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Rasmus Rodineliussen: Som småbarnsförälder har jag under mina år som student och nu som doktorand ofta fått frågan hur jag får tiden att räcka till. Hur är det…
Book Review: Heading Home: Motherhood, Work and the Failed Promise of Equality by Shani Orgad
In Heading Home: Motherhood, Work and the Failed Promise of Equality, Shani Orgad draws on interviews with educated, London-based women to explore their decision to leave their successful careers to…
El cobrador de impuestos y los khoisan: el grano o la caza.
“El arqueólogo del futuro clasificará nuestro planeta como uno en el que a un período muy largo y estable de caza y recolección a pequeña escala, le siguió…
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic. How can publishers and authors…
Changing Time by Janet Weston
History and dementia are both concerned with time. Writing history is all about folding time, making sense of things that have become confused and confusing with the passage…
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic. How can publishers and authors…
Holding, Centering, Being: The many ways we live in the world.
Images and notes overwhelmed my various forms of media: I was flooded with New Zealand. My heart was flooded, my being was flooded, and I knew, once again,…
Exhibitions Week: Quilting Art and Tradition—People, Handcrafts, and Community Life (a.k.a. Quilts of Southwest China)
The MMWC has a huge amount of exhibition related news. This week I devote a series of posts to highlighting some of these developments. Huang Biyu introduces her…
Announcement: new Managing Editor and members of Editorial Collaborative! by Eugene Raikhel
There are a few exciting additions to the Somatosphere masthead that I’d like to announce. (Please note that we are working to fix up the masthead itself, and that a…
Micro-activist Affordances by Arseli Dokumaci
I met Ahmet, a disabled young man, during a visual ethnography I conducted in Istanbul, Turkey (2009), where I worked with people with disabilities related to rheumatoid arthritis…
Jonathan Rosa on his new book, Looking Like a Language and Sounding Like a Race
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/looking-like-a-language-sounding-like-a-race-9780190634735 Interview by Jessica López-Espino Jessica López-Espino: Let’s start with your title, what does it me…
Mapping USA electronics manufacturing pollution
The US ‘tech sector’ has been a major source of toxicant releases. These interactive maps show the chemical legacy of electronic manufacturing in the US.
Christchurch Mosque Attacks: A Public Syllabus
My colleague Catherine Trundle is working with students and staff from our School at Victoria University of Wellington on this important syllabus about the Christchurch Mosque Attacks. The…
Cambridge Arctic teaching position open
Our colleagues from the Scott Polar Research Institute search for an Arctic human geography teacher for supervising their undergraduate and masters students. The funding is fixed term for…
Global inequality: Do we really live in a one-hump world?
There is a powerful infographic that has been circulating on social media for a couple of years now. It illustrates a dramatic transformation from a “two hump…
Culinary Historians of New York Scholar’s Grant
These grants are a great opportunity for SAFN members seeking support for their research! CULINARY HISTORIANS OF NEW YORK ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2019 SCHOLARS’ GRANTS APPLICATION DEADLINE FR…
who is fighting?
Zeph’s pop culture quiz #62 In the spectacles of a gentleman—who is sporting a quite ↵distinctive tie knot, by the way—two people fighting are reflected. Who are they?…
Ep. #33: Getting ready for the field: Themed panel with Dr Siobhan McDonnell
This month on TFS, we bring you a special themed panel with Dr Siobhan McDonnell about getting ready to go to the field. Siobhan is a legal anthropologist…
When cross-cultural comparisons fall flat
At a recent meeting with a client, the team and I were discussing observations from the interviews we had been … More
It’s True: We’re Probably All a Little Irish–Especially in the Caribbean
Everyone is supposedly a little Irish on St. Patrick’s Day but there is more truth to this saying than most recognize. It’s not merely a loophole allowing for…
Being At Home in a Hateful World
In the age of social media it has not only become more normal to demonize people who are “different,” but to cage and kill them as well. Through…
Battle Rock the First Colonization on the Southern Oregon Coast
In July 1851, Captain William Tichenor decided to begin his project to colonize and claim the Port Orford area. He envisioned that the establishment of a town at…
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Remembering the Woman Who Was My Second Mother in Cuba
Caro in the terrace of her house in Havana, 2001. Ruth Behar When my cellphone rang on the morning of December 12, 2018, and I saw the call…