Informality and international trade: The case for an African Customs Union by Keith Hart
(Keynote address for a World Customs Organization/World Bank conference on ‘Informality, international trade and customs’, Brussels, 3-4 June 2013) In … More
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Ep #83 Parasocial relationships & Strangers: Dr Ian Pollock on the Origin of The Familiar Strange
The Familiar Strange · Ep #83 Parasocial relationships & Strangers: Dr Ian Pollock on the Origin of The Familiar Strange Matt’s back this week with an interview with…
Mystic Of Indian Textiles in International Museums
Prof. (Dr) Charu Smita Gupta Founder/ Former Director MGCATT Museum, Siem Reap Cambodia Retired Deputy Director, National Crafts Museum Ministry of Textiles, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi dchasmig@gmai…
Woodbrook celebrates 110 years: An amazing square mile in history
A book project on Woodbrook combining residents and anthropology will be published in September 2022. Find out more below Writing about 19th-century Port of Spain, the historian Suzanne…
Links & Contents I Liked 422
Hi all, More than 40 of our students presented 10 group blogging projects today & yesterday and it’s always amazing to see the breadth of topics & approaches…
The Voice of Diaspora
“The Voice of Diaspora” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. I wake…
Giuseppe Bolotta, “Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins” (NIAS, 2021)
How is childhood experienced in the slums of Bangkok and how does it relate to socio-political processes in Thailand? What role do mothers play in the leadership of…
Review NAFA 40th International Film Festival
The NAFA 40th International Film Festival took place at Museu Nacional de Etnologia, in Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, from 29th September until 3rd October 2021. And what a great…
“Being Your Bestest Anthropologist: A Guide to Unlocking Your Neat Self” (Collegeville Press, 2021)
A note from the editor: This book is satire, as is the interview. If you do not appreciate satire, you would be well served not to read the book or…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Rashmi Sadana
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
How People Actually Use Their Smartphones
[no-caption] John Cei Douglas In 2022, the smartphone, first introduced by IBM, will celebrate its 30th birthday. Most of us now use a smartphone every day—whether we like…
Tim Hannigan, “The Travel Writing Tribe” (Hurst Publishing, 2021)
As most of us are stuck at home, whether due to lockdowns or border closures, some of us have returned to the idea of travel writing: nonfiction that…
Andrea Laurent-Simpson, “Just Like Family: How Companion Animals Joined the Household” (NYU Press, 2021)
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Andrea Laurent-Simpson’s path in and out of and back into graduate school The story of her college…
Special Issue: Immigration and Mental Health by Emmanuelle Roth
Medical Anthropology has just released a special issue, edited by Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Megan A. Carney, which offers insights into “the landscape of immigrant mental health and how…
In the Journals, October 2021, Part 1 by Emmanuelle Roth
Annual Review of Anthropology Food Insecurity, Nutritional Inequality, and Maternal–Child Health: A Role for Biocultural Scholarship in Filling Knowledge GapsBarbara A. Piperata & Darna L. Duf…
Adapt or Abandon? Hard Choices in the Himalayas
The Loba tribespeople living in the village of Dhe in Nepal are increasingly abandoning their homes as climate change transforms the landscape. Taylor Weidman/LightRocket/Getty Images On …
From Border to Border
From Border to Border Comprehensive research study on identity and ethnicity in Iran By: Kameel Ahmady A word to the readers This is summary of a comprehensive reasrch…
Life of the Upgraded Human Being
Karin Olsson: This past year, Swedish news and public debate has been focused on the elderly population; one of the groups most vulnerable to becoming seriously ill if…
Barbara Grabher, “Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies” (Routledge, 2021)
Exploring the relationship between gender and events, Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies (Routledge, 2021) delivers an ethnographic analysis of the celebr… Visit New Books in…
Carl Rommel, “Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics” (U Texas Press, 2021)
Both a symbol of the Mubarak government’s power and a component in its construction of national identity, football served as fertile ground for Egyptians to confront the regime’s…
Book becomes National Book Award Finalist
Anthronow special issue editor and contributor, Lucas Bessire book’s Running out: In search of water on the high plains, has been named a 2021 National Book Award Finalist. 2021…
UBC-V Senate Curriculum & the Indigenous Strategic Plan
An interesting discussion emerged in the senate curriculum committee yesterday (Oct. 25, 2021) about integrating aspects of the ISP into the working of the committee. I share my…
The Shitty Affairs of British Colonialism in Malaya: Manicuring “Native” Agriculture through Race-Specific Livestock Interbreeding
In January 2020, I accidentally came across a series of photographs at the UK National Archives documenting agricultural and livestock experimentation in 1930-1940s British Malaya. The peculiarity of…
The Limit of Defense: Life in a Taiwanese Military Training Center during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Leo Chu
On the morning of 23rd February 2021, I boarded a bus from my home in northern Taiwan to a nearby military training center. There I joined another four…