#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…
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“Take your skills to the streets”: Skateboarding and Social and Physical Urban Space
by Luiza Fonini Reis and Luisa Voss / Images: Ella Bowler Anthropology is the study of intersections, of community and its inherent conflict between the self and the…
What Does It Mean to Decolonize Heritage?
At the King’s Palace Museum in Nyanza District, Rwanda, tourists can visit coffee shops built in a traditional architectural style. GIZ/Martin Karenzi Most tourists visit the district of…
Milton Santos, “The Nature of Space” (Duke UP, 2021)
The Nature of Space (Duke UP, 2021) is a translation (by Brenda Baletti) of pioneering geographer Milton Santos’ A Natureza do Espaço, originally published in Brazil in 1996. The book offer… Visit New…
Susanne Klien, “Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society” (SUNY Press, 2020)
Susanne Klien’s book Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society (SUNY Press, 2020) provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and e……
Six Coffees
Check out this article on six different kinds of coffee in the Middle East on Middle East Eye.
Did Aliens Build the Pyramids? And Other Racist Theories
The Egyptian pyramids are a focal point for conspiracy theories about alien intervention. Sheilapic76/Flickr One afternoon in June, I found an email in my inbox from Atlantis Rising:…
Gideon Fujiwara, “From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan” (Cornell UP, 2021)
From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Cornell UP, 2021) tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century… Visit New…
Christian M. Anderson, “Urbanism Without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and…
What makes the “ness” in Geel?
Distinctive doctrines of the Church, and their place in contemporary society, are at times, argued to bring about changes in the Arctic – the people, their land, and…
“Orientalism alla Turca”: Evolutionary Desires, Imperial Nostalgias, and Western Anxieties in Ahmed Midhat’s Avrupa’da Bir Cevelân
Introduction On November 15, 1889,[1] Ahmed Midhat (1844–1912), a prolific Ottoman journalist and novelist, announced in his newspaper Tercümân–i Hakîkât (Interprete…
Culture: brought together, kept apart
brought together but kept apart I felt like I was being chased up the beach by a tidal wave. Run for your life, anthropologist, run for your life! I…
Alex Fattal on his book, Shooting Cameras for Peace
interview by Camilo Ruiz Sanchez https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780873658713 Camilo Ruiz Sanchez: It shook me to learn that the archive has almost disappeared and that what w…
A Letter to Andrew Selous
SHOLA AJAO Dear Mr Andrew Selous, It is unfortunate that I find myself writing to you again during these unprecedented times. As you may recall, I wrote July…
Panayotis F. League, “Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2021) explores the legacy of the Great Catastrophe—the death and expulsion from Tur… Visit New Books…
Mirjam Lücking, “Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims” (SAPP, 2021)
Mirjam Lücking’s Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims (Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2021) explores the ways contemporary Indonesia… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
EP#81 Lifeworlds & Studying Aoetorea: Susanna Trnka on Traversing Multiple Lifeworlds & Publics
The Familiar Strange · EP#81 Lifeworlds & Studying Aoetorea: Susanna Trnka on Traversing Multiple Lifeworlds & Publics We’re back this week with Joe’s first interview! For this episode,…
Time For Life Course Approach in Anthropology
Vipin Gupta Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi Email: drvipiing@gmail.com The idea of the life course approach is based on the hypothesis of developmental origins of…
Cuttings
I find it a little sad every time I’m compelled to cut a sentence that I really like because I’m the only one its effectively written for (if I…
Links & Contents I Liked 418
Hi all, I hope you are still holding up your good spirits! It’s International Coffee Day today & things are looking not too bad-so let’s wrap up the…
Mutual Aid in Archaeology: The Black Trowel Collective Microgrants
An interview with the Black Trowel Collective conducted during the Summer of 2021. June 22nd, 2021 marked a year for the Black Trowel Collective (BTC) microgrants program, and…
They’ll Steal Your Eyes, They’ll Steal Your Teeth
[no-caption] Attila Haag/EyeEm/Getty Images “They’ll Steal Your Eyes, They’ll Steal Your Teeth” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the…
Pamela J. Prickett, “Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels (University of Chicago Press, 2021) by Pamela J. Prickett is an ethnographic study of an African American Muslim…
Sudan: Its diversity, economics and history
by Jehron Muhammad KHARTOUM, Sudan—Nothing says diversity like Sudan. Once Africa’s largest country, now divided by neocolonial and neoliberal machinations … More