#AmAnth2021: Anthropological Engagements with Optimism?
This year’s American Anthropological Association meeting is likely to be one of the weirder ones in recent memory. The general feeling is that: 1) the conference costs far…
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Repatriation Has Transformed, Not Ended, Research
“Wheel,” by the Cheyenne-Arapaho artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds is situated outside the Denver Art Museum. The artwork evokes Indigenous peoples’ efforts to counter…
Understated, not overlooked by Anthony Stavrianakis
A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments Talia Dan-Cohen Cornell University Press, 2021. 174 pages. First, take a self-consciously self-aggrandizing area of bioengineering,…
30 Minute Methods – TDTU, Vietnam – Professor Paolo Favero
Prof Paolo Favero, Uni Antwerp, Belgium: ‘Expanded Ethnography: technologies and the senses’ and coming up next: at TDTU: 2. Tues November 23, 2021, at 4pm HCMC….
TGA Seeking Editors!
The Geek Anthropologist is seeking qualified individuals to join our Editorial Board. As an Editor at TGA, responsibilities include: recruiting new contributors and content for the blog and…
Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding, “Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from Earth” (Zone Book, 2021)
In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space, and it remains the only human-made object to have left the solar system. The Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecrafts…
Evolution In Human-Computer Interaction
Dr. Suninder Kaur Consultant Anthropologist suninderk@hotmail.com Communication has been a powerful mechanism throughout evolutionary history in connecting people. The spoken word has influenced social…
Afghanistan’s Global Entanglements
by Magnus Marsden For many viewers in the West, the horrific scenes at Kabul airport in August 2021 appeared to suggest that after a brief period of international…
Rethinking Egyptian Cosmology and the Grand Canyon
Desert View of the Grand Canyon (©el-Sayed el-Aswad, October, 2021) This article relates to a previous paper entitled “Egyptian Cosmology and the Grand Canyon” published by Tabsir on…
Impressions from the Master Class “Participatory Digital Ethnography”
It was our pleasure to organize the Master Class Participatory Digital Ethnography together with the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab and the Visual Studies Platform (CEU). The public co-lecture…
Hannah Carlan takes the page 99 test for her dissertation
As it so happens, page 99 of my dissertation is the conclusion of my first body chapter following the introduction. My dissertation, “Producing Prosperity: Language and the Labor…
Podcasting and the Other Side of Storytelling – Reflecting on TAL’s 8th Birthday
This Anthro Life turned 8 years old in October 2021. That’s a long time for a podcast. When recently invited to share what I’ve been working on for…
Sorting It Out: Sustainability in Higher Education
by Kathy Zhang In May of 2021, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a combined degree in Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Art. I…
Beyond the data: Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on BAME groups
PETER BICCAREGUI Calling for a follow up report. On the 5th April 2020, almost a year ago to the day I’m writing this letter, Belly Mujinga died at only 47…
April Sizemore-Barber, “Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation” (U Michigan Press, 2020)
At his 1994 inauguration, South African president Nelson Mandela announced the “Rainbow Nation, at peace with itself and the world.” This national rainbow notably extended beyond the bounds…
Robert Brooks, “Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers” (Columbia UP, 2021)
What happens when the human brain, which evolved over eons, collides with twenty-first-century technology? Machines can now push psychological buttons, stimulating and sometimes exploiting th… Visit New Books…
Suchitra Samanta, “Kali in Bengali Lives: Narratives of Religious Experience” (Lexington Books, 2021)
In Kali in Bengali Lives: Narratives of Religious Experience (Lexington Books, 2021), Suchitra Samanta examines Bengalis’ personal narratives of Kali devotion in the Bhakti tradition. These p… Visit New Books…
Alice Beban, “Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia” (Cornell UP, 2021)
Why do so many Cambodian small landholders live in fear? How did the issuance of official land titles contribute to growing indebtedness in rural areas? Why did the government…
Sorting It Out: Sustainability in Higher Education
by Kathy Zhang In May of 2021, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a combined degree in Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Art. I…
Hege Høyer Leivestad: The Port Revisited—Cargo capitalism at the Strait of Gibraltar
https://aoe.fi/api/download/hegehyerleivestadt-1636961958864.m4a Hege Høyer Leivestad (Stockholm University) gave on 12.11.2021 a paper entitled “The Port Revisi…
30 Minute Methods – TDTU, Vietnam
30 minute methods’ seminar series [online in November] in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanites, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam. 1. Tuesday November 16, 2021, at 4pm…
Food Anthropology Graduate Student Mixer!
SAFN is pleased to announce that in conjunction with the Graduate Association of Food Studies (part of the Association for the Study of Food and Society) we will…
Ep #84 Activist Anthropology & Becoming Humanitarian Victims: This month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #84 Activist Anthropology & Becoming Humanitarian Victims: This month on TFS This week the strangers are joined by Kathryn Allan! Kathryn is currently…
Representation matters
It may seem obvious to some, but when I came out 35 years ago, I never saw relationships like mine the way we see them now in advertising,…