How to Promote Research on Social Media
Since SAPIENS launched in 2016, several social media outlets have been central to the magazine’s promotion strategy. Every week, we publish multiple posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram…
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The TikTok of Anthropology
Author: Daniel Miller I want to make a slightly surprising suggestion. That my current ambition in anthropology is to become more like TikTok (or its original Chinese form…
77* Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
John and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson in this rebroadcast of a 2019 Recall this Book conversation. Her Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia both relates the history…
A reminder from the NAFA Family
Dear NAFA Friends, A new year for all of us, a new year for the Nordic Anthropological Film Association – NAFA, so here we send a new reminder…
More Than a Mountain
The sky island of Dzil Nchaa Si’an is more than a mountain. It is a significant landmark in Arizona for Apache tribal members to collect medicinal plants, perform…
Call for Reviews: Life at the edges in a changing world
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started more than two years ago, time has been put on hold and precarity has become an even more common feature of life globally.…
Ori Schwarz, “Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes That Bind Us Together” (Polity Press, 2021)
The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In…
Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss, “Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species” (U Washington Press, 2021)
Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most important fish species in the Northern…
Jackie Higgins, “Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses” (Atria Books, 2022)
Packed with beautiful imagery, but also hard scientific facts, Jackie Higgins’s book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses (Atria Books, 2022) explores how we process the…
Call for applications and papers for VRN residency and conference
The Visual Research Network, in association with the Estonian National Museum, will hold the 3rd edition of the VRN residency and conference in Tartu, Estonia from June 12th…
Jane M. Ferguson, “Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred” (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
Around five million people across Southeast Asia identify as Shan. Though the Shan people were promised an independent state in the 1947 Union of Burma constitution, successive military…
Netlicks and Chill: Digitalization and Food Politics in Taste the TV (TTTV) Technology
Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Antonio Oraldi This browser does not support HTML5 audio Digital technologies have increasingly penetrated asp…
Interview with Brave UX
This blog post is the transcription of a podcast I did with Brendan Jarvis in early February. He’s done a number of interview with senior folks in the…
Interview with Brave UX
This blog post is the transcription of a podcast I did with Brendan Jarvis in early February. He’s done a number of interview with senior folks in the…
Beth Derderian takes the page 99 test
Why do some things count as art and go in museums, and other things don’t? “Exhibition organizers in the UAE often requested proof of citizenship status as part…
The Politics of “Ukraine” Versus “the Ukraine”
[no-caption] TheKit_13/Pixabay This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. For most of the 20th century, English speakers re…
Listening to Metal in the World: Music, Identity, and the Other
“Hey Jarrod, you like world music right? Check out this Mongolian band called 13th Bell”. I received this text a few weeks ago and was quite piqued by…
On Bernard Stiegler’s Marx-ish Work
Nice guy as Bernard was, a little self absorbed should never be held against anyone who had to grow up in France, no? But many loved him, and…
Links & Contents I Liked 438
Hi all,This week there are important, powerful stories from Malawi, Yemen, India, Brazil, Kenya, Saudi-Arabia/Nepal, the US & Canada as well insights into Think Tanks in Washington, localizing…
Criminalisation, harm reduction and responsibility in Polish drug policies by Justyna Struzik
In 2019, Sebastian Kaleta, a member of the Polish parliament associated with the ruling Law and Justice party, published a report denigrating Warsaw-based organisations working in the fields…
HOMAGE TO A PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGIST: PROFESSOR B. M. DAS (4TH OCTOBER 1931 – 22ND JANUARY 2008)
Mini Bhattacharyya Thakur Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Gauhati University. Guwahati Assam Email: mbthakuranth@gauhati.ac.in Tribute from a daughter: Deuta* (Father) He left all his shirts stack…
Vegan in Buenos Aires
Bondiola, matambre, chinchulines, choripan en milenasa napolitana zijn slechts een paar voorbeelden van de enorme keur aan vlees en worst in Argentinië. Vaak vergeten we de stapels pizza’s,…
Chris Hann: The Agony of Ukraine
After nearly two weeks of violent conflict in Ukraine, it is increasingly difficult to stand back and see the bigger picture. The West has lined up behind the…
Asef Bayat, “Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring” (Harvard UP, 2021)
Seamlessly blending field research, on-the-ground interviews, and social theory, Asef Bayat shows how the practice of everyday life in Egypt and Tunisia was fundamentally altered by revolutionary activity.…