Here is the next in my series on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in the work of the American Folklore Society,…
Raising Our Voices is almost here! A very different and exciting kind of AAA meeting. AN recently talked screen-to-screen with Raising Our Voices program chair Mayanthi L. Fernando…
ALLA reflects on the current moment, Latinx anthropology, awards, mentoring, and programming for Raising Our Voices. On September 30, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus participat…
Our AAA Annual Meeting and section meetings should be spaces for graduate training. We must do more to include graduate students in our events and produce programming to…
With the twenty-fifth anniversary of Srebrenica in the forefront of her mind, Sarah Wagner will be joining faculty and graduate students at Raising Our Voices to rethink ethnographic…
AES programming seeks to address the current moment and its challenges. A Look Back to Look Forward, by Jacqueline Solway I left the 2019 joint American Anthropological Association…
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Here again is a post from my series considering the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies work within the intellectual life of the…
This article is cross-posted from the ZS intranet (which we call ZSpace), where I write episodically about issues of interest to the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. It’s…
Interview by Gaya Morris https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-struggle-for-a-multilingual-future-9780190947477 Gaya Morris: Can you tell us a bit about what led you to this project? How did yo…
The current clinical and social explanations of bulimia in the United Kingdom are based upon two premises: 1) that bulimia is a derivative of anorexia, and 2) that…
Indro Montanelli (1909-2001), the most famous journalist in Italian history, is an intellectual figure whose memory commands respect across Italy’s political spectrum. But, following the global protes…
Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who…
The Dirt is a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field of discard studies. Here is The Dirt for October 2020.
In this post, I continue the work of assessing the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in the work of the American Folklore…
This letter from General Wool is remarkable for its transparency in revealing the actions and decisions of Governor Curry of Oregon. General George Law Curry was a two-time…
The Southern Man advert is aiming to speak to a specific audience of beer drinkers, assumed by Speight’s to be men. Other beer companies have played with similar…
The following letters detail one side of the conversation with Joel Palmer, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon, and John Wool, commander of the Pacific Department. (I don’t…
Ahh, the patriarchy! We live in a society that has grown up fundamentally with the ‘male gaze’. The male gaze is the gaze of vision that society sees…
15 minutes approx per paper, what can we make of the lectures, reading and discussion that offers arguments to challenge readers and convey the relevance of anthro texts…
This series of posts are not attempting to achieve the rigor of a formal article or book. I am working in incremental bits for myself looking at some…
Hi all, The one great thing about compiling my weekly review is that I never really know what will end up here on Friday…the Art Deco legacy of…
Here we go again, this time looking at the 1910s. This post is the eighth in a series considering the absence and presence of Native North American and…
This Anthro Life is based on lifting up the voices and value of anthropologists and human scientists in all fields through sharing their stories, thought leadership, struggles, and…