The New Era of Transformative and Sustainable Tourism
Originally posted on LogitudeDesign.com on June 3, 2020 “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder (where) fabulous forces are…
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The New Era of Transformative and Sustainable Tourism
Originally posted on LogitudeDesign.com on June 3, 2020 “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder (where) fabulous forces are…
In the Journals – Policing Migration
A Macedonian police officer raises his baton toward migrants by Freedom House via creativecommons Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that…
Review: Our Daily Bread
Our Daily Bread: A Meditation on the Cultural and Symbolic Significance of Bread Throughout History Predrag Matvejević. Translated from the Croatian by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić. 2020. London…
Neha Vora on her book, Teach for Arabia
Interview by Patrick Lewis https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27908 Patrick Lewis: When I first came across the title of your book, two things came to mind: Betty Anderson’s (2011) histor…
Maya Stovall, “Liquor Store Theatre” (Duke UP, 2020)
For six years, anthropologist and artist Maya Stovall enacted a series of dance performances outside of liquor stores in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on Detroit’s east side. Stovall concep… Visit New…
Rachelle Hope Saltzman, “Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest” (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
On January 21, 2017, the day after Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, hundreds of cities in the U.S. and across the globe organized Women’s Marches in response to Trump’s…
ASFS/AFHVS/CAFS/SAFN Virtual Conference Abstracts due Feb. 15
JUST FOOD because it is never just food 2021 Joint Annual ConferenceAssociation for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS)Canadian Associa…
[NEW BOOK] Research Practice: Perspectives from UX researchers in a changing field by Gregg Bernstein
Gregg Bernstein, User Experience Research Lead at Signal, dropped his new book this week. Research Practice: Perspectives from UX researchers in a changing field contains 430 pages of…
An Intellectual Odyssey. The Case of Legal Pluralism
When: 29 January 2021 / 2-3.30 pm CET Link: https://zoom.us/j/93210372616pwd=dTZZ… ID: 93210372616 Password: 4JzWZ6 Abstract Sally Merry was an active participant in the work of the project gro…
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Hi all, What a week, eh?!? This edition is a bit shorter-perhaps because other developments dominated my social media feeds, but perhaps also because I worked on my…
Book Review: The Uncertainty Mindset: Innovation Insights from the Frontiers of Food by Vaughn Tan
In The Uncertainty Mindset: Innovation Insights from the Frontiers of Food, Vaughn Tan examines ‘the uncertainty mindset’ as a model for understanding how teams use uncertainty to organise…
Writing Life No. 5: An interview with Robert Desjarlais by Michelle Charette
Photo by Robert Desjarlais “British poet W.H Auden suggested that true poets are those who like ‘hanging around words listening to what they say.” Desjarlais, 2011, Counterplay: An…
Natasha Zaretsky, “Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina (Rutgers UP, 2020) explores how ordinary people grapple with political violence in Argentina, a nation home to…
A. M. Thawnghmung, “Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar” (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
Reforms in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have eased restrictions on citizens’ political activities. Yet for most Burmese, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung shows in Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar (U… Visit New Books…
Willamette Valley Treaty is sent to Washington, D.C. Jan. 22, 1855
Willamette Valley Treaty Origins of the Willamette Valley treaty
The Equitable Transformation of Communities: A Conversation with John Arroyo
The future of working with newcomer immigrant populations and serving them also means understanding the needs of extant populations: being…
Anthropology Day Photo Contest
If you have food anthropology related photos that you want to be famous, SAFN wants to hear from you! We have decided to hold a food anthropology photography competition…
Decolonising protected areas: Sapelli in eastern Cameroon
By Simon Hoyte In 2018, the Colombian anthropologist Arturo Escobar remarked: We are facing modern problems for which there are no longer modern solutions What he’s referring to…
Covid-19, Nordic trust and collective denial: Sweden and Norway compared
In March 2020, as the pandemic strengthened its grip around Europe and the world, I wondered how I would manage my weekly work commute from Stockholm to Oslo…
Shaligram Interpretive Practice (Vadana and Vanamala)
In Sanskrit, vadana means “mouth” and refers either to the large openings present on many Shaligrams or to the multiple smaller openings that occasionally appear when the main…
Quaran-teens Class of 2021: COVID-19’s Impact on Our Everyday Use of Technology
[The following students are high school seniors Class of 2021 at “KTH School.” As part of their International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology class, they conducted a collaborative…
How to “Co-Live” With a Natural Hazard
Tungurahua, an active volcano in Ecuador, sits amid farming communities that have dwelled alongside it for generations. A.J. Faas As the Andes mountain range curves through Ecuador, it…
R. A. Woldoff and R. C. Litchfield, “Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy” (Oxford UP, 2021)
In the space of a few weeks this spring, organizations around the world learned that many traditional, in-person jobs could, in fact, be performed remotely. Before the COVID-19…