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Hi all,It’s really not easy to stay positive in the #globaldev universe, is it…’Frustrations’, ‘held back democracy’, ‘blame’, ‘losing faith’, ‘monetise data’ & ‘intellectual masturbation’ are just …
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Teaching Cambodian Students English and Digital Literacy
Recently, I started an online learning project to help Cambodians with Youjia, one of my friends from Singapore. My project started simple. Initially I searched online, found out…
Disaster anthropology talk 17 May: The role of culture in crisis:
collectivism and individualism in the coastal fishing after 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami This was once Arahama – the vibrant fishing suburb of Sendai, right by the coast.…
J. Lorenzo Perillo, “Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Investigating the development of Filipino popular dance and performance since the late 20th century, Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism (Oxford UP, 2020) reveals how…
Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann, “Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond” (NIAS Press, 2021)
How does queer life fit into Buddhism and ritual? What role do gay men and trans women play in the practice of spirit mediumship and how do queer…
SAR Announces 2022-2023 Native Artist Fellows
SAR Announces 2022-2023 Native Artist Fellows …
Unveiling the Restored Jack Lambert Corral
Jack Lambert corral in winter, circa 1969. If you’ve walked or driven past the corner of Garcia Street and Camino Corrales lately, you may have noticed something…
Repairing Environmental Politics: Multispecies Healing in Ecuador’s Oil Frontier
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…
Calving started in Yamal reindeer herding
Our friend Eduard Khudi and his wife Valentina sent these photos today, of the first reindeer calf of the year, born the 27th April in the Yamal tundra…
Impossible Choices at the Crossroads of Motherhood and Fieldwork
Co-author Jamie Hodgkins holds her daughter as she co-directs the excavations at the Arma Veirana site in northwestern Italy. Fabio Negrino/University of Genoa Many women* in science who…
The first Indian text on Marx and other fab things
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Open Letters from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany
This series of letters began with an introduction published jointly by Blog Medizinethnologie of the Working Group Medical Anthropology and the Blogsite of the Working Group Public Anthropology…
Camas Journal, May 4, 2022
Today, I found time to visit a third field in Salem with lots of camas. Minto-Brown Island Park has several fields at least two of them have camas,…
Subhas Chandra Bose in HCMC
For several years I have been taking people to see the house in which Subhas Chandra Bose stayed in Vietnam before allegedly crashing on the airport in Taiwan…
Back into the (digital) armchair? A feminist approach to building research relations in a postcolonial setting
Syntia Hasenöhrl* (Virtually) being in Bamako over time. Images by Syntia Hasenöhrl. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many scholars had to transfer their research into the…
CFF: Days of Ethnographic Film 2023 (deadline: 1 November)
Online submissions for Days of Ethnographic Film (DEF) 2023 film festival are now open. Days of Ethnographic Film festival will be held in March 2023 and will take…
The Story of A Ukrainian Veteran
I accidentally started talking to a military veteran who lost his child in the war in early April. Below is our conversation (B is Bruce,myself; M is Maksymvk,…
Starting My Own Nonprofit Startup – The Story of ESpero
Background A new day began, with the sound of bullets flying towards Kherson, history is changed forever. Millions of people crying,…
First time is best with friends…
“Reading Marx, however, is a joy, and not just because his critique of capitalism is unsurpassed. His thought is fundamentally concerned with human freedom, and his writings go…
Bingo card
Too good. It’s one of those lists where you get a point for each one you’ve done. I’m winning. Full dance card. Bring it on. H/t Niel
Reinterpreting Life and Death in Ancient Nubia
Research team members excavate a tumulus burial structure. Michele R. Buzon This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished with Creative Commons. Circu…
K. Grabska and C. R. Clark-Kazak, “Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022)
Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies…
Paul Darby et al., “African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories” (Manchester UP, 2022)
The global success of football icons like Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless young men across the African continent who…
CFP: Visual Anthropology and Speculative Futures conference (deadline: 18 June)
The RAI FILM FESTIVAL 2023 is hosting an online academic conference on 6-10 March 2023. Paper presentations will be delivered live and will be followed by a Q&A…