Therapeutic looking glass
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Therapeutic practice exposed society in its many facets to health practitioners providing treatment to women survivors of the Kosovo War. Like a mirror, it provided an image…
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Co-signature Event Context: Toward a Participatory Electronic Health Record
Stacks of paper records. Photo credit: Wesley Tingey, Unsplash The days of doctors scratching illegible notes in charts fated to hide in obscure files never read by another…
Egypt in 1876
The British diplomat Sir Valentine Chirol (1852-1929) wrote a memoir entitled Fifty Years in a Changing World (New York: Harcourt and Brace, 1928). Among the areas in the…
Land Acknowledgments Are Not Enough
The installation “Never Forget” by Nicholas Galanin, a Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist and musician, speaks back to California’s “Hollywood” sign and is a call to action for return…
Protected: The Advent of the Adversary: Negative power in certain religio-therapeutic systems
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Rebecca L. Stein, “Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine” (Stanford UP, 2021)
In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots:…
Anthropology in the Service of the Criminal Justice System and the Society
Dr J. R. Gaur Director and Professor School of forensics, Risk Management and National Security Rastriya Raksha University Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat India Email: jrgaur@gmail.com Crime free society is…
Humans = ecologicalengineers
Check out this painting. Kungkarrangkalpa Tjukurrpa, 2015 by Australian indigenous artists Exhibition opens at The Box, Plymouth * Did humans evolve in a cultural ecology that was successful…
Call for Films: Riga Pasaules Film Festival
Healing If the documentary’s vocation towards the truth is not merely to represent it, but in engaging the viewer beyond the film frame, what formal strategies make such…
Al-Jallad on Pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions
One of the foremost scholars of the pre-Islamic languages and inscriptions of the Arabian Peninsula is Dr. Ahmad al-Jallad. Here is a Youtube video of a lecture he…
Scholar, Mentor, Trailblazer: Linda Cordell’s Influence on Contemporary Archaeology
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray Intern 2020–2021 Women in archaeology have come a long way. They now comprise half of al…
Allying With Parasites to Fight Industrial Oil Palm
A Ganoderma fungus epidemic attacks oil palm trees at a plantation in Indonesian-controlled West Papua. Sophie Chao In October 2019, I traveled through an oil palm monocrop with…
Thomas Bierschenk: On Graeber on bureaucracy
David Graeber was certainly one of the most cited anthropologists of the early 21st century. More than a year after his untimely death, a substantive conversation about his…
Susanna Fioratta, “Global Nomads: An Ethnography of Migration, Islam, and Politics” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Countering the traditional narrative of “migration as crisis,” Global Nomads tells the story of a group of people for whom migration is not a symptom of a disordered…
Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale, “The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the…
Understanding blind running through participant sensation
The organization Running Blind matches people with visual impairments to a sighted runner. They run while both holding the ends of a tether. Marit Hiemstra explains how being…
West African Migration: The Dangers of a Single Story
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” Chimamanda Ngozi…
Baghdad in the 19th Century
A richly illustrated book in French from 1887 on Iraq and Persia has an incredible number of illustrations. The book can be downloaded here. I attach some of…
The Baraka of Wheat
This is a great idea. Back to the human roots of agriculture… Read about it here.
Brent Luvaas on his book, Street Style
Interview by Matthew Raj Webb https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/street-style-9780857855756 Matthew Raj Webb: Not so long ago, fashion showed up in anthropologists’ writing largely as a pejorati…
Discard Studies Staffing Changes
We have news about the Discard Studies editorial team: after a decade of inspired and dedicated leadership, Max Liboiron is stepping down. While we are sorry for their…
Acts of Occlusion
Occlusion is a term that describes a technique of erasure. Here, I show how occlusion works specifically in International Development discourses to set the terms of morality, dominance,…
Acts of Occlusion
Occlusion is a term that describes a technique of erasure. Here, I show how occlusion works specifically in International Development discourses to set the terms of morality, dominance,…
Kemi Adeyemi et al., “Queer Nightlife” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
The mass shooting at a queer Latin Night in Orlando in July 2016 sparked a public conversation about access to pleasure and selfhood within conditions of colonization, violence,…