Category: English
Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: Just Buzzwords?
What is the value of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work in the current scientific-technological context? To what extent do collaborative practices present a changing setting for research in …
JSTOR Books Directory
It’s very difficult to navigate the selection of publishers on JSTOR Books, so here are some links to common publishers which will save me (and perhaps you?) some…
Five Human Species You May Not Know About
We’re so used to the idea of being the only people around that it seems outlandish to think that not so long ago in our evolutionary history, multiple…
#PoliticalEngagements: Punctuation and Flow
The past two years have been marked by an ever-accelerating cascade of global “events”: once in a lifetime events, generational events, unexpected events, catastrophic events. From climate change…
Lessons From Mars—and Jamaica—on Sovereignty
Maroons of the Sovereign State of Accompong make their home in mountainous Cockpit Country in Jamaica. Ted Eubanks On February 15, in the darkness and silence of outer…
Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas, “Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know” (MIT Press, 2021)
There’s a lot of hype about robots; some of it is scary and some of it utopian. In this accessible book, two robotics experts reveal the truth about…
#PoliticalEngagements: Defiant Engagements
Working in political environments that run counter to our personal values and commitments, and with people who are challenging these contexts in different ways, led us to think…
Pre-registration NAFA Seminars
Pre-registration for the NAFA Seminars that will take place on 29/09 is now open. Those interested in securing a place please fill in the very simple form following…
Naming Species in Colombia’s Biodiverse Landscapes
There is a unique pair of rules on Sattins Island, in Ursula K. Le Guin’s world of Earthsea. This pair is called The Rules of Names and though…
The collective cognitive niche
Culture as a collective cognitive niche. I suspect that one of the problems is the idea that “science” – the method of testing causal hypotheses to establish models…
Nick Harkness on his book, Glossolalia and the Problem of Language
Interview by Hyemin Lee https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo68655055.html Hyemin Lee: I am curious about how this book will circulate among a broader audience interes…
Situating our knowledge practices: a review of AusSTS2021 by Jaya Keaney
In June 2021, more than 180 early-career Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars and participants congregated at this year’s Australasian STS Graduate Network Conference (henceforth AusSTS2021)…
Algorithmic-based technologies’ impact on journalistic identities
Algorithm-based technologies increasingly impact not only what news we are seeing but also how journalists are evaluating themselves. In this blogpost, Tomás Dodds reflects on changing professional id…
Advocacy Letters: Anthropological Calls for Public and Global Health Change
Series Introduction CARRIE RYAN For the next few weeks, the UCL Medical Anthropology blog will run a special series called ‘Advocacy Letters: Anthropological Ca…
Aleksandra Bartoszko, “Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway: The Pharmaceutical Other” (Routledge, 2021)
Focusing on the world of Norwegian Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms, Aleksandra Bartoszko’s book Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway: The Pharmaceut… Visit New Books in…
#PoliticalEngagements: Introduction
Ethnography and Political Engagement This Thematic Thread emerged from a workshop organised (online) at the LSE in February 2021, entitled “In the moment and after the fact: Ethnographic…
EP# 80 Reborn Dolls & The Use of Social Sciences: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · EP# 80 Reborn Dolls & The Use of Social Sciences: This Month on TFS This week we’re diving into the world of Reborn dolls…
Check Out Museum Anthropology Review 15 (1)
I hope that everyone who follows along here at Shreds and Patches will go check out the new issue of Museum Anthropology Review. It is volume 15 (1)…
Trailer 40th NAFA Film Festival 2021
The 40th NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival is getting ready to open its doors. 23 films will be screened from 29 September to 2 October at the Museu…
Goethe, as West embraces East
There is an interesting article on Qantara about the significance of the German poet Goethe’s famous West-Östliche Divan, first published 1819. To read an English translation, click here.
Links & Contents I Liked 416
Hi all, Another week is wrapping up and between friendly, collegial editorial meetings, teaching on topics I really enjoy & discussing literature with students this academic life is sometimes…
Don’t Sell Yourself Short: How to Create a Career Plan
A job search strategy is essential, but what if you don’t even know what to look for or what you want to do? A career plan is something…
Paul Shankman, “Margaret Mead” (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides…