Interview: Dehli, Pages From A Forgotten History by Arthur Dudney
Delhi: Pages From A Forgotten History (Hay House India, 2015) by Arthur Dudney tells the story of India’s capital and beyond through the lens of Persian literary culture.…
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The Sociological Imagination without W.E.B. Du Bois?
As noted in Why Is Classical Theory Classical? (1997) by Raewyn Connell, and in chapter six of our book where we discuss the relationship between empire and the…
The Sociological Imagination without W.E.B. Du Bois?
As noted in Why Is Classical Theory Classical? (1997) by Raewyn Connell, and in chapter six of our book where we discuss the relationship between empire and the…
Intercultural Learning Community on Food, Culture and Social Justice, Part II
The Intercultural Learning Community at the vegan restaurant, Quinoa, operated by one of our own members, Luz Zaruma Joan Gross Oregon State University Just as our fall term…
Interview: The Rani of Jhansi by Harleen Singh
The Rani of Jhansi was and is many things to many people. In her beautifully written book The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India (Cambridge…
Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, “Gridiron Gourmet: Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate” (U Arkansas Press, 2019)
Today we are joined by Maria Veri, Associate Professor of Kinesiology at San Francisco State University, and Rita Liberti, Professor of Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay. T……
Clara Han: Echoes of Death and the Life Story. Keynote at Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South
Modeste Demers Ethnographic Descriptions of the Tribes, 1839
Modeste Demers was assigned with the Oregon Territory, in 1837, at the same time as Francois Norbert Blanchet and they traveled together overland to their assignment in canoes…
Interview: Recasting the Region by Neilesh Bose
In his new book Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Colonial Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2014), Neilesh Bose analyses the trajectories of Muslim Bengali politics in…
Immoral Times: Vigilantism in a South Indian City
As I write, the Indian state appears to be flexing its majoritarian muscles through the joint implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of…
Top Discard Studies Clicks of 2019
We decided to do something new this year at Discard Studies: we tracked the links our readers followed. With ‘The Dirt” coming out monthly with it’s hundreds of…
John Danaher, “Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work” (Harvard UP, 2019)
The future is a constant focus of anxiety, and we are all familiar with the pressures that come distinctively from automation – the transformation by which tasks formerly…
Joyce Dalsheim, “Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self Determination as Self Elimination” (Oxford UP, 2019)
In Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self Determination as Self Elimination (Oxford University Press, 2019), Joyce Dalsheim considers some of the surprising outcomes of the great Israeli experimen… Visit New…
In the Journals, December 2019 by Raha Peyravi
Here is the December In the Journals. Among the highlights is a special issue of BioSocieties on Cancer in the Global South. Enjoy! American Anthropologist Shouldering Moral Responsibility:…
2019 in Review: Hopepunk
By Emma Louise Backe Avengers: Infinity War (2018)—the penultimate movie in the Avengers Marvel franchise—ended in defeat, the assorted heroes unable to stop Thanos from using the Infinity…
Our special series has been published!
Our special series in the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage has been published! Read our guest editorial here.
Religious Colonizing in Brazil
After Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil, I sort of lost the desire to write anything more about the country. As a gringo living in Brazil for more…
Chelation Chronicles – 2H 2019
I’ve been fighting a host of chronic health issues for 10+years now. I have come to believe that heavy metal poisoning is likely the root cause. In this…
Happiness and the Goodlife According to the Aztecs w/ Dr. Ryan Collins
A happy New Years! Enjoy this mini-episode with Adam and Dr. Ryan Collins exploring happiness and the good life according the Aztecs. New Years is a great time…
Potential History (of Trinketization)
Seems about to nail the head on the hit: ‘Surrounded here by the wealth of objects, documents, images, and resources available in public and private museums, archives and…
Blanchet’s Mission to Vancouver, 1841
Reverend Blanchet traveled to Fort Vancouver after his mission to the Clackamas. In Vancouver, there was much more orderly town life, the chapels in the fort being served…
State of the Empire: Reviewing 2019
Annual Review of 2019: The State of the Empire at the End of a Decade This year marks the end of the second decade of the 21st-century, and…
Some Media Sources for the History of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures (1)
August 11, 1963 [Indiana University News Bureau Press Release Launching the Indiana University Museum of History, Anthropology, and Folklore] [PDF: IU Museum of History Anthropology and Folklore Origi…