Qatar and the World Cup – Questions and Answers
A while ago, a Swedish reporter asked me to answer a few questions about Qatar and the World Cup. The segment eventually got cut, but since I had…
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“Emeryville is Weird”
When I would tell people I worked in the small San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Emeryville, they would almost always say, “Emeryville is weird.” And then the…
Mayfair Yang, “Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental humanities, Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021) brings together Chinese environmental ethics, religious ontology, and religious…
Uncertain Heritage: Musicking in Estonia
Estonians often refer themselves as a “small Singing Nation”. Siyun Wu studies music heritage and its impact on Estonian society. She notes that in searching for their musical…
Florian Jaton on his book, The Constitution of Algorithms
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/constitution-algorithms Ilana Gershon: This book is about the formation processes of algorithms. What, for you, was the socio…
Ganesh at An Giang
Bảo tàng An Giang. Here is Ganesa, 6th century, from Vong The commune, Thoai Song district, An Giang.
The 21st-century flaneur as a suspect?
Smith commits a crime is a tale of an everyday man trying to find his way – not in life, but – in space. This space looks essentially…
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, “Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine” (U California Press, 2022)
“Nước Việt Nam: a home, a cradle, a point of departure” (Gandhi, 1). The Vietnamese word nước embraces the duality of land and water with an idea of “home.” Through a…
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…
Seasonal Wetlands and Minto-Brown Island Park
It seems important to tribes that if they are truly to become restored, and decolonized, they need to be culturally restored by helping to decolonize their lands and…
A Nation of Mini-Me’s: Why White Nationalists Need to “Save the Children”
The “great replacement theory”, “white genocide”, and “demographic winter” are all pseudoscientific conspiracy theories that did not begin, nor will they end, with Tucker Carlson or other FOX…
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A Tale of Two Olhas: Reframing Ukrainian women’s experiences of war
ByAmandas OngPhD Anthropology Olha K.1 was not happy. For weeks, she had been waiting to apply for a national identification number that would grant Ukrainians like herself full…
Perimeter Protection: The Resiliency of Plantation Infrastructures in the South Carolina Lowcountry
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…
New Book Review: Citizenship, Democracy, and Belonging in Suburban Britain: Making the Local by David Jeevendrampillai
In Citizenship, Democracy, and Belonging in Suburban Britain: Making the Local – available open access from UCL Press – David Jeevendrampillai explores how inclusiveness and citizen participation can …
What the Vai Script Reveals About the Evolution of Writing
This handwritten example of Vai script dates to around 1850. British Library/Wikimedia Commons In a small West African village, a man named Momolu Duwalu Bukele had a compelling…
Round-Up Update
I received the following response from Kavie Toor regarding the use of ORUnd Up on fields at UBC. [see previous blog post] —— Dear Charles Thank you for…
Noting the Loss of Two Significant SAR supporters
We are sorry to report the passing of two longtime SAR supporters. Benjamin Crane, 2015. Photo credit: Garret Vreeland Benjamin F. Crane, a distinguished New York attorney who…
Here’s How to Make Olive Oil Like an Ancient Egyptian
“Hand Clutching an Olive Branch,” 1353–1323 B.C., New Kingdom, Amarna Period. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Norbert Schimmel, 1981 This article was originally published at The…
Jacob Doherty, “Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability” (U California Press, 2021)
Uganda’s capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability (U California Press,…
Heba Gowayed, “Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential” (Princeton UP, 2022)
As the world confronts the largest refugee crisis since World War II, wealthy countries are being called upon to open their doors to the displaced, with the assumption…
The Stars in the Universe
Reposted from capitalnctu.wordpress.com From TDTU amidst the detritus of the pandemic, this amazing work: 1 C Table of contentsDownload 1-final-artwork-ecou-teamDownload 2-ipu…
Why “The Great Replacement Theory” is not a Theory, and why that Matters
The notion of a “theory” comes from science. As such, the term conveys all the legitimacy upon which the scientific method relies. It should not be tossed around…
Technologies of Equal Participation: Formats, Designs, Practices. Introduction.
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this piece read by Svetlana Borodina Photo by Gareth David on Unsplash Only tod…