How People Actually Use Their Smartphones
[no-caption] John Cei Douglas In 2022, the smartphone, first introduced by IBM, will celebrate its 30th birthday. Most of us now use a smartphone every day—whether we like…
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Tim Hannigan, “The Travel Writing Tribe” (Hurst Publishing, 2021)
As most of us are stuck at home, whether due to lockdowns or border closures, some of us have returned to the idea of travel writing: nonfiction that…
Andrea Laurent-Simpson, “Just Like Family: How Companion Animals Joined the Household” (NYU Press, 2021)
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Andrea Laurent-Simpson’s path in and out of and back into graduate school The story of her college…
Special Issue: Immigration and Mental Health by Emmanuelle Roth
Medical Anthropology has just released a special issue, edited by Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Megan A. Carney, which offers insights into “the landscape of immigrant mental health and how…
In the Journals, October 2021, Part 1 by Emmanuelle Roth
Annual Review of Anthropology Food Insecurity, Nutritional Inequality, and Maternal–Child Health: A Role for Biocultural Scholarship in Filling Knowledge GapsBarbara A. Piperata & Darna L. Duf…
Adapt or Abandon? Hard Choices in the Himalayas
The Loba tribespeople living in the village of Dhe in Nepal are increasingly abandoning their homes as climate change transforms the landscape. Taylor Weidman/LightRocket/Getty Images On …
From Border to Border
From Border to Border Comprehensive research study on identity and ethnicity in Iran By: Kameel Ahmady A word to the readers This is summary of a comprehensive reasrch…
Life of the Upgraded Human Being
Karin Olsson: This past year, Swedish news and public debate has been focused on the elderly population; one of the groups most vulnerable to becoming seriously ill if…
Barbara Grabher, “Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies” (Routledge, 2021)
Exploring the relationship between gender and events, Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies (Routledge, 2021) delivers an ethnographic analysis of the celebr… Visit New Books in…
Carl Rommel, “Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics” (U Texas Press, 2021)
Both a symbol of the Mubarak government’s power and a component in its construction of national identity, football served as fertile ground for Egyptians to confront the regime’s…
Book becomes National Book Award Finalist
Anthronow special issue editor and contributor, Lucas Bessire book’s Running out: In search of water on the high plains, has been named a 2021 National Book Award Finalist. 2021…
UBC-V Senate Curriculum & the Indigenous Strategic Plan
An interesting discussion emerged in the senate curriculum committee yesterday (Oct. 25, 2021) about integrating aspects of the ISP into the working of the committee. I share my…
The Shitty Affairs of British Colonialism in Malaya: Manicuring “Native” Agriculture through Race-Specific Livestock Interbreeding
In January 2020, I accidentally came across a series of photographs at the UK National Archives documenting agricultural and livestock experimentation in 1930-1940s British Malaya. The peculiarity of…
The Limit of Defense: Life in a Taiwanese Military Training Center during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Leo Chu
On the morning of 23rd February 2021, I boarded a bus from my home in northern Taiwan to a nearby military training center. There I joined another four…
Ancient Art Deep in the Southeastern United States
The author has helped document extensive ancient cave art in the Southeastern U.S. Alan Cressler This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under…
Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone, “The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America” (MIT Press, 2020)
The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America (MIT Press, 2020) considers the intersection of food and immigration at both the macroscale of national policy and the…
Roberto J. González, “Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network” (U California Press, 2020)
Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network (U California Press, 2020) is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its…
H-Egypt Network
There is a new resource regarding the study of Egypt from the start of the Islamic era until the present at H-Egypt.
Ronald Niezen on his book, #HumanRights: The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31090 Kevin Laddapong: You have been researching indigenous and postcolonial politics throughout your career, and it is very…
The Dirt
The Dirt is a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt for October 2021.
An Epidemic of Loneliness
PEPE WEISCHER Dear Mr Spahn, The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has strained the capacity of the German health system in unprecedented ways, but it seems to me that one…
“Every Time You Make A Recipe, You Take A Risk,” An Interview With David Sutton
David Beriss I sat down with David Sutton for a wonderful conversation about his research. We explore commensality, synesthesia, memory, national foods, how to learn about cooking, and…
Too Fat to Be an Anthropologist
In what now feels like a lifetime ago, I was having one last catch up with a mate from my PhD cohort before we both set off for…
NAFA Annual Meeting 2021
The NAFA annual meeting 2021 was held in a hybrid format, some of the attendees reporting directly from the NAFA film festival in Lisbon, whereas others joined online…