Plastic Pollution Goes Far Beyond Litter by Gauri Pathak
Plastics in the oceans. Beaches littered with plastics. Images of whales and cows with plastics in their bellies. Calls for citizens not to litter, to throw away trash…
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Book Review: How Ten Global Cities Take On Homelessness: Innovations That Work by Linda Gibbs, Jay Bainbridge, Muzzy Rosenblatt and Tamiru Mammo
In How Ten Global Cities Take On Homelessness: Innovations That Work, Linda Gibbs, Jay Bainbridge, Muzzy Rosenblatt and Tamiru Mammo explore some of the key challenges faced by urban…
Strange Bedfellows: On Trauma and Ethnographic Vulnerability
I never expected that laughter would be part of the solution. I had set out on fieldwork with rather vague notions about the importance of sensitivity and silence…
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, “A Glossary of Urban Voids” (Jovis Verlag, 2020)
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Sergio Lopez-Pineiro about his new book, A Glossary of Urban Voids (2020). It’s one of the more…
Political Cartoonist at Chemawa Indian School, William John Harris
William John Harris was born in Juneau Alaska March 29, 1884 to Richard Tighe Harris an Irishman, and Kitty a member of the Tlingit tribe. Richard Tighe Harris…
Chelation Chronicles – 1H 2021
This blog post is focused on my chronic health issues. The series was initially focused on learning to detox heavy metals using the Andy Cutler Chelation (ACC) protocol,…
Varisco on the Baghdadi Ratl
On Thursday, July 8 , 2021 (4 pm Berlin time, 10 am New York time) I will be giving an online presentation on my search for the metric…
Sweden’s response to Covid-19 and the limits of individualism
The Swedish approach to the Covid-19 pandemic has become the source of international fascination and controversy. The country remains a global outlier in the way it has responded…
In the Journals, June 2021, Part 2 by Jung Eun Kwon
BioSocieties How environments get to the skin: biosensory ethnography as a method for investigating the relation between psychosis and the city (Open Access) Marc Winz & Ola S…
arcticanthropology in top 30! Congratulations to our 10th anniversary!
Dear authors, followers, commenters, readers of our blog. Please allow me to share something on our own behalf: Just got surprising good news that our blog made it…
Allison Alexy, “Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan” (U Chicago Press, 2020)
In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision—the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who…
Luiz Valerio de Paula Trindade, “No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media” (Vernon Press, 2020)
No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media (Vernon Press, 2020) examines the social phenomenon of construction and dissemination of colonial-like racist discours… Visit New Books…
Ashley T. Rubin, “Rocking Qualitative Social Science: An Irreverent Guide to Rigorous Research” (Stanford UP, 2021)
Unlike other athletes, the rock climber tends to disregard established norms of style and technique, doing whatever she needs to do to get to the next foothold. This…
Seaspiracy: a thematic mish-mash of marine injustices
Co-Written with: Lina Idrees The Netflix documentary Seaspiracy shook viewers with its shocking revelation of the effects of the fishing industry on the environment. Film-maker Ali Tabrizi’s investig…
Listening to Your Gut
By Senske de Vries Before the thesis-period actually started I was somewhat hesitant about how this would be. I had heard from others that they hated working on…
Ethiopia
[no-caption] Jenn/Flickr In the poem of the same name, Ethiopia’s special place among African groups is put in high relief. Ethiopia symbolized hope of independence for Nigerian nationali…
Gypsy Economy: the Promise and Limitations of Ethnography
By Keith Hart The Promise and Limits of Ethnography I am usually rather concerned when I observe how unreflectingly my … More
NAFA, History, and Documentation of the Annual Conferences
A number of people have worked with and for NAFA over the years. My period was in the early 1980s, when I was a graduate student in anthropology…
Wednesday Round Up #56
The Commute: A four day paddle to work Beau Miles at it again, finding adventure in his backyard while discovering broader patterns in our world. He drives to…
Reading Lists: Residential Schools and Canadian Colonialism
Content warning: this article covers topics of colonialism and genocide in Canada. In early June of 2021 news reports emerged about the remains of Indigenous children buried in…
Nicole Curato, “Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedies to Deliberative Action” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nicole Curato’s Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedies to Deliberative Action (Oxford UP, 2019) investigates how democratic politics can unfold in creative and unexpected o… Visit New Books…
Terminal I Juanda Airport (Journey to Lombok)
Bersiap Papan Informasi Tahun 2019 menjadi tahun penuh perjalanan luar kota bahkan lintas pulau. Saat itu belum terjadi pandemi. Tidak ada batasan untuk berpindah ruang. Postingan kali…
Being autistic professional in tech & design – a perspective
In my coaching practice, I occasionally work with clients who are autistic. Before this, I was only familiar with autism as a form of neurodiversity with implications for…
Behind Many Masks: An Ethnographic Account of a Pandemic Borderlands
In June of 2020, four months into a global pandemic and a month after I graduated from college (via a YouTube livestream while sitting on the couch in…