Anthropology in Brazil
Antropologia. Uma Introdução Professor Roberto Jarry Richardson sent me this excellent question: I am a Brazilian professor with a Ph.D. in International Development Education at Stanford University. …
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We Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves: An Update from AAA Intern Sam Ropa
“We are the stories we tell ourselves” — Aja Monet Hello, Associated American Anthropologists! A dispatch from your cultural anthropologist in DC: This city is steeped in stories.…
Euphemisms for the Global Other
I recently attended a conference in Copenhagen about sustainable consumption where I kept hearing “the Global South” used to refer to poor people in general, to low income…
#EASA2018: Motion against apartheid academia in the West Bank
Matan Kaminer is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan and a member of the Israeli Anthropological Association and of Academia for Equality, an Israeli group for…
Globalization has broken the chain of responsibility
In his new book, “Boomtown”, Thomas Hylland Eriksen investigates the ambivalence and conflict in Gladstone, Australia, a community that is struggling with the effects of globa…
Globalization has broken the chain of responsibility
In his new book, “Boomtown”, Thomas Hylland Eriksen investigates the ambivalence and conflict in Gladstone, Australia, a community that is struggling with the effects of globa…
Is Your DNA You?
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS What does your DNA have to do with who you are? On a journey for answers, SAPIENS hosts Chip Colwell, Jen Shannon, and Esteban Gómez…
Don’t Lose Sight
I’ve been working on a different post but this one seemed more context-appropriate and I am giving another pass over Kinji Imanishi’s A Japanses View of Nature: The World of…
System, Space and Ecobiopolitics: A Conversation with Valerie Olson About “Into the Extreme”
[This week we present excerpts of an interview with Valerie Olson conducted by Lisa Messeri focused on Olson’s new book, Into the Extreme (U Minnesota P, 2018).…
How an Archaeological Experiment Revealed California’s Ancient Past
San Nicolas Island, the most remote and one of the smallest of California’s Channel Islands, is more than 60 miles from the mainland. The seas around the island…
Christina Gish Hill, “Webs of Kinship: Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood” (U Oklahoma Press, 2017)
One summer evening discussion on a front porch sparked Webs of Kinship: Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood, Christina Gish Hill’s 2017 book from the University of Oklahoma Press.…
John H. McWhorter, “The Creole Debate” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He has written academic books on creole linguistics, including the book we’ll be talking…
Check Your Syllabus 101: Disability Access Statements
The start of the semester is just about upon us, which probably means you are rapidly ditching your best laid plans to lovingly craft your syllabus into a…
Muktinath Cable Car
Depending on how long the project takes, this will be a fascinating addendum to my upcoming manuscript on Shaligram pilgrimage and mobility in Mustang. http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2018-08-…
Thinking with dementia. An introduction to the series by Kristine Krause
Fourteen stories This series is a collection of fourteen stories that are written to ‘think with dementia’. Over the past three years, six PhD students from the anthropology department at the Univers…
anthro in the news 8/6/18 and 8/13/18
The three sisters: beans, corn, and squash. Credit: nativeamericans.mrdonn.org reclaiming Native food sovereignty The Santa Fe New Mexican carried an article about the movement to reclaim Native North…
Miranda Weinberg takes the page 99 test for her dissertation
Page 99 of my dissertation, Schooling Languages: Indigeneity, Language Policy, and Language Shift in Nepal, is both representative and anomalous as part of my dissertation. In my dissertation…
Yves Citton, “The Ecology of Attention” (Polity Press, 2017)
We are arguably living in the midst of a form of economy where attention has become a key resource and value, labor, class, and currency are being reconfigured…
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, “The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez‘s new book, The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2018) traces how globalization, neol… Visit New Books…
Transfiguring Psychoanalysis and Culture: Review of “Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir: Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood” (Edited by Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, and Anurag Mishra; Foreword by Erica Burman)
Book cover Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir. Copyright: Rowman & Littlefield. Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Nasima Selim “What happens when psychoanalysis – born in Western Europe,…
10 Jahre PASS: „Der Datensatz genießt inzwischen ein großes Ansehen in der Wissenschaft“
Interview mit Katrin Auspurg (Datennutzerin, LMU München) Vor zehn Jahren wurde die Studie „Lebensqualität und soziale Sicherung“, auch bekannt unter der Abkürzung PASS – Panel „Arbeitsmarkt und sozia…
Estuaries Saved the Coastal Tribes: Joel Palmer’s Plan in 1855
I have previously written about how the coastal tribes were relocated to several river estuaries within the Coast Reservation (Siuslaw, Yachats, Alsea, Nashesne, Siletz and Umpqua). There the…
Canada Imports the White Helmets from Syria: A Dangerous, Criminal Decision
Did Canadians get to vote on whether or not to bring potential terrorists or supporters of terrorists to Canada? No. Will Canadians get a say in where these…
Announcing SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human
What makes you … you? Is it your DNA, culture, or environment? SAPIENS is releasing its first podcast series to explore our world in new ways through the…