Application Time: Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA)
It is time again for graduate students to consider applying to participate in the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA). Here are this year’s details, courtesy of the…
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Functional multilingualism and the use of standard languages, by Bo Utas
With a description of the complex linguistic situation that characterized my father’s native village in the Ukraine as a starting point, I will try to demonstrate the multifarious…
Mila Dragojević, “Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War” (Cornell UP, 2019)
How does violence against civilians become permissible in wartime? Why do some communities experience violence while others do not? In her new book, Mila Dragojević develops the concept…
How the Opioid Crackdown Is Hurting Chronic Pain Patients
In the wake of a 2016 federal guideline, many chronic pain patients have had difficulty accessing their previous dose of opioids such as oxycodone (above). John Moore/Getty Images…
Review: Taste, Politics and Identities in Mexican Food
Taste, Politics, and Identities in Mexican Food, Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, ed., Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 240 pp. ISBN # 9781350066670 Emily Ramsey (University of Georgia) Is there such a thing…
Book Review: When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel by Michal Kravel-Tovi
In Israel, Jewish conversions by first and second generation repatriates from the former Soviet Union are often depicted in public discourse as ‘wink-wink’ conversions, whereby converts an…
Joshua Bluteau on his dissertation
My temptation is to hedge my bets and confidently claim that I have two page ninety-nines. This is true in the sense that there is a literal ninety-ninth…
Book Review: Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media by Sarah T. Roberts
In Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, Sarah T. Roberts explores the work conditions and experiences of people employed in ‘commercial content moderation’…
Ideological Closure, Austerity and National Health Service Reforms: How do UK healthcare bureaucrats close down the political space available for ethical debate of budgets, reforms and their consequences?
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Piyush Pushkar For my PhD research, I spent a year doing ethnographic fieldwork in Greater Manchester, with political activists campaigning against cuts…
The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
Farvel til kong Kapitalocen
Det er på tide å legge kapitalismen bak seg, om ikke av de samme grunnene som Marx og hans tilhengere gikk inn for. Men problemet er stadig at…
Ep. #51: Newsworthy stories, Becoming projects, Ethics of danger & Balancing values: This month on TFS
Jodie [1:26] begins our panel this month with a recent incident in Canberra, Australia, where a woman was shot by a ‘random’ gunman. Luckily her wound was not…
ON SPIRITS AND GHOSTS:
While I was in the Kalahari with a group of hunter-gatherers called the Kua, a woman died. I did not witness this, I arrived at the camp after…
New publication in American Anthropologist “Candomblé and the Academic’s Tools” by Elina Hartikainen
Academy Research Fellow Elina Hartikainen has published in Volume 121, Issue 4 of American Anthropologist. Elina I. Hartikainen. 2019. Candomblé and the Academic’s Tools: Religious Expertise and…
Leanne Simpson: As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
A great talk by the formidable Leanne Simpson; the talk has the same title as her excellent book that is available with the University of Minnesota Press here.
Can This Indigenous Language Thrive in a Digital Age?
On any given day, people throng the busy market in Concepción, Paraguay. Shoppers peruse the multicolored array of fruits and vegetables and occasionally pause to chat with the…
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Hi all, Friday, end of a packed week; the weather is really grey and miserable in Sweden today and I will head home soon to enjoy some hot…
The model for teaching at TDTU – in collaboration with Đỗ Thị Xuân Hương and Võ Nguyễn Thiện Phúc
A somewhat random video made to explain a model of teaching for a class on Capital and Anthropology/Mapping at Ton Duc Thang University, Faculty of Social Sciences and…
Making #AAACASCA Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 25
It is that time of year again—November is flying by, and thousands of anthropologists are gathering to share, learn, explore, discuss, and debate important issues in their field.…
Hello from a New Editor
As the fall term draws to a close, and as many of us head to Vancouver for AAA-CASCA, I would like to take a moment to introduce myself…
Is there something “Arctic” to youth well-being in northern settlements?
This was one of the guiding topics discussed at the session hosted by our WOLLIE project during the Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit conference 2019. On the one hand, the…
AI and User Experience: As Always, the User Comes First
In this interview with my colleague Arun Shastri, we talk about the value and importance of bringing a UX perspective to our work in AI.
#MDGCOMICS: MZUNGUS IN DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNMENTS! #10
In Episode 10, Going Native, Omar grasps the true meaning of kizunguzungu: but is the dizziness coming from denying local researchers authorship, or from open relationships? (Also, in which…