Parsing out Identity Claims
Identity is as much about how others see us as it is about how we see ourselves. Identity depends upon how we feel about ourselves, how we present…
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Remembering Art Wolf and Chrisine McHorse
Remembering Art Wolf and Chrisine McHorse …
Cairo in 1920
This is an interesting Youtube video posted by Mostafa Khalifa. It has the voice of Munira al-Mahdiya with footage taken in Cairo and Alexandria in 1920.
The Northern Sea Route and waterway infrastructure in the Russian Arctic: a seminar on anthropological perspectives
The European University at Saint Petersburg will host a seminar on the Northern Sea Route at its research Center for Arctic Social Studies. The seminar will be held…
Prof. Dr. Ulla Johansen passed away
On 14th of February 2021 in her 94th year of life a great person, colleague in Arctic Anthropology and professor emerita of ethnology, Ulla Johansen passed away. Born…
Remembering Leith Mullings (1945 – 2020)
Leith Mullings, Social Justice Anthropologist Jeff Maskovsky, City University of New York Leith Mullings’ death is a terrible blow to anthropology – and a heartbreaking loss to those…
Disability Justice and Material Needs: Reflections on the Experiences of Autistic New Yorkers Living Under Covid-19 by Cara Ryan
As a member of NYU’s Disability Equity in the Time of COVID-19 research team during the summer of 2020[1], I had the opportunity to conduct seven virtual interviews by…
Links & Contents I Liked 395
Hi all, My highlight of this week was definitely an opportunity to deliver a short keynote and participate as a judge in the annual challenge of Engineers Without…
Special Focus: The Morton Cranial Collection and Legacies of Scientific Racism in Museums
Pressures in and outside the academy are forcing museums to grapple ever more deeply with the legacies of scientific racism embedded and embodied in their anthropological collections. The…
Patricia Hill Collins, “Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory” (Duke UP, 2019)
Is intersectionality a critical social theory? What must intersectionality do to be both critical and a social theory? Must social justice be a guiding normative principle? And what does or…
Elesha J. Coffman, “Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith” (Oxford UP, 2021)
Elesha J. Coffman’s Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith (Oxford UP, 2021) takes a careful look at Mead’s religious origins and influence. As a famous American anthropologist, Mead’s inte… Visit New Books…
My Mother was a White Women
Shirley Marie Menzies, née Naud. Born Sept. 13, 1932. Died April 18, 2013. My mother was a teacher, that was her vocation, as much as it was for moments…
Two new books!
My apologies to readers. I haven’t posted in a while. But I have an excuse. Two excuses actually. I spent the first half of 2020 scrambling to finish…
Happy Anthropology Day!
David Beriss The big day is here. Today is Anthropology Day! Every year the AAA has organized this, we have completely forgotten to acknowledge it. But not this…
Infrastructuralizing outer space, un-earthing anthropology
Chakad Ojani: On October 14, 2020, the Swedish government announced its decision to grant 90 million SEK to support the expansion of Sweden’s space center and rocket-launching site…
Why Write for SAPIENS?
In the summer of 1960, Jane Goodall left England for what is now Gombe National Park in Tanzania. With the aid of legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, Goodall was…
Moving between Anthropology, Activism and Art
Bartira Fortes: Street Art of Marielle Franco by Rodrigo Rizo Art in its broad spectrum – visual, sonorous, literary, or performative – have offered anthropological research a laboratory…
Academic Fictions: You are John
ff 1. There are two twins sat on the beach but one is farther up the shore, closer to West Point, or right inside it, depending on which…
Studying LBGT Organizing in China: A Conversation with Caterina Fugazzola
In today’s episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, Sneha Annavarapu talks with Dr. Caterina Fugazzola, Earl S Johnson Instructor in Sociology at the University of Chicago, about her research on t……
T. M. Luhrmann, “How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Tanya Luhrmann has spent much of her career as an anthropologist investigating the complex ways that people engage religion and the supernatural. In How God Becomes Real: Kindling the…
Urban Acupuncture Design Theory: Researching New Development Practices in South Africa
Sometimes it only takes a “spark,” a “simple, focused intervention,” a “single stroke of genius,” or “the single prick of a needle” to release the flows and create…
Decolonising Conservation Practices and Research: Seeing the Orangutan in Borneo with Dr June Rubis
Around the world, orangutans are widely recognised as an iconic species for environmental and wildlife conservation efforts. The rainforest in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is one of…
Spivak – citizen as agent
If you joined the Handbrick of Marxism book-launch with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak last evening you will have seen her talk on citizens as agents, global Marx, supplementing vanguardism…
Wednesday Round Up #37
How to Interpret Resting-State fMRI: Ask Your Participants Resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI) reveals brain dynamics in a task-unconstrained environment as subjects let their minds wander freely. Consequentl…