Mesopotamian Potluck
If you are bored with what you cook, give this rather ancient set of recipes a try. Read all about it on the MyMet website.
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Ep # 87: Squatters in The Stag: Adrian Watts on Activism & Squats
The Familiar Strange · Ep # 87: Squatters in The Stag: Adrian Watts on Activism & Squats Before we dive into today’s episode we’d just like to add…
In the Journals, February 2022 by Anna Zogas
Here is a selection of articles published in February. Enjoy! Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Vital Labors: Transacting Oocytes across Borders in the Post-Soviet Space (open access) M…
A poem for FGM
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SPECIAL EDITION: The Wages of War
Unlike any other war, the United States ever took part in, the Vietnam War was a major turning point. It … More
Lebanese Music at Baalbek
This is a beautifully filmed and played Youtube video of Lebanese music performed in the ruins of a temple in Lebanon.
Andrew Sanchez: Work is Complicated: Thoughts on David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs
There’s a Committee for Committees! A few weeks ago, I received a message from a colleague. It was the sort of funny thing that one friend says to…
Bonnie Urciuoli reflects on her new co-edited volume, The Spanish Language in the United States
https://www.routledge.com/The-Spanish-Language-in-the-United-States-Rootedness-Racialization-and/Cobas-Urciuoli-Feagin-Delgado/p/book/9781032190556 The Spanish Language in the United States: R…
Links & Contents I Liked 437
Hi all, This week’s newsletter is a bit shorter, but I still want to maintain a space where we can read about other news-from the ‘wild west’ of…
Islamic Science Fiction Writing
Check out an interesting podcast on Muslim writing on science fiction.
Big Ocean States: Reclaiming Sovereignty through Maritime Borders
In this blogpost, Milla Vaha provides an analysis of state sovereignty and maritime borders with a focus on the large ocean states of the Pacific who are “powerfully…
Carol Berger, “The Child Soldiers of Africa’s Red Army: The Role of Social Process and Routinised Violence in South Sudan’s Military” (Routledge, 2022)
In The Child Soldiers of Africa’s Red Army: The Role of Social Process and Routinised Violence in South Sudan’s Military (Routledge, 2022), Dr. Carol Berger examines the role of social…
Amélie Barras et al., “Producing Islams(s) in Canada: On Knowledge, Positionality, and Politics” (U Toronto Press, 2022)
In Producing Islam(s) in Canada: On Knowledge, Positionality and Politics (University of Toronto, 2021), Amélie Barras, Jennifer Selby, and Melanie Adrian bring together twenty-nine interdisciplinary scholars of all levels to…
John Zerzan, “When We Are Human: Notes from the Age of Pandemics” (Feral House, 2021)
These are dark and darkening times, challenging us to look deeper to grasp the roots and dynamics of the looming civilizational crisis. Chronic illness of the planet calls…
CFF: NAFA 2022
The NAFA 2022 event will be held in Romania, in the tiny village of Csehétfalva / Cehețel in Harghita County in Transylvania 7-11 September. Csehétfalva / Cehețel, where…
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn: When Western Anti-Imperialism Supports Imperialism
The invasion of Ukraine has been a shock not just to Eastern Europe, but to the post World War II international order. While the fundamental tenets of postwar…
Quarandream With Me: The World After Covid
ByPepe WeischerBSc Anthropology Quarantining, the systematic confinement of the ill, has been in practice for at least a thousand years, but never on the scale seen in 2020,…
#MeToo Anthropology and the Case Against Harvard
On February 4, The Harvard Crimson broke the news of an open letter, signed by 38 faculty members, in support of John Comaroff. This prominent professor of anthropology…
An Anthropological Approach to mHealth: Health & Care in the Smartphone Age
Author: Charlotte Hawkins As part of the ASSA project, we are currently working to publish a volume called: ‘An Anthropological Approach to mHealth: Health & Care in the…
Trena M. Paulus and Jessica N. Lester, “Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World” (Sage, 2021)
Whether you like it or not, the pandemic has pushed us to make many changes in our life, from working from home to following all the mitigation measures.…
TU#05: Multimodal Articulations of Futures in an Afghan-Danish Film Collective
The Emergent Futures CoLab (EFC) invites you to its fifth online Talking Uncertainty session: Multimodal Articulations of Futures in an Afghan-Danish Film Collective, on Wednesday March 16, 2022,…
Carolyn Chen, “Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley” (Princeton UP, 2022)
Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley (Princeton UP, 2022) explores how tech companies…
A Strange Past Returns Strangely
The last time I heard anyone utter the name, Przemysl, I must have been ten or eleven years old. In his thickly Yiddishized English, my maternal grandfather must…