Social Life of Chronic Living by Peter van Eeuwijk
Chronicity, ageing, and social life Old-age related health conditions evolve into both a dynamic and an inert chronicity which, in the end, produces a particular quality of life…
Category: English
DEI celebrates its first birthday
Looking back at an extraordinary year – in every sense – the Digital Ethnography Initiative has celebrated its first birthday with colleagues from the Department of Social and…
Aase J. Kvanneid, “Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account” (Routledge, 2021)
Aase Kvaneid’s new book explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front line of climate change in…
Nichola Raihani, “The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World” (St. Martin’s Press, 2021)
Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material, to nation…
This blog has moved – see you on the flip side!
After a decade of living apart together, Anthropologizing and my dot com are moving in! To subscribe, head on over to the new place and enter your email.…
Yamhill Dogs Chase Comegys’ Hogs
A letter was delivered in person to Joel Palmer, Indian Superintendent of Oregon, in 1855 of a complaint of Jacob Comegys about his pigs being chased and killed…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Robert Caldwell
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
ResonanceCasts
ResonanceCast is a new multimodal series that seeks to tease out timely shared concerns. After their articles have been published on Allegra Lab, we invite two authors to…
ResonanceCast #1: Vulnerability
Podcast with Pascale Schild and Sandhya Fuchs, moderated by Ian M. Cook Allegra Lab · ResonanceCast #1 Vulnerability Referenced articles: Reciprocal Vulnerability in the Face of Patriarchal…
Thomas D. Mullaney et al., “Your Computer Is on Fire” (MIT Press, 2021)
This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of…
Christian Lund, “Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia” (Yale UP, 2021)
Why are land rights so bitterly contested in Indonesia, even after the end of Suharto’s New Order in 1998? What methods have grassroots movements used to re-possess –…
Tiny Snails Help Solve a Giant Mystery
People must regularly repair and rechalk the Cerne Abbas Giant, or “Rude Man,” in Dorset, England, to prevent it from becoming overgrown, carrying on a practice that stretches…
#Fieldnotes: Dreams and Personal Pursuits in Seoul: Part II
The partial biographies presented in this piece are situated as stoppages that mark generational experiences of structural change in South Korea. In Part I, I considered how biographies…
Navaneetha Mokkil, “Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala” (U Washington Press, 2019)
The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public…
Wednesday Round Up #57
The Pandemic Did Not Affect Mental Health the Way You Think We were surprised by how well many people weathered the pandemic’s psychological challenges. In order to make…
Who is the Nesher Ramla Homo?
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. An international group of archaeologists has discovered a missing piece in the story…
Reciprocal Vulnerability in the Face of Patriarchal Violence
“Everything is research data.” As PhD students we must have heard this statement from teachers, mentors, and supervisors a hundred times. The advice points to the widely held…
Handling Contested Truths in Times of Crises: Ghana’s COVID-19 Experience by Ignatius Suglo G.D
As the pandemic ravages the rest of the world, the casualty rate in Africa remains a mystery to those who predicted doom for the continent. Given African countries’…
Catalina M. de Onís, “Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico” (U California Press, 2021)
Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2021) provides an urgent and nuanced portrait of collective action that resists r… Visit New…
Ayse Parla, “Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey” (Stanford UP, 2019)
There are more than 700,000 Bulgaristanlı migrants residing in Turkey. Immigrants from Bulgaria who are ethnically Turkish, they assume certain privileges because of these ethnic ties, yet ac……
Stefan Vogler, “Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
In Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of… Visit New Books in…
Terminal 2 Juanda Airport (Journey to Jakarta)
Papan Informasi Bandara Juanda di Sidoarjo yang sering disebut sebagai Bandara Juanda Surabaya mempunyai dua buah terminal. Terminal utara dan terminal selatan. Terminal satu di utara untuk…
The Grand Ronde Reservation Fence
In the final 10 months of Joel Palmer’s residency as superintendent of Indian affairs of Oregon, he was under a microscope by citizens of the territory for his…
When the Guinea Pig Goes Gourmet
“Do you eat guinea pig?” I asked Leonardo. We were perusing the menu in a restaurant in Lima, and I wanted to know what my Peruvian friend thought…