Category: English
João Costa Vargas, “The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering” (U of Minnesota Press, 2018)
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society. Thanks to movements like Black Lives…
In the Journals, August 2020, Part 2 by Hayley Ip
Social Science & Medicine Rural gerontological health: Emergent questions for research, policy and practice Laura I.L.Poulina, Mark W.Skinnera, NeilHanlon This article explores what can …
Saving Ifugao Weaving in the Philippines
Paulette Crespillo-Cuison, president of the Kiyyangan Weavers Association, demonstrates weaving to the next generation. Marlon Martin One cloudy July afternoon in 2019, a group of arch…
Wednesday Round Up #12
The Conscience of Silicon Valley I said I was particularly interested in his most recent work, 2018’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, which…
Adam Rutherford, “How to Argue With a Racist” (The Experiment, 2020)
Racist pseudoscience has become so commonplace that it can be hard to spot. But its toxic effects on society are plain to see—feeding nationalism, fueling hatred, endangering lives,…
Ellyn Lem, “Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
As Baby Boomers reach the tipping point of aging into later life, the record numbers of seniors int the 65 and over crowd generates greater interest and in…
Development Anthropology and Anthropology of Development
Development Anthropology Vs Anthropology of Development Development has been seen as a mechanism of social change which is a) associated with postwar reconstruction of underdeveloped areas…
In the Journals, July 2020 (Part 3) by Shoshana Deutsh
This post includes articles published in both April 2020 and July 2020. In April, Technology and Culture featured a special section on Rethinking Reproductive Technologies and Modernities in…
Two Surgeries, 800 Years Apart
As an archaeologist, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering what life was like in the past. I’ve also been injured a time or two, and I’ve wondered…
In the Journals, August 2020, Part 1 by Arbel Griner
Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Exhuming Dead Persons: Forensic Science and the Making of Post-fascist Publics in Spain (open access) Jonah S. Rubin Four decades after the fall of…
How can anthropological research impact the populations it studies? Six steps for creating inclusivity and accessibility with ethnographic monographs
The ethnographic monograph is the primary medium for communicating anthropological research. However, its circulation has traditionally been confined to university environments. Professor Daniel Mille…
Something Old, Something New
Embodied Practices and Production of Mobility in Moscow Public Transport during Covid-19 YANA BAGINA “… then I realized it is not hysteria, it’s just reality” (description of the…
Matt Tomlinson on Culture and Theology in the Pacific
I’m very happy to announce that I have a new interview up at New Books Network. This one is with Matt Tomlinson, an anthropologist of the Pacific at…
Maile Arvin on Possessing Polynesians
I announce my publications and interviews and things on social media but I have fallen behind on announcing them on my blog, which is supposed to be a…
Why White Kids Need Hamilton More Than Ever
[no-caption] Travis Wise/Flickr Every morning when my son opens the dishwasher for his morning chores, his daily tribute to the Broadway musical Hamilton begins in song: “How does…
The Making of Vizag Gas Leak Disaster: Procedural lapses or Regulatory Design?
Hundreds of tonnes of poisonous Styrene gas leaked out of the LG Polymers plant in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh on the 7th of May 2020, leaving 11 dead and…
Social Contract and Its Discordance in Gilgit-Baltistan
By: Aziz Ali Dad This piece is part of APLA’s newest Speaking Justice to Power Series, which focuses on Kashmir … More
Laughter and leaked memos: debating state violence at a Kashmiri baker’s shop
A few days before India imposed a curfew and a communication blockade in Kashmir on August 5, 2019,[1] I left the region with a sense of foreboding…
William G. Pooley, “Body and Tradition in 19th-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870-1914” (Oxford UP, 2019)
The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of open moors, they were…
Abolition and the Colonial Amnesia of Caribbean Prison Systems
The need for alternatives to prisons and prison reform in the Caribbean is long past due IntroductionProcesses of historical erasure scar the Caribbean and remove transhistorical context. …
Chemical Sensitivity by Aaron Bradshaw
Sitting at a table in his home in Snowflake, Arizona, Steen reads a book encased in a clear, plastic box. The front of the box is fitted with…