Raising Our Concerns: Reflections on AAA 2020
[Footnotes is pleased to present this guest statement by Anthro Response Cauldron – a collective of people who (re)connected over Twitter during ROV, after recognising their shared concerns…
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Raising Our Concerns: Reflections on AAA 2020
[Footnotes is pleased to present this guest statement by Anthro Response Cauldron – a collective of people who (re)connected over Twitter during ROV, after recognising their shared concerns…
Emilia E. Skrzypek, “Revealing the Invisible Mine: Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project” (Berghahn, 2020)
Located amid tropical rainforest in the heart of Papua New Guinea, the Frieda River area is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in…
Eventually I made the decision which I had been struggling with For a long time – the decision to escape
Eventually I made the decision which I had been struggling with For a long time – the decision to escape 03 February 2021 In late December 2020…
In the Journals, January 2021, Part 2 by Raha Peyravi
Some interesting themes include scientific uncertainty and methodological experimentation. Enjoy! Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Social Studies of Health, Illness, and Medicine From …
The Al-Khalidi Library in Jerusalem
There is a recent article in the Arab News on the Al-Khalidi library in Jerusalem. You can also visit the website of the library here. I attach the…
The Toil of Waste: Wasting and Redemption in the Global E-Waste Economy
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…
Spectacular Infrastructure: Madrid’s Pandemic Hospital between Public Spectacle and Speculation by Janina Kehr
Design by okb-buro.com On a fresh autumn day in 2019, under Madrid’s deep-blue sky, I went for a morning coffee with Ernesto, an infectious-disease physician working in one…
Glenn Packiam, “Worship and the World to Come: Exploring Christian Hope in Contemporary Worship” (InterVarsity Press, 2020)
How does contemporary worship cultivate Christian hope? In a succinct and tightly researched volume, Worship and the World to Come: Exploring Christian Hope in Contemporary Worship (IVP Acade… Visit New…
Living in a Time When “Death Feels Closer”
“I know I’m young, and dying isn’t something I’m ‘supposed’ to think about yet, but how can I not? Death feels like it is everywhere,” earnestly intoned Autumn,…
In the Journals, January 2021, Part 1 by Jung Eun Kwon
Social Science & Medicine Why public health framing matters: An experimental study of the effects of COVID-19 framing on prejudice and xenophobia in the United States Lindsay Y.…
How a DMO Can Use Anthropological Concepts for Community Engagement
Destinations International’s 2019 DestinationNext Futures Study stresses the importance of Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) adopting “community-driven destination development” that aligns e…
How a DMO Can Use Anthropological Concepts for Community Engagement
Destinations International’s 2019 DestinationNext Futures Study stresses the importance of Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) adopting “community-driven destination development” that aligns e…
Why Losing Bonds Sports Fans
Football fans respond to their team during a match. Motortion Films/Shutterstock This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. …
In Europe, more than two thirds of all academic anthropologists are living in precarity
(via FocaalBlog) In the general public, academics are often viewed as being part of an elite, who lives comfortable lives. In reality this is only true for a…
Call for Pitches: CARE
Image description: Two red hands grasp one another to form the shape of a heart. iStock/fairywong In Anthropology News 62.3, the “Care” issue, we will tell stories that reveal…
Picturing Egypt a Century Ago
Cairo around 1920 In 1921 one of the many geographical/travel books published was the The Human Interest Library: Visuali?ed Knowledge (Chicago: Midland Press). In volume IV there is…
Review: Seafood: Ocean to the Plate
Shingo Hamada and Richard Wilk, Seafood: Ocean to the Plate, Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology, Routledge. 2019. Pp. 138. ISBN: 9781138191877 (paperback). Dav…
In Europe, more than two thirds of all academic anthropologists are living in precarity
(via FocaalBlog) In the general public, academics are often viewed as being part of an elite, who lives comfortable lives. In reality this is only true for a…
American Exceptionalism and Violent Protests
It is important to understand that for more than fifty years, American foreign and defense policies such as EUCOM, PCOM, … More
Jenny L. Davis on her book, How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-artifacts-afford Kevin Laddapong: Reading How Artifacts Afford is very refreshing. You have proposed a way forward for analys…
Le sexe en tant que travail et le travail du sexe (Sex as work and sex work)
Le sexe en tant que travail et le travail du sexe Ouvrage, traduction par Etienne Simard Une version anglaise de ce texte a été publiée dans Jacobin Magazine…
The Dirt
New articles, positions, special issues and calls for papers related to Discard Studies for January 2021.
David Trouille, “Fútbol in the Park: Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
What meaning does a daily soccer game in a public Los Angeles park have for a group of Latino men and the ethnographer who studied them? In today’s…