Single Shot: War Games
Each entry in the “Single Shot” visual anthropology series presents a single photograph or unbroken shot of video taken during ethnographic field work, plus a short description, with…
Clackamas Fishing Culture
The Clackamas were major fisher people in the Willamette and Columbia. The Willamette Falls is second only to Celilo in the lower Columbia for fishing for salmon.…
Indifference to the Needs of the Tribes: Testimony of William Miller, Physician at Grand Ronde, 1862
In 1862, there remained many problems at the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation. Problems of food and shelter, medicine and education where not solved yet. The seven treaties of…
Posting at the Margins
The “memeification” of political discourse in the 2018 Mexican presidential elections. Brandon Hunter-Pazzara “Okay, let’s start the memes,” posted a member of a community Facebook page in the…
Can Child Sex Offenders Be Rehabilitated?
Dexter, the protagonist of a TV series by the same name, commits horrific acts of murder—but he does not sexually abuse children, which seems to make him less…
Special Issue: Georges Canguilhem by Anna Zogas
The June 2018 issue of Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science is an issue about Georges Canguilhem’s life, work and intellectual legacies. The journal is open…
That’s Enough about Tim Ingold!: A Millennial’s Response
[This post is adapted and updated from a paper presented at the University of Colorado, Boulder graduate student conference, “The Ethnographic Turn” in 2016. I am indebted to…
International conference on “Local horse breeding in Russia in the past, present and future”, June 22-24, 2018
It is worth travelling north in mid June to experience one of the wonders of the Arctic. It is polar day when the sun disappears only for a…
Links & Contents I Liked 288
Hi all, This is going to be the last weekly review before my summer break. Unlike previous years I will have a proper break until the second half…
Psychosocial Support for Humanitarian Aid Workers (book review)
As it often happens with my book reviews for the blog there is an element of chance and surprise involved when discovering a great book for review. Fiona…
‘From New Peoples to New Nations’ by Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk
Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk. From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries. 704 pp., 14…
Stories of Change Among the Clackamas at Grand Ronde
The Clackamas Come to Grand Ronde Reservation Preparing to Leave The Clackamas are addressed in letters as living in small encampments near Oregon City. They likely had a…
Why Political Ambiguity Appeals to the Masses
Participants in the Shetkari Sanghatana movement ardently supported a message that allowed for a wide variety of interpretations. Michael Youngblood On a December day in 1996, close to…
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…
The Power and Precarity of Global Health Partnerships by Clare Herrick
A recent issue of Medicine Anthropology Theory devoted to the critique of global health partnerships (GHPs) raises a question of great significance to many Somatosphere readers: ‘In real world…
Fiona Murphy: When gadflies become horses: On the unlikelihood of ethical critique from the academy
Something smells of bullshit. It has for a long time. Caught in the spectacular entanglements of the neoliberal university, academic work is being actively “bullshitized.” Audit cultures, the…
Paula Serafini, “Performance Action: The Politics of Art Activism” (Routledge, 2018)
How can art change the world? In Performance Action: The Politics of Art Activism (Routledge, 2018), Paula Serafini, a Research Associate at the University of Leicester’s CAMEo Research Institut……
Anthropology can give designers the tools to do better their job
Hugo Rocha is a graphic designer with an MBA in marketing. Even though he told me that nowadays he thinks design shouldn’t really fit with marketing. For him,…
反对声音自然主义 | Against Sonic Naturalism
At the end of last year, I had the privilege to be part of the best academic conference ever – full spoilers, it’s called Tuning Speculation, it’s broadly…
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Forgotten Violence against Backpackers in Australia
While backpackers extensively contribute to the national economy as tourists and workers, they are only here on a short-term basis. Being temporary non-citizens there is less emotional investment…
Let’s Do This Together: A Cooperative Vision for Open Access
by Marcel LaFlamme, Dominic Boyer, Kirsten Bell, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Christopher Kelty, and John Willinsky Over the past two weeks, public allegations of abuse at the (formerly) open-access journa…
History tick tock
A somewhat strange take on the watch mechanism metaphor for history, and on village structure, from K.N.Chaudhuri. Asia Before Europe (explaining Braudel).