The black jaguar and the guardian of the forest
By Maycon Melo and Barbara Arisi In Brazil, a group of hunters killed a black jaguar. Not satisfied with the crime of killing an endangered animal, they made a video…
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Understanding Ageing from An Anthropological Perspect
Chandana Sarmah Associate Professor Department of Anthropology University of Guwahati, ASSAM Email: chandanasarmah@gauhati.ac.in Living long has been and still is one of the secret desires of all ind…
Jeffrey Guhin, “Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jeff Guhin joins us today to talk about his book Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools (Oxford University Press, 2020). Jeff, an Assistant Professor of…
Jessie Barton-Hronešová, “The Struggle for Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
In Jessie Barton Hronešová’s new book, The Struggle of Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), she explores pathways to redress for main groups of victim… Visit New…
Sunhee Koo, “Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China” (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
When faced with some of the complex identity questions which often arise in borderlands, Koreans in China – known as Chosonjok in Korean, Chaoxianzu in Chinese – have…
Nolan Gasser, “Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste” (Flatiron Books, 2019)
Why do we love the music we love? In Why You Like IT: The Science & Culture of Musical Taste (Flatiron Books, 2019) musicologist Nolan Gasser, architect of Pandora Radio’s…
More Persistent Inequality: Farmworkers and Your Food
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…
30 Minute Methods at TDTU – Ken Fero
This has a shaky start because the zoom settings were wacko, But after a minute its much better. Ken Fero talks on obstinate memory under the title: ‘Documentary…
5 Questions About the History of Humanity
Join us LIVE for a 25-minute Q&A with archaeologist and author David Wengrow to discuss his New York Times bestselling book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of…
Helicopter Images: Mediating Injustice in Environmental Film
Marian Ahn Thorpe, Princeton University § The fictional movie Even the Rain (Bollaín 2010) tells the story of a Spanish-Mexican team as it attempts to make a drama…
Five Ways Native American Communities Honor Turkeys
Ancient Indigenous peoples who lived in what is today the U.S. Southwest carved turkey bones into flutes, such as these from the site of Pecos Pueblo in New…
Juan Luis Rodríguez on his book, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/language-and-revolutionary-magic-in-the-orinoco-delta-9781350115767/ Interview by Rusty Barrett Rusty Barrett: First, for those unfamiliar with Venezuela, coul…
Mental Health in Academia: A Conversation with Roy Richard Grinker
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for…
Insights on Entrepreneurship and Non-Salaried Labor in Latin America
Photomontage by Fernanda Ruiz. The problem of unemployment and underemployment in Argentina emerges as acutely pressing and very complex. The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses’ last report…
Sholay wiki
Though the music from the film Sholay won’t be part of this week’s lecture on music and allegory (Adorno and Jazz), it probably should be. If you watched…
Cancel Culture – an interview with a Ubyssey reporter
On November 4th I had the opportunity to sit down with a Ubyssey reporter to talk about cancel culture at UBC. The sprawling hour long interview covered a lot of topics and&nb…
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Kick-off meeting: DFG Scientific Network “Anthropology and China(s)” in Cologne, November 5-6, 2021
Christof Lammer, Marco Lazzarotti, Jean-Baptiste Pettier More than twenty scholars participated in the first of six conferences of our network “Anthropology and China(s)” at the University of Cologne…
Rafael Wainer: COVID-19: Complicity, complacency, and connections
Image 1: Social distancing signs. Photo by ©Acabashi CC-BY-SA 4.0 To understand the massive world-disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic we need a sociology of complicity. Since the different…
Anya Peterson Royce reflects on her career
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? I am turning your question around because I have had two professions each of which I have…
Letter to Jens Spahn
JASMIN SIMAO AJAYI Dear Mr. Spahn, I am a German citizen from Munich, currently in my final year of studying Anthropology at the University College London (UCL). I…
Gavin Van Horn et al., “Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set” (Center for Humans and Nature, 2021)
From The Center for Humans and Nature, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a five-volume collection of essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of solidarity that highlight the inter……
Rose Wellman, “Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic” (U California Press, 2021)
Since Iran’s 1979 Revolution, the imperative to create and protect the inner purity of family and nation in the face of outside spiritual corruption has been a driving…
Democracy Denied in the Middle East
An excellent analysis of U.S. policy in the Middle East by Juan Cole.