President’s Advisory Committee for hiring a new Dean of Arts, UBC-V: election.
Update, April 20, 2021. The election is over and I was not among the four elected. Thank you to those who did vote me for, I appreciate your…
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Interview during pandemic: Anna Nerkagi
It has been one year since the coronavirus pandemic became a part of our life and changed it in a very radical way. We follow the rules of the government, we develo…
COVID-19 Continued Information Resources
Check out the new slide deck from Dr. Mark Nichter reviewing the COVID-19 variants, public health balancing act, and public health citizenship. Check out the European Centre for…
COVID-19 Continued Information Resources
Check out the new slide deck from Dr. Mark Nichter reviewing the COVID-19 variants, public health balancing act, and public health citizenship. Check out the European Centre for…
Dragan Djunda: Transition to nowhere: Small hydro, little electricity, and large profits in Serbia
When you enter the House of culture in Dojkinci, a small village on Stara Mountain, you are instantly amazed by its floor. The freshly painted red, green, and…
Pauline Destrée: Solar for the Few: Stranded Renewables and Green Enclaves in Ghana
Africa’s Green Energy Revolution In the past ten years, calls for a “green revolution” on the African continent have cast optimistic and promising scenarios of “leapfrogging” to mass…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to John Arroyo
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Finance is Funds and Games Until It Stops (For Hedge Funds in New York)
By Nazli Azergun Two weeks ago, we experienced a flamboyant coda to an extremely eventful month. Between processing the assault of the US Capitol and Trump’s departure from…
Call for Posts: Imaging Nature
“The Blue Marble,” by NASA/Apollo 17 Crew. Public domain. Modified by Colin Hoag. Environmental humanists and environmental scientists labor over images—their production, their disseminati…
Death as Something We Make
[no-caption] Rouzes/Getty Images Renee (a pseudonym) closed her eyes, lay her head in her brother’s arms, and gently drew her last breath. Minutes before, she had chugged a…
The Ghost in the Machine is Not Who You Think: Human Labor and the Paradox of Automation with Mary L Gray
BOOK GIVEAWAY!! Leave a Review of This Anthro Life for a chance to win a copy of Ghost Work! Leave us a written review on Apple Podcasts or…
Monique M. Ingalls, “Singing the Congregation: How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community” (Oxford UP, 2018)
The choices that churches make about their musical style do more than simply change the sounds one hears in their gatherings, but actually form certain kinds of community.…
New Ethnographies of the Global South: In Conversation with Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido
How can Sociology be nudged away from its traditional parochialism to embrace empirical work that focuses on the global south? Marco Garrido (assistant professor of sociology at the…
On Online News Making, Cultural Translation, and Journalism Industry in Exile
Journalism is under attack in many contexts from Hungary to the United States. In Turkey, the situation is not different. Autocracy changed the profession radically and forced some…
Lost Blue Books of India
NINTH ALL-INDIAORIENTAL CONFERENCE TRIVANDRUM DECEMBER 20th to 22nd 1937Observations taken more than acentury ago, these* papers describe many things which areno longer actual, and they are become rec…
Further fun with Blue Books
It seems in Sri Lanka a holy text was burnt… a ‘heretical’ text brought from Benares, but not burnt before it inspired the king (Kumaradasa) and some devoted souls……
University of Memphis Business Anthropology Graduate Fellowship – Fall 2021
The Department of Anthropology at University of Memphis (my alma mater) is offering a one-year graduate student fellowship with Terminix. This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on…
Felix Lussem: Alienating “facts” and uneven futures of energy transition
We are in the middle of the Rhineland’s lignite mining region, a semi-urban to rural area in the west of Germany. The landscape is considerably altered by past…
Katja Müller, Charlotte Bruckermann, Kirsten Endres: Introduction: The political power of energy futures
Debates about climate change have long entered political arenas through diplomacy, bureaucracy and regulations as part of worldwide environmental governance. Global efforts to foster greener energy i…
Can Social Scientists Help Control Epidemics?
A poster in an Ebola response center breaks down the evolving response to the epidemic—including efforts to address social and cultural concerns. Annie Wilkinson On May 24, 2014,…
Solidarity, infrastructure and critical pedagogy during COVID-19: Lessons from Brazil by Dominique P. Béhague
Even before the pandemic hit Brazil’s favelas, residents began organizing to protect themselves — against both the novel coronavirus and the government’s active suppression of effective public …
Wednesday Round Up #44
Octomom: Deep-sea octopus guards her eggs for over four yearsAmazing footage of an amazing mother The Empty Brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge, or store…