Review: Food, Faith and Gender in Southeast Asia
Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women’s Food Practices. Usha Sanyal and Nita Kumar. Bloomsbury. 2020. ISBN: HB: 978-1-3501-3706-6. 222 pp. Wendy Yared…
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Sienna R. Craig, “The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives Between Nepal and New York” (U Washington Press, 2020)
In The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York (University of Washington Press, 2020), anthropologist Sienna Craig examines the inter-generational shifts that i… Visit New Books…
Ethnographic Fieldwork in Ecuador: A Discussion with Maricarmen Hernandez
What is it like to do research in a marginalized community in the shadows of Ecuador’s largest oil refinery? On today’s episode we talk with Maricarmen Hernandez, assistant…
Sienna R. Craig, “The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives Between Nepal and New York” (U Washington Press, 2020)
In The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York (University of Washington Press, 2020), anthropologist Sienna Craig examines the inter-generational shifts that … Visit New Books…
Ethnographic Fieldwork in Ecuador: A Discussion with Maricarmen Hernandez
What is it like to do research in a marginalized community in the shadows of Ecuador’s largest oil refinery? On today’s episode we talk with Maricarmen Hernandez, assistant…
Communivax
Exciting new project launched out of Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Communivax. “The coalition will conduct rapid ethnographic research rela…
The Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right 2020 Award Winner!
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2020 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Gifty Dzorka from the University of Manitoba for her research project “Corporate Agricultural…
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Hi all, My blogging year is coming to its end. There is still some grading and reviewing to do and the spring semester courses also deserve a little…
Happy Holidays!
This year, 2020. … the less we speak of it, the better, right? Still, it needs to be said that: In the face of this unabated crisis, we…
Wednesday Round Up #28
Trees Talk to Each Other in a Language We Can Learn, Ecologist Claims Like humans, trees are extremely social creatures, utterly dependent on each other for their survival.…
Best of SAPIENS 2020
[no-caption] Mint Images/Getty Images This year humanity was confronted with a crush of pressing issues both old and new: a pandemic, political unrest, a widespread reckoning with racism…
Long live the tundra nomads!
Just found out from the local news that in the Novyi Urengoy hospital two Nenets elders survived covid-19 and recovered from pneumonia, at the age of more than…
Jihad, universalism, and the Left: A conversation with Darryl Li
Since its publication in 2019, Darryl Li’s The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press) has been the focus of a great deal…
S. L. Lewis and M. A. Maslin, “The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene” (Yale UP, 2018)
Meteorites, mega-volcanoes, and plate tectonics–the old forces of nature–have transformed Earth for millions of years. They are now joined by a new geological force–humans. Our actions hav… Visit…
John Hartigan Jr., “Shaving the Beasts: Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Wild horses still roam the mountains of Galicia, Spain. But each year, in a ritual dating to the 1500s called rapa das bestas, villagers herd these “beasts” together and…
David Henig, “Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina” (U Illinois Press, 2020)
The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the collapse of socialism continue to force Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reconfigure the……
S. L. Lewis and M. A. Maslin, “The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene” (Yale UP, 2018)
Meteorites, mega-volcanoes, and plate tectonics–the old forces of nature–have transformed Earth for millions of years. They are now joined by a new geological force–humans. Our actions have driven…
David Henig, “Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina” (U Illinois Press, 2020)
The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the collapse of socialism continue to force Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reconfigure their…
John Hartigan Jr., “Shaving the Beasts: Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Wild horses still roam the mountains of Galicia, Spain. But each year, in a ritual dating to the 1500s called rapa das bestas, villagers herd these “beasts” together and…
Unsettling the Past: Radically Reimagining Archaeological Knowledge
For decades, Black and Indigenous archaeologists have rightfully called for a radical reimagining of how archaeology interprets and understands the past. The formulation of archaeologies by, for, and…
Guidelines in Action: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program
Guidelines in Action: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program …
Iowa’s Grapes of Wrath: Preserving Land for Food Production in the U.S.
Paul Durrenberger In Grapes of Wrath American writer John Steinbeck told the disheartening story of defeated farmers in 1939 Oklahoma. A bulldozer demolishes a shanty as the family…
Podcast #4 is online! Guest: Jochem Kootstra
Jochem Kootstra is onderzoeker, copywriter en programma-maker (om maar een greep uit zijn bezigheden te geven) en bekijkt technologie door een antropologische bril. Door deze bril ziet hij…
Crisis and Opportunity—A Look at 2020
[no-caption] Ada daSilva/Getty Images The Coronavirus Pandemic 2020 will be remembered as the year that COVID-19 swept the globe. This highly contagious virus moves from person to person,…