Cairo in Old Photographs
Check out this website for a number of photographs of Cairo in the early part of the 20th century.
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How Dr. Li Wenliang Went From a Whistleblower to a National Hero
A memorial at Wuhan Central Hospital in Hubei province, China, honored Li Wenliang, who died on February 7, 2020. STR/AFP/Getty Images On January 3, 2020, Li Wenliang, an…
Bitcoin and the Cryptocurrency Revolution with Mick Morucci
If you’re alive in 2022 you’ve probably heard of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Whether you’re an active trader, just dabble, or think you’d never touch the stuff, cryptocurrency raises…
Anna Marie Trester on her book, Employing Linguistics
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/employing-linguistics-9781350137950/ Ilana Gershon: In writing a book about how linguists get jobs outside of the academy, what kind…
Silvia M. Lindtner, “Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020) reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and…
Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman, “Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions” (Columbia UP, 2021)
The science on race is clear. Common categories like “Black,” “white,” and “Asian” do not represent genetic differences among groups. But if race is a pernicious fiction according…
Book Review: The Migrant’s Paradox: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain by Suzanne Hall
In The Migrant’s Paradox: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain, Suzanne M. Hall draws on interviews with migrant shopkeepers in five UK cities to explore the formation of street…
Gavin Smith: Toward a non-theory of the reproduction of labour
Matan Kaminer’s reflections on the workshop, “Rethinking surplus populations” is full of interesting insights and challenging puzzles. As he says, “operationalizing this concept [surplus populations]…
Untangling Race From Hair
Descriptions of hair have long been knotted with false notions of race, but new research points to empowering ways of viewing this emotionally charged physical trait. D3sign/Getty Images …
Bjørn Sletto et al., “Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America” (UT Press, 2020)
Cartography has a troubled history as a technology of power. The production and distribution of maps, often understood to be ideological representations that support the interests of their…
Vassilis Petsinis, “National Identity in Serbia: The Vojvodina and a Multi-Ethnic Community in the Balkans” (I.B. Tauris, 2019)
In his book, National Identity in Serbia: Vojvodina and a Multiethnic Society between the Balkans and Central Europe (I.B. Tauris, 2019), Vassilis Petsinis analyses the evolution of Vojvodina’s identity over…
The search for the worst anthro job ad: An interview with Dada Docot
In September 2021, Dada Docot sent out a half-serious tweet about finding the Worse Anthro Job Ad for 2021. The post got attention, and the search took off.…
Chronic Time, Afflicted Lives by Aditya Bharadwaj
“Mine is an illness of time.” […] “Time has no cure.” — Catarina (Joao Biehl, Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment, 2005: 107) Chronic is a…
Revealing an Ice Age Route for Indigenous Peoples
Research at British Columbia’s Topknot Lake and Little Woss Lake shows what the environment might have been like during the last ice age. Shanna Baker This article was…
Vicki L. Brennan, “Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality” (Indiana UP, 2018)
Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members for the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals…
The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka
What makes a living body conscious? What is consciousness and are there different types of it? These questions have been studied by Professor Eva Jablonka from the Cohn…
Nupurnima Yadav, “Astrology in India: A Sociological Inquiry” (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
Astrology in India: A Sociological Inquiry (Taylor & Francis, 2021) critically examines the larger world of astrology in India, its ubiquity and relationship with religion, caste, gender, class, and aspirations.…
Loneliness and Despair in the Field: Revisiting my First Fieldwork
By Marina de Regt. Recently, during a supervision meeting with three of my Master students (all of them women), one of them asked about my own experiences in…
Danko Šipka on his book, Lexical Layers of Identity
Author Interview by Nikolina Zenovic Nikolina Zenovic: You have written extensively on lexicography, lexicology, and lexical conflict, particularly in the context of Slavic languages. How does…
Fabio Mattioli, “Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe (Stanford University Press, 2020) offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe.…
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.
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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