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Hi all, We have a full #globaldev reading schedule this week! From Plexiglass to child soldiers, from MSF to UN & FCDO, from Bolivia to Bangladesh & so…
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Janet Roitman: Africa Rising: Class or Finance
https://aoe.fi/api/download/roitman-1607089987671.mp3 Janet Roitman (New School for Social Research) gave a seminar presentation on the 14th of November entitled ̶…
Writing Life No. 1: An interview with Rachel Prentice by Andrea Wojcik
Figure 1: Rachel’s writing space with friend Jasper (2007-2019) (Photograph by Rachel Prentice) Rachel E. Prentice is a no muss, no fuss anthropologist of medicine, technology, and the…
Oluwakemi M. Balogun, “Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity…
Oluwakemi M. Balogun, “Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity…
SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
We are happy to announce the first winner of the new SAFN Student Research Award. This annual award supports the research phase of an original project focused on…
Ida Susser: Covid, police brutality and race: are ongoing French mobilizations breaking through the class boundaries?
On May 31, 2020, the US exploded in protest to address the super-exploitation of racism, which has uniquely scarred its history. This was followed by international demonstrations, including…
Facing COVID-19 as an Undocumented Essential Worker
Many immigrants in the U.S. continue working in agriculture and other essential sectors amid new pandemic safety protocols. Brent Stirton/Getty Images One afternoon in mid-April, I was si…
International Day of Persons with Disabilities: What Happens the Day After?
Twenty-eight years ago, in 1992, the United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/3 proclaimed December 3 as International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Immediately following the International Da…
Richard Seymour, “The Twittering Machine” (Verso, 2020)
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write…
Richard Seymour, “The Twittering Machine” (Verso, 2020)
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write…
Wednesday Round Up #26
A World Without Ice and Daniel Bird Tobin – Climate Data Meets Art This episode of Warm Regards, the second of two that explore climate data as art,…
What Rez Dogs Mean to the Lakota
Painting by Lakota artist Keith Braveheart from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. Keith Braveheart A tragic event occurred on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakot…
Webinar Series in honour of Sally Engle Merry (1944-2020)
From 11 Decembre 2020 to 21 May 2021 Co-organised by Allegra Lab and EASA LawNet. This series of online talks features presentations that examine the current state of…
The Limits of Warmth: Cultural Adaptation and the Politics of Temperature in a Bolivian Hospital by Gabriela Elisa Morales
In the small municipal hospital in the Bolivian highland town of Machacamarca (a pseudonym), the chilly air of the Andes seeps into the building, traveling through the thin…
“Shaligrams as Kin”
My newest article, called “Cornerstones: Shaligrams as Kin” will be coming out from the Journal of Religion early next year. Here’s a preview: “The courtyard of Dinesh and…
Post Indianism
Gerald Vizenor has created the idea of the Post Indian, native peoples who are living a new consciousness beyond the stereotypes of victim-hood about Indians. Post-Indians defy the…
Call for Pitches: PEDAGOGY
Image description: Eight apples are lined up in two rows of four on a light green background. The apples alternate in color between red and green. iStock Class…
Studying missing data: an interdisciplinary approach to data gaps
Sarah Giest and Annemarie Samuels are kicking off this series 'Large Issues, Interdisciplinary Approaches' on interdisciplinary research and teaching at the Leiden Anthropology Blog. They of…
Studying missing data: an interdisciplinary approach to data gaps
Sarah Giest and Annemarie Samuels are kicking off this series 'Large Issues, Interdisciplinary Approaches' on interdisciplinary research and teaching at the Leiden Anthropology Blog. They of…
‘Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia’ by Paul Turnbull
Paul Turnbull. Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia. Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. 428 pp., 6 b/w illus., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmil…
How the informal economy took over the World by Keith Hart – Finale
The Euro crisis: an episode in the history of money The monetary crisis that has overwhelmed the eurozone of late needs to be seen in this context. The…
The Ethnographer’s Catch 22
Did I hear a knock at my door? I stopped what I was doing, listening more attentively. South Africa had been on lockdown for over a week,…
Claire Herbert, “A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality” (U California Press, 2021)
Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality (University of California Press, 2021) examines how the informal reclam… Visit…