When Coronavirus Meets an Armed Conflict
Death and Dying in Colombia During the COVID-19 Pandemic MARÍA FERNANDA OLARTE-SIERRA Not all dead bodies are the same, just as not all deaths are equal. Some dead…
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Anthropology in the “real world”: A Roundtable Discussion About Applied Anthropology
This week we bring you a very special episode! Last year we collaborated with the Australian Network of Student Anthropologists, or ANSA for short and recorded their roundtable…
Neuroanthropology 2020-09-05 03:49:06
“If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is…
In Memoriam: David Graeber
happy now? pic.twitter.com/fIDlp2DOIs — David Graeber (@davidgraeber) June 3, 2020 David Graeber at a protest in London, June 3rd 2020 David Graeber: Anthropologist and Revo…
Industrializing Animal Life and Death: A Conversation with Alex Blanchette
Photograph courtesy and copyright of Sean Sprague. All rights reserved. …
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Hi all, The first week of term kicked off with about 150 new & returning students, but there was still time to collect a few interesting readings this…
David Graeber dies aged 59: "One of the most original anthropologists"
A few hours ago I was shocked to read that David Graeber has died. He was only 59 years old. Graeber was one the most known and most…
Frantic Spatio-Temporality of CoVid 19: Social-Distancing and/in the ‘Home’
[Footnotes presents this guest post by authors Bikash Sarma and Shruti Sharma as part of a series addressing reconceptualizing space and social interaction during Covid19, as the Covid19…
Frantic Spatio-Temporality of CoVid 19: Social-Distancing and/in the ‘Home’
[Footnotes presents this guest post by authors Bikash Sarma and Shruti Sharma as part of a series addressing reconceptualizing space and social interaction during Covid19, as the Covid19…
Arendt in the Anthropocene, our new paper on Being Earthbound
I’m happy to say that a new paper I co-wrote with Oliver Belcher is now out and open-access with Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. The article…
C. De Beukelaer and K. M. Spence, “Global Cultural Economy” (Routledge, 2018)
How should we understand the role of cultural industries in contemporary society? In Global Cultural Economy (Routledge) Christiaan De Beukelaer, a senior lecturer in cultural policy at the…
Problemas bioéticos ¿emergentes o persistentes? expuestos por la pandemia COVID-19
JOSÉ RAMÓN ACOSTA SARIEGO El escenario de una catástrofe anunciada. La pandemia COVID-19 ha mostrado en toda su crudeza las falencias, vulnerabilidades, injusticias y desigualdades que aquejan …
I’m very proud of this special issue on Bernard Narokobi
After many years of work by my co-editor Lise Dobrin and myself (well, really, mostly Lise) as well as our authors, I am very proud to announce that…
David Graeber: 1961-2020
Anthropologist, activist, and author David Graeber, author of some of the most popular and cutting recent works in our discipline, has passed away at 59 according to his…
What’s Behind Humanity’s Love-Hate Relationship With Exercise?
Many people have a strong desire for physical rest despite the fact that health experts advise them to exercise more. Heart rules/Pexels At the start of the COVID-19…
Love, distance and independence
I have been meaning to write about this for a long time, but I wanted to make sure I got it right. So for the past 3 and…
Black Latinx Activists on Anti-Blackness
A few weeks ago, the Association of Latina/o & Latinx Anthropologists (ALLA) released a statement condemning anti-Black violence and calling for “an intimate reckoning with anti-Blackness and whit…
Science Skepticism as a Veneer for Nationalistic Humor by Veronica Davidov
Recently we saw a splash of headlines about the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, as Russia became the first country to register a vaccine and governmental officials shared plans for…
More Horizon: A Commentary
By Adriana Petryna, University of Pennsylvania § The U.S. leads the world in confirmed cases of and deaths from COVID-19. At the start of the pandemic, its trajectory…
#Podcast Round Up: Best of March to August
Summer comes to an end, and some of us will start commuting again. Others will desperately wonder how to fill up the ‘spare’ time from their considerably shorter…
Wednesday Round Up #13
Octavia Butler on How (Not) to Choose Our Leaders Again and again, Butler cautions against the blindness of choosing from a state of heightened emotion — the very…
The Vector, the Viruses, and the “Healthy World”: Placing Aedes aegypti in Brazil
Mosquito: the “most dangerous animal in the world,” human’s “deadliest predator.” This insect is often described as the most probable target for gene-editing technologies that have the potential…
(COVID) Time Marches Grinds On
(COVID) Time Marches Grinds On Robert Myers When did it become July? Last month, I guess. A lot of flag waving and firewor…
A Japanese Sea Spirit Battles COVID-19
Some public health messages in Japan use the image of Amabie, a three-legged folklore mermaid, to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare…