Juan del Nido discusses his dissertation about Uber
Page 99 is home to one of the most linguistically precise segments of my dissertation, concerning the construction of a legal case against Uber in Buenos Aires, Argentina,…
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The Horror of War – Part 3
Sometime in June 1971, an incident occurred that completely changed my attitude toward the US Army. In fact, I was never the same again. It all…
Derek Sayer. Ethnographic fragments #23: erasing history in San Francisco, censorship Canadian-style, and two women of courage and conviction – coasts of bohemia
Derek Sayer invokes Humphrey Jennings “Pandemonium” as explanation of how he sees his fragments [I read trinkets] series working. In particular these latest few seem worth the entry…
Carolina Alonso Bejarano, “Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science” (Duke UP, 2019)
Almost 30 years ago, following the lead of scholars and thinkers of color and from the global South, anthropologist Faye Harrison and some of her colleagues published Decolonizing…
Carolina Alonso Bejarano, “Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science” (Duke UP, 2019)
Almost 30 years ago, following the lead of scholars and thinkers of color and from the global South, anthropologist Faye Harrison and some of her colleagues published Decolonizing…
Paying back or paying forward: What does it mean to give?
I was lucky to have Mexican friends to put me up, ferry me around, shower me with food and attention, without asking for a thing in return. It…
Vitamins For Face Rejuvenation
Hyaluronic acid, collagen, vitamins, plants and mineral salts: discover how to choose supplements for the skin according to the needs of your skin. Supplements have been very popular…
Web Roundup: Abortion Bans, Heartbeat Bills, and the Future of Roe v. Wade by Whitney Arey
A year ago, I wrote about changes in abortion access globally, as countries like Ireland and Argentina were on a path to decriminalizing access to abortion services. While…
Goose Lessons
What can an anthropologist (who specializes in humans) learn from an unlikely species (like a goose)? Plenty, it turns out. My husband and I went goose-banding the other day,…
Google’s Empire: The Science Fiction of Power
“For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to make a film about libraries,” explains Ben Lewis, the director of Google and the World Brain (2013).…
Africa Today: The Legacies of Colonialism, by Henrietta Ezegbe
I960 often referred to as “The year of Africa” symbolized emancipation and a new dawn for the African continent. The Independence movement spread through the continent like wild…
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A young woman too shy to look at the camera at Nova Canaã shelter in Boa Vista, Brazil. (UNHCR/Genesis Andreina Lemus Guacaran) Hi all, I hope the latest…
Links & Contents I Liked 331
A young woman too shy to look at the camera at Nova Canaã shelter in Boa Vista, Brazil. (UNHCR/Genesis Andreina Lemus Guacaran) Hi all, I hope the latest…
Jeremy F. Walton, “Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey” (Oxford UP, 2017)
The social history of Turkey across the twentieth century has produced a tension between state governance and religion. This history informs and shapes modern subjects as they try…
Jeremy F. Walton, “Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey” (Oxford UP, 2017)
The social history of Turkey across the twentieth century has produced a tension between state governance and religion. This history informs and shapes modern subjects as they try…
In the Journals, June 2019 by Raha Peyravi
Here are a selection of articles from June. The topics include issues of translation in social studies of medicine, access to health care, and many others. American Anthropologist…
What did you do in the war…
Just out in History and Anthropology. Not my usual kind of thing, but experiments that might lead to a new thing… The first fifty 35 people to email me can…
Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition.
Available from Aakar Books Here. Rest of the world here (bloomsbury paperback in November) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-8949
trinkets not covered for removal
I am booking a removals company to move some stuff and reading their contract. Only one of the following prohibited items applies to this blog, but this is…
Political and professional discourse, and the Overton window
Last night my friend and I were texting each other during the Democratic debate. He mentioned a concept I wasn’t … More
Suffering, Agency, and the Value of Early and Late Life by Iben Mundbjerg Gjødsbøl
‘Do no harm’ is the first principle in both research ethics and bioethics, conveying an inherent ambiguity in the biomedical imperative to create healthier and longer human lives.…
The Very Modern Problem of Human Slavery
More than 70 percent of enslaved people today are women and girls—such as this woman from Nepal, who was sold by her parents as a child. Jonas Gratzer/Getty…
Anti-Queer Violence, Bearing Witness, and Thinking with Algorithms on Social Media
(Nota: Esta publicación está disponible en español aquí.) In early June 2019, news began to break concerning the death of a Salvadoran transgender woman, Johana Medina León, of…