Business as Usual in the DR Congo: Patriarchy, Authoritarianism, and Global Complicity
“In much of Africa, ‘wife’ is a four-letter word,” writes Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyèwùmí (2000: 1096, emphasis in original). “[Instead] Mother…
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Editorial Introduction: Migration, Mobility, and Displacement
On the Gender and the Sexual Politics of Contemporary Patriarchal Ethnonationalist Authoritarianism by María Lis Baiocchi – On March 23rd, 2019, the state of Texas banned…
Needles to needles: how ear acupuncture can work for substance use recovery by Eana Meng
Helen was telling me about her day while I poured tea. Suddenly, the double doors swung open and a middle-aged man in a worn grey jacket briskly walked…
Consumer Genetics and the Capitalization of Hope
In the twilight of the last millennium, an audacious scientific project was started by an international team of researchers. Their objective, like the countless scientists who came before…
Roundup: Waste & COVID-19
What do we know about the relationships between waste and COVID-19? Some figures and insights are emerging, but given that we’re in the thick of the pandemic and…
Waterloo-Redfern and the Racism Rooted in Cities
Who are cities designed for? Resolution Productions/Getty Images This June, a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, was…
Capturing Spiders: Golden Orb Weavers in Gainesville, Florida
By Lisa Jean Moore, SUNY Purchase § Spiders construct webs from the manipulation of spider silk proteins. Golden Orb Weaver Spiders (Kuntner et al. 2017), Trichonephila clavipes, are…
Some thoughts about Nenets Syadeis from the Scott Polar Research Institute Museum
Last week on the Internet was published a short video about two very old Nenets Syadei with the following text: Cambridge University Museums have been running a project…
Bioethical Guidelines of ‘Extreme Triage’ Under Covid: The Question of ‘Possible Lives’ in Latin America
ABRIL SALDAÑA Assuming a shortage of medical resources to treat patients with Covid-19, many countries in Latin America have discussed or established bioethical guides for limited resource allocat…
What to do with the predator in your bibliography?
In the early summer of 2020 I submitted what I presumed was a final round of extremely minor revisions to an article that I’d been working on in…
Boas in the Age of BLM and Idle No More: Re-Evaluating the Boasian Legacy
This extended review is a collaboration between the Reviews and Field Notes sections of HAR. Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L. A. Hancock, and Joshua Smith (editors). The…
The Two Singapores: Spectacle and Twin Realities by Wahid Al Mamun
Early on in the global fight against COVID-19, Singapore’s response to the pandemic, centered around aggressive contact tracing and quarantining close contacts, was the subject of praise and…
2020 Playlist: What the fuck
2020 is the winner of worst year ever for a lot of people. But at least there is still music, right? Every year I create a playlist of…
When Brazil’s Voters Became Followers
Politics on social media may be exciting and even fun. But is it good for democracy? Jair Bolsonaro’s sweeping victory in the 2018 Brazilian elections took many people…
Getting Out the Vote in South Asian Chicago
Language access provisions to expand language minority voters’ access to the polls are not only about political participation. They also reveal the reproduction of white public space and…
Ten Things about Black Women Suffragists through a Black Feminist Lens
Irma McClaurin is a Black feminist anthropologist and consultant who conducts research on the social construction of inequality and its impact on African diaspora communities through an intersectional…
Talking about Elections in Northern Kenya
An anthropologist recalls a conversation with three older women as they reflected on their experiences of electoral politics past and present. “What politics have people of nowadays seen;…
Reworking the Cognitive Bias – a Brainstorm by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
Can we change the way that we think about thinking? Can we rework our thoughts about thought? If so, what would reworking thought open up, analytically and ethnographically?…
Steve Black on his book, Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health
Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/speech-and-song-at-the-margins-of-global-health/9780813597713 Yeon-Ju Bae: How did you become interested in the South African gospel ch…
Convivial networks: how migrants cope with the pandemic in South Africa
Stanley (not his real name) is among many Zimbabwean migrants who left their home country, escaping the economic downturn and political instability. In search of greener pastures, he…
The Fiscal Life of Pandemics
In his summer statement, Rishi Sunak, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that VAT (Value-Added Tax) would be dramatically cut from 20% to 5% for the…
Review of The Anthropology of the Future, by Rebecca Bryant and Daniel M. Knight
Just published, and not behind a paywall. You can find it here, in the Spring 2020 issue of Anthropological Quarterly. Update – now it is! Uggh – what…
ANZAC Cookies
If you’re an Australian, the title of this blog post likely felt kind of strange to you. Perhaps it just felt a bit wrong or maybe it made…
Links & Contents I Liked 375
Hi all, Welcome back! Link review #375 is another (smaller) milestone in my regular curation efforts & I hope you have a great weekend and time to enjoy…