Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation, Reification, Resistance, and Transformation? The Impact of Migration and Demographics on Linguistic, Racial, and Ethnic Identity and Equity in Educational Systems: An Appl…
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What Human Hair Reveals About Death’s Seasonality
A lock of hair from Edith Cook, a girl who died in 1876, offers a window into her death. Jelmer Eerkens Each wave of Edith Howard Cook’s reddish-blonde…
When You Can’t Look Away: Seeing and Difference in American Medicine
Juliet When I interviewed her, Juliet was a third-year medical student and a dedicated member of her medical school’s interest groups on social justice. I interviewed her because…
Disability and Dismantling: Four Reflections in a Time of COVID-19
Rijul Kochhar To cite this article: Rijul Kochhar (2020) Disability and Dismantling: Four Reflections in a Time of COVID-19, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 73-75, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1761213 To…
It’s All Free Speech Until Someone Dies in a Pandemic
Carolyn M. Rouse To cite this article: Carolyn M. Rouse (2020) It’s All Free Speech Until Someone Dies in a Pandemic, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 66-72, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1761212 To…
The Travesties of India’s Tribal Boarding Schools
[no-caption] Biswaranjan Rout/AP Photo The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, is the world’s largest boarding school. KISS is a private school that…
Widening the lens: English teaching volunteering
by Ruthie Walters Overseas volunteering has received a lot of attention in academia, in the media and on social media. Yet, the focus tends to be on the volunteer, often from…
The Human Cost of Border Enforcement Policies
A participatory pop-up exhibition breaks down traditional disciplinary boundaries between art and anthropology to inform wider audiences about the humanitarian crisis occurring at the United States–Me…
The Anthropologist as Artist
A deeply interdisciplinary visual artist creates objects that are both art and ethnography. Her installations produce space for immersive, social forms of understanding. As a visual artist and…
Beer Can Photography
In an age of digital technology, an experiment with pinhole cameras reveals a striking record of the sun’s daily path and a changing landscape in northern Sweden. Uffe…
Matt Tomlinson on his book, God is Samoan
God Is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific Interview by Jon Bialecki Jon Bialecki: I want to start this interview by saying that God Is…
PHOTO ESSAY: SHELTER IN PLACE
AMANDA NESCI For many, home is seen as a place you come back to, retreat, relax, decompress. How does this relationship change when our homes become our whole…
Today’s Totalitarian Menace
Wherever one looks across the globe today democracy is in decline and trends towards what was once called “totalitarianism” are on the rise. In China 1,000,000 Uighurs are…
Ep #67 Face Ownership, Identity politics, Election Spectacle & Curated Preferences:This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Face Ownership, Identity Politics, Election Spectacle & Curated Preferences On this week’s panel, we feature the president of the Australian Network of Student Anthropologis…
SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Stephen Sullivan Listens to the Soundscapes of Gentrification
My project is less interested in the so-called problem of noise than understanding urban neighborhood sounds more capaciously as social ph…
Links & Contents I Liked 384
Hi all, How are things? I know…but amidst all the 2020 craziness this week’s #globaldev review features interesting, often uplifting and always status-quo-challenging stories from indigenous pe…
Antoinette Jackson: Intangible Cultural Heritage and Living Communities – Curating ethnographic resources and engaging people
https://aoe.fi/api/download/antoinettejacksonaudio-1603871601474.m4a Antoinette Jackson (University of South Florida) gave a talk titled “Intangible Cultural Heritage …
Collaborative Ethnography in the Digital Age: Towards a New Methodological Framework*
Monika Palmberger & Philipp Budka Digital ethnography has become a very vibrant research field, as the growing body of literature indicates (e.g. Hjorth et al., 2017; Pink et…
Katja M. Guenther, “The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster…
Katja M. Guenther, “The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster…
Native North American Studies at the AFS Annual Meetings of the 1980s
Less than 100 papers were presented at the American Folklore Society meetings in the decade of 1900-1909. More than 3500 papers and films were presented during the decade…
Sexworkers’ long history as political experts, English translation: Thierry Schaffauser
I’ve translated Thierry’s reflections published the other day as faithfully to his tone as I could and checked with him, so here’s the piece with the same title,…
Podcast # 2 is online! Guest: Aleeha Ali
In this episode, Puck de Boer talks with Aleeha Ali, who studied sociology in Pakistan, did a research master’s in anthropology in the UK and is currently a…