A Rat’s Journey There and Back Again
In early August of this year, my partner and I took a much needed vacation to South Padre Island. While visiting, we decided to go snorkeling in Laguna…
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Heritage, Memory, and Infrastructure
The Obamas and the Bushes continue across the bridge. (Public Domain) There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided. Many are sites…
Jacqueline Hazan takes the page 99 test
The 99th page of my dissertation, “Mediating Micronesian Futures: Potentialities and Precarity in Cultural Production Among Mobile Pacific Islanders,” marks a transition in a chapter introducing how …
Questions and Answers on Publishing Journal Articles: A Series Organized by Ilana Gershon
If you are an academic author or aspire to be one, I hope that you will check out the series organized by Ilana Gershon and published on the…
Why Couldn’t Iron Age People Throw Some Stuff Away?
It is often hard to part with the objects left behind by loved ones—even everyday things. Ashton/Flickr I have been told many stories by people who found it…
Mapping Algorithmic Assumptions: Reflections from a Society for Psychological Anthropology roundtable by Alexa Hagerty
Fritz Kahn, Der Mensch als Industriepalast, 1926. Detail. Image in public domain Introduction: surveil, classify and predict by Alexa Hagerty and Livia Garofalo The works distilled by the…
Steven Sampson: Cabal Anthropology – or whether the anthropology of belief helps us understand conspiracism
QAnon, Deep State, pedophile plots, George Soros, stolen elections, 9/11 truthers, Obama birthers, 5G penetration, the anti-maskers, the anti-vaxxers… We slow-working, ever so reflective anthropologi…
In the aftermath of the floods in Germany, traditional humanitarian challenges emerge
Listening to a 6-minute-long piece on German public radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur reminded me how truly global humanitarian responses have become. Journalist Vivien Leue visited the Ahrtal region that…
Bradd Shore on his new book, Shakespeare and Social Theory
https://www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-and-Social-Theory-The-Play-of-Great-Ideas/Shore/p/book/9781032017167 Interview by Rob Shore Rob Shore: Using the lens of social science on Shakespeare…
Jelle J. P. Wouters, “In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jelle J. P. Wouters’ book In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India (Oxford UP, 2018) declutters and reconceptualizes the top-down notion of conceptual… Visit…
40º NAFA INTERNATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL, LISBON, 29.09 – 2.10.2021
We welcome you all to the 40th NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival! The event will kickstart on the 29th of September with a series of seminars about the…
Breath-taking
Himalayan travelogues are full of stories. For the most part, those stories fall into a specific genre, one that I tend to refer to as “my magical adventure…
Indian Anthropology’s contribution to Tribal Health
Mithun Sikdar Superintending Anthropologist Anthropological Survey of India, Mysore. Email:msikdar@hotmail.com Human existence has never had a chance to stay in a state of tranquillity. Do we reall…
Stereoscopic Palestine
To access the article online, click here: https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/Time%20Travelers%20in%20Palestine%20-%20Stereoscopic%20Journey.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2…
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Hi all, Just when I thought ‘well, looks like one of those normal weeks featuring saving philanthropy, Australia being a dick, digital #globaldev being complicated & more staggering…
Surviving COVID-19 by Chiappori Magdalena Zegarra
Survival. Perhaps the word carries more weight today than ever. We are all engaged in this exercise of collective survival. Many of us have found ourselves forced to…
In The Journals – August 2021 Part 2 by Megh Marathe
Social Science & Medicine Turning suffering into side effects: Responses to HPV vaccination in Colombia (open access)Maurizia Mezza, Stuart Blume How do unpleasant post-vaccination symptoms…
In The Journals- August 2021 Part 1 by Gabrielle Hanley-Mott
The highlights of August’s In The Journals (Pt.1) are: a Colloquy in Cultural Anthropology on “L’enfer, c’est les autres”: Proximity as an Ethical Problem during COVID-19″; a “doubl…
How Bureaucracy Conceals Obligations to Afghan Refugees
Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in early August, the world has been transfixed by images from the streets of Kabul: Taliban fighters proudly patrolling the capital atop…
Neoliberal Morality: Shame and Self-Improvement as Control over Young People’s Digital Productivity
“Put your phone away!” “Why are you always on your phone?” “Being on your phone this much isn’t healthy!” These are words we all have probably heard before…
SAR Scholar Alumni in the National Press
When selecting resident scholars from the many who apply, SAR places special emphasis on applicants’ demonstrated ability to write in…
How Pottery Offers Glimpses Into Ancient Foodways
[no-caption] The Archaeological Mission in the Sahara This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. Unearthed from the graves…
A snapshot of contemporary indigenous life – with emphasis on Sámi perspectives
A new publication on Arctic Indigenous Peoples from The Sámi Council and German Arctic Office (at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research) was…
Trinketization 2021-09-08 13:57:56
A POTTED HISTORY OF THE 1990S BRITISH (SOUTH) ASIAN UNDERGROUND This is from Mix Mag. Fantastic to see. Except for the annoying subscribe pop ups, the content and…