Call for Films: Riga Pasaules Film Festival 2022
Submission deadline: 19th December 2021 Healing If the documentary’s vocation towards the truth is not merely to represent it, but in engaging the viewer beyond the film frame,…
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When Carbon Credits Drive People From Their Homes
A sign inside the Alto Mayo Protected Forest promotes “conservation agreements that change lives,” including ecotourism and sustainable coffee. Blanca Begert The Mayo River begins in the …
The Emotional Logic of a Black Poetics: Truth, Metaphor, Beauty, Joy
In this free live event, Poetry Editor Christine Weeber and SAPIENS Public Anthropology Fellow Eshe Lewis will speak with Justin D. Wright, a doctoral student in sociocultural anthropology…
Chris Gregory: What is the false coin of our own dreams?
I confess that the first time I met David I was not impressed. It was in 2006 at a conference in Halle. David gave a 50-minute summary of…
Ute Hüsken et al., “Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs” (SUNY Press, 2021)
The autumnal Navarātri festival—also called Durgā Pūjā, Dassehra, or Dasain—is the most important Hindu festival in South Asia and wherever Hindus settle. A nine-night-long celebration in hon… Visit…
Automating the Beast: Modern Police Power and the (Digi)Dog
As an undergraduate, I worked multiple jobs to make ends meet. For one of those jobs, I was a kennel attendant at a veterinary clinic and earned $7.75…
AMAA on Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World by Cal Biruk
Questions developed by the members of CU Denver’s ANTH4600/5600, S2021: Kaylynn Aiona, Delilah Chavarria, Darcy Copeland, Keaton Green, Ari Jones, Caitlin Konchan, Chris Kuelling, Kuba Kwiecinski, Ro…
Catching a Looter
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has conducted a major investigation into an antiquities dealer who bought looted materials from archaeological sites and museums. Read about it here…
Does DNA Simplify or Complicate Repatriation Claims?
University of Cape Town archaeologist Simon Hall leads a visit to the farm in Sutherland, South Africa, from which the remains of several individuals were taken a century…
Nishaant Choksi, “Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Investigating the communicative practices of indigenous Santali speakers in eastern India, this book examines the overlooked role of script in regional movements for autonomy to provide one o……
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Keith Hart Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes (Berghahn, Spring 2022) Keith Hart’s Self in the World is the story of a brilli…
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With Pierre Loti in Persia
My friend, the historian G. Rex Smith, has recently translated into English a marvelous travel diary by the French military official and traveller Pierre Loti (1850-1923). It is…
Jonathan Parry: The Burdens of the Past: Comments on David Graeber’s Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar
Image 1: Book cover of Lost People David Graeber’s Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar began life as his University of Chicago doctoral thesis.…
The Age of Digital Divination
Divination rituals around the world often include animals, as seen in this early 20th-century painting of fortunetelling using a chicken by Russian artist Konstantin Makovsky. Brandmeister/Wi…
Jisha Menon, “Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City” (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City (Northwestern UP, 2021) follows a postcolonial city as it transforms into a bustling global metropolis after the liberalization of ……
Confronting Legacies of Toxic Goodness: Speculative Reflections from the 4S 2021 Annual Meeting
This piece was originally posted on November 24, 2021 on the EnviroSociety blog here. To cite, please use the following: Caporusso, Jessica, Duygu Kaşdoğan, and Katie Ulrich. 2021.…
Issh2021 Conference programme walkthrough
A ten-minute walkthrough of the conference programme for the Dec 17-18 ISSH2021, the international conference Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanites, at Ton Duc Thang Univeristy, Vietnam.…
AMAA on Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care by Elana Buch
Questions developed by the members of CU Denver’s ANTH4600/5600, S2021: Kaylynn Aiona, Delilah Chavarria, Darcy Copeland, Keaton Green, Ari Jones, Caitlin Konchan, Chris Kuelling, Kuba Kwiecinski, Ro…
Ask-Me-Almost-Anything (AMAA): Centering Student Engagement with Ethnographic Monographs by Christine Sargent
“Why is this a book?” The student who volunteered this question during a class discussion could not have known how meaningful – and unsettling – I found the…
Foreign Correspondents: Call for Reviewers by Stephanie Lloyd
The past two years have made us realize, more than ever, the importance of creating means of contacting and understanding each other and finding ways of connecting the…
Justin Richland on his book, Cooperation without Submission
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo34191322.html Interview by Hannah McElGunn Hannah McElGunn: Cooperation Without Submission brings together cases drawn from a wide…
Soapbox: on slips and trips.
In the business of selling cultures for quids, and other random translations Once upon a long ago, there was a time when I was more rebelliously young, and…