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…
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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…
Heritage out of Control: Don’t trash my holocaust
It was an ordinary, unseasonably cool, summer day in a sleepy town just forty minutes outside of Berlin. Oranienburg once was home to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, one of…
Platypus in 2022
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Photo by the author. As the new year and the new semester have been off to (hopefully) a good start, Platypus…
Giulio Ongaro and Megan Laws: Towards a Progressive Theory of Myth: Turner and Graeber on Social Creativity
David Graeber’s work is often described as ‘myth-busting’. His most recent scholarly work with David Wengrow is explicitly so – a weeding out (excuse the farming pun) of…
Why we need to co-create knowledge for sustainability – and why this is easier said than done
Recent debates on energy transitions and poverty illustrate the social ecological complexities of sustainability problems. These cannot be tackled by single academic disciplines – nor by academics alo…
Mwenda Ntarangwi on his book, The Street is My Pulpit
Christine Chalifoux: By focusing your ethnographic attention on the hip hop artist Juliani, you were able to weave together so many important facets of life in Kenya: socioeconomic…
Heritage out of Control: Today’s utopia tomorrow’s waste?
Exploring how beliefs and spiritual dimensions of inequality turn today’s realities of waste into future heritage and (invisible) monuments Cite this article as: Fouad Asfour. January, 2022. ‘Herita…
Peter Krause and Ora Szekely, “Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science” (Columbia UP, 2020)
How do researchers navigate the complexities of the field? In Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science (Columbia UP, 2020), political scientists from a diverse range of…
Racial Bias fundamental to Singapore’s Rental Discrimination Issue
Earlier this year, Ayush, a twenty five year old Indian man living in Singapore was denied his request to rent a public housing flat. This was the fifth…
Novaxx Djokovic and questions of privilege
While Boris Johnson and Novak Djokovic may seem like supposedly unrelated men, the two have actually both managed to strike up a similar conversation about Covid-19's relationship to…
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…
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…