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Ray’s France-Vietnam war allegory – h/t Pradip Baksi
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The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
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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…
Book Review: Data Practices: Making Up a European People by Evelyn Ruppert and Stephan Scheel
In Data Practices: Making Up a European People – available open access – Evelyn Ruppert and Stephan Scheel explore how statisticians and policymakers use statistical methods and data practices to R…
Understanding Covid Vaccine Resistance
Authors: 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…
Colin Jerolmack, “Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell (Princeton UP, 2021) is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of what happens when one of the most momentous decisions about the…
Luke Fitzmaurice and Maria Bargh, “Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga (Huia Publishers, 2021)
Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga (Huia Publishers, 2021) discusses the roadside checkpoints that were set up by Māori to protect communities during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.…
Phantoms within and beyond the Frame: Stirrings of Justice amidst Specters of Rural Capitalism
By Rebecca Witter and Dana E. Powell [1] § Structural racism combines with the toxic wastes from industrialized capitalism to haunt the rural lowland landscapes of eastern North…
Ayça Çubukçu: On “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology”
Published in 2004 in the inspirational context of a veritably exploding anarchism around the world, David Graeber’s Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (referred to here on as Fragments)is…
Book Review: Refuge in a Moving World: Tracing Refugee and Migrant Journeys Across Disciplines edited by Elena F. Qasmiyeh
In Refuge in a Moving World: Tracing Refugee and Migrant Journeys Across Disciplines, editor Elena F. Qasmiyeh brings together contributors to offer an interdisciplinary exploration of the complexitie…
Deep Storytelling: Bicultural History and Fiction with Andrew Rowen
It’s a common truism that history is often written by the victors, but it is equally true that the actual story is more complicated. One of the most…
F4F Summer School 2022
The third online version of the F4F (Filmmaking for Fieldwork) Summer School in ethnographic and documentary filmmaking is now open for bookings: running online each Monday between June…
Ziying You, “Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning” (Indiana UP, 2020)
In Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning (Indiana UP, 2020), Ziying You explores the role of the “folk literati” in negotiating, defining, and…
David Leupold, “Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory” (Routledge, 2020)
Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory (Routledge, 2020) explores the complex relationship between competing national myths, imagined boundaries and local memories in the threefold-contested…
Van VMBO-kader naar een master Antropologie: Het verhaal van Rayn Ramkishun
Door Zoë Tjon A Ten. “Geinig, ik zal nooit weten wat die mensen hier doen, waar ze zich mee bezig houden, wat hun interesses zijn, hoe ze praten…