Hiring two research assistants in Indigenous quantitive methodologies
CLEAR is hiring two part-time research assistants to help study Indigenous and decolonial quantitative methodologies.
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The State of Emergency, Coercive Medicine, and Academia
“Two weeks to flatten the curve,” is what we heard across Canada1 just after March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization unilaterally declared a global “pandemic” according to…
Ancestral Lines: Return to Uiaku
Morning on Ganjiga beach March 2020. I had been in Uiaku for just over a week, but already established a pattern of sorts. Each evening after visitors had…
What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling
An Indigenous Pantaron Manobo man sports a pendant necklace imbued with sacred power. Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio Within days of its release last June, the Netflix animated series…
Joseph C. Ewoodzie, “Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson (Princeton Press, 2021) uses food—what people eat and how—to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in…
Beyond potential: the structural issue of gender diversity in esports
Based on his fieldwork in Berlin, Tom Legierse cautions that although esports are heralded as potentially gender inclusive spaces, in reality gender discrimination is still deeply ingrained in…
On the Edge of the Body
By Renata Carvalho Anthropology’s many attempts of conceptualising the body into clear and useful analytical categories has raised significant ontological questions that problematise the very basi…
Scopus and ISI severely undercount citations in the humanities and social sciences
At Anne-Wil Harzing’s Publish or Perish: When comparing Google Scholar and ISI citation scores, the Business academic has six times as many citations in Google Scholar than in…
Blog Post: Reflections on the InfraNorth workshop “The Global Economics & Geopolitics of Arctic Transport Infrastructures”
Budka, P., & Povoroznyuk, O. (2021). Reflections on the InfraNorth workshop “The Global Economics and Geopolitics of Arctic Transport Infrastructures”. InfraNorth – Building Arc…
The Blockbuster Exhibit That Shouldn’t Have Been
Museum professionals often point to the 1972 to 1981 Treasures of Tutankhamun tour as the beginning of the blockbuster exhibit era, in which museums host exhibitions that appeal…
David Graeber LSE Tribute Seminar: Lost People
Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar is not David’s first published book, but it is based on his doctoral thesis and, in this sense, his…
30 Minute Methods in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, TDTU.
The most useful thing I heard anyone say (it was Olivia Harris) about a methods course is that it should never be a discussion of how to, but…
30 Minute Methods: Jack Boulton at TDTU KhXH&NV
Jack Boulton 30 Minute Methods talk at TDTU, KHOA KHXH&NV,: 30 November 2021 ‘TV, film and literature sci-fi as part of the new literary turn in anthropology’ For…
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, “The Sixteen-Dollar Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification” (U Washington Press, 2021)
White middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated urban neighborhoods in search of “authentic” eating in restaurants run by-and originally catering to-immigran… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Human Bio-Cultural Evolution
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New York Botanical Garden Food Humanities Research Fellowship
This opportunity at the NYBG should be of interest to readers of FoodAnthropology. Note that there are other opportunities as well. Visit https://www.nybg.org/learn/humanities-institute/research-…
Shireen Walton discusses her book, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy Interview by Rachel Howard Rachel Howard: As you note, active aging agendas “aim to encourage people to exercise control over the aging…
Eva von Redecker, “Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation” (Columbia UP, 2021)
The concept of revolution marks the ultimate horizon of modern politics. It is instantiated by sites of both hope and horror. Within progressive thought, “revolution” often perpetuates entren……
An Ethnography of Tourism and Globalization: In Conversation with Dr. Annie Hikido
How do Black women entrepreneurs in South Africa play off westerners’ fear and desire for impoverished townships through home-based tourist accommodations? This episode’s guest is Dr. Annie H……
A Letter to Matt Hancock
URSULA WHITE February 2021 Dear Secretary of State, I am writing to express my concern on discovering that, as of February 2021, Operose Health has acquired AT Medics,…
5 min interview
I get the occasional cold call from secondary school students and always try to respond with some things that are expected and some unexpected. They might miss the…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Branches of Biological Anthropology
Branches of Biological Anthropology Contents Biological Anthropology: 1
ISSH2021
visit https://issh2021.tdtu.edu.vn/ for details. Register here: https://issh2021.tdtu.edu.vn/conference-fees