Why English Might Let Go of “He” and “She”
Pronouns are giving us trouble. English speakers face a dilemma. The current structure of our language is exclusionary with regard to gender: The personal pronouns “she” and “he”…
Category: English
Bernard Scott, “Cybernetics for the Social Sciences” (Brill, 2021)
On this episode, I have the great pleasure of finally getting to talk with one of the “unsung heroes” of cybernetics, whose work has finally begun to receive…
Christine Wilson 2021 Undergraduate Award Winner
Carolyn Mason, Christine Wilson 2021 Undergraduate Award Winner SAFN is pleased to announce that Carolyn Mason is the winner of the 2021 Christine Wilson Undergraduate Award, for her…
Through the Lens of the Anthropocene: The Shared Histories and Futures of Ethnographic and Natural History Filmmaking
By Alejandra Melian-Morse, McGill University § The very first scene of the BBC’s Planet Earth II (Berlowitz et al. 2016) breaks the mould of early BBC natural history…
Alchemy, Metallurgy, and Modern Chemistry in Post-Medieval Europe: An Intersection of Archaeological Science and the History of Science
Oil on Canvas of a experimental demonstration, public domain What is the first image conjured up in your mind by the word “alchemy”? Influenced by popular culture, it…
We All Live on Permafrost
Indigenous Sakha communities in Siberia raise a rare native horse breed that can survive the extreme cold. Susan Alexandra Crate One of the most distinct memories from my…
Is GPT-3 the end of literature?
From Spacewhy on Medium: Most of the content generated is bad, like a repetitive HAL 9000 in its death agony—the program is in beta—but every once and a…
Historicizing Evolutionism: A Dialectical Review of Robert L. Carneiro (2003) and Efram Sera-Shriar (2018)
Carneiro, Robert L. Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology: A Critical History. 339 pp., 10 b/w illus., bibl., index. Boulder: Westview Press, 2003. (Reprinted by Routledge in 2018) Sera-Shriar, E…
Christine Wilson 2021 Graduate Award Winner
Noha Fikry, 2021 Christine Wilson Graduate Award Winner SAFN is happy to announce that the winner of the 2021 Christine Wilson Graduate award winner is Noha Fikry, of…
Kate Vieira on her book, Writing for Love and Money
Interview by Amy Garey https://global.oup.com/academic/product/writing-for-love-and-money-9780190877316 Amy Garey: How does migration influence literacy practices? Kate Vieira: Unfortuna…
Eating Disorders, Education, and TikTok
EMILIE THOMPSON 28th February 2021 Dear Mrs Murdoch, Please let me express my enormous gratitude for the work you and your team continue to conduct in the face o…
Peter S. Ungar, “Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared…
Anjalee Cohen, “Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand: Fitting in and Sticking Out” (Routledge, 2020)
Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand (Routledge, 2020) examines how young people in urban Chiang Mai construct an identity at the intersection of global capitalism, state ideologie… Visit New…
Vania Smith-Oka, “Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals” (Rutgers UP, 2021)
In Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Vania Smith-Oka follows a cohort of interns throughout their year of medical training in hospitals to understand how…
Informality and international trade: The case for an African Customs Union by Keith Hart
(Keynote address for a World Customs Organization/World Bank conference on ‘Informality, international trade and customs’, Brussels, 3-4 June 2013) In … More
Ep #83 Parasocial relationships & Strangers: Dr Ian Pollock on the Origin of The Familiar Strange
The Familiar Strange · Ep #83 Parasocial relationships & Strangers: Dr Ian Pollock on the Origin of The Familiar Strange Matt’s back this week with an interview with…
Mystic Of Indian Textiles in International Museums
Prof. (Dr) Charu Smita Gupta Founder/ Former Director MGCATT Museum, Siem Reap Cambodia Retired Deputy Director, National Crafts Museum Ministry of Textiles, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi dchasmig@gmai…
Woodbrook celebrates 110 years: An amazing square mile in history
A book project on Woodbrook combining residents and anthropology will be published in September 2022. Find out more below Writing about 19th-century Port of Spain, the historian Suzanne…
Links & Contents I Liked 422
Hi all, More than 40 of our students presented 10 group blogging projects today & yesterday and it’s always amazing to see the breadth of topics & approaches…
The Voice of Diaspora
“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. I wake…
Giuseppe Bolotta, “Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins” (NIAS, 2021)
How is childhood experienced in the slums of Bangkok and how does it relate to socio-political processes in Thailand? What role do mothers play in the leadership of…
Review NAFA 40th International Film Festival
The NAFA 40th International Film Festival took place at Museu Nacional de Etnologia, in Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, from 29th September until 3rd October 2021. And what a great…
“Being Your Bestest Anthropologist: A Guide to Unlocking Your Neat Self” (Collegeville Press, 2021)
A note from the editor: This book is satire, as is the interview. If you do not appreciate satire, you would be well served not to read the book or…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Rashmi Sadana
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…