Conference Proceedings ISSH2019
Conference Proceedings ISSH2019 Innovations in the Humanities and Social Sciences conference October 2019 Ton Duc Thang University – Conference Proceedings in full. Indexed in the Clarivate ISI …
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Flat Tuesday
Leah Chase Float House, New Orleans, 2/15/2021. Photo: David Beriss David Beriss Today is Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, and it is usually the occasion for the big blow…
Using media to increase anthropology’s public visibility – February 18th webinar
Join us this Thursday February 18th, 2021 for a World Anthropology Day panel discussion on Increasing the Visibility of Anthropology. This even will feature five practicing anthropologists who…
How Imperialism Gave Us 2020
Violence and disease have long been intertwined in the Americas. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images The world is caught in the grip of a deadly pandemic and yet another wave…
A Political Project and a Geopolitical Terrain: The New Referral Hospital Built by China in Niamey by Fanny Chabrol
Design by okb-buro.com The first time I approached the new General Referral Hospital in Niamey in June 2018, I thought it looked like a prison building, huge and…
African Immigrant Care Workers & COVID in the US: Their Fears, Protections, and Recalibrations by Cati Coe
The US healthcare system depends on the labor of immigrant healthcare professionals, a fact mainly unrecognized and unreported during the pandemic. Twenty-eight percent of physicians are foreign-born…
Unsettling Soy: New Crops, Kin, and Conviviality on Mozambique’s Agribusiness Frontier
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2020 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
#Academic Fictions: Citizen Insurgency
Sing, O Muse, the anger of urban citizens upon whom countless ills have been brought by the City. Many a brave soul did the City send hurrying back…
Book Review: The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis by Fiorenza Picozza
In The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis, Fiorenza Picozza offers a new ethnographic study of autonomous border struggles in Hamburg, Germ…
Fugitive Science: Beer Brewing & Experiments with Pharmaceuticals in Tanzania
When I originally arrived to start fieldwork in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, I set out to observe the scientific practices through which counterfeit drugs were identified at…
Thesiger of Arabia
Anyone who knows anything about Arabia has no doubt heard of Lawrence of Arabia, even if only via Peter O’toole’s dazzling Hollywood version. But there is also Thesiger…
Mapping Human and Neanderthal Genomes
Back in 1990, researchers embarked on an epic project to map out all of human DNA: the Human Genome Project. Their first draft of the human genome was…
Authenticity and Digital Intimacy Between Influencers and Researchers*
Marie Hermanova** Person holding smartphone – free mobile phone image on Unsplash Ethnography of and on social media, in which my own research on female influencers on Czech…
#BookReview: Just Transitions
November 2018. A wave of nearly 300,000 women and men in yellow vests floods France. A protest without leaders or spokespersons, rises from the poorest regions affected by…
Book forum: Julie Livington’s Self-Devouring Growth by Todd Meyers
This book forum brings together seven scholars to discuss Julie Livingston’s Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa (Duke 2019), a story of what grows alongside “…
Vanessa Diaz on her new book, Manufacturing Celebrity
Interview by Sandhya Narayanan https://www.dukeupress.edu/manufacturing-celebrity Sandhya Narayanan: One goal of your ethnography is to delve deeper into the ways that celebrity, and its cl…
Academic Fictions: Introduction
An often underestimated but critical element of academic endeavour is communication. There is no doubt that many academic books and articles are dense and impenetrable, written in jargon-laden,…
Lynette J. Chua, “The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life” (Stanford UP, 2018)
The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life (Stanford UP, 2018) offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT…
On Wishcycling
Wishcycling is the process of placing discards into the recycling bin even when there’s little to no chance for their recovery. The term entered common use over the…
Cartoon News
By Theodor Anthony Apollo Hutnyk
Weekend cruise to Serampore, Chandernagore
I really want to go on this today : << this is an article from The Telegraph newspaper in Kolkata>> : The 11-hour ride, which will have its…
Views of al-Shihr on the Hadrami Coast
In 1991 while on a World Bank consultancy in Aden, I had an opportunity to visit al-Shihr on the Hadrami coast. Here are some scenes from that trip.…
Describing time in writing: a shift towards the written statement in euthanasia with dementia
Drawing on extensive research on the end of life with dementia in the Netherlands, Natashe Lemos Dekker discusses how, despite the increasing importance of a written statement, the…
Describing time in writing: a shift towards the written statement in euthanasia with dementia
Drawing on extensive research on the end of life with dementia in the Netherlands, Natashe Lemos Dekker discusses how, despite the increasing importance of a written statement, the…