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PIA KEELY-JOHNSON Dear Gavin Williamson, I am a queer woman living in London who, like more than 18.9 million people1 who sat down to watch Russell Davies’ hit show …
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Hannah Kirshner, “Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town” (Viking, 2021)
Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town (Viking, 2021) is memoir, ethnography, cookbook, and sketchbook rolled into one.” This is the Princet… Visit New Books…
Census lists of Kalapuyans from the Southern Willamette Valley
Information about the Southern Kalapuyans, those south of Brownsville have been scarce to come by. The Kalapuyans in the north were settled earlier and seemed to have more…
Native Salem exhibit opens to the Public November 12th 2021
This summer I was approached by the Bush Art Museum to do something for Native American month. Over the period of several months discussion we centered the exhibit…
Bring Me the Head of Norman Vincent Peale: Self Care and the American Obsession with the Power of Positive Thinking
I don’t know when I first heard the term “toxic positivity” but it was sometime after my father was diagnosed with advancing dementia and before my own initial…
In the Journals, October 2021, Part 2 by Eliza Williamson
Social Studies of Science Cultivated co-production: Sexual health, human rights, and the revision of the ICDSteven Epstein STS scholars frequently have shown how science and sociopolitical arra…
African Cultural Psychiatry: Special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry by Eliza Williamson
Sociocultural contexts of mental illness experience among Africans (open access)Akin Ojagbemi, Oye Gureje Even though mental disorders can be found in every culture globally, the lived experi…
My journey in applied anthropology
From a graduate who thought it was a great idea to study cultural anthropology during an economic crisis to any anthropology student freaking out and wondering ‘…what’s next!?!’ By…
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Hi all, I will keep it short & sweet today-so happy #globaldev reading from/about Taliban, Tanzania, Libya, Yemen, Germany, China & more! My quotes of the weekThe carbon footprints…
Robinson on Con Dao
First 50 to click the url here get a free pdf – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1994353#.YYVKsbiYIYQ.linkedin
The ISIS Flag Hoax
A fascinating commentary by Ahmed El Shamsy on the ISIS flag logo as a hoax from a 19th century forged letter attributed to Muhammad. Check it out here.
“Of Peccaries and People: Perception and Politics in the Texas Hill Country” RAI Anthropology and Conservation Conference Talk 2021
On October 27, I presented some of my preliminary research at the Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2021 Anthropology and Conservation conference at the “Living with Diversity in a More-t…
Paper: Anthropological notes on digital & transport infrastructures in remote communities
Budka, P. (2021). Anthropological notes on digital and transport infrastructures in remote communities. Paper at Anthropology of Technology Conference, Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University, 4-5 Novembe…
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“The Voice of Diaspora” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. Her arm is…
Chia-Rong Wu, “Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-Cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan” (Cambria Press, 2020)
In the past four hundred years, the cultural position of Taiwan has been undergoing a series of drastic changes due to constant political turmoil. From the early seventeenth…
Jovan Scott Lewis, “Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
There is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change when those perceived rich are elderly white North Americans and…
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Hvem er vi? Vi ved ikke, før vi ved!SÅDAN ER DET BARE – antropologiske perspektiver på oplevelser og reaktioner på racialisering i Danmark “Sådan er det bare” er…
SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
Sucharita Kanjilal, 2021 Student Research Award Winner SAFN is pleased to award the 2021 Student Research Award to Sucharita Kanjilal for her project, “A homemaker’s diary: Caste, clas…
Anthropologies Of Truth And Deception: Forward To The Past!!
Prof. Anand Singh Anthropology, School of Social Sciences University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus singhan@ukzn.ac.za As we approach the date set for the IUAES 2023 Congress questions contin…
Five Breakthrough Signs of Early Peoples in the Americas
A lot of ink has been spilled in archaeological debates about the human occupation of the continents known today as North and South America. When did people arrive?…
Doing an Ethnography of Policing: In Conversation with Sarah Brayne
How has the use of big data and algorithms changed policing and police surveillance? On this episode, we speak with Dr. Sarah Brayne, Assistant Professor of Sociology at…
Carlos M. Piocos, “Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration” (Routledge, 2021)
In Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration (Routledge, 2021), Carlos M. Piocos explores the politics of gendered labor migration in Southeast Asia through the stories and… Visit New Books…
Learning from Desert Dwellers: Patty Limerick and C. J. Alvarez on Life in a Desert Nation
Drought is now a way of life. As a result, argue Patty Limerick and C. J. Alvarez in their recent Washington Post article, people throughou…
The Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right 2021 Award Winner!
Ileana I. Diaz, 2021 Thomas Marchione Award Winner SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2021 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Ileana Diaz, of the University…