In the Journals – Police Abolition
Allegory of Justice (Sanctity of the Law) by The Metropolitan Museum of Art via PICRYL Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations…
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SAR Welcomes New 2020 Board Members: Perspectives from the Arts, Law, Academics, and Business Community
SAR Welcomes New 2020 Board Members: Perspectives from the Arts, Law, Academics, and Business Community …
“Proving” the language/culture connection
Over the weekend, several anthropologist called attention to this research report produced by Princeton University (link to full report here). The headline touts the research with the claim…
Denis Provencher on his book, Queer Maghrebi French
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781781382790/ Interview by Adeli Block Adeli Block: Your monograph Queer Maghrebi French (2017) frequently references your first book, Queer Fre…
The Militarisation of the COVID-19 Response in South Africa (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Susan Levine, Lenore Manderson The imponderabilia of our COVID times As medical anthropologists well versed in the social grammar of infectious…
Subway: a silver lining of the COVID-19 quarantine in Moscow
VARVARA KOBYSHCHA AND KSENIA SHEPETINA The text is based on the data collected within the project “Everyday practices of public health: (Non)Following sanitary rules at Moscow public transport…
Kareem Khubchandani, “Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife” (Michigan UP, 2020)
Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020) follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangal… Visit…
Op-Ed written by GPT-3 about whether humans are intelligent
A lot of interesting things coming from GPT-3. Arram Sabeti (via waxy.org) asked GPT-3 to write about human intelligence. The whole piece is worth a read. First, consider…
Ep#62 Job Fantasies, Working with Others, Extractive Calls & Reciprocity Revisited:This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · #62 Job Fantasies, Working With Others, Extractive Calls & Reciprocity Revisited This week we bring you another zoom panel! Featuring Mike Dunford who is…
Journal of Asian and African Studies – vol 55 no 6
jasa_55_6.tocjasa_55_6.toc Table of Contents Special Isssue: Sociology in Vietnam Today Previous Issue Volume 55 Issue 6, September 2020 Guest Editor: John Hutnyk Table of Contents (PDF) Editorial Boa…
Tribe: Anthropological notions
Different words like French Tribu, English Tribe and Latin Tribus were used to designate social divisions among the Roman population. Similarly the Greek word Phule also represented…
It is Time to Check Out The Michiana Potters: Art, Community, and Collaboration in the Midwest
Hi everyone. Some of you already know that The Michiana Potters: Art, Community, and Collaboration in the Midwest by Meredith A. E. McGriff came out recently from Indiana…
A Tale of Two Snakes
Upon entering the warmest room in our house, we are greeted with the subtle smell of earth. In this room is a 36″X18″X12″ bioactive habitat with two small…
My Nonbinary Child
[no-caption] Andrew Hasson/Getty Images “Mom, how do you know you’re a woman?” Sarah, my only child, startled me by asking this question during a telephone conversation this spring.…
F. Henry and D. Plaza, “Carnival Is Woman: Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas. (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
Through a feminist perspective, Carnival Is Woman: Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas (University Press of Mississippi, 2019) examines the presence of women in contemporary Carnival by… Visit…
Amelia Moore, “Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas” (U California Press, 2019)
Despite being a minor contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, like many other small island nations, The Bahamas’s ecology and society are especially vulnerable to current and expected……
Pandemic Bakers Bring the Past to Life
Experimental archaeologist Farrell Monaco re-creates the baking techniques of ancient Romans to produce classic breads such as the panis quadratus. Farrell Monaco Around 2000 B.C., a bake…
In Honor of Ganesh Chaturthi 2020, the Ganesh Shaligram!
In honor of the upcoming Ganesh Chaturthi festival in just two days time, today’s Shaligram discussion will be a re-visitation of the Ganesh Shaligram! One of my favorites,…
A College Community of (COVID) Consociated Contemporaries
Anthrodendum welcomes back guest blogger Christian Elliott, a recent graduate in cultural anthropology at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. A College Community of (COVID) Consociated Contemp…
Upcoming Deadlines
Hello Food Anthropologists, The deadline to submit a presentation for the virtual AAA meetings, Raising our Voices is fast approaching – August 25th. See the email sent by…
In the Vault: Perfectly Balanced – Zuni Earrings
Story by IARC collections assistant Molly Winslow In our recent In the Vaults series, we are sharing some of our staff favorites from the I…
Intimate connections and singular embodiments: disability in times of the Covid-19 pandemic by Helena Fietz
In Brazil, most state governors and city mayors in Brazil have been following the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and, in defiance of federal government protocol, have adopted…
Wednesday Round Up #11
What a Korean Teenage Fashion Trend Reveals About the Culture of Mask-Wearing In 2009, you could immediately spot the cool kids at my middle school in Seoul based…
REDUX: The Privileged Discomfort of Border Crossings
First published December 6, 2018 As social scientists our work often directly grows out of our personal journeys—journeys that are physical, emotional, intellectual and political. However, this is…