CALL FOR PAPERS AND VISUAL PROJECTS: 4th Political Imagination Laboratory
The Fourth Political Imagination Laboratory – “Utopias of Sustainability – The Sustainability of Utopias” – will be organised by the University of Perugia, Italy, and ta…
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Great News! The “Guide to Shaligrams” Has a Publisher!
Wonderful announcement everyone!! My second manuscript, designed for a popular general audience, finally has a publisher! I can hardly believe it but the book will be coming out…
2nd Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
Preparing for Ida, New Orleans, photo by David Beriss We had so much fun last year, we are once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day…
Sweet Opportunity: SAFN Student Representative
Amanda Jean HiltonSAFN Nominations Chair Calling all grad students! Please consider being the Student Representative for SAFN! This is a great opportunity to get involved in SAFN and to…
Intersections of Indigenizing/Decolonizing and EDI
Universities in Canada are rushing toward EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) excellence* and decolonialization of pedagogy, structures, and practices. How these two liberal social justice pro…
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Hi all, Our semester kicked off this week and as difficult as things still are I am amazed by how active, curious, resourceful and well-organized most of our…
A review of the book “In the Name of Tradition – Female Genital Mutilation in Iran” par Kameel Ahmady
A review of the book “In the Name of Tradition – Female Genital Mutilation in Iran” par Kameel Ahmady Read by: Stéphanie Florquin Type: Book / research report…
AMAA on Enduring Cancer: Life, Death and Diagnosis in Delhi by Dwaipayan Banerjee
On concepts and consequences: Can we take the concepts of speech and silence, and care and disregard, which you outline throughout the book, outside the context of Delhi…
Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill, “Confidence Culture” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Confidence Culture (Duke UP, 2022), Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather…
Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani, “Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors” (PublicAffairs, 2021)
Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been…
Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease
From mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue to chronic bacterial infections such as yaws, Southeast Asia is home to a wide range of tropical diseases. For a…
Matthew C. Watson, “Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker’s Spirit” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker’s Spirit (Duke UP, 2020), Matthew C. Watson considers the life and work of artist and Mayanist scholar Linda Schele (1942-1998) as…
Two – allegorical
Ray’s France-Vietnam war allegory – h/t Pradip Baksi
The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESApplied Anthropology »Cultural Anthropolog…
David Graeber LSE Tribute Seminar: Myth and Imagination
Chair: Alpa Shah Discussants: Giulio Ongaro and Megan Laws & Michael Edwards In a short essay published after his death, David writes that “Good ideas rarely, if ever,…
A Hidden Figure in North American Archaeology
As a historian of science, I am interested in determining who gets credit for scientific discoveries and why. Sadly, credit often goes to the powerful and connected, not…
Guided by the Past
Hosts Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez and Yoli Ngandali share how they found their way to archaeology and what it means to be Black and Indigenous archaeologists. From defying the…
CFP: RAI: Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society
The Call for Papers is now open. It will close on 25 February 2022. The Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society conference will be held 6-11 June 2022 online.…
Radically Good. Reformulating Healing and Care Practices in Times of Crisis
Report on the international conference “Radical Health. Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good” organized by the Association for Anthropology and Medicine (AGEM), the Medical Anthr…
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, “On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border” (Harvard UP, 2021)
The border between Russia and China is one of the world’s longest, spanning thousands of miles. It’s one of the few extended land borders between two great powers,…
Nonconformity and Resistance in Mahabad with Focusing on Cultur
Nonconformity and Resistance in Mahabad with Focusing on Cultural, Social, and Gender Aspects (Culture, Protesting Views and Analysis of Youth in Iranian Kurdistan) By: Kameel Ahmady Kameel.ahmady@gm…
The Hard Labor That Fuels the Hair Trade
The majority of hair that India exports comes from waste—such as the strands gathered in this picture of a street collector in Chennai. Emma Tarlo Every evening, for…
Julia Ticona on her book, Left to Our Own Devices
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/left-to-our-own-devices-9780190691288 Ilana Gershon: If you found yourself talking to a voice actor in a coffee shop about your book, how would you expl…
Understanding Covid Vaccine Resistance
Sheba Mohammid and Daniel Miller Right now, Trinidad and Tobago are suffering amongst the highest death rate from Covid in the world. As small islands, everyone seems to…