Organizing the Material So Far (Native North American Studies and AFS)
The posts on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the AFS were done in a non-sequential way. Several…
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Review Essay: Frank M. Snowden’s ‘Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present’, by David O’Kane (2020)
Snowden, Frank M. (2019) Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. At the beginning of the present global…
Review Essay: Frank M. Snowden’s ‘Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present’, by David O’Kane (2020)
Snowden, Frank M. (2019) Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. At the beginning of the present global…
“Doing Being a Latina,” or Performing Identities Through a Computer Voice
The ability to communicate is often taken-for-granted and imperceptible, despite being vital to everyday life. It defines our social performances as family members, professionals, and neighbors. Moreo…
Pamela Klassen on her book, The Story of Radio Mind
Interview by Georgia Ennis https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo28179073.html Georgia Ennis: At the center of your account are the travels and work of missionary Frederick Du Vernet,…
Interpreting Sexuality: Intellectually Disabled People and “Special” Educators in India by Shruti Vaidya
“Why does she like putting the glass bottle near her pee-hole? She couldn’t talk and tell us what was going on…what did she exactly want? What was in…
Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method
You: Can podcasts be used as a method in anthropology? Me: Yes! You: How? Why? To what ends? But what about (INSERT CONCERN HERE)? Oh, wow it might…
A response to Pollin and Chomsky: We need a Green New Deal without growth
Robert Pollin and Noam Chomsky have a new book out, Climate Crisis and the Green New Deal. It’s an important contribution to the emerging GND literature, from…
1851 Treaty with the Tualatin Band of Kalapuyas
The Tualatin treaty was the first to be negotiated in April of 1851 by the Willamette Valley Treaty Commission. The commission was replaced by Anson Dart who took…
Gone in a Quibi: A case for anthropology in business?
Quibi founders Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman in the company’s office (fortune.com) Quibi’s demise—just six months after the premium short-form smartphone-focused streaming service went live…
Ep #66 Method Adaptations, Big Bugs & aguaje: Diana Tung on Doing Fieldwork During Covid-19
The Familiar Strange · Ep #66 Method Adaptations, Big Bugs & aguaje: Diana Tung on Doing Fieldwork During Covid-19 “How much time do you actually need to spend…
How the informal economy took over the World by Keith Hart – Part 3
The demise of national capitalism To talk of the world economy being “informalized” suggests that there is a global rule-system, whereas effective rules are now absent at all…
Adventures with Peccaries pt. 3
Here is some javelina video during fieldwork on October 30, 2020.
Biden-Harris: Unity Over Division
I endorse the Biden-Harris ticket for the United States presidency. I believe this is more than a personal preference–it is informed by anthropology. In short: Anthropology endorses Biden-Harris…
Today’s Totalitarianism – Call for Submissions
Today’s Totalitarianism welcomes written opinion pieces that increase our awareness of the dangers we confront at this historical juncture anywhere in the world, of efforts to resist them,…
Black and Indigenous Storytelling as Counter-History
For untold centuries, storytelling has been foundational to the ways Black and Indigenous people understand and connect to the world around them. However, knowledge systems upheld in academic…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Greatest Hits: An Annotated Short List by SAR In-Depth Course Instructor Michael Hindus
With the passing of Supreme Court justice and cultural icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we asked Michael S. Hindus to share a few of her “gr…
Health Care Workers and COVID-19
Check out the newest set of COVID resources slide deck focused on Health Care Workers -cases-mortality- stress and burnout and attrition. Health-care workers account for 1 in 7…
“Burn Him”: Midsommar, Horror and Anthropology
[Content and spoiler warning: This piece discusses key plot points from the film Midsommar and includes descriptions of suicide and racial violence.] When the five main characters of…
Links & Contents I Liked 382
Hi all, A long week is coming to a well-deserved end…we examined great student blog projects this week and I also read really nice communication plans that make…
Boundary Work in the Birthing Room: Doulas, Emotional Labour, and the Politics of Care
Building on insights from her research on midwives in Indonesia, Molly Fitzpatrick reflects on recent debates on the role of the doula in Dutch maternal healthcare.
Boundary Work in the Birthing Room: Doulas, Emotional Labour, and the Politics of Care
Building on insights from her research on midwives in Indonesia, Molly Fitzpatrick reflects on recent debates on the role of the doula in Dutch maternal healthcare.
Micha Rahder, “An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation” (Duke UP, 2020)
We are joined today by Dr. Micha Rahder, writer, editor, and independent scholar based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. We will be talking about her new book, An Ecology…