Repetition in mourning and placemaking
By Emma Arnold – We always visit my father’s grave on important days—his birthday, Christmas, and my parents’ wedding anniversary. It is a ritual: my mother, sister, and…
By Emma Arnold – We always visit my father’s grave on important days—his birthday, Christmas, and my parents’ wedding anniversary. It is a ritual: my mother, sister, and…
After a recent trip to Rotuma, Vilsoni Hereniko weaponized humor and satire to address a matter of concern in the Fijian Times
Audun Kjus joins Jana Byars to talk about Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum (Utah State Press, 2025), eds. Audun Kjus, Jakob Löfgren, Cliona O’Carroll, Simon Poole & Ida Tolgensbakk. Utah…
A review of the film Open Unit. The appearance of a new Smith film from Paul Antick is a source […] The post ‘Is this still life all…
Open Unit is another in the ongoing series of Smith and Willing films by Paul Antick. With music by Luke […] The post Open Unit appeared first on…
SAR Moments: Wild New World, a Conversation with Dan Flores and Sara Dant AI Summary …
One of the main strengths of ethnographic methodologies is immersed, long-term research, which enables in-depth learning and a holistic vision of a given issue. Restricted or volatile access…
Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previous episode featured Peter Beinart on Zionism as long-distance ethnonationalism; here they speak with Subir Sinha, who teaches at…
Imagine the moment you first encounter a piece of creative ethnography—a poem, a performance, an image—that speaks to the heart […] The post Empathy and dialogue: embracing the…
Thomas Mouat Tate, with a cuppa and (ship)mates was, he said, taken in Malta in May 1942. They are, I expect, quite jolly since they will have just…
This is the playlist link for 30 Minute Methods 30 Minute Methods is a series of short talks by sociologists, anthropologists and film/media researchers where the debate about…
We are a group of five, three men and two women, sitting in the shade of a Maasai hut in […] The post The Temporality of Violence — Affect,…
Mike Mena, Brooklyn College Why are all my favorite black and brown heroes so… insecure. They whine. They cry. They question every decision they make. They always ask…
How do we navigate the relationship between researcher and research assistant in anthropology, especially when that relationship is one of both friendship and research participation? In this piece,…
Der Text ist erschienen in: Niederle, Helmuth (Hrsg.), Zwischenrufe. 100 Jahre Österreichischer PEN-Club. Wien: Korrektur Verlag 2024, S. 163-172 Links gegen Liberal ist derzeit das spannendste Match …
When activist and anthropologist Graeber died unexpectedly in 2020, scholars gathered to mourn him. Contributors to a resulting volume, As If Already Free, reflect on his legacy. ✽…
Recorded February 18 2025 at Ton Duc Thang University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Antonio Marazzi portrayed by Loredana Putignani, Botanical Garden in Brera, Milan 2024 We express our condolences for the passing of Antonio Marazzi, 90 years old, former Chairman of…
Shenila Khoja-Moolji‘s The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood considers the ways in which Muslim boys face gendered and racialised discrimination in the US and India, including in school settings….
On Rusinga Island, a grassroots group is celebrating the field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring future generations to study science and ancient history. ✽ GROWING…
At 09:30 a.m. BST on 19 July 2024, IT systems around the world suddenly ground to a halt. Without their computer systems, pharmacies, doctors’ surgeries, airports, train providers,…
So looking back and various snipsnaps from 2005, here are some more squibs urban pathology FEAR All we need is Radio Ga Ga
From: https://www.mekongeye.com/2025/02/17/banana-soil-bust-2 This article from Mekong Eye I want to read later, so since evernote is not working I am putting this here for now: “OU…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/making-sense/paper Timothy Loh: Thank you so much for this wonderful and incisive book! It’s such an exciting contribution not only to deaf anthropology and sign …