A Cooperative Craft Survey in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Part 1
A note on photographs. Here just a few photographs from the first day of our May 2019 travel in Yunnan are presented. It will take time to work…
Devin Proctor’s page 99 test
My dissertation, On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space, is based on five years of ethnographic engagement examining identity construction and social practice among the Otherkin…
Book Review: The Politics of Land edited by Tim Bartley
In The Politics of Land, editor Tim Bartley brings together contributors to highlight the significance of the neglected issue of land to political sociology. This is a highly informative volume…
(Dis)continuities in cancer care: An ethnographic approximation to practices of disease stratification by Ignacia Arteaga
Background: Disease stratification practices have long been used as a means to produce and make sense of cancer, distinguishing ‘types’, tumour development stages, and even patients’ sociode…
The Dirt
The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in research related to waste and wasting.
Fremd im eigenen Land — Das Kopftuch im Wandel der Zeit
Verfasst von Andreas Schulz Über Fremdheit ist schon viel geschrieben worden. Sie stellt einen der grundlegendsten sozialwissenschaftlichen Untersuchungsgegenstände dar und mündet in Spezialdiskurse u…
The one thing that changed everything: Complex illness & the functional fallacy of a singular cause
When I asked my research participants what they felt had caused theirs or their patient’s schizophrenia, it was often put down to one thing or another, rather than…
In the Journals, July 2019 by Raha Peyravi
I think this month’s articles would be of specific interest for looking to read on topics of risk and health, the politics of standardized evidence, boundaries of science…
Grautöne. Über die Tugend des Hinterfragens in Zeiten schneller Meinung
Die Aufarbeitung vergangenen Unrechts und die Herausforderungen einer pluralistischen Gesellschaft stellen die Diskussionskultur in der Demokratie auf den Prüfstand. Das zeigt – nur zum Beispiel – der…
The Limitations of Compassion in International Volunteering
On April 15, 2013, at 2:49 p.m., two bombs were detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The effects were physically devastating — three dead and…
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, “Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties” (NYU Press, 2019)
Does a person’s well-being go well beyond how much money they have in their bank account? In Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community…
Neo-Evolutionism with special emphasis on Steward and White
Contents Background: Revivals: Julian Steward: Leslie White: Background: The “golden age” of social evolutionism had basically ended by the 1890s, and after that time a sharp reaction against…
The Strange Rites of Celebrity
Jesse Eisenberg’s breakthrough roles in movies such as Zombieland (2009) and The Social Network (2010) earned him fame and accolades. WEBN-TV/Flickr In the summer of 2016, I ran…
Inescapable Temporalities: Chinook Salmon and the Non-Sovereignty of Co-Management in Southwest Alaska
By William Voinot-Baron, University of Wisconsin at Madison § For several weeks after midsummer arrives along the lower Kuskokwim River, even as the days begin to shorten, the…
Matter beyond Bounds: Time, Jurisdiction, and Environment
By Hannah Eisler Burnett and Sonia Grant, University of Chicago § This sub-series emerged from a double session at the 2018 American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting in…
Proud to call myself a “Business Anthropologist”
For the past seven years, anthropology has become the central theme of my life. My undergraduate thesis was focused on problematizing career opportunities in anthropology. Around that same…
Long Read Review: Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance by Daromir Rudnyckyj
In Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance, Daromir Rudnyckyj takes the reader into the world of Malaysian financial, religious and state regulatory experts who aspire for Islamic finance t…
Closer Heat Wave Service – Really good podcasts on Intersectionality, Gender, Race and Islamophobia
As I was cycling through the beautiful Bommelerwaard and resting near the water (yes, there is a reason I’m cycling here and not in the Tour de France),…
Christina Thompson, “Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia” (Harper, 2019)
It’s rare for a book of non-fiction to catch the interest of the reading public in the United States, much less a book on the history of science…
Review: Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
Food Anxiety in Globalizing Vietnam. Judith Ehlert and Nora Katharina Faltmann eds. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 330pp. ISBN 978-981-13-0743-0 .Shao-Yun Chang (Tulane University) In 2018, Vie…
Why is the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) important for Pacific Island countries?
Article by Sunil Kumar Pariyar and Noel Keenlyside. On April 13, 2015, tropical cyclone PAM hit Vanuatu (a Pacific Island country) with a devastating speed of 250km/hour. This…
How do you do interdisciplinarity? by Roberta Pala
The AusSTS Interdisciplinary workshop took place at Deakin University, in Melbourne, Australia from the 3rd to the 5th of July 2019. The workshop quite literally started with a…
Jennifer A. Jones, “The Browning of the New South” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
The dawn of the new millennium bore witness to an unprecedented transformation of the population in the Southeastern United States as evidenced by Dr. Jennifer A. Jones in…
The Future of LOVOT: Between Models of Emotion and Experiments in Affect in Japan
Aya is anxiously waiting for a future in which humans coexist with robots. She didn’t think this was possible in her lifetime, but when she learned about LOVOT,…