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 …
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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…
What Do Goats and Wars Have to Do With Glacier Loss?
A local guide stands near Shali Kangri glacier in the Ladakh region of the Indian Himalayas. Hélène Lapierre-Messier For scientists, the layers of ice that make up glaciers…
AWAY FROM KEYBOARD
Dear Allies – readers, authors, reviewers, all, Allegra is away from her keyboard right now and cannot possibly be made to return before late August. Maybe September. Who…
Sarah Hepola on Drinking in a “Dry” Texas County
Welcome to Cover Story, a podcast by New Books Network devoted to long form journalism. Today, we are talking to Texas-based writer Sarah Hepola. Hepola is most known…
Susan Gal and Judith T. Irvine, “Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
How are peoples’ ideas about languages, ways of speaking and expressive styles shaped by their social positions and values? How is difference, in language and in social life,…
A Very Lengthy Swedish Introduction: Hype, Storytelling, and the Question of Entrepreneurial Allies
The Pitch At a Stockholm-based entrepreneur meetup, two entrepreneurs stood on stage ready to pitch their startup to a panel of venture capital investors (VCs).[1] The man clicked…
Special Focus: Structures
In the course of the twentieth century, structure became a central category of thought across a wide array of sciences. From linguistics to anthropology, psychoanalysis and history, the epistemic ai…
Scepticism fuelled by fake news threatens Africa’s vaccination drive
Vaccine nationalism and vaccine imperialism are posing a major challenge to the progress of mass vaccination in most countries across Africa. These countries are struggling to secure enough…
Review: Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety
Drew Ramsey. Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: Nourish your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks. Harper Wave/Harper Collins. New York: 2021. ISBN: 978-0-06-303171-5. pp.270.&nb…
Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief (Book Review)
“Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas” has gotten a formal book review! LINK:
Eric Henry on his book, The Future Conditional
Interview by Andy Zhenzhou Tan cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501755163/the-future-conditional/ Andy Zhenzhou Tan: An explicit orienting question for the book is “Why teach an entire nat…
Sailen Routray, “Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi” (Routledge, 2017)
Set in the eastern state of Odisha in a district known as the “Somalia of India,” Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi (Routledge 2018)…
Ruth Streicher, “Uneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand” (Cornell UP, 2020)
Since 2004 the Malay-Muslim majority provinces in the border region of southern Thailand have been wracked by a violent insurgency. Over 7000 people have been killed and many…
Iris Berent, “The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Do newborns think-do they know that ‘three’ is greater than ‘two’? Do they prefer ‘right’ to ‘wrong’? What about emotions–do newborns recognize happiness or anger? If they do,…