Call for Pitches: Ghosts
Image description: A light pink ghost with black eyes floats in front of a blue background. The ghost appears to be made of paint. iStock Peter Venkman catches…
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Call for Pitches: Ghosts
Image description: A light pink ghost with black eyes floats in front of a blue background. The ghost appears to be made of paint. iStock Peter Venkman catches…
Call for Pitches: Ghosts
Image description: A light pink ghost with black eyes floats in front of a blue background. The ghost appears to be made of paint. iStock Peter Venkman catches…
How an anthropologist thinks about the travel industry
As you may know, we are on the verge of a new Culture Camp. Details here: www.culture.camp! This morning we got a query from a guy in the…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Alina Méndez
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
An Archaeologist on the Railroad of Death
WWII Allied prisoners of war and civilian laborers worked in horrendous conditions to install a railway between Thailand and Burma. Australian War Memorial, P00406.026 In retrospect, I wa…
Wasted: An Inquiry into the Management of Human Excrement
The Department of Anthropology at SUNY-Brockport was kind enough to invite me to share some insights from my ongoing research examining the use of human waste as a…
Interview: Quo vadis, Feldforschung?
In April 2021, I was interviewed by German news outlet Forschung & Lehre (Research & Teaching) about anthropological fieldwork in times of a global health crisis. Interview for…
Angelology and Technoscience
(Editor’s Note: This blog post is part of the Thematic Series Data Swarms Revisited) Scene of angels at Karlskirche, Vienna, Austria (Photo by Lukas Meier on Unsplash) The…
Book Review: Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death Along a Changing River by Andrew Alan Johnson
In Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death Along a Changing River, Andrew Alan Johnson offers a new anthropological study that explores how infrastructural projects – in this case, hydropower dams…
Wednesday Round Up #48
mHealth Training Institute Lectures Our healthcare challenges are very complex and do not fit neatly into existing scientific disciplines; solving them requires the combined expertise and efforts of…
Master Class on Ecography: anthropological films and climate change
The Visual Studies Platform (VSP), Ethnocineca and the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab (VVAL) of the University of Vienna invite you to a film Talk by anthropologist-filmmaker Pavel Borecký about the…
Skin, Bones, and Red Masks
Photo credit: Lehi Sanchez (APTNNEWS.CA) Today, May 5, 2021, people across the United States will wear red in recognition of missing and/or murdered American Indian (Indigenous) women. They…
The surprising truths wild horses teach us about the power of ritual, social durability, and surviving the Anthropocene with John Hartigan Jr.
In today’s episode Adam and Astrid Countee are joined by multispecies anthropologist John Hartigan jr. John is an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In…
Patrick Vitale, “Nuclear Suburbs: Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance” (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
From submarines to the suburbs–the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War During the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous features of suburbs across the United States.…
Anthropologist Wade Davis Discusses His Life and Work
“… I am an axe; And my son a handle, soon; To be shaping again, model; And tool, craft of culture; How we go on.” – Gary Snyder, Axe Handles (1983) “… wisdom…
Kamala Harris’ Refusal of the One-Drop Rule
When Kamala Devi Harris was sworn in as vice president earlier this year, many people in the U.S. and around the globe recognized that gender and racial barriers…
Last Call: Filmmaking For Fieldwork Summer School 2021
Last call for the 2021 F4F Online Essentials Summer School (June 14 – July 6). Only two spaces remaining and bookings will close in two weeks. Who is…
Totalizing Infrastructures: Statecraft in the Uyghur Penal Colony
There were three lanes at the checkpoint in Turpan—an old Uyghur-majority oasis city on the northern reaches of the Taklamakan Desert in Northwest China. Two lanes were fitted…
Rustamjon Urinboyev, “Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia,” (U California Press, 2020)
In Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia (University of California Press, 2020), Dr. Rustam Urinboyev presents rich ethnographic material to reconce… Visit New Books in…
Merav Shohet on her book, Silence and Sacrifice
Interview by Annemarie Samuels https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520379381/silence-and-sacrifice Annemarie Samuels: When you first started considering doing ethnographic research in Vietnam,…
Authoritarian vernaculars of the right to truth. Exhuming mass graves in Rwanda and Burundi
Astrid Jamar (SOAS) and Laura Major (University of Strathclyde) will present on ‘Authoritarian vernaculars of the right to truth. Exhuming mass graves in Rwanda and Burundi’. Gerhard A…
The Dirt
Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field of discard studies. Here is The Dirt for…
E. Aspinall and W. Berenschot, “Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia” (Cornell UP, 2019)
In post-Suharto Indonesian politics the exchange of patronage for political support is commonplace. Clientelism saturates the political system through everyday practices of vote buying, influ… Visit New Books…