Ep # 89 Growing Pains in the Valley: Dr Eric Hirsch on Growth in the Colca Valley
The Familiar Strange · Ep # 89 Growing Pains in the Valley: Dr Eric Hirsch on Growth in the Colca Valley Welcome back to the Familiar Strange! This…
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Guest lecture in Turku, Finland
On November 10, 2021, I held a guest lecture that was video-recorded. “The Study of Strategic Ignorance: Anthropological Perspectives on Racialization in Denmark.” In this talk, I …
Workshop report: ‘Interrogating Speculative Futures: A workshop on the politics of imagining a future with(out) chronic illness’ by Els Roding
In 1992 Nancy Munn argued anthropological research should pay more attention to people’s lived realities of time. Since then, we have seen time and temporalities grow into a…
Alexander W. Anthony: Covid in the confines of the US
Introduction There is a calendar in my office which still hangs at March 2020; an artifact of the confusion and rush to ‘lockdown’ and to find shelter from…
TRAJECTORIA Vol. 3 online
TRAJECTORIA is an international online peer-reviewed journal published annually by the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Japan. The journal explores new horizons of Anthropology, Heritage Stu…
Update On "Taking Action on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine at the UBC-V Senate"
On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, the joint committees met again to consider their action on the motion I had originally proposed for the March 16, 2022 meeting. The…
Multispecies Anarchism in the Postnuclear World
Connect the dots between “state”, “imperialism”, and “war”. Add “leaders”, “testosterone” and “nukes”. Look at the picture and tell me anarchism was a bad idea. In effect, as…
South Africa’s two-tier economy (2012-2022) by Keith Hart
This analysis is based on the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report for 2011-2012. It identifies twelve “pillars” of sustainable … More
Ethno-graphic collaborations
Author: Laura Haapio-Kirk During my research in Japan, I became increasingly aware of the importance of visual communication, for example stickers and emoji, for how many of my…
Does Green on COVID-19 Maps Mean What You Think?
Picture a traffic light. This isn’t a trick question. We want you to visualize some sort of box housing three lightbulbs, each behind a colored filter: red on…
Rama Srinivasan, “Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the…
Paige Sweet, “The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath” (U California Press, 2021)
For women who have experienced domestic violence, proving that you are a “good victim” is no longer enough. Victims must also show that they are recovering, as if…
Winners of SAFN’s 2nd Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
David Beriss We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The weighty decision was reached by a panel made up of…
Slavery, Sustenance, and Resistance
Archaeology helps re-imagine a fuller range of experiences, including how people ate, innovated, and rebelled. In this episode, “slave cuisine” opens a window to honor the legacy of…
Hiring: Inuit Research Assistants (remote work)
We are looking to hire several Inuit Research Assistants to help us conduct a systematic literature review to look at the role of Nunavut Arctic College in research,…
Andrew Orta: The MBA won’t die. But it is trying to disappear
Responding to a question about future of the MBA (Master of Business Administration) in the wake of the pandemic, the Dean of a top program recently suggested that…
Nitasha Tamar Sharma, “Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific” (Duke UP, 2021)
Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke UP, 2021) maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges…
Michael Spitzer, “The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to this music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who…
Natali Valdez, “Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era” (U California Press, 2022)
In Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era (University of California Press, 2022), Natali Valdez examines research trials that enroll pregnant people in the United…
Traveling but Not Arriving: Hieroglyphics of Caste in Computing
Listen to an audio recording of this post read by P V This browser does not support HTML5 audio When I landed in Bangalore in early 2020, it…
Voices of Pain
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE my head is split there is a stone in my stomach I am worried my neck hurts my back hurts heat moves up in my body I…
The flea, the canyon, and racism: Reflections on outrage
By Benjamin Koponen On January 22nd, 2022, an elderly white woman punched me in the arm while I, a black man, was biking to help a friend paint…