al-Qazwini Manuscript
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Memoirs of Women and Harvard
Victoria R. Bricker. Transformational Journeys: An Ethnologist’s Memoir. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 106, part 5. 344 pp., illus. Philadelphia: American Philosophical So…
Amanda Weidman on her book, Brought to Life by the Voice
Interview by Constantine Nakassis https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520377066/brought-to-life-by-the-voice Constantine V. Nakassis: Your brilliant first book, Singing the Classical, Voic…
Book Review: Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment by Aliya Hamid Rao
In Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, Aliya Hamid Rao offers a new addition to sociological research on unemployment, delving into the ways that gender beliefs unequally shape men…
Special Episode: Caroline Schuster, Sarah Abel & Catherine Frieman on The Archaeology of F*****g
The Familiar Strange · Special Episode: Caroline Schuster, Sarah Abel & Catherine Frieman on The Archaeology of F*****g Before we dive into today’s episode we’d just like to…
If only Abraham had known …
The Sacrifice of Abraham, by Andrea del Sarto, ca. 1527-1528 A fable, dedicated to Mark Twain and all who really understand what it means to suffer Abraham was…
Archaeologists for Trans Liberation
By The Black Trowel Collective To be an archaeologist is to revel in the diversity of human expression through time. Trans perspectives and voices add necessary further dimensions…
Special Issue: “Public Health Activism in changing times: relocating collective agency. Part 2” by Shoshana Deutsh
This special issue of Critical Public Health is part two of a series on “Public Health Activism in changing times: relocating collective agency.” As editors Catherine Campbell and…
In the Journals, July 2021, Part 2 by Shoshana Deutsh
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine Exploring engagement with digital screens for collecting patient feedback in clinical waiting rooms:…
Going Back to the Nature
Dr. Sunita Reddy Asso. Prof. JNU and Founder Chair, Anthropos India Foundation sunitareddyjnu@gmail.com Whenever my son watched zombie films, I used to ask him, “why do you watch…
On Quebec and its “Vaccine Passport”
Since the Government of Quebec under Premier François Legault decided to jump the gun today and announced the coming of “vaccine” certification on September 1st, possibly in response…
Kenyan Mothers Take on Police Violence
Lucy Wambui is a convenor of the Mothers of Victims and Survivors Network in Nairobi. Ed Ram I first met Sarah Wangari three weeks after her son Alex…
Vijaya Nagarajan, “Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India–an Exploration of the Kolam” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds…
Is Homo longi an Extinct Human Species?
[no-caption] Chuang Zhao This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. In 1933, a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near …
Anthony Stavrianakis’s Leaving: A Narrative of Assisted Suicide by Ari Gandsman
Leaving: A Narrative of Assisted Suicide Anthony Stavrianakis University of California Press, 2000. 248 pages. Everyone discovers an academic doppelgänger at some point. We invest ti…
Shelby Grossman, “The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: How the State Shapes Private Governance” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Property rights are important for economic exchange, but many governments don’t protect them. Private market organizations can fill this gap by providing an institutional structure to enforce… Visit…
Champinefu Temporary Reservation at Corvallis
In March 1855 there was formed a temporary reservation for Champinefu Kalapuyans at Corvallis. This was one of over a dozen such temporary reservations, sometimes called encampments for…
Anthropology, Nature and Sustainability
Prof Amitabh Pande IIFM Bhopal Twenty-first century has begun on a challenging note with the entire world grappling with the vagaries of nature and its consequences on human…
Digital Ethnography Approaches to Tribal Development
Dr. S. B. Roy Professor and Founder Chairman Email: sbroy111@gmail.com Cyberspace and its virtual communities have initiated numerous methodological transformations. The availability of large am…
New book chapter: Restraint Without Control
Very proud to have a new chapter out in the new edited volume The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects edited by Nick Bainton…
Recovering Iraqi Heritage
The site DNYUZ has an article on the restoration of stolen artifacts from Iraq being found and returned.
Book review: Lohmann’s “Haunted Pacific”
It’s the end of the summer so I have a variety of updates to make to keep up with all the things I’ve been publishing. First up is…
Wednesday Round Up #61
-I’m taking at least two weeks of break, so this is the last round up for awhile. Translating cognitive science in the public square We are at a…
Kapa-Making as a Way of Being: A Conversation with Lehuauakea
Mele O Nā Kaukani Wai (Song of a Thousand Waters), handmade plant dyes, earth pigments, and printed ‘ohe kāpala (bamboo stamps) on hand-sti…