Slutever, Pegging the Patriarchy, and Normalising BDSM
Cara Delevingne’s ‘Peg the Patriarchy’ moment from the 2021 Met Gala undoubtedly missed the mark. Delevingne and Dior both failed to credit the original creator of the slogan,…
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El Alto. Indigeneity in an Aymara city
I am from El Alto, one of the youngest cities in Bolivia, not only because of its recent creation (1985), but also because at least 45% of its…
Women Have Hair, Men Have Nicknames: Remembering Jay Dautcher
When I first created this blog ten years ago, I had trouble deciding on a name for it. So I called Jay Dautcher, my multi-talented polyglot musician-climber-anthropologist friend…
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Hi all, Happy Friday, weekend & reading! From India’s farmers to Beijing Olympics, unequal partnerships between ‘North’ & ‘South’ and Singapore’s surveillance state we have another week of…
Reconceived Values and Debilitating Village Forest Councils in Himalayan India
BySahib SinghPhD Anthropology ‘We will not give our Jal, Jangal, Zameen [water, forest, land]!’, the reverberations of which trailing off from an initially rising crescendo infectiously permea…
Lessons We Learn
“Lessons We Learn” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. The past flashes like…
The (Im)Possibility of Decolonizing Anthropology
When it comes to “decolonizing” Anthropology, diversity or decolonial initiatives often change very little or nothing at all. I suggest that anthropology is currently facing the dilemma of…
Ross Kane, “Syncretism and Christian Tradition” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Syncretism, even though, is an unavoidable phenomenon of religion, has a range of connotations. In Christian theology, the use of syncretism shifted from a compliment during the Reformation…
Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
On Atheists and Bonobos is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and primatologist Frans de Waal, Emory University, who is renowned for his work on the…
What Industrial Societies Get Wrong About Childhood
[no-caption] ER Productions Limited Each year across the world, kids of roughly the same age are packed into classrooms and confined to desks with the intent of learning…
Gabriella Lukács, “Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy” (Duke UP, 2020)
In the wake of labor market deregulation during the 2000s, online content sharing and social networking platforms were promoted in Japan as new sites of work that were…
Aaron J. Jackson, “Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities” (U California Press, 2021)
Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the…
Book Prize in Critical Anthropology!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to announce the 2021 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology!
Making #2021AAABaltimore Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 25
What? November already? We cannot believe how the last two years have flown by. At the same time, it feels like a lifetime since we gathered in Vancouver…
Secrets of Power and other leadership lessons from Elizabeth I
Marissa Shrum and I talk from time to time. Today, we got talking about Elizabeth I. Today is November 17 and that makes it the anniversary of Elizabeth’s…
Enigmas of Corporeal Justice: Surrogacy and Legality in India
Over the last two decades, India has become a popular global destination for what is commonly referred to as reproductive tourism, wherein clients travel from one part of…
Book Review: Veganism: Politics, Practice and Theory by Eva Haifa Giraud
In Veganism: Politics, Practice and Theory, Eva Haifa Giraud examines current vegan practice to unpack the emerging and complex forces at play for the vegan movement. The book’s navigation of…
From Things and Stuff to Radically Optimist Multi-Modal Platform
On May 20, 2021, Felix Girke, a member of our editorial collective, gave a presentation in the framework of the workshop “Multimodal Digital Publishing” hosted by the Working…
The Diet of the Future Is a Menu That Draws From the Ancient Past
The author wears an outfit he made using ancient tools, methods, and materials while filming the National Geographic TV show The Great Human Race in Alaska. Brent Meske/Courtesy…
John B. Kachuba, “Shapeshifters: A History” (Reaktion Books, 2019)
There is something about a shapeshifter—a person who can transform into an animal—that captures our imagination; that causes us to want to howl at the moon, or flit…
Carolyn L. White, “The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City” (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
How do you do archaeological research on a place that exists for only one week per year, in the middle of the Nevada desert, and is based on…
Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction: my latest article now in Environmental Humanities
In my most recent article I examine what it might look like to think about extinction beyond species. I start with the increasing number of funerals for glaciers…
‘The Inaugural John Berger Memorial Lecture’ – by Professor Nikos Papastergiadis, Uni of Melbourne
18 November 7pm Melbourne (3pm Ho Chi Minh City) Live streaming link: https://www.facebook.com/events/759576902107439/ or https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxlgjRmLgJL Nikos Papaster…
SAR Field Trips: A Wonderful Combination
Guest post by Jean and John Berghoff. New to membership in 2021 and seeking opportunities to better understand the Native American h…