Call for Films: RAI Film Festival
The RAI Film Festival is now accepting submissions for feature-length, short and medium format documentaries and anthropological / ethnographic films for its 2023 hybrid edition. Open to work…
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Eleanor Nesbitt, “Exploring the Sikh Tradition” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Exploring the Sikh Tradition is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Eleanor Nesbitt who is Professor Emeritus of Education Studies at University of Warwick and…
Dark Tourism East and Southeast Asia at ASA 2021
This is the longer version, with all the discussion
Fetishes or Cyborgs? Religion as technology in the Afro-Atlantic space
(Editor’s Note: This blog post is part of the Thematic Series Data Swarms Revisited) Exú, the trickster god, Axé Ilé Oba – São Paulo (photo by Giovanna Capponi)…
Do you know where your tea comes from?
Ben Posner, MAT, MBA Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash Some mornings a cup of English Breakfast. Some afternoons a cup of Earl Grey. Most evenings a cup…
Call for Films: JAF – Journal of Anthropological Films
The Journal of Anthropological Films (JAF) welcomes submission of films for upcoming issues. JAF is an Open Access publication making films and scholarly materials available to the public…
Aurora Donzelli on her book, Method of Desire
interview by Setrag Manoukian https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/methods-of-desire-language-morality-and-affect-in-neoliberal-indonesia/ Setrag Manoukian: It is reductive to assign a narrow t…
Homebrewing Asia: How Dungeons & Dragons in Singapore is remaking Western fantasy
ByKellynn WeeMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology Can you choose your race? This may be a thorny issue with many, but in the land of table-top role-playing game Dungeons…
Do Stolen Sacred Objects Experience Culture Shock?
Early on the gray, dreary, morning of September 23, I landed at the Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., after a 36-hour journey from Kilifi, on Kenya’s coast.…
GAA 2021 Conference Diary: Atmospheric Discussions?
In collaboration with the conference organisers, Allegra had reached out to a number of colleagues to submit some impressions in the form of “daily diaries” from the recent…
A Letter to Tedros A. Ghebreyesus
AY NASSIMOLDINA Dear Dr Tedros A. Ghebreyesus, The world is in a vulnerable state right now, and we have trusted you with the World Health Organization to lead…
If You’re Seeing This, You Are on Ex-Mormon TikTok
You might not realise it, but you probably follow a Mormon lifestyle blogger on social media. It’s an aesthetic: the specific way knee-length dress is paired with an…
#A future history of water: Andrea Ballestero’s response
When encountering the generosity of brilliant colleagues, one can only start with gratitude. Add to that a historical moment when a virus has reconfigured the languages, spaces, and…
Fragments of Reparation & Recognition in the Golden State
Aerial image of Bruce’s Beach park (highlighted in color), Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles. Adapted from Google Earth, 2021. On September 30, California Governor Gavin Newsome signed Senate Bill…
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Hi all, It’s really starting to feel like autumn as all of my favorite pet/animal/zoo social media accounts feature mammals munching on pumpkins…groundhogs, otters, red pandas, beavers, possums,…
Are We So Different?
“Are We So Different?” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. Her piece was…
The only lesson is that there aren’t enough jobs
Every so often something happens that perfectly encapsulates the consumptive death rattle that is the job market in higher education. A few weeks ago, the department of anthropology…
Rethinking Food Justice After Hurricane Ida
Headlines, August 28, 2021, the day before Ida. Photo: David Beriss David Beriss Back toward the end of August, I posted some thoughts here about food justice. That…
Keith Brown: “Whose gun is this? Notes from the North American-Ottoman arms trade”
https://aoe.fi/api/download/keithbrownhelsinki210917-1633597822679.m4a This paper takes a microhistorical approach to explore the U.S. role in the decline of the Ottom…
Sara Ahmed, “Complaint!” (Duke UP, 2021)
In Complaint! (Duke UP, 2021), Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and…
#A future history of water: Strange thing full of water – Alberto Corsin-Jimenez’s comments
Andrea Ballestero (2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. As I write these lines, my home city, Madrid, is covered in a thick blanket of snow.…
The Best Laid Plans are not Birth Plans
Childbirth has had a long and winding history. This is understandable since it has literally been happening since the beginning of human time. Prior to 1950, many births…
#A future history of water: Maura Finkelstein’s comments
Andrea Ballestero,(2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. I have an exercise I like to assign to my students, one that I have adapted from Donna…
#A future history of water: Rachel Douglas-Jones’ comments
As I finished reading Ballestero’s A Future History of Water, the world observed World Water Day 2021. Organized by the United Nations, it has been observed annually each…