Around the Web Digest: April 24
As my internet connection is finally back after a cat-induced Wi-Fi disruption, I come with more readings for the week. By the time this goes live, May Day…
Category: English
From Vision to Reality: Palestine Israel Fellowship Fund for Travel (PIFFT) Applications Now Open!
Alisse Waterston, AAA President, CUNY John Jay College Last November (2016) my president’s letter to AAA members announced a new project: PIFFT: the Palestine Israel Fellowship Fund for…
Counting and Being Counted: New AAA Tenure and Promotion Guidelines on Public Scholarship
How do we count and value public scholarship in anthropology? — Do we count and value public scholarship in anthropology? — And, how do we do it at the time…
Maya Barzilai, “Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters” (NYU Press, 2016)
This episode of New Books in Jewish Studies features Maya Barzilai, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish Culture at the University of Michigan and the author of…
CFP: Food Security in the Pacific
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana January 30 to February 4, 2018 Deadline for Submissions: 1 November 2017 As the effects of climate change…
anthro in the news 5/1/17
Tehran. Credit: Wikipedia U.S. strategic interests The Tehran Times published a piece by William O. Beeman, professor and head of the anthropology department at the University of Minnesota…
The Myth of the Apolitical Judge
How Language Ideologies Underlie the Judicial Confirmation Process One thing Neil Gorsuch has in common with many previous Supreme Court nominees is his insistence that he is an…
At #CASCAIUAES17 in Ottawa!
This week (May 2nd-6th) we are attending the CASCA/IUAES2017 Conference in Ottawa! This year, the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) is having a joint Conference/InterCongress with the Interna…
At #CASCAIUAES17 in Ottawa!
This week (May 2nd-6th) we are attending the CASCA/IUAES2017 Conference in Ottawa! This year, the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) is having a joint Conference/InterCongress with the Interna…
Sonic Breakdown, Extinction and Memory
by Lina Dib Originally published in continent 6(1) CC BY 2.0 DOWNLOAD PDF (https://soundcloud.com/continent/lina-dib-sonic-breakdown-extinction-and-memory) This soundtrack features sounds of environme…
Call for participation: Enacting Environmental Data Justice
Held on Tuesday, August 29, this event will explore possibilities for data justice through a framework of environmental justice.
In the field with Iraq’s archaeologists of the future
Working in Kurdistan at the site of Qalatga Darband, The British Museum is training Iraqi archaeologists to preserve and study their country’s threatened heritage Iraqi Kurdistan is spectacularly…
Life Lessons From Prince: 4 Things I Learned After 4 Days At Paisley Park. Part 1
As I sit here about to write this (it finally being the “right time”) I am remembering that a week ago around this time my wife and I…
Een stukje culturele privacy
door Ferdous Arachid Rituelen en tradities zijn zaken die van essentieel belang zijn voor een samenleving, en de daarbij horende ‘cultuur’. Ik las op 14 april een opiniestuk…
Who is the Three-Headed Dog? Surveillance and migration
Charon Crossing the River Styx was painted by Joachim Patinir between 1515 and 1524. A reproduction hangs on the wall of a bar in Málaga’s centro histórico where…
Great Food Conference Program
Los Angeles is one of the great food cities of the world. So, logically, it should be one of the great places to have a food studies conference.…
Web Roundup: Marching for Science, which is what, exactly? by Lily Shapiro
Many of you may have marched (or chosen not to march) at last week’s March for Science. I marched with my partner and young son here in Coimbatore,…
Rebe Taylor, “Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
In her book, Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity (Melbourne University Press, 2017), Rebe Taylor, the Coral Thomas Fellow at the State Library of…
TV: new rules, new viewers, new challenges
This is the presentation I gave at Streaming Television and Second Screening Workshop at Boston University. TV: new rules, new viewers, new challenges from Grant McCracken
Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff
Hot off the press! Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff just came out on MIT Press. I have a piece on dirty dollars as art…