Blanchet’s Missions to the Clackamas, 1841-1842
The following is a Notice, Notice No. 4, part of a series of reports of the Catholic missionary Francois Norbert Blanchet from 1841 to 1842 about his missionary…
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Settler Geology: Earth’s deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta
Those who follow debates around the Anthropocene will be familiar with a very prominent premise: that the scale of the Anthropocene is incommensurate with human time. Or, in…
Ajantha Subramanian, “The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India” (Harvard UP, 2019)
What is merit? How is it claimed? In her much-awaited book The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India (Harvard University Press, 2019), Ajantha Subramanian addresses the pertinent…
Jennifer Utrata, “Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia” (Cornell UP, 2015)
Jennifer Utrata in her book, Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia (Cornell University Press, 2015), investigates what she calls a “quiet revolution”…
Science as an Orientalizing Field
Science is a Western form of knowledge production and can be divided into three forms: 1) science as a set of methods for investigating the world we inhabit,…
Innocent images? The ethics of sharing your children’s photos online
There are collections of embarrassing childhood photos stashed in most parents’ homes. Everyone remembers an instance when those photos unexpectedly appeared in ways that were awkward or humiliating,…
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life by Naomi Zucker
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Ruha Benjamin, Ed. Duke University Press, 2019. 416 pages. “How might we craft a just…
Best of SAPIENS 2019
[no-caption] Sara López Gilabert / SAPIENS This year SAPIENS published 109 amazing articles, thanks to anthropologists and journalists around the globe. Although the decision gets harder …
Angela Reyes and Stanton Wortham talk about their new book
https://www.routledge.com/Discourse-Analysis-beyond-the-Speech-Event-1st-Edition/Wortham-Reyes/p/book/9780415839501 Interview by Alex McGrath Alex McGrath: Your book very concisely addresses an issue…
Christmas in the unexciting brothel
Edvard Munch painted Christmas in the Brothel in 1905, and every year I feel the same fondness for it. I don’t pay much attention to the ceremonies of…
Sandra Fahy, “Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record” (Columbia UP, 2019)
“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem…
All I want for Christmas is an ocean-climate nexus: Reflections from COP25 in Madrid
Written by Dr. Camilla Borrevik. Hopes were high ahead of the UN climate talks at the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) in Madrid. Albeit some rocky weeks…
Top Articles of 2019
Another year almost done! Sit back, relax, and read some of the most-clicked articles on the website in 2019. With thanks to everyone involved with Anthropology News this…
2019 Year in Review of ndnhistoryresearch blog
2019 has been a year of many changes for me and the blog. I am now fully employed at OSU in Anthropology and Native studies. This has been…
Humans in 2019—From Discoveries to Disasters
This image shows various views of the pinky bone of a Denisovan-Neanderthal hybrid found in Siberia. Thomas Higham/University of Oxford Denisovan Deluge This year brought a host of…
Book Forum: Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay by Andrés Romero
Introduction Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay (2018) is a masterful undertaking on the anthropology of disaster and its everydayness. An ethnograp…
Links & Contents I Liked 349
Hi all, Happy holidays! This is the final link review for 2019, packed with great content worthy to wrap up another crazy year in #globaldev. Because of a…
Annual ANZORA conference in Lublin, Poland
Dr. Joanna Siekiera sums up this year’s annual Australia, New Zealand, Oceania Research Association (ANZORA) conference in Lublin, Poland. On 13 December 2019, I organized the…
Braderie op de Dam
In het kader van de actie ‘Boer Burger Brunch’ stonden er afgelopen 13 december 28 trekkers op de Dam. Doel van dit boerenprotest: het gesprek aangaan met de…
Why Winter Solstice Celebrations Persist
The El Castillo step pyramid (center) is part of the Chichén Itzá archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Steve Elmore/Getty Images At the ancient Maya-Toltec ceremonial comple…
Wenn Grenzen neu gezogen werden – wo steht die Ethnologie?
Noch vor etwas mehr als einer Dekade klangen die scheinbar selbstverständlichen Vorannahmen ethnologischer Forschungen ganz anders als heute. Das Fach schien damals übereingekommen, dass eindeutige Un…
Sidharthan Maunaguru, “Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War” (U Washington Press 2019)
Sidharthan Maunaguru’s Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War (University of Washington Press 2019) is an unusual ethnography of the ‘in-betweenn……
They / Them
In this post, I celebrate @merriam-webster’s Word of the Year, and reflect on some important trends for the LGBTQ+ community and our allies as awareness of They /…
Petition to Survey the Reservation and to Live in Peace, September 20, 1869
Previous essays have addressed the poor treatment of the tribes on the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation into the late 1860s. In 1869 during his inauguration speech, newly elected…