Fuel Maps: Digitizing Grass and Sensing Fire in Brazil
Guilherme M. Fagundes, Princeton University § Part and parcel of the technological repertoire in wildland fire management, fuel maps invite us to reflect on the everyday life of…
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Trinidad – The Potential of ‘Online Only’ Ethnography
By Daniel Miller and Sheba Mohammid The ASSA project runs until October 2022. Mostly the last year of the project is dedicated to publishing our results, for example…
Rebecca J. Lester, “Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America” (U California Press, 2019)
When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old–and again when she was eighteen–she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social…
Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne and James Taylor: State and crisis in Sri Lanka and Thailand: Hearing but not listening in the Theravāda Buddhist world
Although historically and geographically diverse, but sharing religious cultural roots, contemporary Sri Lanka and Thailand are both characterised by authoritarianism. This parallel cannot be explain…
Food Justice and Cultural Appropriation: How do Place and Nostalgia Fit?
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate seminar on food justice at the University of New Orleans. You can read…
Keith Hart: Comment on ‘Debt: The Last 5,000 Years’
David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years was published in summer 2011. In August-September of that year, he took part in the first New York City General Assembly…
Adam Hodges on his book, When Words Trump Politics
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32097 Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae Yeon-Ju Bae: Now that the Trump presidency ended, what can we still learn from the past years, during which responsibiliti…
When my studies became 3D. Learning through objects as a museum intern
After four years of studying social and cultural anthropology at LMU Munich, my internship with Dr. Hilke Thode-Arora, curator of the Oceania department at the Museum Fünf Kontinente…
entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography issue 4(2) now out
The team is really happy to announce the publication of entanglements journal issue 4(2). You can find the issue contents below: or read the whole issue here. If…
Draining Lake Labish
In 1981 I took a job weeding onion fields out Hazelgreen Road on the outskirts of Salem, Oregon, as one of my first jobs. In the summer after…
American Anthropology, Apologies, and Apologetics
In November 2021 Akhil Gupta, president of the American Association of Anthropologists publicly apologized for the harm American Anthropologists have committed against Indigenous peoples. H…
Links & Contents I Liked 429
Hi all, This is the final link review for 2021 & Aidnography will be back in the second half of January 2022 (Twenty-Twenty-Too…). Many of us will have…
Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor, “The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians” (Duke UP, 2020)
Berlin is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian diaspora community and one of the world’s largest Israeli diaspora communities. Germany’s guilt about the Nazi Holocaust has led to a…
Andrew Gilbert, “International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy: Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina” (Cornell UP, 2020)
In International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy (Cornell UP, 2020) Andrew C. Gilbert, who is assistant professor in anthropology at the University of Toronto-Mississauga, argues f… Visit New Books in…
Joanne W. Golann, “Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a “No-Excuses” Charter School” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Ethnographer and sociologist Joanne Golann spent 18 months observing the day-to-day life of students and teachers in a “no-excuses” charter school. In her book Scripting the Moves, she explor……
Innovation and its discontents
Nostalgia for the Future “I’ll never be a billionaire. Now I help other people try to get there, but I just don’t have the emotional well.” These words…
Solidarity in Protest: Highlighting Positive Social Change in Urban Costa Rica
Recently published in the Teaching Culture series, Millennial Movements: Positive Social Change in Urban Costa Rica presents case studies of Costa Rican millennial leaders and shows how youth…
Newsletter · Vol 28.4 · December 2021
Dear readers, Welcome to 2021’s final edition of the quarterly NAFA Network – the Nordic Anthropological Film Association’s newsletter.
A Window on Humanity’s Turbulent 2021
[no-caption] John Finney Photography/Getty Images Amid forest fires, the storming of the U.S. Capitol, private space flights and more, 2021 saw the pandemic bed in. Each time it…
David Graeber LSE Tribute Seminar: Debt
Chair: Alpa Shah Discussants: Keith Hart & Maka Suarez In 2011, David published Debt: The First 5000 Years, a book that would establish him as one of the major…
What A 1993 Outbreak Can Tell Us About Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pandemic Preparedness by Rebecca Lynn Perez
In 1993, the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States experienced an unknown virus outbreak that killed its victims within 48 hours. While the Centers for Disease…
70 Recall This Buck 5: “Studying Up” with Daniel Souleles (EF, JP)
John and Elizabeth continue their conversation with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and… Visit New…
FOLATE SUPPLEMENTATION AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN IN INDIA
AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSIGHT Prof. K. N. Saraswathy Professor of Biological Anthropology Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi Email: knsaraswathy@yahoo.com Folic acid supplementation is a par…
Leonid Kolishnikov honours Nguyen Phu Trong
https://en.nhandan.vn/politics/item/10921502-vietnam%E2%80%99s-party-leader-honoured-with-lenin-prize-of-russian-communist-party.html Vietnam’s Party leader honoured with Lenin Prize of Russia…