From Hope-Punk to Speculative Fiction: TGA 2020 Round-Up
Believe it or not, we started 2020 with the proposition of Hope-Punk, the possibilities that could emerge through the disposition of hope. Throughout this year, we’ve explored how…
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Review: Black Food Geographies
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance and Food Access in Washington, D.C. By Ashanté M. Reese. 2019. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 978-1-4696-5150-7. 18…
Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagisako on Fabricating Transnational Capitalism
Interview by Janet Connor https://www.dukeupress.edu/fabricating-transnational-capitalism Janet Conner: Why is fashion so good for thinking about capitalism? Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagi…
Pregnancy and baby apps, smart home devices: Anthropologist shows how surveillance capitalism targets children
When we are online we are constantly being watched and tracked. A huge industry has evolved to build profiles about us so that they can predict and influence…
Doing Ethnography in Buenos Aires: A Discussion with Javier Auyero
Today we speak with Javier Auyero, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, about his 25 years of experience studying marginalized communities in Buenos Aires…
Doing Ethnography in Buenos Aires: A Discussion with Javier Auyero
Today we speak with Javier Auyero, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, about his 25 years of experience studying marginalized communities in Buenos Aires…
Society – A preliminary idea
In classical sense society refers to a group of people who share a common ‘culture’, occupy a particular territorial area and feel themselves to constitute a unified…
Shaligram Interpretive Practice (Set)
Reading a Shaligram may begin with scriptural texts, but it ends with the final divination of the deity by way of each Shaligram’s unique characteristics. For ritual specialists,…
(updated) Iran jails anthropologist for "subversive research", "seeking cultural changes" and "promoting homosexuality"
Kameel Ahmady. Photo: Kameel Ahmady, Wikipedia 14 years ago I wrote about his website: Visual ethnography and Kurdish anthropology by Kameel Ahmady and Photography as research tool: More…
110 ways to get a job in user experience research
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already read 5,436 articles about how to get a job as a user experience researcher. There is a lot out there. Too…
World Orders Old and New – Latin America
The Colossus of the South “When the resources of that vast country are taken into account,” the editors of the … More
The Chomsky Chronicles – Wild Man in the Wings
Noam Chomsky is the quintessential pioneering linguist, intellectual and political activist of the last fifty years. He is an American, … More
Elizabeth and Stephen Ferry on Gold Mining in Latin America
I’m happy to announce a new podcast episode over at New Books Network. In this episode I interview brother and sister teams Elizabeth and Stephen Ferry. Elizabeth is…
Looking Forward, Looking Back
Looking Forward, Looking Back …
The Hidden World of Sh*t (a farewell to 2020)
Language warning. We use the word sh*t a lot in this episode, since it is, in fact all about poop. To wrap up this crappy, some may even…
End of Year Thoughts about Legitimacy in the Culture of Speed
A popular 2020 American meme reminds of us of the 1985 Robert Zemeckis science fiction film Back to the Future. In it Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) is…
B. J. Tria Kerkvliet, “Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Since 1990 public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam’s political landscape. Over the last three decades, such criticism has become widespread around four main……
B. J. Tria Kerkvliet, “Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Since 1990 public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam’s political landscape. Over the last three decades, such criticism has become widespread around four main…
New “New Books Network ” Author Page
Aloha all. Some quick final links to keep up to date on what I’ve been doing since September. This site has gone on for far too long without…
The Other Side of COVID-19: Ostracization and Guilt among Older Patients in India by Anindita Chatterjee
Neighbours together during the Autumnal festival (pre-COVID; Photo: A. Chatterjee Anamika landed in Dubai on an October 2020 afternoon, and called her mother, Arpita, to let her know…
Shaligram Interpretive Practice (The Basics)
It recently occurred to me that I haven’t spoken very much about the specifics of Shaligram identification. As such, I think I will start a series here on…
Medical Anthropology and Practice of Medicine in Health Issues by Awah Kum Tchouaffi
Abstract: It is known through anthropological literature that African countries are distinguished by a category of medicine that many specialists call ethnomedicine or traditional African medicine. F…
Wednesday Round Up #30
Dylan Thomas reads “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” This reading makes the poem come even more alive, to hear its rhythms in the voice of…
Michiel Baas, “Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility & the New Middle Class” (Context, 2020)
The gyms of urban ‘new India’ are intriguing spaces. While they cater largely to well-off clients, these shiny, modern institutions are also vehicles of upward mobility for the…