Transracial Adoption and the Limits of Love
A photo installation by artist Glenn Morey explores how Korean adoptees in the U.S. grapple with questions related to belonging, identity, and family. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images On a…
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Sophie Chao, “In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua” (Duke UP, 2022)
This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). Her new book examines the lives of Marind…
Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik, “Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis” (Duke UP, 2021)
Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke University Press, 2021) collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors —who come from a variety…
“This Sweet Potato is Beautiful.” From Ethnoagronomy to Ethnogastronomy in the work of Virginia Nazarea
Lima, 2015. At the Mistura, an annual food festival in Peru wherein people from the desert, the Andes, and the coast bring their produce and artisanal products to…
Aurora Donzelli on her book, One or Two Words
Interview by Nicco La Mattina https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo68162961.html Nicco La Mattina: A principle theme running throughout One or Two Words is th…
Don Nonini: Scoring the U.S. Working Class: Expropriation and Digitalization
Introduction Working-class people in the United States are now at a turning point – whether to compliantly return to the pre-Covid conditions capital set for them, or to…
5 Questions About War Virtually
Join us for a free 25-minute live Q&A between former SAPIENS Media and Public Outreach Fellow Yoli Ngandali and anthropologist Roberto J. González about his new book, War…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Building Aidland: Aid Workers and the Creation of a Global Aid Industry in the 1970s
This webinar series explores the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism. Anthropologists and historians have defined humanitarianism as concern and action assisting a distant Other. Hav…
Lucy Cooke, “Bitch: On the Female of the Species” (Basic Books, 2022)
Bitch: On the Female of the Species (Basic Books, 2022) is a fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel…
Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, “Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America (Duke University Press, 2020), Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites…
Ellen Baumler, “The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana’s Cemeteries” (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana’s Cemeteries (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a…
Heroes of Our Economy
A social economy approach therefore asks why people are engaged in specific enterprises. Are they simply out to make the most money they can? Many people do. Or…
Anna Korteweg on the politics of integration, gender and race in relation to people labelled immigrants
Anna Korteweg is a professor of sociology and head of Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Anna Korteweg works on gender, Islam and immigrant integration in…
Taking Action on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine at the UBC-V Senate
Russia invaded the sovereign territory of Ukraine in between the February and March meetings of the UBC-V Senate. Given the urgency of the situation and the lack of…
Marx heroically caring for Jenny.
The doctor gives opium and Karl reports on the shits to Fred. There is nothing but sadness and tragic loss here, and of course he dies soon after…
Wish list – Nihon-go Marx
Authors I would like to read – English or Japanese pdfs please if you have them – (I may have some spellings wrong, I no longer know where…
Review: Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
David E. Sutton, Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples, Berghahn, 2021, ISBN 978-1-80073-223-0 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-80073-224-7 (ebook), 142 pages. Amy Trubek…
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Hi all,This week’s review returns with classic topics-from charity funding in the US, to humanitarian crises in Myanmar & Syria, women’s empowerment in Malawi, uneven development in PNG…
Ieva Snikersproge: Jobs or ecology? Why green growth is a pipe dream and how the pandemic could change this
My interest in the tensions between job preservation and ecological transition comes from my fieldwork among neorurals in Diois, a relatively isolated mountainous area in Southeastern France. The…
“Nothing About Us Without Us!” Really?: The Unequal Value of Lives in Harm Reduction NGOs by Catherine Larocque
Canada, like most capitalist societies of the global North, faces “an unprecedented and devastating wave of overdoses” and overdose deaths (Wells, 2017), intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic (Governm…
Elayne Oliphant, “The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris” (UChicago Press, 2021)
France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades…
K. S. Batmanghelichi, “Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran” (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Gender and sexuality in modern Iran are frequently examined through the prisms of nationalist symbols and religious discourse. In Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary…
Liora Sarfati, “Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital” (Indiana UP, 2021)
Once viewed as an embarrassing superstition, the theatrical religious performances of Korean shamans–who communicate with the dead, divine the future, and become possessed–are going mainstream. Attitudes toward Korean…