Doni the Anthropologist’s Dog: A Scent of Ethnographic Fieldwork
…
Category: English
Anthropologists in Times of COVID 19
Dr. Rajni Lamba Anthropologist, CEO, The REEDS, India (The Rural Environmental Enterprises Development Society) As a behavioural scientist any anthropologist has to merely look around to realize …
Tips for Better Online Teaching
As I write this, colleges in Taiwan are switching to online learning for the first time since the pandemic started. This is because, for most of the past…
Phill Wilcox: China in Laos – (re)thinking development in the Belt and Road era
https://aoe.fi/api/download/audioonly-1621019767852.m4a China in Laos: (re)thinking development in the Belt and Road era Millions of people across the global South liv…
When care is delegated: Care troikas in Danish dementia wards by Simone Anna Felding
When a person with dementia moves into a nursing home, he/she is not only physically transferred from one location to another; the relocation also involves a reconfiguration of…
Links & Contents I Liked 406
Hi all, I think this week’s highlight is the ‘new reports’ section with so many great new readings to discover!There’re also links to old men, Sean Penn &…
Study Sessions for Grandmother: An Experiment with Repetition, Memory, and Dementia by Jieun Lee
“My grandmother does a lot of ‘study (gongbu)’. Those are just some activities, but we named them ‘study’. What motivates her [to engage in those activities] is her…
Ruins and Precarity in European Peripheries
Copyright: Ognjen Kojanić Theory from the Peripheries: What Can the Anthropology of Postsocialism Offer to European Anthropology? published in the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures wa…
Dead People Tell Tales: Segregated Cemeteries in Richmond Virginia w Dr. Ryan Smith
TAL Correspondent Sara Schmieder brings us an all new interview about the power of cemetery restoration, race in the American South, and bringing legacy to light. Dr. Ryan…
Inviting disasters
One particularly warm morning in September 2020, I am looking at photographs and videos in the media depicting the aftermath of medicane (Mediterranean hurricane) Ianós that just rampaged…
Members Matter: Russ and Diane Kyncl
Guest post by SAR members Russ and Diane Kyncl. This is our fifty-year …
Writing Life No. 10: An interview with Sebastjan Vörös by Mareike Smolka
Figure 1: Sebastjan’s philosophy notebook and writing space in Ljubljana, Slovenia “Curiously, our letters turned out to be not a mere sum of (theoretically discrete) elements but a…
Tackling the pandemic: examining the role of social movements and organizations in Argentina by Silvia Hirsch
Introduction Mónica, a 44-year-old woman, wakes up every morning thinking about the challenges ahead. Today, like every other day, she will prepare soup with noodles and rice for…
Decolonising the Digital: Collaborative approaches to virtual heritage
BySidali SidMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology Virtual reality was once a dream confined to science fiction and futurism, promising endless worlds at the touch of our synapses. These…
How Museums Can Do More Than Just Repatriate Objects
Back in 1990, when I was in my third year of graduate school, then-President H.W. Bush signed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) into law:…
“Not the Chinese, I’m a Pfizer girl!” The covert politics of pharmaceutical branding in Covid struck Hungary
ARIEL BINETH HUNGARY. The country has one of the highest death rates of COVID-19 globally.1 Hospitals are filled with ICU patients at some places outnumbering staff 5:1.2 Nurses…
Robert D. Miller II, “Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
Recognizing the absence of a God named Yahweh outside of ancient Israel, this study addresses the related questions of Yahweh’s origins and the biblical claim that there were…
Why We Need a Truth Commission on White Supremacy
The author leads a teacher training seminar as part of a genocide education project run by the Documentation Center of Cambodia, a local nongovernmental organization heavily involved in Cambodia’…
How does/did Modi do it? The significance of ‘decisionism’
An introductory note: In the short space of time that has elapsed since I first drafted this essay – in the last week of March 2021 – and…
Wazhmah Osman, “Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Local Activists” (U of Illinois Press, 2020)
Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women’s rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the…
S. Garnett Russell, “Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
In Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen (Rutgers UP, 2020), S. Garnett Russell argues that although the Rwandan government makes use of global… Visit New Books in…
Visions of Black Futurity Amidst the Double Pandemic of COVID-19 and Police Brutality by Nadia Mbonde
When I ask Willow, an Afro-Puerto Rican young woman in her 20s, if quarantine has helped reduce the stigma of mental illness, she responds: I think it will…
Spider Woman’s Knowledge and the Survival of Diné Textile Arts
Detail of weaving by Venancio Aragon (Diné), SAR’s 2020 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native artist fellow. Guest post by Abra Wenzel. &…