The Public Problem With Counterterrorism
A British army helicopter flies over Estonian forests during a massive annual military training exercise. NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Flickr The terrorist attacks on Septem…
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How the informal economy took over the world by Keith Hart
A la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time) The idea of an informal economy was born at the moment when the post-war era of developmental…
So long, Indiana Jones, or who owns “El Mirador”?
The rule of “finders, keepers” has held true for most archaeological discoveries at least since museums, as we now know them, have existed. Collectors of foreign objects have…
SAFN Awards, Impending Deadlines!
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition has three awards for student writing and research. These awards will provide you with fame and glory…and money, to…
CFP: Discard Studies Twitter Conference!
Discard Studies is throwing a Twitter conference! Twitter conferences are accessible, create a permanent record of scholarship, support conversations with diverse audiences, and best of all, the prese…
SAR Welcomes 2020–2021 Resident Scholars
This week SAR welcomes a new cohort of resident scholars. For over forty years, SAR has awarded nine-month fellowships to a small group of …
How Do We Listen to the Living?
I opened my twitter on June 15, to read a non-Black person describe the murder of Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau as an “act of god.” They quote retweeted a…
Reclaiming the Ancestors: Indigenous and Black Perspectives on Repatriation, Human Rights, and Justice
Over the last several centuries, Indigenous, Black, and other colonized peoples’ remains have been turned into objects of study for archaeologists, anthropologists, and other scientists. This ca…
‘Stolen Spring’: Danish elders in plejehjemem under COVID-19 visiting restrictions by Amy Clotworthy
First published in 1940, Hans Scherfig’s The Stolen Spring (Det Forsømte Forår) is both a satirical crime novel and a wry social commentary. Through his description of a…
Dagbok 15. mai 2020
Denne er skrevet på oppfordring fra forfatteren og filmskaperen Dag Johan Haugerud, som sammen med Kjartan Helleve redigerer Amatør, et analogt bladverk som utelukkende består av dagbøker. Det…
Lindsey Pullam takes the page 99 test
The 99th page of my dissertation goes into substantial detail about why military cemeteries exist for Israeli Druze IDF soldiers (when no such cemeteries exist for Druze civilians).…
Nathalie Peutz, “Islands of Heritage Conservation and Transformation in Yemen” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen’s Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, the island is…
Introduction to Series: COVID-19 voices from Latin America and the Caribbean
ABRIL SALDANA By August 2020, Latin America and the Caribbean has become the epicentre of the pandemic with more than 5.4 million COVID-19 cases confirmed and 210,000 fatalities.…
The Fallible and the Untrustworthy: Writing Culture as the Unreliable Narrator
The notion of the Unreliable Narrator is, for me, not a critique of the perceived moral failings of the anthropological project, but a methodological narrative construct integral to…
Development of Tribal Cultural Identity at the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation
A good number of people have over the years shown some confusion about the identity of the tribal members at the Grand Ronde tribe. Many natives and non-natives…
Academic Precarity and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Utopian Hope in a Moment of Crisis
Leigh Bloch To cite this article: Leigh Bloch (2020) Academic Precarity and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Utopian Hope in a Moment of Crisis, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 76-83, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.176…
A Week in the Life of COVID-19 in Ottawa, Canada
Jen Pylypa To cite this article: Jen Pylypa (2020) A Week in the Life of COVID-19 in Ottawa, Canada, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 33-38, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1761208 To link to…
A Room with a View: Observations from Two Pandemics
Linda M. Whiteford To cite this article: Linda M. Whiteford (2020) A Room with a View: Observations from Two Pandemics, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 7-10, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1760630 To link…
Tracking Digital Psy: Mental Health and Technology in an Age of Disruption by Dörte Bemme
Laurie Frick, “Mood + Quantify” (2011-13), Lasercut paper, wood, blocks, laminate. Covid-19 and the associated social distancing orders have normalized and accelerated the use of digi…
A (Bio)anthropological View of the COVID-19 Era Midstream: Beyond the Infection
Agustín Fuentes To cite this article: Agustín Fuentes (2020) A (Bio)anthropological View of the COVID-19 Era Midstream: Beyond the Infection, Anthropology Now, 12:1, 24-32, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2…
April 2020
Volume 12 | Number 1 | April 2020 Editorial Editor’s NoteBy Rylan Higgins Introduction An Anthropology of the COVID-19 Pa…
SAR Mourns the Passing of Daniel T. “Bud” Kelly, Jr.
SAR Mourns the Passing of Daniel T. “Bud” Kelly, Jr. …
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Creativity in a COVID era (Web 2.0 all over again?)
“You can find awesome rhythm in everything. People will hear certain breaks that I make and be like, ‘Where’d that come from?’ I’ll be like, ‘That was the…