Call for Pitches: CARE
Image description: Two red hands grasp one another to form the shape of a heart. iStock/fairywong In Anthropology News 62.3, the “Care” issue, we will tell stories that reveal…
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Picturing Egypt a Century Ago
Cairo around 1920 In 1921 one of the many geographical/travel books published was the The Human Interest Library: Visuali?ed Knowledge (Chicago: Midland Press). In volume IV there is…
Review: Seafood: Ocean to the Plate
Shingo Hamada and Richard Wilk, Seafood: Ocean to the Plate, Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology, Routledge. 2019. Pp. 138. ISBN: 9781138191877 (paperback). Dav…
In Europe, more than two thirds of all academic anthropologists are living in precarity
(via FocaalBlog) In the general public, academics are often viewed as being part of an elite, who lives comfortable lives. In reality this is only true for a…
American Exceptionalism and Violent Protests
It is important to understand that for more than fifty years, American foreign and defense policies such as EUCOM, PCOM, … More
Jenny L. Davis on her book, How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-artifacts-afford Kevin Laddapong: Reading How Artifacts Afford is very refreshing. You have proposed a way forward for analys…
Le sexe en tant que travail et le travail du sexe (Sex as work and sex work)
Le sexe en tant que travail et le travail du sexe Ouvrage, traduction par Etienne Simard Une version anglaise de ce texte a été publiée dans Jacobin Magazine…
The Dirt
New articles, positions, special issues and calls for papers related to Discard Studies for January 2021.
David Trouille, “Fútbol in the Park: Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
What meaning does a daily soccer game in a public Los Angeles park have for a group of Latino men and the ethnographer who studied them? In today’s…
Of mice and manuscripts
For anyone who works on Arabic manuscripts or would like to know how that is done, this new website at Leiden University is a welcome introduction. Check it…
Kameel Ahmady: British FGM academic ‘jailed in Iran’
Kameel Ahmady: British FGM academic ‘jailed in Iran’ A British-Iranian academic has been sentenced to eight years in prison by a court in Tehran, his lawyer says. Kameel…
British researcher who documented child marriage and female genital mutilation in Iran is jailed for nine years in Tehran for his ‘subversive’ work
British researcher who documented child marriage and female genital mutilation in Iran is jailed for nine years in Tehran for his ‘subversive’ work Ahmady sentenced by Iran’s Revolu…
Iran jails British-Iranian researcher for 9 years for subversion – report
Iran jails British-Iranian researcher for 9 years for subversion – report DUBAI (Reuters) – A court in Iran has handed a nine-year jail sentence to British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel…
British–Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran
British–Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran Kameel Ahmady, who has written books on Iran, found guilty of collaborating with hostile state A British-Iranian anthropolo…
Iran sentences Kameel Ahmady, British-Iranian anthropologist, to prison
Iran sentences Kameel Ahmady, British-Iranian anthropologist, to prison Ahmady, who is ethnically Kurdish, had researched child marriage and female genital mutilation in Iran. Iran has sentenced Bri…
Ryazanov
Writing to a friend I fell down the Stalin rabbit-hole. It started off reasonably for a sunday evening, thinking, because of some translation work I am doing, that…
British-Iranian academic jailed for 9 years in Iran for ‘subversive’ research
British-Iranian academic jailed for 9 years in Iran for ‘subversive’ research A British-Iranian anthropologist has been sentenced to nine years in prison in Iran after he was convicted…
Iran Jails British-Iranian Researcher for 9 Years, Report Says
Iran Jails British-Iranian Researcher for 9 Years, Report Says DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – A court in Iran has handed a nine-year jail sentence to British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel…
British-Iranian academic imprisoned for eight years for ‘promoting homosexuality’
British-Iranian academic imprisoned for eight years for ‘promoting homosexuality’ British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has been sentenced to eight years in prison for “promoting homosexuality…
Helping the British academic imprisoned in Iran is Boris Johnson’s chance to redeem himself
Helping the British academic imprisoned in Iran is Boris Johnson’s chance to redeem himself After failing to protect Iranian-British detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the prime minister now has a…
Iran arrests British-Kurdish academic in Tehran
Iran arrests British-Kurdish academic in Tehran Kameel Ahmady, a British-Kurdish academic originally from the city of Mahabad in Iran, was arrested on Sunday and jailed in the infamous…
Iran jails anthropologist for “subversive research”, “seeking cultural changes” and “promoting homosexuality”
Iran jails anthropologist for “subversive research”, “seeking cultural changes” and “promoting homosexuality” 14 years ago I wrote about his website: Visual ethnogr…
A Tech Workers’ Bill of Rights
One of my life missions is, until my dying breath, to chip away at the capitalist system as much as I can within my capacity as a single…
Stars from the AAA Sections
Last year Anthropology News invited sections to help us highlight some of the outstanding people in our discipline and the exciting, impactful work that they do, whether in…