Iain Edgar: More a reflection than obituary
By Gareth Hamilton Writing this piece is not something that is by any means a joy, but I wish to begin with an anecdote about Iain that makes…
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Climate Migrants Are on the Move—And the U.S. Needs Their Help
Farmworkers till soil during this summer’s record-breaking heat wave in Oregon. Nathan Howard/AP Photo Content Warning: The materials presented below contain details of racism and violent…
Nicholas Harkness, “Glossolalia and the Problem of Language” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, has long been a subject of curiosity as well as vigorous theological debate. A worldwide phenomenon that spans multiple Christian traditions,…
Katherine Dauge-Roth, “Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France” (Routledge, 2019)
Contemporary historians and other scholars of the body frequently use “writing” and “inscription as metaphors. Katherine Dauge-Roth’s Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France (R… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik, “Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis” (Duke UP, 2021)
Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik’s edited volume Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke UP, 2021) collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing eth… Visit New…
Coal, Care, and Climate change: When Things Remember What People Forget
As the US moves toward greener energy futures, how we remember coal – or do not – has significant implications for how we create more just energy transitions.…
Jenny Stuber, “Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? In Aspen and the…
Fall 2021 Syllabus: Introduction to Anthropology
(NOTE: SOME OF THE FORMATTING IS OFF IN TRANSLATION FROM WORD TO THE BLOG. I HAVE MADE THE PDF AVAILABLE BELOW) anth-103-syllabusDownload ANTH 103: Introduction to Anthropology Virginia…
Mei-Chun Lee takes the page 99 test
At the bottom of page 99 in my dissertation “The ‘Nobody’ Movement: Digital Activism and theUprising of Civic Hackers in Taiwan” is a quote from the g0v (pronounced…
Book review: Citizen Designs (2021) by Eli Elinoff
The University of Hawaiʻi Press has been publishing some excellent books lately, including Eli Elinoff’s first monograph, Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand (20…
After Halting Native Burning, Came Grasshoppers
Barely ten years following the stopping of tribes setting fires in the Willamette and Umpqua valleys, signs of the change visited the settlers. Settlers were visited with scourges…
No Olympics
Because of the money-suck, the corporate sponsorship (riotinto making the medals in London), the fake moralism about drugs, the ‘security’ policing, the clearing of the inner city of…
Ep #78 Alternative Healing Practises & The Social Status of Shopping Centres: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #78 Alternative Healing Practises & The Social Status of Shopping Centres: This Month on TFS This week we’d like to introduce you to…
On Teaching Food Justice
First food stamp. Washington, D.C., April 20, 1939. Harris & Ewing, photographer, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016875474/ David Beriss I am trying to figure ou…
A Tale of Two [Unvaxed] Women
We needed to find a new plumber. I called around. The first business that seemed willing to clean our boiler and replace a problematic hose spigot had availability…
Statement of Non-Compliance with Mandatory Vaccination in Canadian Universities
First it was not even a university, but Seneca College. Then it was the University of Ottawa. Then Carleton University, the University of Western Ontario, and the University…
Far Horizons, Arduous Journeys, and The Conference of the Birds
“The Concourse of the Birds” (ca. 1600), Metropolitan Museum of Art by Jon W. Anderson Amid the blizzard of punditry and spin-doctoring – especially spin-doctoring from perpetrators…
Links & Contents I Liked 412
Hi all, It feels like a lifetime since I posted my last weekly update with all the terrible news that is coming in from Afghanistan, Haiti & so…
“The Truth Is Not Known”: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy as a Failure of Biomedicine’s Moral Legitimacy in Zambia by Justin Haruyama
Over the course of the last several months, a series of chilling videos have been shared across Zambian social media, purporting to link COVID-19 vaccines with a global…
Emalani Case, “Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki” (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawai‘i to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case draws on her own life experiences to explore the politics and ethics of … Visit…
Tom Mould, “Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America” (Indiana UP, 2020)
It is a familiar story: A recipient of public assistance funds is caught buying expensive steaks, seafood, or other luxury foods with food stamps at the grocery store.…
Matthew Flisfeder, “Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media” (Northwestern UP, 2021)
One of the most fundamental aspects of modern life is that much of it is lived on and through social media. We create profiles, post pictures, update stories,…
“Stop the Shot”: Resistance through Science, Religion, and Law
On August 4, an interesting event took place: “Stop the Shot”. This was a video press conference organized by the Truth for Health Foundation in the US, which…
Animating Stories of Global Migration
Who gets to tell the story of human migration around the globe? And what kind of story is it? The Story of Migration, an animated short illustrated by…