New publications on borders and topology by Sarah Green
”Lines, traces, and tidemarks: further reflections on forms of border” in 2018, The political materialities of borders: new theoretical directions. Demetriou, O. & Dimova, R. (eds.). 1 ed.…
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Andrea Boyles, “You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America” (U California Press, 2019)
“Black lives matter before death.” (p.132) In her powerful new book, You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America (University of California Press……
Alexis Elder, “Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves” (Routledge, 2017)
Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks and costs of face-to-face human interaction……
K. Linder et al., “Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers” (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. However, if you’ve…
“In Transit”: Wong Kwang Lin on the Fluid Mosaic
Introduction Wong Kwang Lin is an anthropologist and a dancer based in Singapore. K.L. Wong asked her colleagues and friends to create a collective choreography that brings together…
Arctic Security and Anthropology
Our colleagues Gunhild Hoogensen Gjorv with Marc Lanteigne launched the Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security, of which they are the main editors, and where there are some chapters…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2020
The Sophie Coe Prize is awarded each year to an engaging, original piece of writing that delivers new research and/or new insights into any aspect of food history.…
Were Neanderthals More Than Cousins to Homo Sapiens?
Scans compare a Neanderthal fossil (at left) to a modern human skull (right). Philipp Gunz/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Around 200,000 years ago, in what is now northern Israel, a small band…
“On Fluid Mosaic”: Rodell Warner
Introduction I met Rodell Warner in Trinidad while he was collaborating at Alice Yard art residency in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies and then a second time when…
Där olivträden dansar – ett avhandlingsprojekt och en livsdröm
Elin Linder: Marken är fortfarande fuktig från nattens regn och den ljumna brisen doftar vår, grönskande och levande. Den fuktiga växtlighet som så här i december täcker mestadels…
“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, so I Got Me Some”: Katie Numi Usher on the Fluid Mosaic
Introduction I met Katie Numi Usher during a conference in London in 2018; she was invited as the winner of that year’s Bridget Jones Travel Award. K. N.…
Provincializing Metabolism (On the Poverty of Modernism) by Maurizio Meloni
According to accepted wisdom and textbooks, “metabolism” is a nineteenth-century term and concept, established at the confluence of organic chemistry, cell biology, and physiology. In Microscopical R…
On the ‘Fluid Mosaic’
Introduction The theme of the Fluid mosaic offers an interdisciplinary journey, as Homi Bhabha would say (Bhabha 1994)[1] in-between different domains, such as visual art, dance, poetry, performance,…
Mine Detection Dog ‘Unit’: More Than Humans in the Humanitarian World
How to “clean” and “liberate” contaminated territories occupied by remnants of war? How to perceive and remove explosive devices specifically designed to evade detection? How to remedy and…
Website Refreshenating
I’ve done some refreshing of this website, adding a new background (a cc’d image of a William Morris floral textile print, iirc), updating my about page, and, most…
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It’s dangerous to write and post when you have the flu. But I have been housebound since Friday and although my physical body is nowhere near ready to…
Call for Contributors: In the Journals by Anna Zogas
Somatosphere is looking to recruit 3-4 people to assist with our ongoing “In the Journals” feature. “In the Journals” is a monthly roundup of newly-published journal articles. Below,…
Decentering Metabolism: Peripheral and Southern Diffractions by Maurizio Meloni
In the last few years, a renewed interest in metabolic exchange, and in ideas of a porous and permeable body, has come from disciplines like microbiomics, nutrigenomics, and epigenetics. Moreover, a…
New Publication by Anni Kajanus, together with Narges Afshordi and Felix Warneken, on how children’s understanding of hierarchical relations develops in China and the UK.
A. Kajanus, N. Afshordi*, & F. Warneken (2020), Children’s understanding of dominance and prestige in China and the UK, Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(19), 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j…
Head circumference by Emily Yates-Doerr
For Spanish click here. In the early months of 2016, as global media sources incited fear among pregnant women that Zika would result in babies with small heads…
The Social Life of Metrics by Rosario García-Meza
For English click here La vida social de las métricas Guatemala es uno de los países de Centroamérica que ha reportado en la última década uno de los…
The Dirt
Discard studies is an emerging field that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. To…
Anthropology gets a little more open (access)
Still locked, the gate pulls open ever so slightly more. Photo: Ryan Anderson, 2020. There’s news in the world of open access anthropology. The gates have opened, just…