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Can it get worse? Yemen under attack again

Post date 27th January 2022
Post author By standplaatswereld

Raiding Graves—Not to Rob but to Remember

Reconstruction of a chamber grave from eastern France. B. Clarys/PCR espaces et pratiques funéraires en Alsace aux époques mérovingienne et carolingienne This article was originally publ…

Post date 27th January 2022
Post author By Alison Klevnäs and Astrid A. Noterman

Paulette F. C. Steeves, “The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere” (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the…

Post date 27th January 2022
Post author By Marshall Poe

Heritage out of Control: Human bones as inherited waste of Europe

Central and Eastern Europe – known as “Bloodlands”, the area where Nazi and Stalin’s atrocities met, leaving behind many sites marked by mass killings – provide an obvious…

Post date 27th January 2022
Post author By Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams

Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades

Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESApplied Anthropology »Cultural Anthropolog…

Post date 26th January 2022
Post author By Sarah Soliz

Ten Treasures (and a Bonus): A Selection of Anthropological Gems You Might Have Missed from the Past Few Years

I began interviewing authors of fabulous new anthropology books for this space back in 2016. While completing 11 interviews, I also amassed a backlog of more terrific books…

Post date 26th January 2022
Post author By Alma Gottlieb

Matan Kaminer: Marxist anthropology in a world of surplus population: Reflections on a Frontlines of Value workshop

I was recently privileged to participate in a workshop about the Marxian concept of the “surplus population,” convoked by Stephen Campbell, Thomas Cowan, and Don Kalb as part…

Post date 26th January 2022
Post author By focaal_admin

Time, History, Politics, Art, Revolt – not being crushed to bits. This is a MUST SEE – of all things going on in the Integrated hyperventalated Spectacle this year, why, its Tom Buyard, a rare treat that will be worth doing the prep reading for and tuning in ready to roll.

Seriously do not miss this. Some call him Mr Modest, to others he is The Tattooist (with a nod to Raymond Redington’s Black List) but Tom Bunyards’s Spectacle/S.I.…

Post date 26th January 2022
Post author By john hutnyk

Consumer Culture Won’t Lead to Body Positivity

Focusing on what bodies can do shifts attention away from cultural lenses that focus on how bodies look. Holly Falconer/Getty Images I have an 8-year-old daughter. From time…

Post date 26th January 2022
Post author By Jamie E. Shenton

Kevin J. Wetmore, “Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters” (Reaktion Books, 2021)

Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the meaning of cannibalism. Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in…

Post date 26th January 2022
Post author By Marshall Poe

Lisa Björkman ed., “Bombay Brokers” (Duke UP, 2021)

A political party worker who produces crowds for electoral rallies. A “prison specialist” who serves other people’s prison sentences in exchange for a large fee. An engineer who…

Post date 26th January 2022
Post author By Marshall Poe

Heritage Out of Control – (B)Lasting Bombs

On January 30, 2021, more than 8000 inhabitants of Göttingen, Germany, had to evacuate their homes. Four suspected WWII bombs had been detected underground, and in order to…

Post date 26th January 2022
Post author By Regina Bendix

Khap Panchayats: Tentacles of the traditional institution

Dr Maninder Kaur Chairperson Department of Anthropology Panjab University, Chandigarh E-mail: maninderkaur_1@yahoo.in Those of us living in Punjab or in its vicinity or familiar with spoken colloquial …

Post date 25th January 2022
Post author By Dr Maninder Kaur

How Filipino Sailors—and Coconuts—Helped Create Mexico’s National Drink

While visiting Oaxaca, Mexico, last year, I joined a mezcal tasting tour. The guide, Antonio, asked participants to introduce ourselves. When I told everyone I was an anthropologist…

Post date 25th January 2022
Post author By Gideon Lasco