Vanessa Diaz on her new book, Manufacturing Celebrity
Interview by Sandhya Narayanan https://www.dukeupress.edu/manufacturing-celebrity Sandhya Narayanan: One goal of your ethnography is to delve deeper into the ways that celebrity, and its cl…
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Academic Fictions: Introduction
An often underestimated but critical element of academic endeavour is communication. There is no doubt that many academic books and articles are dense and impenetrable, written in jargon-laden,…
Lynette J. Chua, “The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life” (Stanford UP, 2018)
The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life (Stanford UP, 2018) offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT…
On Wishcycling
Wishcycling is the process of placing discards into the recycling bin even when there’s little to no chance for their recovery. The term entered common use over the…
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Weekend cruise to Serampore, Chandernagore
I really want to go on this today : << this is an article from The Telegraph newspaper in Kolkata>> : The 11-hour ride, which will have its…
Views of al-Shihr on the Hadrami Coast
In 1991 while on a World Bank consultancy in Aden, I had an opportunity to visit al-Shihr on the Hadrami coast. Here are some scenes from that trip.…
Describing time in writing: a shift towards the written statement in euthanasia with dementia
Drawing on extensive research on the end of life with dementia in the Netherlands, Natashe Lemos Dekker discusses how, despite the increasing importance of a written statement, the…
Describing time in writing: a shift towards the written statement in euthanasia with dementia
Drawing on extensive research on the end of life with dementia in the Netherlands, Natashe Lemos Dekker discusses how, despite the increasing importance of a written statement, the…
Writing Life No. 8: An interview with Angela Garcia by Denielle Elliott
Angela Garcia is known for her intimate, literary accounts of suffering and addiction in New Mexico. A compelling account, her monograph, The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along…
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Hi all, I usually don’t start my review with a warning, but this week’s edition contains a lot of important readings on sexual violence & the aid industry;…
Reflections on Stress and Place in the Time of Coronavirus
ByThea ProsserBSc Anthropology Two aspects of my anthropology course sprung to mind when I was reflecting upon the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown which I have experienced in…
The Haunting Past of Anthropology: Why it is important for the present
BySteven LiuBSc Anthropology When I was asked about my major in university in front of a room of relatives, everyone at the dinner table fell into an embarrassing…
Fracturing Anthropologies: Making it matter
ByPepe WeischerBSc Anthropology Answering the question “what is anthropology?” should be easy enough for someone who has been studying it for the past year. If friends and family…
Baking and Breaking Bread: The COVID-19 lockdown’s obsession with sourdough
ByIzzy DaviesBSc Anthropology As this article will demonstrate, in times of chronic waiting due to social exclusion, people seek out tasks that give structure and integrate them into…
Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic: The privilege of social distancing
ByMai PedersenBSc Anthropology When the coronavirus first broke out, what really struck me was the amount of panic that spread across the world and how varied the initial…
Love Poem for the Shape of the Field
[no-caption] Johannes Plenio/Pexels The sun opens, shutters. The social scientist wants to know where to look, keeps widening her gaze. Over here on the earth, a girl fries…
Jobseekers in Dubai in the time of COVID-19 (IV)
Part Four: “When will this Covid be over?” During the first month of T.’s search for work in Dubai, Covid-19 felt like something that had happened last spring.…
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, “Front of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers” (NYU Press, 2020)
How can ethnographic research shine light on the reproduction of social inequality in upscale Los Angeles restaurants? In today’s episode we talk with Dr. Eli Wilson, Assistant Professor…
Dialogues on Artificial Intelligence
In December 2020, a group of social scientists gathered virtually at the LSE Department of Anthropology to discuss the relationship between data science and the social sciences. We…
Does Love Always Come Before Marriage?
Thousands of couples were wed in a mass ceremony in South Korea on February 7, 2020. Some of them had only met a few weeks earlier, after being…
Jobseekers in Dubai in the time of COVID-19 (III)
Part Three: A Travel Agent selling Freedom For the second half of my stay, I lived in a shared accommodation of mostly Egyptian men in Ajman, which is…
Teaching Digital Anthropology Through Minecraft
By David Davies Humans.Machines.Pandemic.Presence. Meeting online presents a challenge because we are synchronized in time, but not in place. While it might seem we are “together apart” like…
Pandemic Affects, Planetary Specters, and the Precarious Everyday: Encountering COVID-19 as a Nomad with (Half)Grown Roots (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Nasima Selim Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa. A specter is haunting Europe. …