Records of the Cascades Watlala Removal to Grand Ronde
Joel Palmer’s letters during his superintendency lend themselves to a timeline for the removal of most tribes. Palmer penned orders and received reports from his Indian agents, sub…
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Reconnected in a Disconnected World: The Role of Objects in Shaping Practices
Our local streets became our sole stomping ground, yet walking the same route everyday had some unexpected gains. On these very streets, actually on the very ground, something…
Call for films: Jean Rouch International Film Festival 2022
Film submissions for the 41st edition of the Jean Rouch International Film Festival are now open! The deadline is November, 15th 2021. The festival will be held from…
Call for films: GIEFF 2022
The German International Ethnographic Film Festival (GIEFF) is celebrating its 16th edition from May 25th- 29th 2022 in Göttingen, and we are pleased to announce the new call…
Job offer in Aberdeen: lecturer anthropology
Our colleague Tatiana Agrounova-Low shares a job-opening for a lecturer in anthropology at the department in Aberdeen. By the way, congratulations to her for becoming Head of Department…
Links & Contents I Liked 417
Hi all, I am fortunate to have such a great & generous network! Giulio from NRC, Khalifa & Ragy from the Dignified Storytelling Alliance plus Val from Amnesty…
Terminal 3 Soekarno Hatta Airport
Jalan yang Berjalan Turun dari pesawat kita disuguhkan dengan hal baru dari Bandara teramai di Indonesia ini. Terminal 3 Soekarno Hatta kini telah berbenah. Perjalanan panjang dari pintu…
Shannon Mattern, “A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we…
Do Queer Muslims Need Saving?
Image by the anonymous artist Queer Habibi Disclaimer: This is a reworked paper, originally written for a course called “Post-Colonial Perspectives on Audiovisual Media” at Stockholm University, i…
Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora
“Lead Me to Life” Carla Keaton In 2020, George Floyd’s murder by Derek Chauvin, a White police officer in Minneapolis, flared a global nerve. Black Lives Matter protestors…
Elder
[no-caption] Pixabay/Pexels “Elder” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. We don’t talk…
World Rhino Day
The great Pachyderms (obsolete taxonomic category of old) – I’ve written about Ganda the rhino who circumnavigates Africa, from Gujurat to Marseilles in 1515, a gift from Sultan…
Gayatri Nair, “Set Adrift: Capitalist Transformations and Community Politics Along Mumbai’s Shores” (Oxford UP, 2021)
The Koli community in Mumbai-which has been practicing fishing for centuries-has experienced rapid changes over the last few decades, in the forms of increased mechanization, export of fish…
Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, “Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are…
Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: Just Buzzwords?
What is the value of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work in the current scientific-technological context? To what extent do collaborative practices present a changing setting for research in …
JSTOR Books Directory
It’s very difficult to navigate the selection of publishers on JSTOR Books, so here are some links to common publishers which will save me (and perhaps you?) some…
Five Human Species You May Not Know About
We’re so used to the idea of being the only people around that it seems outlandish to think that not so long ago in our evolutionary history, multiple…
#PoliticalEngagements: Punctuation and Flow
The past two years have been marked by an ever-accelerating cascade of global “events”: once in a lifetime events, generational events, unexpected events, catastrophic events. From climate change…
Lessons From Mars—and Jamaica—on Sovereignty
Maroons of the Sovereign State of Accompong make their home in mountainous Cockpit Country in Jamaica. Ted Eubanks On February 15, in the darkness and silence of outer…
Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas, “Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know” (MIT Press, 2021)
There’s a lot of hype about robots; some of it is scary and some of it utopian. In this accessible book, two robotics experts reveal the truth about…
#PoliticalEngagements: Defiant Engagements
Working in political environments that run counter to our personal values and commitments, and with people who are challenging these contexts in different ways, led us to think…
Pre-registration NAFA Seminars
Pre-registration for the NAFA Seminars that will take place on 29/09 is now open. Those interested in securing a place please fill in the very simple form following…