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…
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Vincent Ialenti, “Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now” (MIT Press, 2020)
Based on twelve years of anthropological exploration, Vincent Ialenti’s Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now (MIT Press, 2020) is an engaging guide on deep time learnin……
Allyson Day, “The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities” (Ohio State UP, 2021)
In The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities (Ohio State UP, 2021), Ally Day offers a compelling critique of neoliberal medical practices in the US by…
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, “Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women’s bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hur… Visit New Books…
What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?
The ‘Ubeidiya site today is an expanse of grasses. Concealed from this view are slabs of fossilized pebbly clay, a source of ancient finds that have helped scholars…
Coming Soon: The MultiRepository
This post introduces a new collaborative project coming soon to CASTAC: an archive of online platforms that highlights how researchers have utilized different communicative modes and media in…
Did an Asteroid Shape This Famous Biblical Story?
Ancient ruins show the cosmic impact’s destruction layer about midway down exposed walls. Phil Silvia This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished un…
Resident Scholar Profile: 2021–2022 Weatherhead Fellow Benjamin Junge
Fieldwork is much more than just collecting data. —Ben Junge “Brazil has been a p…
CFP: Seventh International Convention on Food and Drink Studies
EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FORTHE HISTORY AND CULTURES OF FOOD After you attend the ASFS/AFHVS conference in May 2022, it might be worth heading over to France for this conference.…
Illustrating ASSA’s findings with comics – part 5
By Georgiana Murariu and Laura Haapio-Kirk In this blog post, we present the fifth comic in our ASSA comics series, set in rural Ireland. The comic below highlights…
Call for Films: RAI Film Festival
The RAI Film Festival is now accepting submissions for feature-length, short and medium format documentaries and anthropological / ethnographic films for its 2023 hybrid edition. Open to work…
Eleanor Nesbitt, “Exploring the Sikh Tradition” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Exploring the Sikh Tradition is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Eleanor Nesbitt who is Professor Emeritus of Education Studies at University of Warwick and…
Dark Tourism East and Southeast Asia at ASA 2021
This is the longer version, with all the discussion
Fetishes or Cyborgs? Religion as technology in the Afro-Atlantic space
(Editor’s Note: This blog post is part of the Thematic Series Data Swarms Revisited) Exú, the trickster god, Axé Ilé Oba – São Paulo (photo by Giovanna Capponi)…
Do you know where your tea comes from?
Ben Posner, MAT, MBA Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash Some mornings a cup of English Breakfast. Some afternoons a cup of Earl Grey. Most evenings a cup…
Call for Films: JAF – Journal of Anthropological Films
The Journal of Anthropological Films (JAF) welcomes submission of films for upcoming issues. JAF is an Open Access publication making films and scholarly materials available to the public…
Aurora Donzelli on her book, Method of Desire
interview by Setrag Manoukian https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/methods-of-desire-language-morality-and-affect-in-neoliberal-indonesia/ Setrag Manoukian: It is reductive to assign a narrow t…
Homebrewing Asia: How Dungeons & Dragons in Singapore is remaking Western fantasy
ByKellynn WeeMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology Can you choose your race? This may be a thorny issue with many, but in the land of table-top role-playing game Dungeons…
Do Stolen Sacred Objects Experience Culture Shock?
Early on the gray, dreary, morning of September 23, I landed at the Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., after a 36-hour journey from Kilifi, on Kenya’s coast.…
GAA 2021 Conference Diary: Atmospheric Discussions?
In collaboration with the conference organisers, Allegra had reached out to a number of colleagues to submit some impressions in the form of “daily diaries” from the recent…
A Letter to Tedros A. Ghebreyesus
AY NASSIMOLDINA Dear Dr Tedros A. Ghebreyesus, The world is in a vulnerable state right now, and we have trusted you with the World Health Organization to lead…
If You’re Seeing This, You Are on Ex-Mormon TikTok
You might not realise it, but you probably follow a Mormon lifestyle blogger on social media. It’s an aesthetic: the specific way knee-length dress is paired with an…
#A future history of water: Andrea Ballestero’s response
When encountering the generosity of brilliant colleagues, one can only start with gratitude. Add to that a historical moment when a virus has reconfigured the languages, spaces, and…
Fragments of Reparation & Recognition in the Golden State
Aerial image of Bruce’s Beach park (highlighted in color), Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles. Adapted from Google Earth, 2021. On September 30, California Governor Gavin Newsome signed Senate Bill…