Should You Feel Bad About Your Pandemic-Era Plastic Waste?
Plastic waste has grown exponentially across the globe during the pandemic. Matthew Williams-Ellis/Universal Images Group/Getty Images “Sometimes I want to avoid producing excessive waste…
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John Fenn and Lisa Gilman, “Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork” (Indiana UP, 2019)
With The Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork (Indiana University Press, 2019), Lisa Gilman and John Fenn offer a comprehensive review of the ethnographic process for developing a project, implementing the plan,…
Manata Hashemi, “Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity” (NYU Press, 2020)
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David Boarder Giles, “A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities” (Duke UP, 2021)
In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities (Duke UP, 2021), David Boarder Giles explores the ways in which capitalism simultaneously…
Greg de St Maurice and Beth M. Forrest, “Food in Memory and Imagination: Space, Place and Taste” (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Complicating Disability: On the Invisibilization of Chronic Illness throughout History
Introduction At the time of writing, the world is entering the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic. As the highly contagious Omicron variant of the virus is causing…
Thesis Review: Tasting Tea, Tasting China
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Juan del Nido on his book, Taxis vs. Uber
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“Cowboys and Indians”—When Dirt Rocks Are Dynamite
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Michelle Christine Smith, “Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women’s Work in the Early Industrial Age” (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women’s Work in the Early Industrial Age (Southern Illinois UP, 2021) focuses on three prominent yet understudied intentional communities—Brook Farm, Harmony Society, and the Oneida…
Ep# 86: The Funging the Non-Fungible & The Changing Face of Protests: This Month on TFS
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Bulldozing Islamic Jeddah
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Who gets to be ‘Myanmar’ at the ICJ?
The Myanmar military will appear at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on 21 February 2022. Their main interest does not lie in defending the…
Making it Happen: comparison through teamwork in the Food Citizens? project
On February 4th, 2022 the Food Citizens? conference wrapped up four years of research in the ERC Consolidator project Collective Food Procurement in European Cities: Solidarity and Diversity,…
David Graeber LSE Tribute Seminar: Bullshit Jobs
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Hi all, From paying for the impact of climate change to riding a bike, demanding better disability policies, striking for higher wages, conducting historical research or improving formal…
Een mens heeft het recht van gedachten te veranderen
door Vivian Mac Gillavry In december 2021 zag ik dat een artikel van mij uit 2013 in de “Top Posts” stond, acht jaar na dato. Ik vroeg de…
Marissa Mika, “Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda” (Ohio UP, 2021)
Thousands of stories are given voice by Marissa Mika in Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda (Ohio UP, 2021), a fearless, warm, and humane history of the Uganda…
Indigenous People against industry: theatre performance
Many of you may have heard about the resistance of Sámi people against the Alta-Kautokeino hydroelectric dam in the 1970s-1980s. Even though the dam was built, the Sámi…
Mellon Foundation Awards $1.5 Million for Groundbreaking Digital Project Focused on Enslaved Native Americans
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1.5 million grant to fund Native Bound-Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Americans Enslaved, an…
One POSTDOCTORAL POSITION at the University of Barcelona: VISUAL TRUST
Deadline: March 7, 2022 One postdoctoral position (2-3 years) in the project VISUAL TRUST: Reliability, accountability and forgery in scientific, religious and social images (ERC-Consolidator Gran…
“We are not brains on sticks!” Teaching Anthropology with the Senses
Jess Auerbach is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at North-West University in South Africa. Her innovative ethnography, From Water to Wine: Becoming Middle Class in Angola, is a…
Noah Aromand on his book, Fixing Stories
Interview by Susan Seizer https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fixing-stories/3A0E3C4880CBDC00252AEC4EBE11B9E2 Susan Seizer: Please briefly explain your choice of the term “fixers” and desc…
A piece for Anthropology Day
Margaret Mead Imagined Different Futures By Samuel Gerald Collins In the face of climate disaster, a continuing pandemic, and endless global conflict, it’s difficult to be optimistic about…