Today’s Totalitarianism – Call for Submissions
Today’s Totalitarianism welcomes written opinion pieces that increase our awareness of the dangers we confront at this historical juncture anywhere in the world, of efforts to resist them,…
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Black and Indigenous Storytelling as Counter-History
For untold centuries, storytelling has been foundational to the ways Black and Indigenous people understand and connect to the world around them. However, knowledge systems upheld in academic…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Greatest Hits: An Annotated Short List by SAR In-Depth Course Instructor Michael Hindus
With the passing of Supreme Court justice and cultural icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we asked Michael S. Hindus to share a few of her “gr…
Health Care Workers and COVID-19
Check out the newest set of COVID resources slide deck focused on Health Care Workers -cases-mortality- stress and burnout and attrition. Health-care workers account for 1 in 7…
“Burn Him”: Midsommar, Horror and Anthropology
[Content and spoiler warning: This piece discusses key plot points from the film Midsommar and includes descriptions of suicide and racial violence.] When the five main characters of…
Links & Contents I Liked 382
Hi all, A long week is coming to a well-deserved end…we examined great student blog projects this week and I also read really nice communication plans that make…
Boundary Work in the Birthing Room: Doulas, Emotional Labour, and the Politics of Care
Building on insights from her research on midwives in Indonesia, Molly Fitzpatrick reflects on recent debates on the role of the doula in Dutch maternal healthcare.
Boundary Work in the Birthing Room: Doulas, Emotional Labour, and the Politics of Care
Building on insights from her research on midwives in Indonesia, Molly Fitzpatrick reflects on recent debates on the role of the doula in Dutch maternal healthcare.
Micha Rahder, “An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation” (Duke UP, 2020)
We are joined today by Dr. Micha Rahder, writer, editor, and independent scholar based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. We will be talking about her new book, An Ecology…
In the Beginning: Native North American Studies in the American Folklore Society to 1899
The two most recent posts in this series considered the state of Native North American and First Nations studies within the American Folklore Society (AFS) through the lens…
Native North American Studies in the Journal of American Folklore During the 2000s and 2010s
Carrying forward from the previous post on the Journal of American Folklore (JAF) during the 1980s and 1990s, my focus here is the presence and absence of Native…
APLA 2020 Book Prize!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased award the 2020 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology to Dr. Alpa Shah (London School of Economics) for her book Nightmarch: Am…
In the Time of the Dinosaurs: Paleontological Affect
By Daniel Allen Solomon § In Timefulness (2018), geologist Marcia Bjornerud argues that one of the key problems of the contemporary historical moment, the so-called Anthropocene, is “time…
Native North American Studies in the Journal of American Folklore During the 1980s and 1990s
In this post I continue considering the absence and presence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the American Folklore Society. Please look…
Palmer’s Knowledge of the Tribes, 1854
Joel Palmer got his appointment to be the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in 1853 after the failure of Anson Dart to get some 19 treaties ratified. Palmer already…
A Journey of Interspecies Surprises
[no-caption] Karen Carr/National Park Service This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been repub lished under Creative Commons. Every parent knows the feeling….
Introducing the Commodity — Capital Course – multiple iterations
The integument bursts asunder (worst translation ever of Marx) Die Hülle … wird gesprengt. – Discussion [coming out soon-ish]. Introducing the Commodity — Capital Course – multiple i…
SAFN Events at AAA’s Virtual Raising Our Voices Conference
SAFN Events at AAA’s Virtual Raising Our Voices Conference For the 2020 annual meeting the American Anthropological Association will be hosting a virtual event, and SAFN members will…
Wednesday Round Up #21
How the Awful Stuff Won The distinction between the religious fanatics and the click-chasers collapses still further as Phelps-Roper explains that, because Westboro’s fanatical conception of predestin…
In the Journals, October 2020, Part I by Emmanuelle Roth
Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Beyond the Household: Caribbean Families and Biocultural Models of AlloparentingRobin G. Nelson Alloparental or extramaternal care is an integral aspect of h…
Should I enrol in a PhD if I want to be a business anthropologist?
This article deals with a common problem for professional profiles working with companies. Is it worth doing a PhD if you are going to work in the private…
Suma Ikeuchi, “Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in a Brazilian Diaspora” (Stanford UP, 2019)
In 1990, the Japanese government introduced the Nikkei-jin (Japanese descendant) visa and since then it has attracted more than 190,000 Nikkei Brazilian nationals to Japan. In Jesus Loves…
“Imperialist Goats” & Tanzania’s Oct. 28 Elections
If you look at one of those world maps that show where Covid-19 cases are currently spiking, you will notice that the United Republic of Tanzania is usually…
Degrowth: A response to Branko Milanovic
In late 2017, Branko Milanovic wrote a blog post titled “The illusion of degrowth in a poor and unequal world.” He penned it, he says, following a…