Picturing Change, Seeing Continuity: Hmong Story Cloths
It is a new year and a new semester at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and that means new exhibitions! There are new exhibitions still to open…
#EASAElections: Introduction to the Virtual Roundtable
As members of the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) should already know, the deadline to cast our vote for candidates to the Executive Committee is soon approaching…
Weaving the World: Workshops on Evocative Ethnographic Writing
For several years I have had the pleasure of teaching three to four-day workshops on ethnographic writing. I have found the workshops to be rewarding and satisfying. They…
#EASAElections: Interview with Jonas Tinius
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EASAElections: Interview with Georgeta Stoïca
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EASAElections: Interview with Jane Cowan
Photo by Mika Federley. Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your…
Who Decided It Was Bad to Be Fat?
In 2009, supermodel Kate Moss caused a stir when she categorically stated that “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” As jaw-dropping as the sentiment might have seemed…
Author Interview: Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and Hazel Johnstone on Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction
In their new book, Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction, Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and Hazel Johnstone show how twenty-first-century detective fiction offers insight…
Author Interview: Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and Hazel Johnstone on Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction
In their new book, Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction, Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and Hazel Johnstone show how twenty-first-century detective fiction offers insight…
Links & Contents I Liked 307
Hi all, Happy New Year! The 2019 blogging year is already in full swing and my first link review is not even attempting to ‘catch up’ with stuff…
Slum tourism
I am gathering material for a review of this area and found a dissertation that discusses The Rumour of Calcutta: “Hutnyk (1996: 10) also states that the massive…
#EASAElections: Interview with Marcus Banks
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EASAElections: Interview with Dan Podjed
Allegra: You’ve decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EASAElections: Interview with Miia Halme-Tuomisaari
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EASAElections: Interview with Cristiana Bastos
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EVENTS: Temporalities, global movement and more
New year, new events! The start of a new year makes us strangely aware of the passing of time – so don’t forget to send a proposal for…
Your failure of imagination is not my problem
In November 2016, I flew to Zurich to deliver a talk on my work on Métis legal-ethical paradigms, prairie fish, and the Anthropocene. When we booked the tickets…
ASFS Deadlines, Awards, Opportunities
There is a slew of deadlines, awards, and opportunities for anyone interested in the activities of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. These include an…
2018 in Review: The Year in Horror
By Emma Louise Backe In February 2018, Guillermo del Toro was awarded the Oscar for The Shape Of Water, an interspecies period romance premised on inverting the horror…
A Daughter’s Disability and a Father’s Awakening
[no-caption] Thomas W. Pearson The nurse gently lifted Michaela onto my partner’s bare chest, a newborn embraced by her mother for the first time. I marveled at the…
Michele Gelfand, “Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World” (Scribner Books, 2018)
In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World(Scribner Books, 2018), Dr. Michele Gelfand leverages cultural psychology research to examine social norms and their…
Book Review: Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography by Laura Vaughan
In Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography – available to download here for free – Laura Vaughan offers an analysis of how maps have both described and shaped social…
My development blogging year 2018 in review
I will keep my blogging review of 2018 a bit shorter than in previous years, e.g. 2017, 2016 or 2015. That’s mainly because two of my blog posts…