Book Review: The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
In The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, Sonia Faleiro investigates the shocking deaths of two teenage girls in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, allowing the reader to…
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M. Vollman Makris and M. Gatta, “Gentrification Down the Shore” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
In Gentrification Down the Shore (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Molly Vollman Makris and Mary Gatta engage in a rich ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park to better understand the conn… Visit…
Dilara Yarbrough, “Nothing About Us Without Us: Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research” (2019)
Today I talked to Dilara Yarbrough about her article “Nothing About Us Without Us: Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research,” published i… Visit New Books…
Michael L. Siciliano, “Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries” (Columbia UP, 2021)
How should we understand creative work? In Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries (Columbia UP, 2021), Michael Siciliano, an assistant professor of sociology at Q… Visit New Books…
Vaccine envy and vaccine snobbery – why we look a gift horse in the mouth when it comes to the Covid-19 vaccine
MARIA LARRAIN The vaccine rollout has been well-underway in the UK since Margaret Keenan was the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 jab in…
Thinking with a Database
In 2019, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority notified television channels that they were not allowed to host the Pakistani Senator Hafiz Hamdullah on air. The reason: Hamdullah…
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…
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…