Busting Myths About Sex and Gender
The belief that males are aggressive while females are nurturing is a dangerous myth. Evgeny Tchebotarev/Pexels Excerpted from the second edition of Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They…
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The Fight to Save Cultural Memory with Charles Henry
Interdependence is the idea that the wellbeing of our world and for our physical and emotional selves depends on those around us, yet when we find ourselves up…
Karen Samantha Barton, “Africa’s Joola Shipwreck: Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster” (Lexington Books, 2020)
In 2002, a government-owned Senegalese ferry named the Joola capsized in a storm off the coast of The Gambia in a tragedy that killed 1,863 people and left…
Samuel J. Redman, “Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology” (Harvard UP, 2021)
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard UP, 2021) is a searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenous peoples…
Christopher Donoghue, “The Sociology of Bullying: Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents” (NYU Press, 2022)
School shootings and suicides by young victims of bullying have spurred a proliferation of anti-bullying programs, yet most of the research done on school bullying has been from…
Out now: Searching for Sweetness: Women’s mobile lives in China and Lesotho (2022)
Sarah Hanisch’s monograph Searching for Sweetness: Women’s mobile lives in China and Lesotho (2022) is out! The book provides a fascinating ethnography, linking rural-to-urban migration in China with …
Haunted by a Secret War
In Old Sepon in Savannakhet province, Laos, a temple wall riddled with bullet holes and shrapnel scars hints at war’s remains. Leah Zani Excerpted from Strike Patterns: Notes…
Nicole Charles, “Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados” (Duke UP, 2022)
In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate…
Studying Borderlands: Talking Ethnography with Dr. Sahana Ghosh
How do border policing and violence intersect with gender and sexuality to affect border communities? Today’s guest, Dr. Sahana Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University…
Deterritorialization
Saronik talks to Shweta Krishnan, doctoral candidate in Anthropology at George Washington University. She speaks about how she uses Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of deterritorialization in her work on…
Katherine Dugan, “Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics Is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role of religious identity in their culture.…
Thinking in Constellations: Problematizing Indigeneity in the Atacama Desert, Chile
This browser does not support HTML5 audio . In October 2021, I flew from the capital of Chile to the driest desert in the world—the Atacama Desert, a…
Moments in Places in Time
Growing up in the middle of Alaska, there was a window to another world on the wall of my living room. It was like no place I’d ever…
Multiverse of Madness and the Problem of Mother as Monster
By Emma Louise Backe Wanda by César Castillo Marquez Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness is essentially a horror movie with the trappings of Marvel’s characteristic action…
Hu Tai-li has passed away
Hu Tai-Li, Doyenne of Visual Anthropology in Taiwan has passed away, 9 May 2022 Hu Tai-Li had a PhD from City University of New York. She became known…
Sonja Trifuljesko takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation contains three paragraphs. The first one closes an argument started on the previous page, while the third opens a new subsection. The paragraph…
‘GUILTY’ daughter-researcher: Ethnography, familial politics, and guilt
By Bhargabi Das I would like to begin by giving a little context of my research and my family and possibly how they overlapped over the course of…
BioNTainer – A Manufacturing Solution for Africa or Circumventing Capacity?
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Uli Beisel On the occasion of the EU-Africa Summit in February this year in Brussels, several African Heads of State and public…
Mikkel Bunkenborg et al., “Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization” (Cornell UP, 2022)
Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization (Cornell UP, 2022) is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China’s global intervention—sub-Saharan Africa…
Guangtian Ha, “The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China” (Columbia UP, 2021)
The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufism in northwestern China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of their spiritual practice is the “loud” (jahr) remembrance of…
Book Review: ‘Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland’
In the book Ethnicity and Democracy, Mona Chettri offers a rich ethnography originating from fieldwork conducted in three EH borderland areas: Darjeeling (India), Sikkim (India), and Ilam in…
Joryville Park May 5, 2022
I recently heard about another park I had not been to in Salem, Joryville Park. I went assuming it would be mostly grassland but was surprised that this…
Translation Citation
It makes some sense to check the most often quoted, beloved bits, and expand them a little to see what that author might also have been saying Sometimes…
What Is Technology? An Anthropologist’s View
What is technology? One may argue technology is solely the application of science to practical tasks. Is it? Let's look at the definitions of technology first. According to…