Being autistic professional in tech & design – a perspective
In my coaching practice, I occasionally work with clients who are autistic. Before this, I was only familiar with autism as a form of neurodiversity with implications for…
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Behind Many Masks: An Ethnographic Account of a Pandemic Borderlands
In June of 2020, four months into a global pandemic and a month after I graduated from college (via a YouTube livestream while sitting on the couch in…
From Indiana Jones to International Business consultancy
This article talks about how cultural anthropology plays into international business and the importance of understanding and respecting different cultures to have effective meetings with international…
How to Work With a Developmental Editor
[no-caption] Rawpixel/Getty Images Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. I sometimes shudder to think of my authors’ faces when they…
Tyson Yunkaporta, “Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World” (HarperOne, 2021)
Although it is not described as such anywhere in the book, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (HarperOne, 2021) is indeed a systems-thinking book—one that offers a much-nee……
Optimism Day! Getting to Fully Vaccinated Against Covid-19 (a tweeted photo essay of jab2).
June 14 2021: ANTICIPATION…. I’m at the @GoAHealth immunization clinic at 12:35, for a 13:10 appointment. Parking lot full. Queue around the building. I join the queue, take the fresh…
Optimism Day! Getting to Fully Vaccinated Against Covid-19 (a tweeted photo essay of jab2).
June 14 2021: ANTICIPATION…. I’m at the @GoAHealth immunization clinic at 12:35, for a 13:10 appointment. Parking lot full. Queue around the building. I join the queue, take the fresh…
The Macabre and Magical Human-Canine Story
Researchers found this dog skull in a Czech Republic site inhabited by humans some 28,500 years ago, offering a clue to understanding the ancient story of domestication. Mietje…
Knowledge Production, Toxic Corporate Capital, and the Anthropologist’s Entangled Ethics
The dominant disciplinary literature on cultures and practices of extractivism relies on a separation of “the field,” and the insights gained there, from our professional lives as anthropologists…
Book Review: Michael Young, Social Science and the British Left, 1945-1970 by Lise Butler
In Michael Young, Social Science and the British Left, 1945-1970, Lise Butler explores the relationship between social science and public policy in left-wing politics through the figure of social…
Sophie L. Gonick, “Dispossession and Dissent: Migrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid” (Stanford UP, 2021)
Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe. Housing in particular has become increasingly precarious. In response, many movement… Visit New…
Malini Sur, “Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim “frontier peasants,” “savage…
Alternatives to “How are you?”
What have you been up to today? Did anything make you smile today? What are you looking forward to this weekend? It became very clear in 2020 that…
Culture, Community, and Collaboration on the National Mall: A Review of ‘Curatorial Conversations’
Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N’Diaye. Curatorial Conversations: Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. 304 (hardcover) or 360 (paperback) pp., 71 b&w …
Claire Maree on her book, queerqueen
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/queerqueen-9780190869618 Laura Miller: Although there is a growing literature on queer sexualities and identities in Japan, there are fewer studies …
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 June, 2021.
Talking Digital Ethnography and Netnography: In Conversation with Marta-Marika Urbanik
As our research subjects increasingly live their social lives on and through virtual platforms, how can ethnographers incorporate digital methods into our research? On this episode we speak…
Margaret MacMillan, “War: How Conflict Shaped Us” (Random House, 2020)
“…and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any…
Season Break: A Message from TFS
The Familiar Strange · Season Break: A Message from TFS The team at TFS would like to say thank you to all our listeners this season and to…
抖音拓扑：网关、筛子、圆顶 | A topology of TikTok: Gateway, sieve, dome
An article with a rather long history has come out on the International Journal of Communication: titled Gateways, sieves and domes: On the infrastructural topology of the Chinese…
Canay Özden-Schilling, “The Current Economy: Electricity Markets and Techno-Economicss” (Stanford UP, 2021)
Electricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, easily transported, or imported from overseas. Before lighting up our homes, it changes hands through…
Alessandro Testa, “Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe” (Routledge, 2020)
Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe (Routledge, 2020) is the first comparative historical anthropology of popular European Carnival in t… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Baghdad and Iraq in 1901
The British traveler Sir Edgar Collins Boehm was one of many travelers up the Persian Gulf and elsewhere more than a century ago. His narrative is rather meager,…
Archaeology and Place at Chaco Canyon
Photograph of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, courtesy of Robert Adams. Archaeology and Place Archaeologists have been paying attent…