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Hi all, This week’s link review is guaranteed free from the other topic that has been dominating this week’s news…we are focusing on changing power dynamics in #globaldev,…
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Climate Change May Have Been a Major Driver of Ancient Hominin Extinctions
New research suggests some of our species’ closest relatives died out because of significant changes in climate, findings that may offer a warning for humanity today. Aliraza Khatri/Getty…
Zainab Saleh, “Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia” (Stanford UP, 2020)
With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and…
Caroline Starkey, “Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community” (Routledge, 2019)
Based on detailed ethnographic research, this book explores the varied experiences of women who have converted to Buddhism in contemporary Britain and analyses the implications of their exper……
Steven M. Ortiz, “The Sport Marriage: Women Who Make It Work” (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Steven M. Ortiz’ new book The Sport Marriage: Women Who Make It Work (University of Illinois Press, 2020) offers an in-depth analysis of and perceive insight into what is…
Spelling a Nation’s Name
Ruined buildings serve as reminders of the lives lost and displaced by the Kosovo War more than two decades ago. Erina Baci I’ve been rewriting a grant application…
Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi (book review)
I actually read Ulf Laessing’s Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi during my summer break and finally finished turning my initial notes into a longer review. Ulf Laessing’s book is…
A Technology of Empowerment and Governance: The IUD/IUS and Sexual Health Care in Toronto, Canada
The intrauterine device (IUD) and the intrauterine system (IUS) have a long and complicated history. The IUD is a contraceptive device inserted into the uterus, which serves as…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Me
In the depths of the Depression, two girls were born to Jewish parents in New York City. One, in 1933, was Ruth Bader, later Mrs. Ginsburg. The other,…
APLA On Demand
In addition to APLA’s livestream events at the 2020 AAA fall event, Raising Our Voices, APLA is sponsoring a number of on-demand events including podcasts, talks, and a…
Bamboo Basket Hampers Used by Tobacco Farmers in Nanhua County, Yunnan, China
While doing background work on FEI Xiaotong and ZHANG Zhiyi’s studies of the basketry industry(*) in Yunnan, China, my colleague W. discovered this webpage with a pair of…
Wednesday Round Up #22
A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air The risk of contagion is highest in indoor spaces but can be reduced…
APLA Livestream Events
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is pleased to announce its schedule of sponsored livestream events for the 2020 AAA fall event, Raising Our Voices. Don’t miss…
Global Mental Health: a special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry by Eliza Williamson
This special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry addresses the growing field of Global Mental Health. As the organizers state in their introduction to the issue, “Over the past decade,…
Indigenous Mental Health: a special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry (OA) by Eliza Williamson
This open-access special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry examines mental health among Indigenous populations, with an emphasis on research. As the organizers state in their introduction, the articl…
Loneliness: a special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry by Eliza Williamson
The October 2020 issue of Transcultural Psychiatry addresses the concept of loneliness anthropologically. As the special issue editors state in their introduction: “In recent years, loneliness has…
In the Journals – October 2020, Pt. 2 by Eliza Williamson
Social Studies of Science Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age (OA) Wesley Shrum, John Aggrey, Andre Campos, Janaina Pamplona da Costa,…
Hugh Raffles, “The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time” (Pantheon Books, 2020)
At once an examination of geology, a biography of monuments, and a meditation on the connection between personal loss and massive loss, Hugh Raffles’ The Book of Unconformities: Speculations…
Native North American Studies in the Work of the American Folklore Society during the First Decade of the 20th Century (1900-1909)
This is another post in a series devoted to better understanding the place of Native North American and First Nations studies within the field of folklore studies as…
SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Alanna Warner-Smith Examines Labor and Inequality in Nineteenth-Century New York City
During the nineteenth century, ideas about aging were changing. These ideas placed less of an emphasis on tradition and elders and focused…
SAR Press Top Reads: Politics and Power
When life seems to be changing day by day, if not hour by hour, we look to sources of information that we have come to know and trust.…
Kathryn A. Mariner, “Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States” (U California Press, 2019)
Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States (University of California Press, 2019) offers an ethnography of adoption processes in the United States through…
Silvie Jacobi, “Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
What is an art school? In Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Dr Silvie Jacobi, a researcher and head of…