The 1930s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
This is the sixth post in the series looking at the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations scholars and scholarship from the work and…
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Alexey Golubev, “The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia” (Cornell UP, 2020)
The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia (Cornell UP, 2020) is a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era.…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1960s
In a fourth series post on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society, I pick up…
Aging, Vulnerability and Questions of Care in the Time of COVID-19
Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin & Marcia C. Inhorn To cite this article: Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin & Marcia C. Inhorn …
The Emergence of COVID-19: A Multispecies Story
Eben Kirksey To cite this article: Eben Kirksey (2020) The Emergence of COVID-19: A Multispecies Story, Anthropology Now, …
Sarah Besky on her book, Tasting Qualities
Interview by Shulan Sun https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520303256/tasting-qualities What do you see as the main focus and argument of this book? My main aim in the book is to develop a…
Sound Politics in COVID-19 Brooklyn
Last spring, New Yorkers participated in the 7:00 p.m. clap to show solidarity with “essential workers” and assuage feelings of isolation. They used noisy cacerolazos to mobilize collectiv…
Becoming ‘not ready’: the case of the moving threshold in a dementia prevention trial by Natassia Brenman
In a behavioural testing room of a clinical research facility, a well-dressed, white-haired woman is undergoing a battery of cognitive, neurological, and physiological tests. The facility, flanked by…
Kristina M. Lyons, “Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural communities as they attempt…
A Pack Basket Among the Lisu in Yunnan, 2004
If you click here, you will be taken to a Getty Images photograph by Zhang Peng/Light Rocket. The image shows a Lisu woman on her way to a…
Future of circumpolar youth in a changing climate
just wanted to share this, have a look. A nice project, idea to have very short clips of young people talking about life. But as worrying as it…
Ep#65 The Social Dilemma, Corpo-Humans, Buying Nothing & Localised Colonialism: This Month on TFS
This week we bring you a panel with Anthea Snowsill who is currently doing her research with the Intha people of Myanmar. In this panel We’d also introduce…
Future of Arctic Youth in Rural Areas
This initiative sounds very promising. I think we would need a publication that explores anthropologically the specifics of gender organisation in Arctic societies, not only in villages but…
“I painted him as a monument”: Public Art as Protest in Detroit
This essay is my submission for Festival CHAT 2020. I’m very grateful to the CHAT organizers for hosting this phenomenal virtual event and giving us a way to…
Native American and First Nations Studies in the American Folklore Society: The Founding AFS Fellows
As I noted in the previous post in this series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies work within the American Folklore Society,…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1940s
Here is a second quick post on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings. Here the focus in…
The People EBook
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Rector Responds to the Catholic Boarding School Proposal, 1862
In 1862 the Catholic Church of the United States made a proposal to open boarding schools to serve all of the Indian reservations primarily served by their own…
Ludwik Fleck where are you now that we need you? Covid-19 and the genesis of epidemiological facts by Ilana Löwy
Tests for Covid-19 and the politics of big numbers We are incessantly flooded with data on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. WHO and the Johns Hopkins coronavirus…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1950s
Update: The post below has been updated to include the previously missing 1951 program. I use strikeout and underline to show the changes. Special thanks to Tim Lloyd…
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Hi all, I will keep the intro short after a busy week with lots of inspiring discussions, a great panel at the DW conference, plus teaching, grading &…
We started a podcast!
Standplaats Wereld is expanding with a new component. We will continue to marvel you with our stories, but from now on, we will also explore them in the…
An Archaeology of Marijuana
In June, the recreational and medical marijuana industry in my home state of Colorado reached US$199 million in monthly sales, a new record. The growth of this industry…
Zines
From the very first Tecoma Youth CYSS(tem) one to a few neat things already linked here – The Paper, Invisible Finger – I’ve always enjoyed the Zine scene…