On the Corona crisis and numbers
Dutch policy has placed health metrics at the center of discussions around the Corona Crisis. Numbers visualize the urgency of the societal threat and form the basis for…
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Nina M. Yancy, “How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America” (Oxford UP, 2022)
How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America (Oxford UP, 2022) explores the connection between prejudice and place in modern America. Existing scholarship suggests that…
M. Bianet Castellanos, “Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtness in Mexico” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform.…
Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith, “Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
With Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith issue a call for qualitative political scientists to go beyond the controlled comparisons so…
Profit over people? The ‘big business’ of tough immigration laws.
By Renata Carvalho As the new Nationality and Borders Bill sparks yet another wave of debates over the United Kingdom’s immigration tactics, it is important to ask: who…
SAPIENS Podcast Season 4 Reflections and Celebrations
In this live event, a panel of archaeologists and podcasters celebrates the completion of SAPIENS Podcast Season 4 and RadioCIAMS’ SAPIENS Talk Back series. Meet the amazing people…
RG China(s) Colloquium: Summer Semester Program
Next up: Friday, 24 June, 12:30–13:30 Fabienne Wallenwein (Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Universität Heidelberg) Reconnecting cultural heritage and landscape in the Congjiang Jiabang Ri…
Somatosphere seeks new editor by Eugene Raikhel
Somatosphere is seeking an editor or small editorial group to begin a 5-year term on September 1, 2022. Applicants should be active researchers in medical anthropology or a…
Don Kalb: War: New Times
It is now becoming overly clear that this cruel and unjustifiable war in and on Ukraine is not going to last ten days – as the strategists in…
Review: The “Grand Meze” Exhibit at the Mucem in Marseille, France
Rachel Black (Connecticut College) This exhibit runs from May 19, 2021 – Dec. 31, 2023. Is food the most unifying element of the Mediterranean? By focusing on foodways…
Dredging for Common Ground: Geosocial Politics of Depth at Industrial Coastal Chennai
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2021 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
Dear Anthropologists that I know.
Dear Anthropologists that I know. It is 100 years since Bronislaw Malinowski’s “Argonauts of the Western Pacific” began the terror of enforcing the participant observation fi…
Pamela Hieronymi, “Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals” (Princeton UP, 2020)
An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson’s influential “Freedom and Resentment” P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his…
Stacy G. Ulbig, “Angry Politics: Partisan Hatred and Political Polarization Among College Students” (UP of Kansas, 2020)
Political Scientist Stacy Ulbig has a new book that dives into the political attitudes and behaviors of college students to assess how polarization and partisan antipathy in the…
Virtual Otherwise Conference 2022
Registration is now open for the biennial anthropology conference (June 2-4 2022). The Virtual Otherwise will be a pre-recorded conference structured around 90-minute panels along with keynote eve…
Review: The Hungry Eye
Leonard Barkan. The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2021. pp. 326 ISBN: 9780691211466. …
The Yaghan Rise Again
Archaeologist Atilio Francisco Zangrando, foreground, has excavated along the Beagle Channel, or Onashaga in the Yaghan language, since 1998. Katrina Pyne This article was originally publ…
Mobile Humanitarians: an afterword
This webinar series set out to explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism, and our speakers opened up several new areas for thought and discussion. Over four episodes,…
Gavin Mueller, “Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job” (Verso, 2021)
In Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites are Right About Why You Hate Your Job (Verso, 2021), Gavin Mueller provides a bracing and wide-ranging study of the fractious relationship between workers…
Are personal #globaldev blogs a thing of the past?
Business Week cover from 2005 on “Blogs will change your business”Mark Carrigan recently asked this question about personal academic blogs on the LSE Impact of Science blog and…
What Do Anthropologists Do?
A person documents a centuries-old Basque carnival in Alsasua, Spain. Many anthropologists investigate cultural phenomena, such as rituals and religious traditions. NurPhoto/Getty Images …
David Nemer, “Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil” (MIT Press, 2022)
In Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (MIT Press, 2022), David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of…
Disability Dongle – I Shouldn’t Have Had to Write This
Disability Dongle: A well intended elegant, yet useless solution to a problem we never knew we had. Disability Dongles are most often conceived of and created in design…
The Cosmic Serpent: A poem on carnival and karma, first published by Sapiens
Most Carnival celebrations in Brazil were canceled for a second year in a row in 2022 due to the resurgence of COVID-19. This poem, which I wrote during…