Ancient Beer Is Craft’s New Frontier
Ancient artwork, such as this relief in the Israel Beer Breweries museum in Ashkelon, Israel, offers clues to past beer production. Alamy One morning in May 2019, a…
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In the Vault: Beatien Yazz Watercolor
Beatien Yazz, Diné (Navajo), 1946, Watercolor on paper, SAR.1983-12-150. Photograph by Addison Doty, Copyright 2020 School for Advanced Res…
Life in the Age of Social Media and Smartphones with Daniel Miller and Georgiana Murariu
Do you have a sense of how much time you spend each day on social media and smartphone? Whether you can live with them or you can’t live…
Being Psychotically Adept— Placing Change, the Poetic Self, and Community Arts Together by Luke Kernan
For some time now, I have been volunteering at a local mental health clinic known as Foundry. One of the activities I have become involved in at the…
#Corona: Connected by extension – How paying connects old regimes and new isolations
The situation in Myanmar during and shortly after my fieldwork in March 2020 reminded me of the uncertainty of knowledge and call for prudence which started the…
Kelly Underman, “Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training” (NYU Press, 2020)
The pelvic exam is considered a fundamental procedure for medical students to learn; it is also often the one of the first times where medical students are required…
Jill Massino, “Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania” (Berghahn, 2019)
In this episode, we meet Dr. Jill Massino, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina who is fascinated researching everyday life under dictatorships. We…
The Work it Takes to Stop Working: Productivity in Labs and Sugarcane
In spring of 2020, thousands of scientific labs across several continents shut down. What was deemed “non-essential” research was ramped down and/or paused in an effort to stop…
Extreme Anthropology
During my exploration of anthropology in the Directory of Open Access Journals, I came across the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. Just the title entices, but the contents are…
Race, Place, and Latinx Political Choices
How can there be talk of a singular Latinx vote without recognizing the differentiated racial experiences among Latinxs? During the 2020 primary elections, a New York Times headline,…
Guest Post: Reflexive Anthropology: Black Women and Ethnographic Performances // Antropología Reflexiva: Mujer Negra y Actos Etnográficos
[Footnotes is pleased to present this guest post by Carolina Nvé Díaz San Francisco in both English and Spanish. Carolina is currently a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology…
Guest Post: Reflexive Anthropology: Black Women and Ethnographic Performances // Antropología Reflexiva: Mujer Negra y Actos Etnográficos
[Footnotes is pleased to present this guest post by Carolina Nvé Díaz San Francisco in both English and Spanish. Carolina is currently a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology…
Gabriella Lukacs on her book, Invisibility by Design
Interview by I-Lin Liu https://www.dukeupress.edu/invisibility-by-design I-Lin Liu: Could you share with us what prompted you to take on this research on Japanese women’s participation in d…
Book forum: Michelle Murphy’s The Economization of Life by Martha Lincoln
Michelle Murphy’s The Economization of Life (Duke University Press, 2017) received the Ludwik Fleck Prize from the the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) at the 2019…
Sexworkers’ long history as political experts: Thierry Schaffauser
The other day Thierry Schaffauser posted some reflections on facebook on the history of sexworkers as thinkers and leaders in activism for social change. Objecting to the exclusion…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Consciously (Re)Quarantined
As nations across Europe find the inevitable domino of new national lockdowns knocking into them, we may all approach ‘this time’ differently from the last. During the interim…
James Staples, “Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India” (U Washington Press, 2020)
Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route… Visit…
Discard Studies Twitter Conference Schedule
The Discard Studies Twitter Conference is going live on November 16th and 17th! Here is the schedule. #Discard2020
Wapato Canoes
There are several types of canoes for the region which served the purposes of the tribes. The most well know is the Chinook canoe or western style canoe…
Colonial Spectres
What would it mean to be no longer ‘in country’ in Australia? How would the legacies of British colonialism, and the attempted extirpation and survival of Australia’s indigenous…
My Mankiller Story
Now that I am immersed in native studies, I am finding that everyone has a good Mankiller story, as in a story of working with Wilma Mankiller the…
Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community Recognized with Book Prizes
The annual business meeting of the Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA) was held today and one of its key moments was the bestowal of the annual CMA Book…
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Hi all, This week’s link review is guaranteed free from the other topic that has been dominating this week’s news…we are focusing on changing power dynamics in #globaldev,…
Climate Change May Have Been a Major Driver of Ancient Hominin Extinctions
New research suggests some of our species’ closest relatives died out because of significant changes in climate, findings that may offer a warning for humanity today. Aliraza Khatri/Getty…