How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Nicholas Barron
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
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The 1960s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
Here again is a post from my series considering the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies work within the intellectual life of the…
Another affirming commercial
This article is cross-posted from the ZS intranet (which we call ZSpace), where I write episodically about issues of interest to the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. It’s…
Christina Davis on her book, The Struggle for a Multilingual Future
Interview by Gaya Morris https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-struggle-for-a-multilingual-future-9780190947477 Gaya Morris: Can you tell us a bit about what led you to this project? How did yo…
Reshaping the bulimic self by Leonie Mol
The current clinical and social explanations of bulimia in the United Kingdom are based upon two premises: 1) that bulimia is a derivative of anorexia, and 2) that…
The Montanelli Case: Sexuality, Race, and Colonial Forgetting in BLM Italy.
Indro Montanelli (1909-2001), the most famous journalist in Italian history, is an intellectual figure whose memory commands respect across Italy’s political spectrum. But, following the global protes…
M. Newhart and W. Dolphin, “The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience” (Routledge, 2018)
Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who…
The Dirt
The Dirt is a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field of discard studies. Here is The Dirt for October 2020.
The 1950s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
In this post, I continue the work of assessing the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in the work of the American Folklore…
Curry’s Volunteers
This letter from General Wool is remarkable for its transparency in revealing the actions and decisions of Governor Curry of Oregon. General George Law Curry was a two-time…
Advertising Change: Presenting a New New Zealander?
The Southern Man advert is aiming to speak to a specific audience of beer drinkers, assumed by Speight’s to be men. Other beer companies have played with similar…
Planning the Reserve on the Sea Coast
The following letters detail one side of the conversation with Joel Palmer, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon, and John Wool, commander of the Pacific Department. (I don’t…
John and Steven, ft. the male gaze
Ahh, the patriarchy! We live in a society that has grown up fundamentally with the ‘male gaze’. The male gaze is the gaze of vision that society sees…
TDTU Brainstorming Essay Plans
15 minutes approx per paper, what can we make of the lectures, reading and discussion that offers arguments to challenge readers and convey the relevance of anthro texts…
The 1940s: JAF and Zumwalt’s American Folklore Scholarship
This series of posts are not attempting to achieve the rigor of a formal article or book. I am working in incremental bits for myself looking at some…
Links & Contents I Liked 381
Hi all, The one great thing about compiling my weekly review is that I never really know what will end up here on Friday…the Art Deco legacy of…
Native American and First Nations Studies in the Work of the American Folklore Society During the 1910s
Here we go again, this time looking at the 1910s. This post is the eighth in a series considering the absence and presence of Native North American and…
Getting Down to Business and Making a Career with Anthropology: Guest Podcast w Adam Gamwell on Anthro Perspectives
This Anthro Life is based on lifting up the voices and value of anthropologists and human scientists in all fields through sharing their stories, thought leadership, struggles, and…
#Book Symposium: Tasting Qualities
How does one reproduce the taste, smell and appearance of any craft based/ industrially produced food commodity? Tea is one of the many beverages with roots in colonialism.…
#BookSymposium: Tasting Qualities
Sarah Besky’s ethnographically and historically rich study of the Indian tea industry begins with a deceptively simple question: what makes a good cup of tea? The answer, it…
#BookSymposium: Tasting Qualities
As I write this, in the uncertain and tumultuous times of early June 2020, there is a storm brewing in the world of British tea drinkers. On June…
Gregory Forth, “A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019)
Gregory Forth, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has studied the Nage people of the eastern Indonesian…
Sara Luna, “Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border” (U Texas Press, 2020)
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years…
Minjeong Kim, “Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and “Multiculturalism” in Rural South Korea” (U Hawai’i Press, 2018)
Studies on marriage migration often portray marriage migrants as victims of globalization and patriarchy. Although there are intersecting oppressions among female migrant workers, the tendenc… Visit New Books…