Brazil is going to eat you up! {part 1}
It’s been a long time since I wanted to write something on the current political climate in Brazil. But I always faced two main problems: I’m a Brazilian,…
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The museum of vernacular regeneration
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Oregon Tribal History Videos
*8 videos* Standing Strong the Tribal Nations of Western Oregon, 2009 I worked on the narrative and was on the committee to produce the video, worked on revisions,…
Modocs, Klamaths, Native Voting and Sovereignty, KYAC Radio Broadcast 10/23/2018
David Lewis and Ken Cartwright, KYAC, Bridge to the Past, 10/23/2018
Native Voting Rights, Oral Histories, KYAC Radio Broadcast
David Lewis with Ken Cartwright at KYAC radio from Mill City, Bridge to the Past show, 11/13/2018
Links & Contents I Liked 302
Hi all, After a busy first day of another great teaching seminar my link review goes live a bit later than usual. Why did the UNEP boss fly…
Melinda Cooper’s Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Ilana Gershon
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism Melinda Cooper MIT Press, 2017, 416 pages. Neoliberal policy in the United States sometimes seems internally contradictory….
Review: Food and Power, A Culinary Ethnography of Israel
Food and Power: A Culinary Ethnography of Israel: Nir Avieli. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2018. 274 pp. ISBN 9870520290105 Shir Lerman Ginzburg Albert Einstein College of…
Religionswissenschaft gegen Vorurteile und Stereotype: Interview mit dem SORAPS-Projekt
Das heutige REMID-Interview wurde geführt mit Felix Petzold, Leiter im Team des nationalen Partners im SORAPS-Projekt, Universität Augsburg, und dem Projektkoordinator, Giovanni Lapis, L’Università C…
The Miseducation of the Public and the Erasure of Native Americans
This post was submitted by Lewis Borck (Faculty of Archaeology, Universiteit Leiden) and Ashleigh Thompson (School of Anthropology, University of Arizona). Recently while cruising through a social me…
An anthropological perspective on Sverigedemokraterna
Kristofer Lindh: Steven Sampson (15-10-18) raises the question if there is anything social anthropologists could say to illuminate the situation of Sweden in relation to the rise of…
Keeping Arctic animals makes sense!
The Arctic Ark team has presented their work of the last four years in human-animal relations in the Arctic at the Finnish Academy’s final Arktiko Seminar. Studying people’s…
Twitter Wrap-up for AmAnth2018: Hashtags and Hautalk
As I have done over the past few years (2017, 2016), I returned from AAA2018 and ran some Twitter analytics. Here’s the sociograph I came up with (click…
Über Patriotismus und Pamela George
Selten passiert es mir, dass mich ein wissenschaftlicher Artikel zu Tränen rührt. Und zwar nicht in einem berührend sentimentalen Sinne. Sondern, dass ein Text negative Dinge in mir…
How to Care for the Dead
Scientists have thought about burial—the act of interring a dead body—as a distinctly human behavior. So what happened when a group of paleoanthropologists discovered a primitive hominid that…
Reflections on the AAA, Part 1: On Speculative Anthropology
Editor’s note: This year, two of our people (the Linguistic One and the Cultural One) went to the American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. This…
Reflections on the AAA, Part 1: On Speculative Anthropology
Editor’s note: This year, two of our people (the Linguistic One and the Cultural One) went to the American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. This…
Wakanda University at #AmAnth2018
Elizabeth Chin, @nidhisrathore, @allergyPhD, @dorinnekondo, Chibundo Egwuatu & others at #WakandaUniversity gave us an alternative vision of what the space of the AAA conference can be like, look…
Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
This conversation takes place with two ethnographers of Los Angeles: Juli Grigsby is an assistant professor of anthropology at Haverford College, who researches Black women’s political subjectivity, v…
Reporting On Egypt, From China
There is an account in Chapter Three of Pál Nyíri’s Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World in which a couple of Chinese correspondents reflect…
Book Review: My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery
In My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File, Katherine Verdery offers insight into the history of communism in Romania by exploring the surveillance file created on…
Decolonizing Primatology: Part I
We all have texts that are formative in our academic, professional, spiritual, personal, mental, and philosophical lives. There are a few books that I can point to as…
Vinterforberedelser
Skrevet av Marie Elisabeth Nickelsen, BA sosialantropologi Det er høst. Bladene skifter farge, luften blir kjøligere og kulden angriper, regnet … More
Norge – verdens beste land å bo i. For hvem?
Skrevet av Tiril Frøland, BA sosialantropologi Nok en gang så topper Norge statistikken som verdens beste land å bo i. … More