Gentrification, diversification & events – let’s take it SLOW!
Ever so often we find it indispensable to remind ourselves & everyone else that one of Allegra’s guiding mottos is ‘slow food for thought‘. Indeed, one of the…
The Shape of Things to Come in Libya (Part 2 of 2)
A New World Recolonization Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State, March 20, 2011, to Jeffrey D. Feltman: “Can we get a statement from the Libyan opposition…w [with]…
Dialogs before Suicide – An interview
Dialogs before Suicide – An interview In 2011, I made a single-shot feature film – Rati Chakravyuh (2013, 105 minutes) that was a summit of my life long…
Brian Epstein, “The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences” (Oxford UP, 2015)
The social sciences are about social entities – things like corporations and traffic jams, mobs and money, parents and war criminals. What is a social entity? What makes…
How to do a household waste audit–and why
A waste audit is an analysis of a localized waste stream from your building, household, classroom, town or business. It can identify what types of waste that local…
The Digital Future of Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
What follows is an open letter of invitation written by Mike Fortun in connection with an upcoming meeting of the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group…
Around the Web Digest – Week of February 14
I hope your Día del Cariño was full of love of some form – the version of the holiday I experienced in Guatemala pertains to a much wider definition…
Cishetpatriarchy is not community
I AM A GENDERQUEER BLACK TRANS MAN. I am racialized as Black, a Trans man, genderqueer, bi, & a descendant of stolen Africans on Indigenous peoples’ stolen land…
29. Freedom technologists bibliography, M-Z
Freedom Technologists: Digital Activism and Political Change in the 21st Century (working title), Chapter 2, Freedom Technologists ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, PART 2 This is the twenty-ninth post in th…
For anthropologists, is interdisciplinarity ever truly a meeting of equals?
I recently read a Twitter post which asserted that interdisciplinarity was never a meeting of equals. As an anthropologist working outside of an academic department I met this…
Arabic Papyrology Database
Andreas Kaplony, H-Mideast-Medieval, Saturday, January 2, 2016 The Arabic Papyrology Database (APD) team wishes you a happy New Year. Our present: new, handy features implemented in the APD…
Possibilisme En
Framtiden i våre hender, landbrukspolitikk og klimaendringer Jeg har skrevet et essay i Morgenbladet som handler om to ting; 1) om forskjellen på dommedagsprofetier og realisme i klimasaken,…
Jedediah Purdy on the Anthropocene, After Nature
I’ve mentioned Jedediah Purdy’s new book previously. It is an interesting read of American environmental politics and a comparison of different “environmental imaginations” tha…
Childbirth in the Americas: Part Four
Humanizing Birth in Bahia, Brazil Big changes in birth care are underway in Brazil. Excessive rates of cesarean section delivery and persistently high maternal mortality have inspired a…
The Beach – A Frontier of Nostalgia
by Duane Jethro The beach is a place of waste and ruin. Rotting seaweed, stinking dead seals, cracked and crushed shells, deflated bluebottles, fat blobs of translucent jellyfish…
Parting Words
I was fascinated to learn from an October 2015 article in the Independent newspaper the little-known fact that British “prime ministers leave secret instructions for nuclear missile submarine…
CFP: Food Insecurity in West Africa
Multidisciplinary approaches to food security, public health and governance: Emerging research for sustainable development in West Africa The University of Ibadan, Nigeria September 5 & 6, 2016 Th…
Sensuality and Sexual Topographies in the Middle East and North Africa
Two Lovers by Reza Abbasi, Persian miniaturist 16th century. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons A rich intellectual engagement in matters related to sexuality occupies the histories of the Middle…
Breakfast in Aidland: Quotidian Relations and Structural Contradictions
I walked out of my bedroom to a table garnished with exotic fruits, freshly pressed juice, bread and coffee. During breakfast in Aidland, I usually was occupied with…
Science and the National Interest
Who should judge what counts as “worthy science”? Who should judge what counts as “in the national interest”? New legislation just passed by the U.S. House of Representatives…
Nancy Scheper-Hughes shares reflections on the Catholic Church
By Cathy Cockrell, republished with permission from Berkeley News Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Source: Berkeley News In her research, writing and teaching, medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes focuses…
Deconstructing Detroit: The Politics of ‘Reclamation’
I attended the Society for Historical Archaeology’s annual meeting in Washington DC in January and presented in the excellent, day-long session, “Contemporary and Historical Archaeologies …
The Making of Lissa: Still Time—An ethnoGRAPHIC Novel
On World Anthropology Day, we are thrilled to highlight an important project that is currently in the works. This guest post is about the making of a graphic…
Happy #WorldAnthropologyDay! Celebrate with these great episodes! #WorldAnthroDay
Happy World Anthropology Day! To celebrate #WorldAnthropologyDay we here at TaL have curated some of our favorite past episodes covering how we approach anthropology and where we see…