When Nothing Fits
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Peer Schouten, “Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Peer Schouten, of the Danish Institute for International Studies, has written a breathtaking book. Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa (Cambridge, 2022). Schouten mapped more than 1000…
Stan BH Tan-Tangbau et al., “Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations Between Worlds” (Routledge, 2022)
Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations between Worlds (Routledge, 2022) examines the germination and growth of jazz under communist rule—perceived as the “music of the enemy” and “ideologically decadent”—in the…
Catherine Besteman, “Militarized Global Apartheid” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Militarized Global Apartheid, Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa’s apartheid system on a worldwide scale…
Review: The Automat
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Bernard Gotfryd, Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection. David Beriss The Automat, directed by Lisa Hurwitz. 2021, 1hr 18 min…
Khin Thazin and Stephen Campbell: How the Myanmar coup has impacted migrant workers abroad
The February 2021 military coup in Myanmar put an end to the country’s ten-year period of quasi-civilian electoral rule—the so-called democratic transition, as it was optimistically called. Since…
Techno-geographies of digital phenotyping in mental health research by Jessy Williams
Can your phone keep you mentally well? Developments in digital phenotyping have brought new attention to forms of behavioural data collection that capitalise on the apparent ubiquity of…
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What the Discovery of Denisovan Remains in Laos Means
The Tam Ngu Hao 2 Cave in Laos held Denisovan remains—the first ever found in Southeast Asia, showing the expansive geographical reach of this hominin species. Fabrice Demeter/University…
Allison Hahn, “Media Culture in Nomadic Communities” (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
In Media Culture in Nomadic Communities (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), author Allison Hahn examines the ways that new communications technologies have changed how nomadic and mobile communities engage in political advocacy,…
Reighan Gillam, “Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media” (U Illinois Press, 2022)
A new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into the dynamic alternative media landscape developed by…
Inclusion and Opportunities for Equal Participation for Autistic University Students in France
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this piece read by Cara Ryan Image by Jon Tyson, Unsplash Like the term “equal…
20th Anniversary of HBO’s "The Wire"
In 2011, we started a project entitled “Anthropology By the Wire” with participants drawn mainly from community colleges in the Baltimore area. Our goal was to collaborate with…
Charles Briggs on his book, Unlearning
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/3998-unlearning Ilana Gershon: This book is a generous and intricate homage to your mentors and those who …
Sexist methods of warfare: How does war affect women?
Anthrodendum welcomes Aleksandra Cejovic, a Montenegrin anthropologist based in the United States whose work is focused primarily on female embodied experiences, mainly menstrual and sexual health. Se…
Maize and Okra
I saw big momma once, seated in a wooden chair with hair braided all the way like if you look downriver, you could imagine the chillin’ playing— after…
Pavla Simková, “Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands” (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
The Boston Harbor Islands have been called Boston’s “hidden shores.” While some are ragged rocks teeming with coastal wildlife, such as oystercatchers and harbor seals, others resemble manicured…
On Hazzard and White
Two little intro to the author books that I think are absolute gems – and they will get inside your ear to tell you more about the world…
Camas and Micro-seasonality at Minto-Brown Park
We all are aware of the annual seasons, winter, spring, summer, and fall, but in the growing cycle of the plants of the Willamette Valley there are micro-seasons…
A Memory of History or History of Memory? – A War Memorial ‘Simpson and His Donkey’
I remember when I was a little girl, I was fascinated with war memorials. Stone colossi towering over people, gravely staring into the infinite as if seeing something…
Du Bois on Communism
I typed this out a week ago on Facebook and it was shared nearly 200 times on the first day. This, I think, indicates that the time is…
Review: To Boldly Grow
Haspel, Tamar (2022) To Boldly Grow. Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 231 pp. Ellen Messer (Tufts University) How many…
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any day or part day that the individual sees their child in person in the UK counts as a day on which they see their child in the…
Michael Lucey on his book, What Proust Heard
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo130500168.html Ilana Gershon: In what sense are Proust and the other authors you discuss – Balzac, Eliot, Wo…