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Editor’s Note
The introduction to this special issue, An Anthropology of the COVID-19 Pandemic, highlights the collective nature of its p…
An Anthropology of the Handshake
Bjarke Oxlund To cite this article: Bjarke Oxlund (2020) An Anthropology of the Handshake, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 39-44, …
An Anthropology of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rylan Higgins, Emily Martin and Maria D. Vesperi To cite this article: Rylan Higgins, Emily Martin & Maria D. Vesperi …
Why Do Virtual Meetings Feel So Weird?
[no-caption] Anna Shvets/Pexels It’s morning in Houston, Texas, for Jeremy* and his team of engineers, and nearly evening in a small town north of Bucharest, Romania, for Costa…
In Memoriam: Sally Engle Merry
Meg Davis Sally Engle Merry got more of a kick than anyone I know from not only thinking big and aiming high herself, but helping other scholars to…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1930s
This is a fifth post in a series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society…
Dutch superiority the cause of so many Covid-19 infections?
Some people, including medical experts and politicians, imply that Dutch superiority causes so many Covid-19 infections. Erik Bähre reflects on the nationalist rhetoric that prevents the Netherlands f…
Dutch superiority the cause of so many Covid-19 infections?
Some people, including medical experts and politicians, imply that Dutch superiority causes so many Covid-19 infections. Erik Bähre reflects on the nationalist rhetoric that prevents the Netherlands f…
The 1930s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
This is the sixth post in the series looking at the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations scholars and scholarship from the work and…
Alexey Golubev, “The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia” (Cornell UP, 2020)
The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia (Cornell UP, 2020) is a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era.…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1960s
In a fourth series post on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society, I pick up…
Aging, Vulnerability and Questions of Care in the Time of COVID-19
Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin & Marcia C. Inhorn To cite this article: Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin & Marcia C. Inhorn …
The Emergence of COVID-19: A Multispecies Story
Eben Kirksey To cite this article: Eben Kirksey (2020) The Emergence of COVID-19: A Multispecies Story, Anthropology Now, …
Sarah Besky on her book, Tasting Qualities
Interview by Shulan Sun https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520303256/tasting-qualities What do you see as the main focus and argument of this book? My main aim in the book is to develop a…
Sound Politics in COVID-19 Brooklyn
Last spring, New Yorkers participated in the 7:00 p.m. clap to show solidarity with “essential workers” and assuage feelings of isolation. They used noisy cacerolazos to mobilize collectiv…
Becoming ‘not ready’: the case of the moving threshold in a dementia prevention trial by Natassia Brenman
In a behavioural testing room of a clinical research facility, a well-dressed, white-haired woman is undergoing a battery of cognitive, neurological, and physiological tests. The facility, flanked by…
Kristina M. Lyons, “Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural communities as they attempt…
A Pack Basket Among the Lisu in Yunnan, 2004
If you click here, you will be taken to a Getty Images photograph by Zhang Peng/Light Rocket. The image shows a Lisu woman on her way to a…
Future of circumpolar youth in a changing climate
just wanted to share this, have a look. A nice project, idea to have very short clips of young people talking about life. But as worrying as it…
Ep#65 The Social Dilemma, Corpo-Humans, Buying Nothing & Localised Colonialism: This Month on TFS
This week we bring you a panel with Anthea Snowsill who is currently doing her research with the Intha people of Myanmar. In this panel We’d also introduce…
Future of Arctic Youth in Rural Areas
This initiative sounds very promising. I think we would need a publication that explores anthropologically the specifics of gender organisation in Arctic societies, not only in villages but…
“I painted him as a monument”: Public Art as Protest in Detroit
This essay is my submission for Festival CHAT 2020. I’m very grateful to the CHAT organizers for hosting this phenomenal virtual event and giving us a way to…
Native American and First Nations Studies in the American Folklore Society: The Founding AFS Fellows
As I noted in the previous post in this series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies work within the American Folklore Society,…