Haunted by My Teaching Skeleton
Museum storage facilities, such as this one in Germany, often hold the remains of human beings. Jens Büttner/Picture Alliance/Getty Images There is something unsettling about being alone …
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Nicola J. Smith, “Capitalism’s Sexual History” (Oxford UP, 2020)
As ongoing controversies over commercial sex attest, the relationship between capitalism and sexuality is deeply contentious. Economic and sexual practices are assumed to be not only separabl… Visit…
P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, “The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now” (MIT Press, 2021)
Increasingly we live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialize, and learn digitally. The shift to remote everything during the pandemic was another step in a decades-long…
When Cash Rules: A Local Researcher/Activist’s Fieldnotes on “Passive Locals” Living Around Mailiao’s Petrochemical Complex
Yunlin is a coastal county in Western Taiwan famous for its agricultural produce, also known as “the barn of Taiwan.” However, the exchange value of agricultural produce has…
SAR Welcomes New Board Members
SAR Welcomes New Board Members …
Barney Bate’s book, Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33334 Hannah Carlan interviews E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, and Constantine V. Nakassis Hannah Carlan: Bernard Bate’s posthumous book Protestant Textu…
Jennifer Morton, “Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility” (Princeton UP. 2021)
Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path…
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, “Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing…
2 legs good, 4 legs better: Uner Tan syndrome, part 2
Image by massaoud el allaoui from Pixabay (I am republishing a lot of my ‘legacy content’ from our PLOS Neuroanthropology weblog, which has been taken down, along with many of the…
Asifa Majid on language and olfaction
(I am republishing a lot of ‘legacy content’ from our PLOS Neuroanthropology weblog, which has been taken down, along with many of the other founding PLOS Blogs. Some…
Giving names to aromas in Aslian languages
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails…
Life in the Dark
Image by Pexels from Pixabay (I am republishing a lot of ‘legacy content’ from our PLOS Neuroanthropology weblog, which has been taken down, along with many of the other found…
A Policy of Forfeiture of Rights and Annuities under the Peace Treaty of 1853
In numerous essays on this blog I have noted that many of the tribes considered the most violent, and those who had participated in the wars in southwestern…
Jathilan Dance: Experiencing the Spirits
yelling, crawling and rolling. Later, they begin to show some animal-like behavior: hissing, roaring and moving on all fours. This is my fieldwork. The place is Java, the…
Forced to Pay for the Rogue River 1853 War
One of the most egregious of acts against the Rogue River tribes in southern Oregon was making them pay for the destruction of the property of the American…
Forest fires create hell on earth: Yakutia
related to the recent post about the forest fires in Siberia, here I share some footage from local people. This is not official news, it’s private people’s videos,…
Qualifying Exam Essay: Javelinas in SPAAAACE and Time
I have passed my qualifying exams and so am making my essays available on my blog. The other essays can be found: Attending to Animals in Anthropology and…
Qualifying Exam Essay: Power and Politics Within and Beyond the Human
I have passed my qualifying exams and so am making my essays available on my blog. The other essays can be found: Attending to Animals in Anthropology and…
Qualifying Exam Essay: Attending to Animals in Anthropology
I have passed my qualifying exams and so am making my essays available on my blog. The other essays can be found: Power and Politics Within and Beyond…
Wicked Science
Wicked problems defy easy resolution and are plaqued by disagreements over their fundamental nature and cause (Credit: image by Via Sannevanderbeek) A recent article I published with colleagues…
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Hi all, The Swedish summer break is coming to its end & we will be preparing for the new semester on Monday; I thought I would kick off…
Public housing as social residualisation or a population’s majority?
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear: public housing? I asked this question to five different people in the UK, and five different people in…
Hannah Wohl, “Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
What is creativity? While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is profoundly influenced by social…
Maïa Ponsonnet, “Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole: The Expression of Emotions” (Routledge, 2019)
In today’s global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt dominant forms. While this phenomenon, known as……