Charles Piot, “The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles” (Duke UP, 2019)
In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From…
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Ep #61 Switching Hats: Sverre Molland on Anti-Trafficking Initiatives in the Mekong Region
The Familiar Strange · #60 Switching Hats: Sverre Molland On Anti-Trafficking Initiatives In The Mekong Region A content warning before we get into this week’s interview. Today’s topic…
In the Journals, July Part I by Livia Garofalo
Because of a COVID mix-up, this month we are reviewing articles published in April, along with our regular July entry. In April, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological…
Aging and Social Justice: A slow-motion virtual conference by Celeste Pang
As we have all seen, COVID-19 has been a tip of an iceberg, exposing deep layers of social stratification and inequities. From the mass deaths in long-term care…
Lessons Learned in Online Summer School
This May & June I taught three summer session courses: Intro to Cultural Anthropology [ANTH 100, 120 students], Contemporary First Nations Issues Canada [ANTH 329, 145 students], and…
Author Interview: Q and A with Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross, authors of Parenting for a Digital Future
In this author interview, we speak to Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross about their new book, Parenting for a Digital Future, which draws on interviews and a national…
On the tendency to periodise capitalism through the event of the global pandemic
JAKUB CRCHA & SHACHI MOKASHI The coronavirus, by the virtue of its novelty, sudden unexpected appearance, and the scale of consequent disruption, has been easily incorporated into the…
Ananya Chakravarti, “The Empire of Apostles” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Ananya Chakravarti’s The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio and the Imagination of Empire in Modern Brazil and India (Oxford University Press), recovers the religious roots of Europe’… Visit…
Frog is in the Moon: Takelma Stories
Stories from the Takelma people are great information about how people thought about their world. This is important to me because I have direct ancestry with Takelma and…
What Milk-Sharing Communities Reveal
[no-caption] Getty Images Heather Wascak was devastated. In 2014, within days of giving birth to a baby girl, Lucia, she was aching to be with her child. “She’s…
David Tavárez, “Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America” (U Colorado Press, 2017)
Professor David Tavárez’s edited volume, Words & Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2017), is a collection o… Visit New…
Wednesday Round Up #9
When the Culture Wars Hit Fort Wayne In-depth reporting from Politico – the intersecting histories and politics in one midwestern city. And as I visited Oklahoma, it became…
AI written blog goes viral, almost nobody notices
Liam Porr (via waxy.org): Over the last two weeks, I’ve been promoting a blog written by GPT-3. I would write the title and introduction, add a photo, and…
Diversity and Inclusion: A Conversation with John Nieto-Phillips
In August of 2019, Professor John Nieto-Phillips joined SAR’s board of directors. He has brought to SAR a dedication to opening academic in…
Can a Robot Guess What You’re Thinking?
What on earth are you thinking? Other people think they know, and many could make a pretty decent guess, simply from observing your behavior for a short while.…
Chicaneries of Power and Subterfuge:
On August 5 and 6, 2019, the Union Government of India unilaterally revoked the special status accorded to India’s only Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir…
Leah Zani, “Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos” (Duke UP, 2019)
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Leah Zani, a public anthropologist and poet based in California, about her truly wonderful book Bomb Children: Life in the Former…
Kathleen Klaus, “Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Kathleen Klaus, Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco has written a terrific book, Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making published in 202……
Bollywood and the Banality of Militarization
On August 5, 2019, the Parliament of India unilaterally rescinded Article 370 of the Indian Constitution granting relative autonomy to the state…
Education Philosophy and Theory Vol 52, Issue 11
Volume 52, 2020 Innovating Institutions: Instituting Innovation – section editor John Hutnyk Introduction An intuition of innovative new institutions Le Thi Mai & John Hutnyk Pages: 1120-112…
Summer Break!
Standplaats Wereld is going on summer break. We appreciate all the contributions to our blog this year and would like to wish everyone a great summer! Below a…
A Room with a View: Observations from Two Pandemics by Linda M. Whiteford
From my balcony, I see Tampa Bay’s calm water, the Dali Museum’s distinctive architecture, the Mahaffey Theater’s empty parking lot, the balconies and porches of St, Petersburg, Florida,…
Sanitary cordons in COVID-19: experience and the object of epidemiological interventions by Alejandro Cerón
What is the object of epidemiological interventions during an epidemic? Is it the virus, the disease, the fear, the chaos, or the threat to security? And what is the objective…
What I’m Reading – Aug 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…