Late Removals to the Grand Ronde Reservation from Umpqua Valley and Rogue River
As noted in several essays on this blog, removing tribes from their lands and to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation was not a perfect process. Most of the…
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The Critic Retires: Fifty Years of Restaurant Writing
A few of Tom Fitzmorris’ many books. David Beriss What does it mean to be a restaurant critic for fifty years? I recently attended a dinner in honor…
It’s not all downhill: On becoming an older scholar
By Laura Miller. Expectations for academics are sometimes based on stereotypes. One idea is that people reach the apex of their creativity and intensity before diminishing energy and…
Chihab El Khachab on his book, Making Film in Egypt
Interview by Meg Morley https://aucpress.com/product/making-film-in-egypt/https://aucpress.com/product/making-film-in-egypt/ Meg Morley: How do/would you explain the central arguments of yo…
See You Later, Thick Data – Part 3
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”.…
Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman, “Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form” (Duke UP, 2022)
The contributors to Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke UP, 2022) assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a contemporary…
Technologies of Trust: Introduction
This post is the introduction of our thematic thread on Trust, curated by Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna), Shaila Seshia Galvin (Geneva Graduate Institute) and Ramah McKay (University of Pen…
Choosing Your Own Adventure: My Life as a Teenage Dungeon Master and How It Prepared Me to Become an Anthropologist
In many ways, Dungeon Masters are the ethnographers of their own worlds. Granted, we’re not exactly interviewing the people who populate them, and we’re inventing most of the…
Food Sovereignty vs. Food Aid: Why Smallscale Farming Suffers
Traditional farming in al-Ahjur, Central Highlands (photography by Daniel Martin Varisco) The early major civilizations in the Middle East and Asia with their head start several millennia ago…
Two permanent lecturer positions in cultural anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington
My programme is hiring two lecturers in cultural anthropology. These are junior level academic positions, equivalent to an assistant professor in the US. However, these jobs are permanent…
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Hi all,Just as the #globaldev community started to discuss the new UK government, including a new minister for development, another breaking news story may have appeared in your…
More Open Letters from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Ziga Podgornik Jakil 11 (Figure 1. Author: Raimond Spekking. Copyright: Creative Commons.) This series of letters began with an introduction written by…
Sarah Lamb, “Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging—striving through medical technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines, vulnerabilities, and dependencies…
HELEN MACFARLANE note
Note to a friend (also to me as placemarker): The Manifesto translation we have now seems pretty good, though I like the very first one in English in 1850, I…
Finding Mental Health Issues Hidden in the Past
An archaeologist speculates about how to uncover evidence of depression, anxiety, and neurodiversities in ancient humans. ✽ Hi, my name is Paige, and I have generalized anxiety and…
Film screening: in the name of the wild
On October 3rd our colleagues from the University from the “Sustainable Naturecultures” research group at the Faculty of Social Sciences host an interesting film screening including discu…
Trying to Out the CIA, and Other Musings about Ethnography.com
Last June, I published an article about the role of the CIA in the post-World War II world order. I rather liked it, but no one seems to…
Julia Margaret Zulver, “High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women’s Mobilization in Violent Contexts” (Rutgers UP, 2022)
In High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women’s Mobilization in Violent Contexts (Rutgers University Press, 2022), Dr. Julia Zulver documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice…
L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster, “Sex in the Middle East and North Africa” (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster,’s edited volume Sex in the Middle East and North Africa (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) examines the sexual practices, politics, and complexities of the modern…
Life Last Week
Via Marvel Strike Force The latest character to be introduced in Marvel Strike Force, the mobile game I play daily, is a Navajo weaver member of the Spiderverse.…
Preface: “See You Later, Thick Data”
Anthrodendum is pleased to welcome guest bloggers Sofie, Clara, and Emilie. They are a group of junior scholars working as part of the interdisciplinary research project called DISTRACT,…
Ugo Corte, “Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Straight from the beaches of Hawaii comes an exciting new ethnography of a community of big-wave surfers. Oahu’s Waimea Bay attracts the world’s best big wave surfers—men and…
Archaeology at the Borders of the Refugee Crisis
Archaeological methods, which are typically used to study the past, can also illuminate the experiences of today’s displaced people. This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and…
What’s Behind the Backlash to Lightyear’s Animated Kiss?
What do Twitter debates over Disney-Pixar’s recent family film tell us about today’s parenting politics in the U.S.? ✽ On June 17, Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation…