Christine Wilson 2020 Undergraduate Award Winner!
SAFN is happy to announce that the winner of the 2020 Christine Wilson Award for an Undergraduate Student is Adele Woodmansee of Harvard University for her paper “’It…
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Shadows, Ambiguity, and More-Than-Human Politics
My first glimpse of a peccary/javelina at one of my fieldsites. I am currently working on a manuscript exploring the ways that both literal and metaphorical shadows produce…
Heeding anthropological mottos in the study of law
Abstract Even though I have been based in a school of law for thirty years, my scholarly contributions do not come across as legally conventional. This is no…
Tommies: a very British haunt? by Frances Williams
Designed by: okb-buro.com/ Earlier this year, the world became familiar with the facade of Britain’s St Thomas’ Hospital when, in late March, it became the backdrop for breaking…
The Silence before the Silent Spring: Narratives of Modernity and the Silences around the Toxicity of Pesticide Use
Pesticide-use and the control of pest populations with synthetic chemicals are a subset of the history of the “modernization” of agricultural practices. This narrative positions pesticides as an…
A Startling Link Between Neanderthals and COVID-19
[no-caption] Angus Krieg SAPIENS host Chip Colwell speaks with evolutionary geneticist Hugo Zeberg about his surprising discovery of a connection between Neanderthal DNA and a greater ris…
Abigail A. Dumes, “Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine” (Duke UP, 2020)
While many doctors claim that Lyme disease–a tick-borne bacterial infection–is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond…
Abigail A. Dumes, “Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine” (Duke UP, 2020)
While many doctors claim that Lyme disease–a tick-borne bacterial infection–is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond…
PhD jobs, Arctic Anthropology?
Dear readers, the University of Lapland offers four full-time PhD positions in an open call. So basically any topic in Arctic Social Sciences go. I would very much…
No questions asked: the rise of loan sharks in lockdown South Africa
Flipping through my fieldnotes written back in the early days of the South African lockdown, it’s the stoicism of my research participants that strikes me. When president Cyril…
Lauren Crossland-Marr takes the page 99 test
Re-reading page 99 of my dissertation, I’m snapped back to the mosque in Milan, Italy that I came to know so well. Where public school children convened to…
Book Review: The End of Aspiration? Social Mobility and our Children’s Fading Prospects by Duncan Exley
In The End of Aspiration?, Duncan Exley reflects on the current social mobility crisis facing the UK and the ways that this can be addressed across government, business…
Surveys, Race and Symbolic Violence
This blog argues that the inhumane and racist treatment of non-white citizens in the Toeslagenaffaire, while shocking, draws on common racist logics we also encounter in seemingly innocuous…
Introduction to the ‘Ethnographic Marginalia’ Podcast
Far too often, the most evocative and interesting experiences that come out of ethnographic fieldwork are pushed to the margins. In the first episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, series…
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, “Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It” (FSG Originals, 2020)
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff t……
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, “Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It” (FSG Originals, 2020)
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take…
Introduction to the ‘Ethnographic Marginalia’ Podcast
Far too often, the most evocative and interesting experiences that come out of ethnographic fieldwork are pushed to the margins. In the first episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, series…
Lessie Jo Frazier, “Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Sarah Hines (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma) and James Cane-Carrasco (Associate Professor, Departments of History and International & Area Studies, Uni… Visit New Books in…
Lessie Jo Frazier, “Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Sarah Hines (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma) and James Cane-Carrasco (Associate Professor, Departments of History and International & Area Studies, University o… Visit New Books…
Surveys, Race and Symbolic Violence
This blog argues that the inhumane and racist treatment of non-white citizens in the Toeslagenaffaire, while shocking, draws on common racist logics we also encounter in seemingly innocuous…
Mission By Mail: Evangelism in a Pandemic
Religion is no “opiate of the masses.” Rich and poor, educated and ignorant alike flock to the call of certainty in these uncertain times. Rather than action based…
MyKnet.org: Traces of digital decoloniality in an indigenous web-based environment
This blog post is a shorter version of a paper presented at the Engaging with Web Archives (EWA20) conference in September 2020 (Book of Abstracts). Budka, P. (2020).…
Miha Kozorog: Borderwork with Wildlife on the Slovenian-Hungarian Border
https://aoe.fi/api/download/audioonly-1607253782503.m4a Miha Kozorog gave a visiting seminar in Anthropology at the University of Helsinki entitled “Borderwork w…
Blue Plaque for Ho Chi Minh
The blue plaque for Ho Chi Minh on the site of the former Carlton Hotel, where he worked as Van Ba. It is on New Zealand House in…