From Bat Soup to Bean Sprouts: Coronavirus Food Fears in Historical Perspective by Jack Greatrex
On a trip to Shandong, China, at the end of January 2020, a few days after the lockdown of Wuhan, I watched a video of a stewed bat…
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Things and the Company They Keep
Alisse Waterston Lochlann Jain. 2019. Things That Art: A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanting Curiosity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 121 pages. To cite this article: Alisse Waterston (2019…
December 2019
Volume 11 | Number 3 | December 2019 FEATURES On the Road During a Time of War: Migrant Journeys Througha Wary Europe By Mary D’Ambrosio The Syrian War…
Anne-Christine Trémon: Variegated Valuation: Governance and Circuits of Value in Shenzhen
Over the past two decades, the central authorities in the People’s Republic of China have shown an increasing concern about the inequalities between urban dwellers and predominantly rural hukou (resi…
Anchoring our days through the senses during South Africa’s lockdown
IWe had been in lockdown since 18th March 2020 when J.’s daycare closed for a break. A few days later, on 23rd March, South Africa’s President Ramaphosa announced…
Will U.S. University Students Spread COVID-19?
In the 1980s, the Reagan administration made plans for the orderly evacuation of U.S. cities in the event of an imminent nuclear war. Supposedly, city residents with odd-numbered…
In and outside the nursing home: On the (im)possibilities of meaningful contact while being held apart by Natashe Lemos Dekker
Ben (77) wrote this poem when he became unable to visit his wife Lise in the nursing home where she lived, expressing the loss and desperation of suddenly…
Anthropology and Economics in the Public Eye
How can anthropologists approach the influence of economists? The COVID-19 pandemic and how to mitigate its effects is only one recent public and policy issue on which anthropologists…
First in Masks? How Czechs Wore Face Masks When There Weren’t Any Available by Susanna Trnka
On March 18, 2020, the Czech Republic became the first country in Europe to legislate mandatory coverage of the mouth and nose in all public areas in an…
Stuart Dunmore on his book, Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland
Interview by Christian Puma-Ninacuri https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-language-revitalisation-in-gaelic-scotland.html Christian Puma-Ninacuri: Gaelic-medium education (GME) has been develope…
Will Rollason, “Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets” (Lexington Books, 2020)
Will Rollason is senior lecturer of anthropology at Brunel University London. He’s written a fascinating book titled Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets (Lexington Books, 2020).…
The Search for a Good Online Journal Platform
There’s an old saying, probably from a management textbook somewhere, that I see pop up on the software developer side of the internet from time to time. Everyone…
Creating Value Worlds with Third Wave Coffee
Interview with Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: https://sase.org/uncategorized/quality-and-inequality-creating-value-worlds-with-third-wave-coffee/
#Reviews: Fires of Gold
As of 2019, Ghana is the country with the largest gold-mining industry in Africa, overtaking South Africa, after two South African gold mining companies shifted focus on the…
#Review: Meat Planet
If the proponents of cultured meat are to be believed we might be soon headed towards a future in which bioreactors replace, or at least exist alongside, industrial…
Sarah Winkler-Reid: Higher Education-Led Urban Development in Newcastle and the North East of England, and its abrupt Covid-19 interruption
Between 2017 and 2020 Universities in the UK were on a building spree, in this period two billion pounds of construction contracts were agreed or enacted between universities…
Who Gets to Study Whom?
[no-caption] recep-bg/Getty Images About a decade ago, Chisomo Kalinga was in a bind. The medical humanities scholar, then a graduate student at King’s College London, was looking for…
Cyberpsychology: How Life Online Shapes our Minds and What We Can Do About It w Julie Ancis
It’s no surprise that many of us find ourselves increasingly on mobile devices or the internet. We shop online with ease, connect with friends and family on social…
Mark Anderson, “From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Mark Anderson’s From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology (Stanford University Press) is at once a story about US anthropology and US liberalism from the…
L. L. Wynn, “Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability” (U Texas Press, 2018)
L. L. Wynn’s book Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability (University of Texas Press, 2018) is an interrogation of urban life and…
#PostCoronaUniversity: an opportunity for Argentine and Brazilian social sciences?
Nowadays, most people are asking themselves what will happen in the coming months. In this time of COVID-19, it is not just the present that is under threat…
Combating Anti-Black Racism in Brazil and Beyond
Protests against police violence in Brazil, like this march commemorating the life of a Black youth killed in his home, help speak to the transnational nature of anti-Blackness…
Review: Religion in the Kitchen
Pérez , Elizabeth. (2016). Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions. New York University Press. 320 pp. ISBN #9781479839551 Kristina Wirtz (Western…
Anthropology students’ achievement at the municipality of Amsterdam
By Puck de Boer What greater thing could happen to students in their Bachelor than doing a research that actually has impact in real life? Exactly this happened…