Bác Hồ’s Security Detail Lesson
Theodor is in grade 2 of primary (7 years old) and they study Ho Chi Minh thought. Here is an example of their little parables about Bác Hồ…
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Removal of AMNH Statue
Eighty years after it was granted pride of place at the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, the installation titled simply…
Ayurveda, Preconception, Biological Plasticity, and the Re-conception of a Nation by Natasha L. Rooney
Sitting in my home office in Melbourne, I attended the first ever online international conference on Ayurveda and Epigenetics. My PhD project, which began a few months ago,…
India’s lockdown tragedy: bleeding along the fault lines of a nation
As India comes out of a long and harsh lockdown, and Covid-19 cases are rising with worrying speed, it is important to reflect on the Indian government’s response…
The Epistemology of Cutting and the Metaphysics of Continuities
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France; Center of Sustainability and Applied Ecology, Santiago, Chile; Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Santiago, Chile § Confinement …
Book Review: Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India by Michael Levien
In Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India, Michael Levien examines how the shift from state-directed capitalism to neoliberalism in India from the 1990s has led to…
In Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and Call for Dismantling Structural Racism in Germany: Public Statement Issued by the Working Group Public Anthropology, German Anthropological Association
BlackLivesMatter Protest in Berlin Alexanderplatz on 6 June 2020. Copyright: Nasima Selim. Drafted on 6 June 2020 Follow us on Twitter @AGPublicAnthro and Facebook In the…
Matt Tomlinson, “God is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific” (U Hawai‘i Press, 2020)
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In God is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific (University…
Ehud Halperin, “The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Hadimba is a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a rural area known as the Land of Gods.…
Chloe Ting, I’m taking back control!
So I did it again. I started yet another Chloe Ting workout, the ’35 day summer shred challenge’. It was going well, full speed ahead, I was feeling…
Some Chloroquine-AZT Parallels and Science’s Credibility Struggles
As an anthropologist and STS researcher, a great deal of my academic career has been proudly dedicated to studying and denouncing the bias, inequalities, and prejudice within both…
A Spark of Insight Into Neanderthal Behavior
In 2017, Naomi Martisius, now a postdoctoral researcher with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, was sitting in a conference session when she had an…
Thinking with Soils
The new edited volume Thinking with Soils – edited by Juan Francisco Salazar, Céline Granjou, Matthew Kearnes, Anna Krzywoszynska, and Manuel Tironi – is now available. You can…
Michelle LaFrance on her book, Institutional Ethnography
Interview by Sarah Fischer https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/3649-institutional-ethnography Sarah Fischer: You are an English professor, and your book deals with various subfiel…
Quaran-Teens 2020: Changes Because of Quarantine
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams were cancelled, they decided they would…
Tromso job offer: Associate Professor Anthropology
Many of our team have cooperated with anthropologists from Tromso in one way or the other. Now the department there advertises a job at the level of associate…
Attention Drivers: Extremely Rough Road Ahead
Below find the sixth in a series of guest posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. Swan’s retirement from the University…
Like talking to a door: Thoughts on the interactional and semiotic dynamics of an office door
This post is Part 2 in a short series covering some of my thoughts on a recent story about University of Alberta professor Kathleen Lowrey, whose “gender critical”…
Ashley E. Kerr, “Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910)” (Vanderbilt UP, 2020)
Analyzing a wide variety of late-nineteenth-century sources, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910) (Vanderbilt University Press, 2020) argues that Arge… Visit New Books in…
Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards, “Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research” (U California Press, 2019)
Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. These experiences are often left out of ethnographers’ “tales from… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Thanks, Dad.
Below find the fifth in a series of guest posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. Swan’s retirement from the University…
Violence against land defenders
There is important new work on the violence against land defenders worth reading over the summer. Here is a recent article in Global Environmental Change and a write…
Hybridity in music – for Cello.
This was a surprise, at the least: Solo Cello String Ensemble (4-4-4-3-2) c. 25 minutes https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5c04v6g3 “Clifford uses the word to describe ‘a discourse that is…
Trust and the Test: Producing Narrative Certainty in an Evolving Pandemic by Jennifer J. Carroll
“COVID is the thing that works differently. It’s not our experience of the illness that works differently.” A recent observation by Hannah Alcock We both spend a lot…