Camas Journal May 2, 2022
I revisited Bush Park today to tour the other areas of camas. I began at the “Picnic” area, south side of the park at its upper level and…
Category: English
Unmasked: Illustrating COVID-19 in Okoboji
[no-caption] Aaron Gronstal These illustrations tell the story of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in a small tourist town in the Iowa Great Lakes region: my…
Moshe Shokeid, “Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist’s Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus” (Berghahn, 2020)
AD KAN (NO MORE) was founded in 1988 by a group of academics at Tel Aviv University. The initiative, a public pressure group, was prompted by public indifference…
Aditya Pratap Deo, “Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State” (Routledge, 2021)
Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. The author, a scion of…
Revisiting Human-Machine Relationships and Efforts of Feminist STS
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Alexa, Bixby, the GPS voice, Siri.… AI (Artificial Intelligence) assistants, which operate through algorithms …
‘Saving the Nation through Culture’ by Jie Gao
Jie Gao. Saving the Nation through Culture: The Folklore Movement in Republican China. Contemporary Chinese Studies. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019. 364 pp., 20 b/w photos,…
Entering the World of Fieldwork: first experiences at the NDSM Wharf in Amsterdam
By Zoë Oosterveld Entering the field The first day in the field was nerve-wracking for me. Firstly, because this was my first time ever doing official fieldwork. Secondly,…
Filming fieldwork: Megha Wadhwa in conversation with Andy Lawrence
Hybrid Event in Berlin on June 24, 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 (CEST) In recent years and also in migration studies, filming is being used as an important tool…
Sarah Hillewaert on her book, Morality on the Margins
Interview by Kamala Russell Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya Interview by Kamala Russell Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in…
Tales of ‘Mala-Bori’: Marginalized Muslim char women and population control policies in Assam, India.
By Bhargabi Das The summer months in the chars of western Assam, India where my ethnographic fieldwork was based, are only of respite because of the calm breeze…
Markus Bell, “Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea” (Berghahn, 2021)
In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the…
Paul Geary, “Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants” (Intellect Books, 2022)
Dr. Paul Geary’s Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants (Intellect, 2022) examines the work of four of the world’s leading creative restaurants: Noma, elBulli, The Fat…
Do Not Adjust Your Dial (Ep. #18 Re-release)
Apologies strange familiars. We had some technical difficulties this morning and you might have noticed an podcast briefly go out this morning that wasn’t supposed to. Just a…
Camas Journal, May 1, 2022
Today, I visited three camas areas in Salem. They present different characters and interesting contexts this spring. As I left the fields I noticed splotches of yellow on…
Interview with Keith Hart on Nationalism
by Nika Dubrovsky Keith Hart was then International Director of the Human Economy Programme, University of Pretoria and Professor of … More
Blog Post: A train ride to Hudson Bay
Budka, P. (2022). A train ride to Hudson Bay. InfraNorth – Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Northern Communities Blog, 25 April. I wake up because a…
Where are the Himyarite Kings?
The war that has dragged on in Yemen for seven years has created a major humanitarian disaster. Yemen has experienced war and conflict before since the early days…
“A student and a professor remember the UNC Charlotte mass shooting three years later”: NPR WFAE Charlotte: Sarah Delia
I have not done many interviews on the subject. Here is an NPR article in which I am featured alongside one of my students about the shooting in…
Links & Contents I Liked 443
Hi all,In the first part of this week’s review stories from the Gambia, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Syria & Niger. We are also celebrating the history of #globaldev feat Robert…
Review: Intimate Eating
Anita Mannur Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022. 180 pp. ISBN 9781478017820 Fabio Parasecoli (New York University) What d…
Book Review: Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory by Heather Love
In Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory, Heather Love explores how queer theory was shaped by the Cold War-era world of deviance research. Presenting a careful, close reading of deviance studie…
CRISPR: Rewriting the story of humanity and evolution through gene-editing
ByTarisha KaushikBSc Anthropology The technology of CRISPR (“clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”) has revolutionised the world of biology and evolution yet w…
Intersectionality
Saronik interviews Kim about intersectionality, a concept developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw. Kim references two essays by Crenshaw in the episode: one that she read, and one that our…