The Desk: Work at home during the pandemic
ByRebecca EmpsonProfessor of Social Anthropology, UCL Women of all ages have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. We hear this every day in the media but what does…
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Damascus Heritage
For an impressive website devoted to the heritage of Damascus, check out “Damascus Heritage.” There are several Youtube videos accessible from the website. I especially like the im…
Restorying Ma’ohi Nui with Island Lives, Ocean States
Vehia Wheeler introduces the Ma’ohi Nui project, a collaboration with the Island Lives, Ocean States project aiming to uplift voices, knowledge and perspectives on the ocean among indigenous…
A West African Window Into Human Evolution
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Our species, Homo sapiens, rose in Africa some 300,000 years ago. The objects that…
Book Review: Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite by Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen
In Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite, Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen explores the fact that elite law firms in India display unexpected levels of gen…
Infrastructuring an open access journal is easy, until it’s not
All respect to the Public Knowledge Project and Open Journal Systems. The ecosystem they’ve built over years is tremendous and respectable. For good reasons, “open access journal” h…
Members Matter. Meet Maria.
Members Matter. Meet Maria. …
Two Archaeologists Unscientifically Argue That Ethical Practice Is Anti-Science
By April M. Beisaw, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Vassar College, NY In recent weeks, two archaeologists–Bruce Bourque and Elizabeth Weiss–have published on how archaeology has …
SAFN Student Awards!
Rhubarb and radishes! Photo by David Beriss The deadline (June 15) for SAFN’s annual graduate and undergraduate paper awards is fast approaching. If you are a student, now…
Jaime A Alves: F*ck the Police! Murderous cops, the myth of police fragility and the case for an insurgent anthropology
‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing…
Unlikely Blessings: A poem on hope, despair and periwinkle
This poem, written fifteen years ago as my youngest son began (thankfully successful) chemotherapy for a rare immune system disease, was recently published for the first time by S…
Finding and Losing the World’s Oldest Art in Sulawesi
These handprints were made by blowing pigment around a hand placed against the wall in Sumpang Bita Cave, Sulawesi. Franco Viviani In 2019, I made a trip to…
New Book: Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image
The new book by Arnd Schneider argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together a range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary arts…
Special Issues: “Public Health Activism in changing times: relocating collective agency. Part 1” and “The COVID Horizon” by Emmanuelle Roth
We would like to highlight the release of two special issues this month. First, Critical Public Health’s second issue of the year is dedicated to “Public health activism…
AAA Annual Meeting Call for Submissions
Truth and Responsibility is the theme for the 2021 AAA Annual Meeting, which will be held November 17 – November 21 in Baltimore, Maryland…
In the Journals, April 2021, Part 1 by Emmanuelle Roth
Current Anthropology Of Plots and Men: The Heuristics of Conspiracy TheoriesDidier Fassin In a time when conspiracy theories seem to be flourishing, generally receiving dismissive reactio…
Data Activism and Petro-Public Knowledge “Across Borders”: The Formosa Plastics Global Archive
When our research group entered the Formosa Plastics museum in Taiwan, the first thing we noticed was a massive piece of kauri wood, sitting protected under a dome…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, April 26, 2021
Burger and fries, The Hamburger Foundation, Geneva. Photo by David Beriss. David Beriss Do you teach courses related to the anthropology of food and nutrition? From intro courses…
Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship
Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESCultural Anthropology »General Anthropolog…
Maraqten on the Qur’an in light of Pre-Islamic Inscriptions
Dr. Muhammad Maraqten, the distinguished archaeologist and specialist on ancient pre-Islamic languages of the Arabian Peninsula, delivered a lecture almost a year ago on our knowledge of the…
Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese discuss Voices of a City Market
Interview by Amanda Kaminsky https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781788925112#:~:text=Voices%20of%20a%20City%20Market%3A%20An%20Ethnography&text=Based%20on%20four%20year…
Melvin Konner, “Believers: Faith in Human Nature” (Norton, 2019)
Believers: Faith in Human Nature (Norton, 2019) is a scientist’s answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophers. It is a firm rebuke of the “Four…
Marking the Unknown: tattooing, marriage, and the story of the Ologasi among the Pantaron Manobo of the Philippines
The Pantaron Manobo tell stories of a giant called the Ologasi. Besides being a mythic figure, the Ologasi acts to mark a limit to what is known in…
Marking the Unknown: tattooing, marriage, and the story of the Ologasi among the Pantaron Manobo of the Philippines
The Pantaron Manobo tell stories of a giant called the Ologasi. Besides being a mythic figure, the Ologasi acts to mark a limit to what is known in…