Michael Marker – Indigenous Scholar
Oct 20, 1951 – Jan 15, 2021. Last time I met Michael he was scootering down Main Mall through the athletics’ fields. Over the course of the pandemic…
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Contested Truths over COVID-19 in Africa: Introduction by Jia Hui Lee
One of the most significant challenges to confronting and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic concerns the manufacturing, circulation, and interpretation of what we call “contested truths.” By this term…
Wednesday Round Up #41
Ta-Nehisi Coates on words that don’t belong to everyone Interview between Ian Tyndell and Kevin Mitchell Fascinating and wide-ranging interview on psychology, behavioural genetics, & neuros…
China: The Unpopular Winner of the Year in Pandemic Times. Resilience in China under COVID-19 (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Mengyi Zhang Figure 1: Photo taken by the author’s parents (age 48 and 49) when they got their vaccines in a community…
Eric Hayot, “Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan” (Columbia UP, 2021)
Scientists have scientific reason and use the scientific method. Humanists have… Emotion? Close reading? Not so, argues Eric Hayot in Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan (Columbi……
Police Reform in Argentina: A Discussion with Leslie MacColman
This episode of Ethnographic Marginalia features Dr. Leslie MacColman, a Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology at The Ohio State University who studies crime and policing in Latin America. Leslie……
Rebecca Hope Dirksen, “After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti” (Oxford UP, 2020)
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordin……
#Review: The Kiss of Death
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage many places in the world, it is hard to imagine a book that is more timely or prescient than Andrea Kitta’s…
A humanist approach to money, markets and technology
I have opened up a new project to disseminate my work and interests. This link is to the first page. There will be pages on other themes —…
A humanist approach to money, markets and technology
I have opened up a new project to disseminate my work and interests. This link is to the first page. There will be pages on other themes —…
The Future of (Academic) Conferencing by Ayo Wahlberg
From the 4th to the 6th of March 2021, close to 500 medical anthropologists, sociologists, STS scholars and more participated in the Chronic Living conference, yet never at the…
Starving the Deschutes tribe into submission, 1856
Every day of research I stumble upon another act of federal officials to destroy the tribes. Here is a letter documenting the intentions of an Indian Agent to…
Cultureels ethnographic film festival 12-18 April 2021
Anthro students arrange an online festival of ethnographic films on 12-18 April 2021. More information from this web address: https://www.cultureels.com/
What’s Behind Match Day’s Algorithm?
The opening of Match Day letters at medical schools across the U.S., including Penn State College of Medicine (shown here), has become an annual rite of passage. Penn…
Between Jab Lines and Pandemic Orientalism in Urban Sri Lanka
VICHITRA GODAMUNNE & RAPTI SIRIWARDANE-DE ZOYSA The global COVID-19 vaccination drive has been steeped in geopolitical rivalries, captured not in the least within mainstream Euro-America…
Between Jab Lines and Pandemic Orientalism in Urban Sri Lanka
VICHITRA GODAMUNNE & RAPTI SIRIWARDANE-DE ZOYSA The global COVID-19 vaccination drive has been steeped in geopolitical rivalries, captured not in the least within mainstream Euro-American med…
Stephen Pihlaja, “Talk about Faith: How Debate and Conversation Shape Belief” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Religious people have a range of new media in which they can share their beliefs and reflect on what it means to believe, to act, and to be…
Airbnb’s Location Ratings as Anti-Black Spatial Disinvestment in Washington D.C.
In 2016, Airbnb host Synta Keeling appeared on NPR’s Hidden Brain to share her story of hosting as a Black woman living east of the Anacostia River. She…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now
Wendy Yared from Evolve.ag Picture of an open book with a person’s legs underneath of it on top of a cozy yellow blanket. Photo by Emily Rudolph. This…
Book Forum: Reflections on Li Zhang’s Anxious China by Priscilla Song
This book forum brings together eight anthropologists to discuss Li Zhang’s Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy (University of California Press 2020). Zhang examine…
Kate Eichhorn on her book, The End of Forgetting
Interview by Shuting Li https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976696 Shuting Li: In this book, you follow image-making technology’s trajectory, from Kodak film camera, h…
Sudhir Chella Rajan, “A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent” (Harvard UP, 2020)
In contemporary policy discourse, the notion of corruption is highly constricted, understood just as the pursuit of private gain while fulfilling a public duty. Its paradigmatic manifestation… Visit…
Dying from Despair in the USA: A Discussion with Anne Case
Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row—a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern…
Juno Salazar Parreñas, “Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation” (Duke University Press, 2018)
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke University Press, 2018) presents a multi-species ethnography of orangutans and humans that probes the shared suscep… Visit New Books…