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Katherine A. Bowie, “Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)

From the sidelines of the Asian Studies Association of Australia’s biennial conference, where she presented the inaugural keynote address of the Association of Mainland Southeast Asia Scholars, Kather… Visit…

  • Post date 27th July 2018
  • Post author By Nick Cheesman

Boomtown

Here’s a short extract from my new book Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast, which is now available from Pluto Press and your favourite bookshop. Very proud…

  • Post date 26th July 2018
  • Post author By thomashyllanderiksen

Embracing biological and cultural diversity: An interview with Dr Jerome Lewis

Below you will find a link to an interview with CAOS co-founder Jerome Lewis. This interview covers Jerome’s research into hunter-gatherer societies, his deep-seated interest in ways of…

  • Post date 26th July 2018
  • Post author By Eric Boyd

The Incas’ Knotty History

Khipu in the Museo Machu Picchu, Casa Concha, Cusco. Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published at Aeon. The Inca Empire (1400–1532) is one of few ancient civilizations that …

  • Post date 26th July 2018
  • Post author By Manuel Medrano and Gary Urton

In The Journals: July 2018 by Gabrielle Hanley-Mott

Here are a variety of articles from July 2018. Trends: There are a number of articles on pregnancy, aging populations and elder care; as well as analyses of…

  • Post date 26th July 2018
  • Post author By Gabrielle Hanley-Mott

I Have Always Felt at Home in Libraries: An Update from AAA Intern Sam Ropa

An update from 2018 AAA Intern Sam Ropa: I have always felt at home in libraries. Most academics relate to this feeling—the one that only comes when one…

  • Post date 26th July 2018
  • Post author By aaaguestcontributor

Boomtown

Here’s a short extract from my new book Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast, which is now available from Pluto Press and your favourite bookshop. Very proud…

  • Post date 26th July 2018
  • Post author By Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Boomtown

Here’s a short extract from my new book Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast, which is now available from Pluto Press and your favourite bookshop. Very proud…

  • Post date 26th July 2018
  • Post author By Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Call For Papers: What’s Next in Food Studies?

Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies invites submissions for a special issue (to be published in May 2019) on “What’s Next in Food Studies.” Globally, food studies…

  • Post date 26th July 2018
  • Post author By foodanthro

How academic culture gives us permission not to know

Every way of knowing is also a way of not knowing. Privileging one point of view, or one form of evidence, requires the erasure of other ways of…

  • Post date 25th July 2018
  • Post author By Ian Pollock

The Word: Rhetorics of Resistance in Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale

By Emma Louise Backe Dolores Abernathy—titular host in HBO’s Westworld series—spends most of the second season with a gun on her hip and a constellation of blood spattering…

  • Post date 25th July 2018
  • Post author By Emma Louise Backe

Megan Condis, “Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Battle for Online Culture” (U Iowa Press, 2018)

Gaming has increasingly become part of mainstream culture, from the continued rise of console and PC gaming to the emergence of eSports. Gaming culture has also come under…

  • Post date 25th July 2018
  • Post author By Kyle McMillen

Why Do People Want to Drink the Sarcophagus Water?

This is a snapshot of who we are right at this moment — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

  • Post date 25th July 2018
  • Post author By Krystal D'Costa

History in the Vouchers: Joel Palmer’s Expense Journal

I have spent much time on Palmer’s and other early settler’s and explorer’s letters that I have gained a good understanding of the history of the tribes.  Some…

  • Post date 25th July 2018
  • Post author By David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC

Protected: To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job: A Conversation with Daniel Jordan Smith

  • Post date 24th July 2018
  • Post author By Alma Gottlieb

A British Schooner and the Big City: An Update from AAA Intern Evan Olinger

An update from 2018 AAA Intern Evan Olinger: My name is Evan Olinger, and I am interning at the Underwater Archaeology Branch of the Naval History and Heritage…

  • Post date 24th July 2018
  • Post author By aaaguestcontributor

Cuando regatear al sistema es el único camino para crear una familia

[no-caption] Miguel Gaggiotti Sonsoles* y su pareja deseaban adoptar un niño o niña. Vivían en un bonito barrio de Barcelona y, según explicó Sonsoles, se consideraban idóneos para…

  • Post date 24th July 2018
  • Post author By Jessaca Leinaweaver and Diana Marre

Perspectives On U.S. Food Policy: Farm Bill 2018

  Ellen Messer An essay inspired by Amy Goldstein’s Janesville: An American Story (2017, Simon and Schuster).  What this account of economic decline and increasing social polarization in a …

  • Post date 24th July 2018
  • Post author By foodanthro

The Field Study Handbook, all you must to know about ethnographic consultancy

The Field Study Handbook (2017) is a work written by Jan Chipchase. It is a real manual for all those interested in embarking on the world of strategic ethnography…

  • Post date 24th July 2018
  • Post author By Verónica Reyero

Hollender neue Präsidentin der European Association of Jewish Studies

Judaistik-Professorin plant 2022 großen internationalen Kongress an der Goethe-Universität. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Hollender ist seit dem 17. Juli 2018 neue Präsidentin der European Association of Jewish…

  • Post date 24th July 2018
  • Post author By Redaktion

John O’Brien, “Keeping it Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys” (Princeton UP, 2017)

What do the social worlds of teenage Muslim American boys look like? What issues do they grapple with and how do they think about issues that arise in…

  • Post date 24th July 2018
  • Post author By Sarah Patterson

Our 14,400-Year-Old Relationship with Bread

New evidence from Jordan is challenging what we thought we knew about hunter–gatherer diets — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

  • Post date 24th July 2018
  • Post author By Krystal D'Costa

Its Only an Evil Cactus if Donkeys Chase You: Ethics and Psychedelics with Hamilton Morris – This Anthro Life

When TAL first interviewed Hamilton Morris, it was shortly after he and his production team had finished season 1 of Hamilton’s Pharmacopoeia. Now, Morris has completed two seasons…

  • Post date 23rd July 2018
  • Post author By Ryan Collins

U.S. Academic Anthropology’s Hiring Network

A paper I authored with several colleagues titled “The Social Network of U.S. Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities” was recently accepted by American Anthropologist and will be publ…

  • Post date 23rd July 2018
  • Post author By nckawa
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