Day 1 of A Citizens’ Hearing: Examining Canada’s Covid Response
From Wednesday, June 22, through Friday, June 24, 2022, a combined effort by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance and Fearless Canada, brought three full days of testimonies that were stre…
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What is the Great Replacement Theory? – A primer
A good video primer of the far right and mainstream ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theories by DW NEWS with experts from the field
Book Review: The Truths of Monsters
By Vivian Asimos Limpár, Ildikó (2021) The truths of monsters: coming of age with fantastic media. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. Positioned in the intersections of Monster…
Emanuel Moss takes the Page 99 test
On the 99th page of my dissertation, “The Objective Function: Science and Society in the Age of Machine Intelligence”, the first full paragraph describes how machine learning researchers…
De-Colonizing Toda Ethnography
(W.H.R.Rivers and the Toda) Professor Promode Kumar Misra PATRON UIAF Former National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research Email ID: pramodkumarmisra@gmail.com Nilgiris the habitat of the…
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, “Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG” (Lexington Books, 2022)
Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon’s edited volume Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG (Lexington Books, 2022) examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing…
Frans de Waal, “Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist” (W. W. Norton, 2022)
In Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (W. W. Norton, 2022), world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal…
Arctic Midsummer – party time with pagan roots
In the European Arctic Midsummer nowadays marks mostly the start of the summer holidays. But at the roots of this big holiday, celebrated on or close to the…
Introducing: “Disaster X”
Disaster X is a new publication, that is tied to this site: it is available on Substack. Here I just want to briefly introduce the material that already…
Transformation, Hope and the Commons: A Belfast #EASA2022 conference
Fiona Murphy and Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou, Queen’s University Belfast Figure 1. EASA 2022 logo – the beacon of hope An elegant female figure, a beacon of hope, composed of…
Links & Contents I Liked 449
Hi all,This final post before the traditional summer break until early August is filled with interesting stories from around the #globaldev world again! UN whistleblowers, MSF visual communication,…
Emily Mendenhall, “Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji” (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the…
Carles Lalueza-Fox, “Inequality: A Genetic History” (MIT Press, 2022)
Inequality is an urgent global concern, with pundits, politicians, academics, and best-selling books all taking up its causes and consequences. In Inequality: A Genetic History (MIT Press, 2022), Carles Lalueza-Fox…
How Big Data is a Great Help in Cultural Anthropology
Credit/resources used in the video: Data – The Billion Prices Project Big data | Institute of Physics (iop.org) LHC restarts – YouTube Stars 101 | National Geographic –…
What Ancient Stone “Swiss Army Knives” Mean
Multipurpose ancient stone tools harbor more clues about human sociality than initially meet the eye. Paloma de la Peñ This article was originally published in The Conversation and…
What Ancient Stone “Swiss Army Knives” Mean
This article was originally published in The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Humans are the only species to live in every environmental niche in the…
Centennial of the Indian Arts Research Center Collections: Gala Dinner and Auction
Thunder and light rain did not keep 100 stalwart gala guests from descending the stone steps to enter a white-tented world where they were …
In Case You Missed It: Cultivating Connections 2022
Jennifer Jo Thompson, University of Georgia (SAFN President) After three years of planning, postponing due to COVID-19, and then planning again, “Cultivating Connections”—the 2022 joint annual mee…
Susan Hartman, “City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town” (Beacon Press, 2022)
City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town (Beacon Press, 2022) paints an intimate portrait of the newcomers revitalizing a fading industrial…
Bharat Jayram Venkat, “At the Limits of Cure” (Duke UP, 2021)
Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were…
Apocalyptic end times
I have a hunch this place won’t last the decade – some sort of global cataclysm is in the offing, you can just tell. Yet despite prognostications of…
ARHE Policy Brief Award
We are excited to announce the first annual ARHE Policy Brief Award is now open for submissions. The aim of the award is to encourage and acknowledge the contributions…
Anthropolitan | Call for Photographs 2022
Dear students and staff, We are delighted to write with news of a new departmental photography initiative. We warmly invite submissions from all members of the department—students and…
KulturTransfer – Wie fast alles, was uns vertraut ist, eigentlich einen Migrationshintergrund hat (Buchprojekt)
Michael Toggweiler Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. “…