Researching Islamic Manuscripts
Mahmoud Zaki has assembled a major resource on sources for the study of Islamic manuscripts, including links to major digital collections and publications. It can be accessed here.…
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Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen received an honorary doctorate from Charles University
Marek Jakoubek One of the most famous and influential social anthropologists of the last decades, professor of anthropology at the University of Oslo, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, received an…
Book Review: Decay edited by Ghassan Hage
In Decay, Ghassan Hage brings together contributors to explore the mechanisms, conditions and temporalities of social and material decay in a variety of settings across the globe. Encouraging…
Wondering How to Design a Qualitative Study?
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Dr. Dana Malone’s inspiration for researching in her own backyard, why she chose to do qualitative research…
Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies
a book from 2004 – people didn’t get the title that much, but Derrida, Bataille (the best bit is on Bataille – reclaimed for the left). From books4you.…
How Human Are We?
Hand axes crafted by Homo erectus required skills and planning—and likely, generational knowledge. Nick Longrich This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been rep…
Edward Slingerland, “Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization” (Hachette, 2021)
Ever since Noah exited the ark, human beings have been wanting to get drunk and high. Why? Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization (Hachette,…
Michelle Téllez, “Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect” (U Arizona Press, 2021)
Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. More than a community, Maclovio Rojas is a w……
Anna Hedlund, “Hutu Rebels: Exile Warriors in the Eastern Congo” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
In 1994, almost one million ethnic Tutsis were killed in the genocide in Rwanda. In the aftermath of the genocide, some of the top-echelon Hutu officers who had…
Rachel Afi Quinn, “Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo” (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Dominican women being seen–and seeing themselves–in the media Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative… Visit…
5 Questions About Eating Like a Human
In this free live event, SAPIENS Media and Public Outreach Fellow Yoli Ngandali asks archaeologist, primitive technologist, and chef Bill Schindler about his new book, Eat Like a…
Learning Forensics, Applying Anthropology with Gabriella Campbell
It’s not everyday I get to talk with other anthropology podcasters, and even more infrequently that I get to talk with undergraduate anthropology podcasters. I’m joined on the…
New book chapter: ‚Place, the Locus of Alterity‘ by Marco Lazzarotti
Published in Space and Place as Human Coordinates: Rethinking Dimensions Across Disciplines, edited by Arianna Maiorani and C. Bruna Mancini, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Feral Atlas, a Review
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. 2021. Tsing, Anna L., Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. http://doi.org/10.21627/2020f…
Mourning Kin After the End of Cannibalism
Clockwise from top left: (1) Indigenous Wari’ dwellings in Amazonia, Brazil. (2) The author (middle) with her adopted father, Paletó (right), in 2012. (3) The author interviewing Wari’…
(Re)Understanding Human Need: Writing the Revised Edition
Hartley Dean discusses the intellectual journey that influenced the writing of his revised edition of Understanding Human Need. (Re)Understanding Human Need: Writing the Revised Edition I suspect that…
Maria Jose de Abreu, “The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil” (Duke UP, 2021)
In The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Duke University Press, 2021), Maria José de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemp… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Andrew B. Kipnis, “The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China” (U California Press, 2021)
Today I spoke to Professor Andrew Kipnis about his book on social change in urban China from the perspective of funerals. In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on…
Don F. Selby, “Human Rights in Thailand” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Don F. Selby’s Human Rights in Thailand (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018) is a rich anthropological study of the emergence of human rights in Thailand at a national scale following the…
Who Decides What We Measure in Health Tech?
At present, there are several problems in women’s health that still remain poorly characterized and understudied. In my research on one such issue, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), it is…
New Studies on History of Yemen
Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000–1600): Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds. Fabian Kümmeler, Judit Majorossy, and Eirik Hovden (Brill Publishing, November 20…
History, Historians, and Video Games
Caroline Wazer at Lapham’s Quarterly (via this on Metafilter), a discussion of three reviews of games in the Assassin’s Creed series in the American Historical Review, and video…
SAFN Student Awards!
2021 Award winners, Sucharita Kanjilal, Noha Fikry, Carolyn Mason, and Ileana Diaz Students! Have you been doing research or writing on food and nutrition? Would you like fame,…
Anna Tuckett on her book, Rules, Papers, Status
Interview by Dodom Kim https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29781 Dodom Kim: Rules, Papers, Status examines migration, legal citizenship, and the question of belonging in contemporary Italy….