Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method
You: Can podcasts be used as a method in anthropology? Me: Yes! You: How? Why? To what ends? But what about (INSERT CONCERN HERE)? Oh, wow it might…
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A response to Pollin and Chomsky: We need a Green New Deal without growth
Robert Pollin and Noam Chomsky have a new book out, Climate Crisis and the Green New Deal. It’s an important contribution to the emerging GND literature, from…
1851 Treaty with the Tualatin Band of Kalapuyas
The Tualatin treaty was the first to be negotiated in April of 1851 by the Willamette Valley Treaty Commission. The commission was replaced by Anson Dart who took…
Gone in a Quibi: A case for anthropology in business?
Quibi founders Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman in the company’s office (fortune.com) Quibi’s demise—just six months after the premium short-form smartphone-focused streaming service went live…
Ep #66 Method Adaptations, Big Bugs & aguaje: Diana Tung on Doing Fieldwork During Covid-19
The Familiar Strange · Ep #66 Method Adaptations, Big Bugs & aguaje: Diana Tung on Doing Fieldwork During Covid-19 “How much time do you actually need to spend…
How the informal economy took over the World by Keith Hart – Part 3
The demise of national capitalism To talk of the world economy being “informalized” suggests that there is a global rule-system, whereas effective rules are now absent at all…
Adventures with Peccaries pt. 3
Here is some javelina video during fieldwork on October 30, 2020.
Biden-Harris: Unity Over Division
I endorse the Biden-Harris ticket for the United States presidency. I believe this is more than a personal preference–it is informed by anthropology. In short: Anthropology endorses Biden-Harris…
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,…
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…