Ancient Art Deep in the Southeastern United States
The author has helped document extensive ancient cave art in the Southeastern U.S. Alan Cressler This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under…
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Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone, “The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America” (MIT Press, 2020)
The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America (MIT Press, 2020) considers the intersection of food and immigration at both the macroscale of national policy and the…
Roberto J. González, “Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network” (U California Press, 2020)
Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network (U California Press, 2020) is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its…
H-Egypt Network
There is a new resource regarding the study of Egypt from the start of the Islamic era until the present at H-Egypt.
Ronald Niezen on his book, #HumanRights: The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31090 Kevin Laddapong: You have been researching indigenous and postcolonial politics throughout your career, and it is very…
The Dirt
The Dirt is a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt for October 2021.
An Epidemic of Loneliness
PEPE WEISCHER Dear Mr Spahn, The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has strained the capacity of the German health system in unprecedented ways, but it seems to me that one…
“Every Time You Make A Recipe, You Take A Risk,” An Interview With David Sutton
David Beriss I sat down with David Sutton for a wonderful conversation about his research. We explore commensality, synesthesia, memory, national foods, how to learn about cooking, and…
Too Fat to Be an Anthropologist
In what now feels like a lifetime ago, I was having one last catch up with a mate from my PhD cohort before we both set off for…
NAFA Annual Meeting 2021
The NAFA annual meeting 2021 was held in a hybrid format, some of the attendees reporting directly from the NAFA film festival in Lisbon, whereas others joined online…
Media and Visual Anthropology at Bremen University
BA in Cultural Research at Bremen University The Bachelor’s Program in Cultural Research at Bremen University offers students an interesting and stimulating course thanks to its strong o…
NAFA 2022: Call for Films
We are now, despite not knowing for certain when and where the festival will be held, ready for film submissions for the 41st NAFA International Festival of Ethnographic…
Call for film submission IUAES Congress St. Petersburg
The Anthropological Film Festival IUAES Congress St. Petersburg Russia, scheduled for May 25-31, 2022, is now accepting submissions. The next year’s festival topic is “World on the Move:…
Deadline Application Master of Visual Anthropology – UiT
Deadline for international applicants coming: up 1 December! Master of Visual Anthropology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. International applications opened 1 October 2021 We invite you…
Newsletter · Vol 28.3 · October 2021
Dear readers, Welcome to the third online edition of the quarterly NAFA Network – the Nordic Anthropological Film Association’s newsletter.
A Life of Struggle: Imam Yasin Abu Bakr
On Thursday, October 21, 2021, just after 9:00pm, Imam Yasin Abu Bakr of the Jama’at al-Muslimeen of Trinidad and Tobago, passed away at the age of 80. He…
Water and Summer Heat in Alexandria
Stanley Bridge, Alexandria (© el-Sayed el-Aswad) After one year of being forced to stay indoors (April ?2020 to May 2021) due to the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic,…
Yemen Military in the early 19th century
The Library of Congress has an online print of an engraving by Andrea Bernieri. It does not appear to be based on an actual observation by the artist.…
“Food Deserts” and the Geography of Hunger
Tea for clowns in Russia. Photo courtesy of the author, all rights reserved. Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate…
SAR Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
SAR Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant …
Links & Contents I Liked 421
Hi all, Sometimes it happens that my weekly #globaldev review aligns along a certain theme & this week it is borders-border regimes, surveillance, migration control & various aspects…
Sandro Mezzadra: Intersectionality, Identity, and the Riddle of Class
Identity and class While identity is of course a fundamental category in European philosophy at least since Aristotle, its politicization is a much more recent phenomenon. One can…
Window
“Window” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. I. Finding myself lost in…
Nick R. Smith, “The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China” (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Today I spoke to Nick R. Smith to talk about how China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life, which he writes…