Thomas Bierschenk: On Graeber on bureaucracy
David Graeber was certainly one of the most cited anthropologists of the early 21st century. More than a year after his untimely death, a substantive conversation about his…
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Susanna Fioratta, “Global Nomads: An Ethnography of Migration, Islam, and Politics” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Countering the traditional narrative of “migration as crisis,” Global Nomads tells the story of a group of people for whom migration is not a symptom of a disordered…
Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale, “The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the…
Understanding blind running through participant sensation
The organization Running Blind matches people with visual impairments to a sighted runner. They run while both holding the ends of a tether. Marit Hiemstra explains how being…
West African Migration: The Dangers of a Single Story
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” Chimamanda Ngozi…
Baghdad in the 19th Century
A richly illustrated book in French from 1887 on Iraq and Persia has an incredible number of illustrations. The book can be downloaded here. I attach some of…
The Baraka of Wheat
This is a great idea. Back to the human roots of agriculture… Read about it here.
Brent Luvaas on his book, Street Style
Interview by Matthew Raj Webb https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/street-style-9780857855756 Matthew Raj Webb: Not so long ago, fashion showed up in anthropologists’ writing largely as a pejorati…
Discard Studies Staffing Changes
We have news about the Discard Studies editorial team: after a decade of inspired and dedicated leadership, Max Liboiron is stepping down. While we are sorry for their…
Acts of Occlusion
Occlusion is a term that describes a technique of erasure. Here, I show how occlusion works specifically in International Development discourses to set the terms of morality, dominance,…
Acts of Occlusion
Occlusion is a term that describes a technique of erasure. Here, I show how occlusion works specifically in International Development discourses to set the terms of morality, dominance,…
Kemi Adeyemi et al., “Queer Nightlife” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
The mass shooting at a queer Latin Night in Orlando in July 2016 sparked a public conversation about access to pleasure and selfhood within conditions of colonization, violence,…
A Letter for Malcolm Reed
TANYA SHARMA Dear Professor Malcolm Reed, (Lead Co-Chair of the Medical Schools Council), I am a medical student in the UK writing to you to discuss the teaching…
Santiam Forks Band of Molalla
The Santiam Forks Band of Molalla is not as well known as the Northern Molalla. We have had a few stories and while there is some information in…
Special Issues: Science as Culture; Science, Technology, & Human Values (In the Journals, Sept 2021, Part 2) by Eliza Williamson
Science as Culture (Special Issue: Island Imaginaries) Island Imaginaries: Introduction to a Special Section (free access)Mascha Gugganig, Nina Klimburg-Witjes Colonial empires, scientists, phi…
In the Journals, September 2021, Part 2 by Eliza Williamson
Medical Anthropology Quarterly Becoming Institutionalized: Incarceration as a Chronic Health ConditionJohanna T. Crane, Kelsey Pascoe This article examines incarceration as a chronic condition …
Ep #82 Pork Barreling Pollies & Learning How to be Social Again: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #82 Pork Barreling Pollies & Learning How to be Social Again: This Month on TFS This month we dive into the recent political…
Article: Social media – power & politics
Udupa, S., & Budka, P. (2021). Social media: Power and politics. In H. Callan & S. Coleman (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Hoboken: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781…
Online Books in Halle
At least 337 Books published in Germany on Islam and history of the Middle East are available to read online or download. Most are in German but a…
Paper: Anthropologies of sociotechnical mediation in Austria
Budka, P. (2021). Anthropologies of sociotechnical mediation in Austria. Paper at EASA Media Anthropology Network Workshop: “Media Anthropologies in Europe”, Online (hosted by European As…
“Of People and Peccaries: Perception and Politics in the Texas Hill Country” Transcript (RAI Anthropology and Conservation 2021)
Presentation Slides: Of People and Peccaries PresentationDownload INTRODUCTION On my first day of fieldwork, I climbed a steep hill where my collaborator, Roger, reported a group of javelina…
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Middle Ground
[no caption] Clelia Michelini/Getty Images “Middle Ground” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection h…
Discard Studies Staffing Changes
We have news about the Discard Studies editorial team: after a decade of inspired and dedicated leadership, Max Liboiron is stepping down. While we are sorry for their…