Teaching Literature on the Arabian Peninsula
Even after 15 years of teaching literature on the Arabian Peninsula, I still worry about finding the right texts for my students. They are majoring in English language,…
Herve Varenne on his new book, Educating in Life
https://www.routledge.com/Educating-in-Life-Educational-Theory-and-the-Emergence-of-New-Normals/Varenne/p/book/9781138313668 Ilana Gershon: This book contains a wide range of ethnographic topics – h…
Greta Thunberg and Nongqawuse: Two sixteen-year-old women challenging the world
Greta Thunberg reminds me of Nongqawuse who, also at the age of sixteen, initiated a movement that attempted to drive white settlers out of nineteenth-century South-Africa.
Don Kulick, “A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea” (Algonquin Books, 2019)
Called “perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature” by the Wall Street Journal, A Death in…
När kroppen blir hemmastadd
En flytt är överstånden. Från ett hus till ett annat, från en del av stan till en annan. Det är inte bara hushållet som flyttat och ting som…
International Conference: Innovation in the Social Sciences and Humanities TDTU 2019 prime time
television news does not usually highlight academic conferences I guess: please watch us on HTV9: http://www.htv.com.vn/hoi-thao-quoc-te-ve-de-tai-khoa-hoc-xa-hoi-va-nhan-van-1
Calling it out: Our Australian rules?
The documentaries about Adam Goodes capture and abbreviate an array of events on and off the ground that might make recognising and responding to racism seem straightforward. The…
Clive Spash on the Lies they Tell: The pitiful state of environmentalism and its neoliberalization
Clive Spash, never one to leave you wondering what he thinks, on how environmentalism has been captured by new forms of economic reasoning. Always worth revisiting his critique…
Kurze Abhandlung über eine Wand im Lombardischen
Eine Wand, die es in sich hat: Unterschiedliche Wandstärken, zum Teil in Sichtbeton, zum Teil in einer anderen Betonart ausgeführt, deren Name ich nicht kenne. Dazu kommen, sozusagen…
Die Rückkehr der „unwürdigen“ Armen. Eine kleine Geschichte der Arbeitslosigkeit
Immer wieder werden Forderungen laut, die Sozialhilfe stärker an Gegenleistungen zu koppeln. Sie beruhen auf einer moralischen Deutung von Arbeitslosigkeit, die Ökonomen vor hundert Jahren als vormode…
Review: The Other Milk
Jia-Chen Fu. The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China. University of Washington Press. Seattle, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-295-74403-2. 276 pp. Tempest, Juliet (SOAS, University of London) Ambivale…
In Hot Water: Public Bathing in Native America, Iceland, Finland, and Japan
I’ve been in a lot of hot water. I have been beaten by sharp leaves and acorn-laced oak branches in Kyrgyzstan, abused by a drunk masseuse in a…
How Rituals of Pain Help Heal
During the kavadi attam ritual in Mauritius, devotees are voluntarily pierced, in some cases hundreds of times. Dimitris Xygalatas Inside a stuffy, overcrowded, and overheated room, a gro…
A couple podcast interviews I did this summer
This summer, Andi Simon of On The Brink, and Adam Gamwell of This Anthro Life, invited me to be on … More
Links & Contents I Liked 340
Hi all, Lots of new reports surfaced after UN GA week-but there have also been other interesting #globaldev readings popping up throughout the week from small island states…
Utterances of Distress
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Headache Worries Sadness Blood pressure Nervousness Pain Sleeping problems Stress Back pain Impaired eyesight Heart problems Stomach pain Paralysis Neck pain Breathing problems Chest…
Do not waste waste
By Freek Colombijn. It is a truism to state that the amount of solid waste produced daily is enormous. Mount Everest has become a symbol of just how…
A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Durante about How Manuscripts Become Books
For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer. Of course, the writer is the essential component. But what about all the other…
Erika Milam, “Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Erika Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II.…
Italia moderna – otto
Teil acht unserer massenkompatiblen Serie über moderne italienische Architektur. Wir beginnen mit diesem fünstöckigen Kasten in Parma, der an gemäßigten norddeutschen Expressionismus erinnert. Die Fen…
Hangö och dess lager av liv
Tre dagar av fältarbete med intervjuer, observationer av stadsrummet, gator, byggnader och rörelse, kopplat samman med diskussioner och egna analyser av allt och lite till, gör en lätt…
Review of Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction,
My review of the tremendously exciting collection of translated South Korean science fiction: Readymade Bodhisattva. It’s the first of its kind in English, and serves as a tremendous…
Det manglende engasjementet for den ‘smarte byen’, og hvorfor det bør bekymre deg
Innsamling av store datamengder blir stadig enklere, og mulighetene som åpnes opp av dette begynner å gjøre seg gjeldende i byutvikling. I såkalte ‘smarte byer’ ønsker man å…
Witnessing Puerto Rico, Recognition, and Feeling in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
As the plane descended to land in San Juan’s Airport in August 2018, almost a year after Hurricane Maria jolted Puerto Ricans on the island and elsewhere, I…