#AisforAnthropology: In Conversation with Nika Dubrovsky (I)
On a February Thursday afternoon, Nika Dubrovsky and Allegra assistant editor Emilie Thevenoz sat down together over Zoom. The chat covered the pedagogical concepts and ideas that guide…
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Kamran Khan, “Becoming a Citizen: Linguistic Trials and Negotiations in the UK” (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2019)
Citizenship is acquired and constructed through various mechanisms, including language tests, that require individuals to demonstrate a sufficient national identity. For some recent migrants,… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Building Collaborative Habits, Establishing Sustaining Relations: What is the Role of a Scholarly Society Today?
For decades, the in-person academic conference has been a core aspect of the scholarly society’s mandate and programming. But the disruption COVID-19 has brought to in-person travel has…
How Louisiana’s Cultural Tradition has Transcended the Pandemic
In the early Spring of 2020, Mardi Gras celebrations were not hampered by the impending pandemic. The weather was perfect; mild and comfortable. Celebrations continued throughout January and…
How Louisiana’s Cultural Tradition has Transcended the Pandemic
In the early Spring of 2020, Mardi Gras celebrations were not hampered by the impending pandemic. The weather was perfect; mild and comfortable. Celebrations continued throughout January and…
Sun Sun Lim on her book, Transcendent Parenting
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transcendent-parenting-9780190088989?cc=us&lang=en&# Kevin Laddapong: In Transcendent Parenting, you argue t…
Taboos around menstruation are leading to a growing environmental crisis in India
If the disposability of menstrual products is not prioritised as much as their accessibility, India could be dealing with mountains of discarded waste products in less than 50…
Book Review: The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe by Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Tone Hellesund, Ana Cristina Santos and Mariya Stoilova
In The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe, Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Tone Hellesund, Ana Cristina Santos and Mariya Stoilova explore the durability …
Nayanika Mathur: Entrapment— New ways of seeing big cats in India
https://aoe.fi/api/download/audioonly-1616399103854.m4a On Friday 19 March Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford) gave a talk entitled “Entrapment: New ways of seeing …
#AisforAnthropology: Introduction
To kick-off our #AisforAnthropology thread, Nika Dubrovski will be talking to us throughout the week about her project, A4Kids. Our hope is that this thread and Nika’s work…
Ep #71 Entrepreneurism in Academia and Ethics on The Ground: This Month of TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #71 Entrepreneurism in Academia and Ethics on The Ground: This Month of TFS This week on TFS, the Strangers continue with our new…
Muslim Women Hadith Scholars
The image of an Islamic scholar engaged in memorization, collection or engagement with the many traditions (hadith, singular) of the Prophet Muhammad is invariably that of a male.…
UBC-V boots Proctorio off of Campus.
I have never used these kinds of invigilation software for any of my classes. They violate civil liberties. They invade personal privacy way more than is acceptable. I…
Tips for Conducting User Experience Research for Tourism Product Development
A UX (User Experience) researcher is an individual that is responsible for connecting customers of a product with the people who make and run an organization. They talk…
Tips for Conducting User Experience Research for Tourism Product Development
A UX (User Experience) researcher is an individual that is responsible for connecting customers of a product with the people who make and run an organization. They talk…
Links & Contents I Liked 399
Hi all, Another week, another great range of news, essay, podcasts, open access books & more!This week applications for autumn courses in Sweden opened so do share the…
How Scientific Taxonomy Constructed the Myth of Race
[no-caption] Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images As a graduate assistant in biological anthropology at the University at Buffalo, I was tasked with curating the primate skeletal collection. The…
Native People Live in the Post Apocalypse
I have felt this for years now, that we native people are living in the post-apocalypse. Ever since a student spoke up near the end of the term…
Year in the Rearview Mirror
A year ago today things already felt unsettled. News of COVID-19 was spreading. The early January news feed about outbreaks in China had now been surpassed by the…
More Maps of the Middle East
More and more maps of Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula are appearing in digital resources on the Internet. One of these is the David Rumsey Map Collection, housed…
Join us for ‘Laboratory Life’ film launches
The Lab Life series investigates what seem like mundane lab practices, but are critical to scientific humility, accountability and equity.
Aliki Angelidou: “It is not the police that enters the universities, but democracy”: Greek universities as spearhead of an authoritarian turn
On February 22nd police forces entered the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, heavily beating many students, arresting 31 of them, and teargasing all those present, including…
Assembling an Actor-Network Theory Archaoelogy
Elevated view of a Medieval Water Reservoir located within an inselberg. When I first thought of putting Science and Technology Studies (STS) and archaeology in conversation, several aspects…
Becoming Intergenerational in Birth Cohorts: kinship and the remaking of participation by Sahra Gibbon
In recent years birth cohorts have become an invaluable context, resource, tool and ‘technology’ of an emerging terrain of biosocial science, given the unique opportunity they provide to…