Patrick Lewis takes the page 99 test
The 99th page of my dissertation, “Publics of Value: Higher Education and Language Activism in Turkey and North Kurdistan,” falls midway in my second chapter, where I seek…
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H. Glenn Penny, “In Humboldt’s Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology” (Princeton UP, 2021)
The Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world’s largest and most important anthropological museums, housing more than a half million objects collected from around the globe. In Humboldt’……
Jan Bardsley, “Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan” (U California Press, 2021)
Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan (University of California Press, 2021) explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other pop… Visit New Books in…
Hillary Kaell, “Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Child sponsorship, originally a project of nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries, has become one of today’s most profitable private fund-raising tools for global organizations, including… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Teresa Irene Gonzales, “Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment” (NYU Press, 2021)
Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and government agencies, Chicago’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods remain plagued by poverty, failing schools, and gang activity. In Building a… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Ep# 79 A Journey to the West: Nicholas Ng on the Music of the Teochew Diaspora in Western Sydney
The Familiar Strange · Ep# 79 A Journey to the West: Nicholas Ng on the Music of the Teochew Diaspora in Western Sydney We’re back this week with…
A Wolff in Shepherd’s Clothing, #3
Dervish; photograph by Sevryugin Anton (1830 – 1933), the official photographer of the Imperial Court of Iran In the early 19th century there was a florescence of Protestant…
Swan Lessons
This past month, the swans have taken up residence in our local cove, for the first time in the six summers we’ve lived here. What could be a…
Virtual Ruination: Encountering Virtual Loss and Digital Ephemerality
Jessica Marie Falcone As I logged into the virtual world of Second Life (SL) in October 2020, I was expecting my a…
Links & Contents I Liked 414
Hi all, We welcomed almost 170 students to our ComDev courses this week, so the link review is a tad bit shorter than usual at the end of…
Feeling Digital and Reimagining Fieldwork during COVID Times
Yichen Rao, Anna Castel & Lili Almási-Szabó* During the outbreak of COVID-19, everyday life has been modified in accordance with the protocols that every country has implemented. These…
‘Creatures of Cain’ by Erika Lorraine Milam
Erika Lorraine Milam. Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America. 408 pp., 33 b/w illus., app., notes, index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. “Human…
Camelia Dewan, “Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh” (U Washington Press, 2021)
Climate change is one of the key challenges of our time and large amounts of development aid are allocated towards adaptation in the Global South. Yet, to what…
Anthropology for Liberation readings 3.0
2021 marks the fourth year I have taught Anthropology for Liberation, an undergraduate course in the Cultural Anthropology Programme at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. The course…
What is ‘Indian’ Anthropology?
NK Vaid, Academic Nomad AC – 177B, Shalimar Bagh Delhi – 110088 Ph.: 91-9311337737 E-mail: nareshkrvaid@gmail.com I Despite being a serious student of Anthropology for almost 50 years,…
April, 2021
Volume 13 | Number 1 | April, 2021 FEATURES Where Do We Go From Here?Lucas Bessire Notes from a Fever DreamAmy Moran-Thomas Situating Conspiracy TheorySusan Lepselter Trump Time,…
Trump Time, Prophetic Time and the Time of the Lost Cause
To cite this article: Susan Harding & Emily Martin (2021) Trump Time, Prophetic Time and the Time of the Lost C…
Where Do We Go From Here?
To cite this article: Lucas Bessire (2021) Where Do We Go From Here?, Anthropology Now, 13:1, 1-10, DOI: 10.1080/19…
Call for Films: Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film
Dear Filmmakers, The Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen invites film submissions to be screened at the 10th edition of the Bremen Days…
Confronting Anti-Blackness in “Colorblind” Cuba
A man holds his grandson inside the doorway of a fruit and vegetable shop in Havana, Cuba. Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images I sat waiting for Yudell* to finish his shift…
Nicole Karapanagiotis, “Branding Bhakti: Krishna Consciousness and the Makeover of a Movement” (Indiana UP, 2021)
How do religious groups reinvent themselves in order to attract new audiences? How do they rebrand their messages and recast their rituals in order to make their followers…
Sahlins memorial piece in the JSO
I have a piece in memory of Marshall Sahlins in the latest issue of the Journal de la Société des Océanistes . This is a more personal piece…
NBN Podcast on Emalani Case’s Everything Ancient Once Was New
My August 2021 podcast at NBN was with Emalani Case on her book Everything Ancient Once Was New. Go check it out! credit: UH Press twitter
NBN podcast with Anthony Hazard on “Boasians at War”
My July podcast over at NBN was with Tony Hazard about his book Boasians at War. Have a listen.