Protecting the Pandemic from the People: Perpetual Panic, Permanent Emergency
There are some suggestions that the Omicron variant could well end “the pandemic”. And that is a problem. It is a problem on two fronts. First, a variant that…
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Hatim El-Hibri, “Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure” (Duke UP, 2021)
In Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure (Duke UP, 2021), Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imagi……
Farha Bano Ternikar, “Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class” (Lexington Books, 2021)
In Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class: Lifestyle Consumption beyond Halal and Hijab (Lexington Books, 2021), wherein Ternikar theorizes the everyday consumption… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Daniel M. Knight, “Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen” (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen (Berghahn Books, 2021) provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool…
Gabriel Yoran, “The Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility in Object-Oriented Ontology” (Open Humanities Press, 2021)
Objects in object-oriented ontology (OOO) are mysterious and inexhaustible entities. But since OOO grants ontological priority to objects, it should have an easy time referring to objects. Bu……
Lucie Fremlova, “Queer Roma” (Routledge, 2021)
Lucie Fremlova’s book Queer Roma (Routledge, 2021) offers in-depth insight into the lives of queer Roma, thus providing rich evidence of the heterogeneity of Roma. The lived experiences of qu……
Draining Wapato Lake
In Oregon, we have the well-known Wapato Lake, near Gaston. The lake originally was the center of seasonal activities of the Tualatin Kalapuyans (Atfalati) who lived near and…
Chris Knight: Wrong About (Almost) Everything
A review article on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Allen Lane, 2021. The Dawn of Everything’s central idea…
Loti on Palestine
First English translation of ‘La Galilée’, an account of Pierre Loti’s travels in the Holy Land from Jerusalem to Beirut, via Damascus and many other interesting places, in…
Ian Reader and John Shultz, “Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku” (Oxford UP, 2021)
Ian Reader and John Shultz’s Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku (Oxford University Press, 2021)” explores the Shikoku pilgrimage by focusing on the themes of repetition and… Visit…
Opening ceremony of the 2nd International Conference on Innovations in The Social Sciences & Humanities 2021
From TDTU – https://www.tdtu.edu.vn/en/news/opening-ceremony-of-the-2nd-international-conference-on-innovations-in-the-social-sciences-humanities-2021 On the morning of December 17, 2021, th…
Maka Suarez: Thinking about debt with David Graeber and La PAH
Let me begin by saying “this is a thought experiment”; a phrase David often used, and I find useful. In this talk I’d like to propose an approach…
Fuel Maps: Digitizing Grass and Sensing Fire in Brazil
Guilherme M. Fagundes, Princeton University § Part and parcel of the technological repertoire in wildland fire management, fuel maps invite us to reflect on the everyday life of…
Trinidad – The Potential of ‘Online Only’ Ethnography
By Daniel Miller and Sheba Mohammid The ASSA project runs until October 2022. Mostly the last year of the project is dedicated to publishing our results, for example…
Rebecca J. Lester, “Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America” (U California Press, 2019)
When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old–and again when she was eighteen–she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social…
Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne and James Taylor: State and crisis in Sri Lanka and Thailand: Hearing but not listening in the Theravāda Buddhist world
Although historically and geographically diverse, but sharing religious cultural roots, contemporary Sri Lanka and Thailand are both characterised by authoritarianism. This parallel cannot be explain…
Food Justice and Cultural Appropriation: How do Place and Nostalgia Fit?
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate seminar on food justice at the University of New Orleans. You can read…
Keith Hart: Comment on ‘Debt: The Last 5,000 Years’
David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years was published in summer 2011. In August-September of that year, he took part in the first New York City General Assembly…
Adam Hodges on his book, When Words Trump Politics
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32097 Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae Yeon-Ju Bae: Now that the Trump presidency ended, what can we still learn from the past years, during which responsibiliti…
When my studies became 3D. Learning through objects as a museum intern
After four years of studying social and cultural anthropology at LMU Munich, my internship with Dr. Hilke Thode-Arora, curator of the Oceania department at the Museum Fünf Kontinente…
entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography issue 4(2) now out
The team is really happy to announce the publication of entanglements journal issue 4(2). You can find the issue contents below: or read the whole issue here. If…
Draining Lake Labish
In 1981 I took a job weeding onion fields out Hazelgreen Road on the outskirts of Salem, Oregon, as one of my first jobs. In the summer after…
American Anthropology, Apologies, and Apologetics
In November 2021 Akhil Gupta, president of the American Association of Anthropologists publicly apologized for the harm American Anthropologists have committed against Indigenous peoples. H…
Links & Contents I Liked 429
Hi all, This is the final link review for 2021 & Aidnography will be back in the second half of January 2022 (Twenty-Twenty-Too…). Many of us will have…