There’s no such thing as “We”
Put simply, evoking the universal “we” is a way to discard differences and maintain business as usual.
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Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective Textbook Review
Christian but not ideological? Doesn’t promote perspectives in controversy but centers theological devotion? Biblical differences of opinion, but not anthropological ones? The centrality of “belief” a…
The Experience of Displacement and Social Engineering in Kola Saami Oral Histories
Public defence of the doctoral dissertation by blog contributor Lukas Allemann on 15 Oct 2020 Our team member and periodic blog contributor Lukas Allemann examines in his thesis…
Special Issue: Doing the individual and the collective in forensic genetics: governance, race and restitution by Megh Marathe
BioSocieties has a new open-access special issue titled, “Doing the individual and the collective in forensic genetics: governance, race and restitution.” Edited by Amade M’charek and Pet…
Special Issue: Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Noncommunicable Chronic Disease by Megh Marathe
American Anthropologist has a new open-access Vital Topics Forum titled, Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Noncommunicable Chronic Disease. Edited by Alyshia Gálvez, Megan Carney, and Emily Yates-Doerr, …
In the Journals, September 2020, Part 2 by Megh Marathe
Anthropology & Medicine What drives distress? Rethinking the roles of emotion and diagnosis among people with diabetes in Nairobi, KenyaEmily Mendenhall, Abednego Musau, Edna Bosire, Victoria …
Rogue River People
Rouge is a common enough mis-spelling of the word Rogue. Rouge is a French word that means red, while Rogue is another French word meaning brigand, outlaw, criminal…
On resource use and the “Environmental Kuznets Curve”
A number of people have asked me to respond to a piece that Andrew McAfee wrote for Wired, promoting his book, which claims that rich countries –…
Links & Contents I Liked 379
Hi all, Happy Friday! I don’t want to pad myself too much on the back, but I like this week’s mixture of content-serious #globaldev industry news, including long-form…
Hate in cyberspace
A case study on how hate messages circulate in cyberspace (Twitter) around a Colombian politician.By Marcela Navia, Martha Botero and Andrea Forero “Hate speeches are discursive articulations aiming…
In the Journals, September 2020, Part 1 by Livia Garofalo
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry The Affective Creativity of a Couple in Dementia Care Jong-min Jeong The capacity to feel and express themselves in response to worldly surroundings i…
Watch “Serampore & Denmark – A Living History by the Ganges” on YouTube
The bit where haunted buildings are mentioned strangely has the sound drop out, but there are some great things to explore still… and the drone and inserts could…
Author Interview: Q and A with Dr Aliya Hamid Rao on Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment
We speak to Dr Aliya Hamid Rao about her new book Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, which draws on interviews with college-educated unemployed individuals and their…
What I’m Reading – Oct 2020
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…
How to Write an Essay: A Guide for Anthropologists
[no-caption] FilippoBacci/GettyImages For academics used to the idea of “publish or perish,” writing may seem to be a well-practiced and even perfected skill. But trying out a new…
Book Review: Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism by Mareile Pfannebecker and J.A. Smith
In Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism, Mareile Pfannebecker and J.A. Smith address the problems in the prevailing discourse on work and outline…
#Corona: Distributing Anthropological Films During the Pandemic
During the COVID-19 lockdowns in the spring of 2020, when cinema theatres and university buildings closed, many film festivals decided to move their activities online. This moment of…
I’ve Never Met Anyone Like Me, But Anthropologists (Not Me) Study People Like Me, Or: What if we trans/non-binary people weren’t just your objects of study?
cw: transphobia, mention of suicide and murder Willow, our cat. I started writing this piece in June. It was during Pride month, amidst JK Rowling’s ongoing public transphobia,…
CfP: Rhythm, sight and sound: work in times of uncertainty, RAI conference, March 25-28, 2021
We invite paper proposals for our panel *Rhythm, sight and sound: work in times of uncertainty* (P22) at the RAI Film Festival virtual conference. March 25–28, 2021,…
Wednesday Round Up #18
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic There are COVID-19 incidents in which a single person likely infected 80 percent or more of the people in…
Heath Cabot: The Magic of Bureaucracy in Athens’ Social Solidarity Clinics and Pharmacies
https://aoe.fi/api/download/heathcabotmagicofbureaucracy-1602057556715.mp3 Heath Cabot (University of Pennsylvania) gave a talk titled “The Magic of Bureaucracy …
John W. Traphagan, “Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan” (Cambria Press, 2020)
John W. Traphagan’s Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan (Cambria Press, 2020) presents a series of deeply contextualized ethnographies of… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
David Barash, “Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents” (Oxford UP, 2020)
What are the similar ways in which animals and people try to intimidate others? In his new book, Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents (Oxford UP, 2020), David Barash…
General Wool in California
The following is a series of statements by General John E. Wool and his underlings in the 1850s, from their administrative moorings in Benecia, California, the offices of…