Podcasting for Anthropologists: Ethical and Technical Considerations
Are you an anthropologist considering podcasting? Then this post is for you Sound is widely accessible, it conveys nuances of emotion, atmosphere and tensions in ways that are…
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Critique of Anthropology
This journal deserves your support – it has always been the go-to place for anthropology as it is now. Owes much to John Gledhil and the much-missed Steve…
A Shaligram is Born – Part 1
Witnessing the appearance of a Shaligram stone within the Kali Gandaki river is to, quite literally, witness its birth. Formed in the womb of the mountains (the Himalayas)…
Wendy Wickwire, “At The Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging” (UBC Press, 2019)
The history of anthropology remembers James Teit as a field assistant and man-on-the spot for Franz Boas. But in At The Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of…
Larissa’s Story: Behind the Migration Crisis Headlines
In late September, 2019, the current US presidential administration struck several unprecedented deals with the Northern Triangle governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to return asylum s…
Bougainville Independence in 10 Days to shake the world…
A long time coming, it is likely that Bourgainville will be independent – and still may or may not reopen the mine that made Riotinto billions. 15k dead…
Before They Erase It: Memory and the social media archive
Disponible en español aquí. This afternoon, I began to notice increasingly alarming images, posts, and tweets from my interlocutors in Santiago. It appeared that Santiago was on fire,…
Review: Food Justice and Narrative Ethics
Food Justice and Narrative Ethics: Reading Stories for Ethical Awareness and Activism. Beth A. Dixon. Bloomsbury Academic. 2018 ISBN #9781350054561. 192 pp. Megan B. Hinrichsen (Monmouth College) In…
The Flygskam Scam
In reading and thinking about my eco-anxiety, I’ve recently learned of a Swedish neologism that describes a new way of thinking about air travel: flygskam: flight guilt. I…
The Flygskam Scam
In reading and thinking about my eco-anxiety, I’ve recently learned of a Swedish neologism that describes a new way of thinking about air travel: flygskam: flight guilt. I…
The Neanderthal Ear—Prone to Irritating Infections
As I sit writing this column post, my sinuses feel like they are made of concrete, and my ears are aching and clogged to the point of causing…
Period Tracking Apps: Something Old, Something New
They’re sleek and colorful, “fun and easy”, full of icons and dials. Period tracking apps, or “menstruapps,” are an increasingly common way a large segment of the populat…
The Knot of Ecological Time: An Outlet, an Election, and an Irrigation Office
By Maira Hayat, Stanford University § In 2015, local elections were held in Pakistan, ten years after the previous ones in 2005 during General Pervez Musharraf’s military rule.…
Bolivia – terwijl het stof nog niet is opgetrokken
door Ton Salman De mensen in het land demonstreren, vloeken, vechten, tieren en vieren. President Morales, reeds veertien jaar aan de macht, trad gisteren, zondag 10 november 2019,…
A Year of Trans Childhood by Paula Martin
Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century Tey Meadow University of California Press, 2018. 320 pages. The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) …
Karine Gagné, “Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas” (U Washington Press, 2019)
In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, hum……
Access and Agency of Women Ethnographers in Technical Leisure Cultures
The New Ethnographer will convene a Roundtable at the American Anthropological Association Annual meeting in Vancouver this November. One of our Roundtable participants, Dr Aleena Chia, Assis…
New home on thisanthrolife.org
Hey TAL fans and friends! We’re in the process of moving domains (so sorry if you’ve had trouble accessing the site) over to be hosted by our friends…
Doing Good/Doing Right and the Limits of Negotiation
Preface: Why the interest in the “limits of negotiation”? Katja Rieck, Orient-Institut Istanbul Before delving into the main part of this blog post, it is important to begin…
We tend to forget – people on the other side of the world
by Hannah Schwemin One year. A couple of months more. It has been one year and a couple of months since I was working in La Paz (Bolivia),…
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga’s The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production by Rosie Sims
The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production. Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga MIT Press, 2018. 412 pages. Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga’s latest book, The…
Ep. #50 An Anthropology of Universities: Jodie Trembath on Selling Academia
This episode, Kylie interviews a very familiar guest … Dr Jodie-Lee Trembath (aka Jodie from TFS)! Now, Jodie’s no stranger to qualifications, but this year she completed her…
Placing discard studies in Australia
Australian discard studies scholars Catherine Phillips, David Boarder Giles, and Gay Hawkins discuss intellectual traditions, settler colonialism, and the future of the field.
Quassim Cassam, “Conspiracy Theories” (Polity, 2019)
9/11 was an inside job. The Holocaust is a myth promoted to serve Jewish interests. The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a false flag operation. Climate…