Comment on “Memoirs of Women and Harvard” by Alice B. Kehoe
Editor’s note: The following essay is a response to “Memoirs of Women and Harvard” by Alice B. Kehoe, published on 9 August 2021 in Reviews. You can find…
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A Wolff in Shepherd’s Clothing, #2
In the early 19th century there was a florescence of Protestant missionary interest in saving Muslim, Jewish and other kinds of Christian souls in the Middle East. This…
Shirley Yeung takes the page 99 test
The “quality of the whole” is uncannily revealed by the concluding paragraph on page 99 of my dissertation. It reads: The institution I call The Migrant Center, then,…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Josephine Ensign, “Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Home to over 730,000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population in the United States. In 2018,…
Devaka Premawardhana, “Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Anthropologist Devaka Premawardhana arrived in Africa to study the so-called explosion of Pentecostalism, the spread of which has indeed been massive. It is the continent’s fastest growing fo……
Palmer’s Ledger of Vouchers for the Willamette Valley Treaty
In Record Group 75 (Bureau of Indian Affairs) microfilm are many millions of records of the tribes as they were being managed by federal Indian agents. The M234…
Masks and Their Moralities
For some, instructions to wear masks in public places have been an opportunity to chart new courses in fashion or have simply been a minor inconvenience in the…
09.09.2021 – RAI Film Webinar: Multimodal inventions
Thursday 9 September 2021 at 4-6pm (BST) The event takes place on Zoom. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApduyhrDMpE9Rg-KBLVABTLKguZ4cACoYs RAI Film WebinarR…
Spirituality of abandoned Arctic Infrastructure
So-called ‘ghost towns’ attract people in a certain sense, the ailing beauty of their ruins and the atmosphere of silence that is so different from the silence that…
Abstract: Of People and Peccaries: Perception and Politics in the Texas Hill Country
I am giving a talk in October for the Royal Anthropological Institute: https://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-conservation/panels#10866 Here is the abstract for my talk based on or…
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Hi all, We made it through another week & a great photo essay on outdoor women in Canada & a speculative humanitarian fiction story could help to take…
Pandemics and Arab Medicine
Here is an interesting article on Qantara.
Conference Report: Social Medicine from the South by Alice Hilborn
(On behalf of the Wellcome Trust Global Social Medicine Network) Introduction Social Medicine from the South was a virtual two-day mini-conference consisting of two panels that took place…
Zachary M. Howlett, “Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China” (Cornell UP, 2021)
Every year millions of high school seniors in China take the gaokao, China’s standardized college entrance exam. Students, parents, and head teachers all devote years, sweat, and tears to…
Nada Moumtaz, “God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State” (U California Press, 2021)
In her phenomenal new book God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (U California Press, 2021), Nada Moumtaz charts the historical continuities and disjunctures as well contempora… Visit New Books…
Andrew Flachs, “Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India” (U Arizona Press, 2019)
Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India by Andrew Flachs (University of Arizona Press, 2019) tells a story of how farmers in rura……
Regulating Misinformation from the Global South
Gathering information through our devices. Photo credit: https://unsplash.com India is among the top three internet markets internationally with nearly seven hundred million users. What can debates in…
The Resistance and Ingenuity of the Cooks Who Lived in Slavery
This plate features a traditional meal of fish and provisions (tubers and vegetables) served on the Caribbean island of Dominica. Diane Wallman Garlic sizzles in a big Dutch…
Brotherhood and Anti-Blackness in College Football
Clemson Tigers teammates celebrate a successful play against the Boston College Eagles in 2020. David Grooms/TigerNet.com/Flickr This article was originally published at Black Perspective…
A Wolff in Shepherd’s Clothing #1
Tabsir Redux… In the early 19th century there was a florescence of Protestant missionary interest in saving Muslim, Jewish and other kinds of Christian souls in the Middle…
Iain Edgar: More a reflection than obituary
By Gareth Hamilton Writing this piece is not something that is by any means a joy, but I wish to begin with an anecdote about Iain that makes…
Climate Migrants Are on the Move—And the U.S. Needs Their Help
Farmworkers till soil during this summer’s record-breaking heat wave in Oregon. Nathan Howard/AP Photo Content Warning: The materials presented below contain details of racism and violent…
Nicholas Harkness, “Glossolalia and the Problem of Language” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, has long been a subject of curiosity as well as vigorous theological debate. A worldwide phenomenon that spans multiple Christian traditions,…