In the Pensive Pause of Supervision: A Footnote on Citing Santos
Author’s editorial prelude: In what follows, I open up insight into a micro-moment of everyday scholarly life which shows itself through the body; like that slightly deeper breath…
Author’s editorial prelude: In what follows, I open up insight into a micro-moment of everyday scholarly life which shows itself through the body; like that slightly deeper breath…
In Tribal Reawakening and the Future of State-Building in Kuwait and Qatar, Maryam Al-Kuwari challenges the assumption that modern state-building has diminished the relevance of tribal identities in…
Thirty years of this book. Reminded today that it’s circa 700 rupees from Bloomsbury India if you like that sort of thing (real life copies I mean): The…
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2026 SAFN Student Research Award winner is Patricia Mathu. Mathu is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Purdue University. Her dissertation foc…
Dear readers and followers you may have noticed that in the last years, activity on this blog has become less, while the content of what has been posted…
“Most of these other agency heads are, in my opinion, car salesmen. They would sell anything and would probably also somehow sell their grandmother’s washing machine, probably also…
Americans are more isolated, polarized, and depressed than ever in recent memory, and yet many citizens share a deep desire for community and friendship across political lines and…
The Great Replacement theory is sanitized and mainstreamed in political debates through the policy proposal of ‘remigration’. As the conspiracy narrative is translated into the more palatable language…
From ‘Melbourne Journal of Politics’ 1986 originally, reprinted in The Postcolonial Critic, ed Sarah Harasym 1990 The Post-Colonial Critic Interview MJP with by Gayatri Chakravorty…
Aysel brought out her candles wrapped in stretch wrap and put them on the coffee table in the middle of our interview. She was very proud of showing…
This text is well worth your time… (I have, for this blogsnip, retitled it from a phrase in one of the early paragraphs, apologies, but some of this…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/screening-social-justice Kenzell Huggins: Screening Social Justice in many ways continues the important work in the ethnography of independent film that you started …
A series of questions have been sparked by the indigenous urgency of the moment: What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people…
Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China (Berghahn, 2026) by Dr. Máximo Badaró explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of worth. Through ethnographic research among marketers,…
The anthropological project, tired and exhausted after years searching for ‘methodological absolution’, remains mired in a spiral of self-doubt and self-indulgent ‘crisis’. Anthropological teachi…
Sandhya Fuchs in conversation about her 2025 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology winner, Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes … More
Grace Sanders Johnson So now here is the question: what tools, what methodologies, if you will, do we need to develop to coax memory back into work, to…
Image by Sidney Regis Title: Antilles Serie: Repare the sea Technic: Black ink and gold ink on old map from the 1930s Size 44×57 cm 2023 Collection of the artist…
Leyneuf Tines First and foremost, thank you to the coast because without the coast, how do we move from here to there?—Gboyega Odubanjo, Adam1 What comes next cannot…
Jennifer Celestin “Sometimes I walk to Church Avenue with no intentions but as soon as I hear, ‘Get manman’ou, ma che.’ I know why I came. For a…
In Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger (Duke UP, 2025), Sophie Chao examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in lowland West Papua,…
Note to self. A debate could be had as to whether the imputation of a local slave trading regime is imposed or copied from outside. No less than…
I received the following message (posted below) from a colleague who is not a friend. I had sent the colleague a message asking if they might offer a…
The Nippon Steel SGL Stadium Amagasaki opened on March 1, 2025 as the home ball park for the Hanshin Tigers farm team, known as 二軍 (ni-gun, 2-gun), the…