Archaeologists Should Be Activists Too
Archaeologists are well-suited to help organize protests such as this “Count the Vote” rally in 2020. Jon Irons When Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, paused counting votes for one night…
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Reflections on the 2021 AusSTS ‘Situated Practices’ Workshop
Workshop participants on a sound walk through downtown Melbourne. Credit: Giles Campbell-Wright The 2021 AusSTS interdisciplinary workshop, hosted by the Deakin University Science & Society Networ…
Anna Corwin on her book, Embracing Aging
Interview by H. Keziah Conrad https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/embracing-age/9781978822276 H. Keziah Conrad: One of the central arguments you make in the book is that there is somethi…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Ep #77 Mutual Assistance & The “Value” of the Olympics: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #77 Mutual Assistance & The “Value” of the Olympics: This Month on TFS And we’re back! This week we’d like to introduce our…
Newsletter · Vol 28.2 · July 2021
Dear readers, Welcome to the second online edition of the quarterly NAFA Network – the Nordic Anthropological Film Association’s newsletter. We hope that some of you can enjoy…
Falling off the cliff: Mythical sacrifice mirrored in Sweden’s Covid-19 response by Carolina Johnson
Ättestupa is the Swedish word given to a number of steep cliffs. The myth of the ättestupa holds that in prehistoric Nordic times, older community members would throw themselves off…
Book Review: Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image by Arnd Schneider
In Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image, Arnd Schneider explores the generative potential of experimental film as and through anthropology. Highlighting the significance of meaning…
#BookReview: Digital Divisions
In the search to close the digital divide, which has been even more exposed since the COVID-19 pandemic, the insights about technological use within schools given in Matthew…
Natasha Behl, “Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Why do we find pervasive gender-based discrimination, exclusion and violence in India when the Indian constitution builds an inclusive democracy committed to gender equality? This is the puzz……
Chris A. Barcelos, “Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health” (U California Press, 2020)
Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health (U California Press, 2020) is a feminist ethnographic account of how youth sexual health programs in the racially……
Rahul Mukherjee, “Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty (Duke UP, 2020), Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antenna… Visit New Books…
Repost: for the Olympics and the Nostalgia…
Some notes from 2012… Gunnersbury Bagh. (Kill your darlings 10) 26/04/2017 ~ JOHN HUTNYK ~ [A set of cuts that jettison the last underworked section of the book – residue of…
“The State” Is a Story We Tell Ourselves
Protestors filled Plaza San Martín in Lima, Peru, last November to demonstrate against the legislative coup that removed then-President Martín Vizcarra from power. Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty…
Singapore’s journey towards integration through public housing
I want to introduce you to a policy that has revolutionised the way one of the smallest, but also one of the most powerful First World countries in…
The new trial communities: challenges and opportunities in preconception cohorts by Michelle Pentecost
The Excavating the Biosocial series has so far focused on birth cohorts as ethnographic object (Gibbon and Pentecost 2020). In this post, I explore the expansion of interest…
Kinship Theories: Descent, Alliance and Cultural
Youtube lecture on Kinship theories (Descent theory and Structuralism) Youtube lectu…
#Book Review: Digital Divisions
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the optimism of the early days of the world wide web appears to have completely abated. The pandemic has proven justification…
Eugene T. Richardson, “Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health” (MIT Press, 2020)
In Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (MIT Press, 2020), physician-anthropologist Eugene T. Richardson explores how public health practices—from epidemiological mo… Visit New Books in Anthropology for the…
Jacob Lederman, “Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—es……
Wednesday Round Up #59
Sexism Still Winning at the Olympic Games Most, if not all, of the IAAF investigations that have made it into the media have involved women from the Global…
Facebook on King Farouk
There is a Facebook site about Egypt’s last king, Farouk, with pictures from his time in office.
Five Ways Humans Evolved to be Athletes
The coming Olympics will showcase some of the most extraordinary human feats of strength, speed, and agility. As an archaeologist who focuses on the development of the human…
Book Review: The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media by Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis
In The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media, Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis explore the discipline of sociology at a time when public…