and emotional selves depends on those around us, yet when we find ourselves up…
Christopher Donoghue, “The Sociology of Bullying: Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents” (NYU Press, 2022)
School shootings and suicides by young victims of bullying have spurred a proliferation of anti-bullying programs, yet most of the research done on school bullying has been from…
Karen Samantha Barton, “Africa’s Joola Shipwreck: Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster” (Lexington Books, 2020)
In 2002, a government-owned Senegalese ferry named the Joola capsized in a storm off the coast of The Gambia in a tragedy that killed 1,863 people and left…
Samuel J. Redman, “Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology” (Harvard UP, 2021)
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard UP, 2021) is a searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenous peoples…
Out now: Searching for Sweetness: Women’s mobile lives in China and Lesotho (2022)
Sarah Hanisch’s monograph Searching for Sweetness: Women’s mobile lives in China and Lesotho (2022) is out! The book provides a fascinating ethnography, linking rural-to-urban migration in China with …
Haunted by a Secret War
In Old Sepon in Savannakhet province, Laos, a temple wall riddled with bullet holes and shrapnel scars hints at war’s remains. Leah Zani Excerpted from Strike Patterns: Notes…