Heritage out of Control: Human bones as inherited waste of Europe
Central and Eastern Europe – known as “Bloodlands”, the area where Nazi and Stalin’s atrocities met, leaving behind many sites marked by mass killings – provide an obvious…
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Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades
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Ten Treasures (and a Bonus): A Selection of Anthropological Gems You Might Have Missed from the Past Few Years
I began interviewing authors of fabulous new anthropology books for this space back in 2016. While completing 11 interviews, I also amassed a backlog of more terrific books…
Matan Kaminer: Marxist anthropology in a world of surplus population: Reflections on a Frontlines of Value workshop
I was recently privileged to participate in a workshop about the Marxian concept of the “surplus population,” convoked by Stephen Campbell, Thomas Cowan, and Don Kalb as part…
Time, History, Politics, Art, Revolt – not being crushed to bits. This is a MUST SEE – of all things going on in the Integrated hyperventalated Spectacle this year, why, its Tom Buyard, a rare treat that will be worth doing the prep reading for and tuning in ready to roll.
Seriously do not miss this. Some call him Mr Modest, to others he is The Tattooist (with a nod to Raymond Redington’s Black List) but Tom Bunyards’s Spectacle/S.I.…
Consumer Culture Won’t Lead to Body Positivity
Focusing on what bodies can do shifts attention away from cultural lenses that focus on how bodies look. Holly Falconer/Getty Images I have an 8-year-old daughter. From time…
Kevin J. Wetmore, “Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters” (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the meaning of cannibalism. Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in…
Lisa Björkman ed., “Bombay Brokers” (Duke UP, 2021)
A political party worker who produces crowds for electoral rallies. A “prison specialist” who serves other people’s prison sentences in exchange for a large fee. An engineer who…
Heritage Out of Control – (B)Lasting Bombs
On January 30, 2021, more than 8000 inhabitants of Göttingen, Germany, had to evacuate their homes. Four suspected WWII bombs had been detected underground, and in order to…
Khap Panchayats: Tentacles of the traditional institution
Dr Maninder Kaur Chairperson Department of Anthropology Panjab University, Chandigarh E-mail: maninderkaur_1@yahoo.in Those of us living in Punjab or in its vicinity or familiar with spoken colloquial …
How Filipino Sailors—and Coconuts—Helped Create Mexico’s National Drink
While visiting Oaxaca, Mexico, last year, I joined a mezcal tasting tour. The guide, Antonio, asked participants to introduce ourselves. When I told everyone I was an anthropologist…
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Kameel Ahmady: British Academy Facing Jail Escapes Iran Over Mountains
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Iran Jails British – Iranian Researcher for 9 Years for Subversion – Report
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Kameel Ahmady: British FGM academic ‘jailed in Iran’
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This British-Iranian academic jailed in Iran escaped to the UK. Kameel Ahmady spent 100 days in solitary confinement before being released on bail when he “made a decision…
Juan Manuel del Nido, “Taxis Vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires” (Stanford UP, 2021)
Uber’s April 2016 launch in Buenos Aires plunged the Argentine capital into a frenzied hysteria that engulfed courts of law, taxi drivers, bureaucrats, the press, the general public,…
Imprisonment and Fines for A Dual National Researcher
Imprisonment and Fines for A Dual National Researcher Kameel Ahmady, an Iranian-British Kurdish researcher, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of “collaboration with hostile…
British-Iranian Anthropologist Kameel Ahmady, Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison, Escapes Iran
British-Iranian Anthropologist Kameel Ahmady, Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison, Escapes Iran A British-Iranian anthropologist who was sentenced to nine years and three months in jail in Iran…