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…
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Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Today, the 25th of March, marks the anniversary of New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers lost their lives. The fire occurred in 1911,…
CARICOM Confronts the Big House: Trump Attempts to Split the Caribbean over Venezuela
It’s a simple matter, even if one might lose oneself in the various details, names, places, and dates. The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), mostly made up…
AAA Paper Abstract: The Weight of Absence: Anthropologies of Non-Connection
(A day’s worth of geolocated instagram posts in Baltimore: August 24, 2018) The digital world presupposes a binary logic of connection and disconnection, one that decomposes into haves…
How I kicked chronic migraine (And what that has to do with anthropology)
This post is about the biopsychosocial medical model and how it relates to the treatment of chronic pain. As an anthropologist, I’m particularly interested in the social part…
Tereza Kuldova: Think before you “heart” it: NZ street gangs guarding mosques in the aftermath of terror a PR stunt
Over the past two days, my Facebook feed has been flooded with shares of articles featuring New Zealand patched street gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs—Mongrel Mob, Black Power,…
Editorial Introduction: On Horizontal Alliances, History and the Bonds of Community
By Michal Rose Friedman – Since we published our first installment of “Speaking Justice to Power: Pittsburgh Scholars respond…
Memorializing the Memorial to the Tree of Life Shooting
by Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg – Tree of Life synagogue has been my family’s shul for three generations and I am currently a Board member. I went to Hebrew…
When Scholars are Political, Human, and Shattered
By Rachel Kranson – As both a professor of Jewish history and a local organizer with Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, I had long felt myself well-positioned as…
The Historian’s Craft
Thoughts on Reading and Making History in the Wake of Tree of Life by Avigail Oren – I experienced the events and aftermath of the Tree of Life shooting…
Ebola Afterlives by Eva Vernooij
Image by Eva Vernooij Adiatu[1], a young Sierra Leonean laboratory scientist, turns on the light in the high risk room of the molecular unit of the recently renovated…
Anthropology and the Question of Race
Unpack the ambiguities around race, skin color, and biology. After reviewing the history of Social Darwinism, you’ll see how Franz Boas and other 20th century anthropologists shifted our…
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Canguilhem’s Milieu Today, in History of Anthropology Newsletter by Anna Zogas
The History of Anthropology Newsletter has published a Special Focus section on Canguilhem’s “The Living and Its Milieu” (1952). The section includes six open access essays, and here…
Links & Contents I Liked 317
Hi all, This week a reader & colleague informed me that Alessandra Pigni passed away in December 2018. What terrible news. Michael Edwards re-published some of her writing…
Links & Contents I Liked 317
Hi all, This week a reader & colleague informed me that Alessandra Pigni passed away in December 2018. What terrible news. Michael Edwards re-published some of her writing…
How Traditional Knowledge Opens Nature’s Medicine Cabinet
A natural pharmacist at a complementary medicine clinic in Trujillo, Peru, displays a plant tincture. Jane Palmer Under the clear, moonlit sky of Friday, July 13, 2018, Elide…
Borayin Larios, “Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra” (De Gruyter, 2017)
Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra(De Gruyter, 2017; open access) probes the backbone of what makes Hinduism the world’s oldest living tradition: the unbroken c……
Sumanta Banerjee Marx adda
In one part of the recently translated Spooky Encounters, Sumanta Banerjee chats with the picnicking ghostly Marx and Engels about Indian food in London: “‘Fish-and-chips has almost disapp…
Borayin Larios, “Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra” (De Gruyter, 2017)
Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra(De Gruyter, 2017; open access) probes the backbone of what makes Hinduism the world’s oldest living tradition: the unbroken c……
APLA Graduate Representatives
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is currently accepting applications for a third Graduate Representative to the section’s Board of Directors. The successful applicant will…..
Japan’s Wartime Past Looms Large Over Militarization Efforts
Protestors in Tokyo voice their concerns about Prime Minister Abe’s militarization drive in 2017. Donald C. Wood The thunderous pounding of a military helicopter from the nearby Ground…
Producing the Anthropocene, Producing the Future/Water Futures
Editor’s note: Today we have the final installment of our “Anthropocene Melbourne Campus” series, featuring two related posts by Lauren Rickards and Ruth Morgan. Producing the Anthr…