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…
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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…
The Third Choice: Suicide Hotlines, Psychiatry, and the Police by Hannah Zeavin
With Covid-19 showing no sign of abating, mental health care (from ongoing therapy to helplines) continues to be an important site of treatment for many Americans. While traditional…
Organizing the Material So Far (Native North American Studies and AFS)
The posts on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the AFS were done in a non-sequential way. Several…
Review Essay: Frank M. Snowden’s ‘Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present’, by David O’Kane (2020)
Snowden, Frank M. (2019) Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. At the beginning of the present global…
Review Essay: Frank M. Snowden’s ‘Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present’, by David O’Kane (2020)
Snowden, Frank M. (2019) Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. At the beginning of the present global…
“Doing Being a Latina,” or Performing Identities Through a Computer Voice
The ability to communicate is often taken-for-granted and imperceptible, despite being vital to everyday life. It defines our social performances as family members, professionals, and neighbors. Moreo…
Pamela Klassen on her book, The Story of Radio Mind
Interview by Georgia Ennis https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo28179073.html Georgia Ennis: At the center of your account are the travels and work of missionary Frederick Du Vernet,…
Interpreting Sexuality: Intellectually Disabled People and “Special” Educators in India by Shruti Vaidya
“Why does she like putting the glass bottle near her pee-hole? She couldn’t talk and tell us what was going on…what did she exactly want? What was in…
Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method
You: Can podcasts be used as a method in anthropology? Me: Yes! You: How? Why? To what ends? But what about (INSERT CONCERN HERE)? Oh, wow it might…
A response to Pollin and Chomsky: We need a Green New Deal without growth
Robert Pollin and Noam Chomsky have a new book out, Climate Crisis and the Green New Deal. It’s an important contribution to the emerging GND literature, from…
1851 Treaty with the Tualatin Band of Kalapuyas
The Tualatin treaty was the first to be negotiated in April of 1851 by the Willamette Valley Treaty Commission. The commission was replaced by Anson Dart who took…
Gone in a Quibi: A case for anthropology in business?
Quibi founders Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman in the company’s office (fortune.com) Quibi’s demise—just six months after the premium short-form smartphone-focused streaming service went live…