In the Journals–October 2018 by Julia Kowalski
Late but still lively: it’s October’s installation of In the Journals. Annual Review of Anthropology Ethics in Human Biology: A Historical Perspective on Present Challenges Joanna Radin Th…
Sex workers may unionise – but can prostitutes? The case of Sindicato OTRAS
Last week a Madrid tribunal declared that sex workers can unionise but prostitutes can’t – or that’s what it comes down to. Sindicato OTRAS was granted conventional union…
Work injury compensation still missing in Bangladesh’s labour standards
by Rebecca Prentice **Republished from The Conversation.** In the five years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Bangladesh – in which more than 1,134…
Book Review: Stepping into the Elite: Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France and the United States by Jules Naudet
In Stepping into the Elite: Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France and the United States, Jules Naudet draws on interviews with individuals in these three nations to…
Kathleen Hull and John Douglass, “Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California” (U Arizona Press, 2018)
Between 1769 and 1834, an influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists streamed into Alta California seeking new opportunities. Their arrival brought the imposition of foreign beliefs,…
David Charles Sloane, “Is the Cemetery Dead?” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
It is certain that we all will experience death in our life. What is less certain is how and where our bodies will be disposed of. In Is…
Multitude redux Empire: wrong way, don’t go back, we should leave too.
People got wishful thinking a lot, and I am always for breaking the borders, but as this can be read from afar, I reckon yes, but the prognosis…
Ein langes Wochenende in Peking – Teil 4
Tag 4: Lamatempel, Konfuzius-Tempel, Himmelstempel und Olympic Green Auch an meinem letzten Tag standen noch mal einige Tempel auf meinem Programm – Peking hat einfach unheimlich viele davon.…
All the value that washes into the sea
Failing seawall trying to prevent land (and value) from washing into the sea. Baja California Sur, Mexico, 2012. Photo: Ryan Anderson. In August of this year, the Washington…
Liminality: Unfixed Culture, Unfixed Selves
by Gertrude Lamare It was June of 2015, and we were on the road, travelling down to Umwang village in Assam, to witness the completion of a much-delayed…
Rezension zu Theory in Action von Sohlberg und Leiulfsrud (Hrsg.), verfasst von Felix Bathon
“[…] there is nothing so practical as a good theory” (Lewin 1951: 169) Der Sammelband „Theory in Action: Theoretical Constructionism“ diskutiert das Theoretisieren, sowie die Konstruktion von Theorien…
CFP: Limitations and Adaptations: Negotiating Aesthetics, Power, and Positionality
I am happy to share the call for papers for the 12th joint student folklore conference organized by the students at Indiana University and the Ohio State University.…
Ep. #27 TFS at AAA: Elevator pitches, problem labels, public anthropology, & estrangement in practice – Guest panel with Dr Esteban Gómez & Dr Carie Little Hersh
This month we bring you a special panel episode straight from the AAA (American Anthropological Association) Conference in San José, California. In this episode, our own Julia Brown…
CFP for Gastronomica
Call for Papers: “Saving Food” Gastronomica Vol. 19 Issue 3 The new Gastronomica editorial collective seeks proposals for a forthcoming special issue that explores the many entwined meanings of…
International Day of the Disappeared – Torn between Hope and Despair
Today is the International Day of the Disappeared. Sitting on the floor, with our backs pressed against the couch, Teuta and I watch televised pictures of hundreds of…
In Memory’s Painful Grip
War was on everybody’s lips. There was an impending sense of anticipation as Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia loomed large.[1] Television news reported on the steadily…
Brazil is going to eat you up! {part 1}
It’s been a long time since I wanted to write something on the current political climate in Brazil. But I always faced two main problems: I’m a Brazilian,…
The museum of vernacular regeneration
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Oregon Tribal History Videos
*8 videos* Standing Strong the Tribal Nations of Western Oregon, 2009 I worked on the narrative and was on the committee to produce the video, worked on revisions,…
Modocs, Klamaths, Native Voting and Sovereignty, KYAC Radio Broadcast 10/23/2018
David Lewis and Ken Cartwright, KYAC, Bridge to the Past, 10/23/2018
Native Voting Rights, Oral Histories, KYAC Radio Broadcast
David Lewis with Ken Cartwright at KYAC radio from Mill City, Bridge to the Past show, 11/13/2018
Links & Contents I Liked 302
Hi all, After a busy first day of another great teaching seminar my link review goes live a bit later than usual. Why did the UNEP boss fly…
Melinda Cooper’s Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Ilana Gershon
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism Melinda Cooper MIT Press, 2017, 416 pages. Neoliberal policy in the United States sometimes seems internally contradictory….
Review: Food and Power, A Culinary Ethnography of Israel
Food and Power: A Culinary Ethnography of Israel: Nir Avieli. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2018. 274 pp. ISBN 9870520290105 Shir Lerman Ginzburg Albert Einstein College of…