Traveling but Not Arriving: Hieroglyphics of Caste in Computing
Listen to an audio recording of this post read by P V This browser does not support HTML5 audio When I landed in Bangalore in early 2020, it…
Voices of Pain
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE my head is split there is a stone in my stomach I am worried my neck hurts my back hurts heat moves up in my body I…
The flea, the canyon, and racism: Reflections on outrage
By Benjamin Koponen On January 22nd, 2022, an elderly white woman punched me in the arm while I, a black man, was biking to help a friend paint…
Transracial Adoption and the Limits of Love
A photo installation by artist Glenn Morey explores how Korean adoptees in the U.S. grapple with questions related to belonging, identity, and family. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images On a…
Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik, “Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis” (Duke UP, 2021)
Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke University Press, 2021) collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors —who come from a variety…
Sophie Chao, “In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua” (Duke UP, 2022)
This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). Her new book examines the lives of Marind…
“This Sweet Potato is Beautiful.” From Ethnoagronomy to Ethnogastronomy in the work of Virginia Nazarea
Lima, 2015. At the Mistura, an annual food festival in Peru wherein people from the desert, the Andes, and the coast bring their produce and artisanal products to…
Aurora Donzelli on her book, One or Two Words
Interview by Nicco La Mattina https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo68162961.html Nicco La Mattina: A principle theme running throughout One or Two Words is th…
Don Nonini: Scoring the U.S. Working Class: Expropriation and Digitalization
Introduction Working-class people in the United States are now at a turning point – whether to compliantly return to the pre-Covid conditions capital set for them, or to…
5 Questions About War Virtually
Join us for a free 25-minute live Q&A between former SAPIENS Media and Public Outreach Fellow Yoli Ngandali and anthropologist Roberto J. González about his new book, War…
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The Dirt
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Building Aidland: Aid Workers and the Creation of a Global Aid Industry in the 1970s
This webinar series explores the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism. Anthropologists and historians have defined humanitarianism as concern and action assisting a distant Other. Hav…
Lucy Cooke, “Bitch: On the Female of the Species” (Basic Books, 2022)
Bitch: On the Female of the Species (Basic Books, 2022) is a fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel…
Ellen Baumler, “The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana’s Cemeteries” (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana’s Cemeteries (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a…
Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, “Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America (Duke University Press, 2020), Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites…
5 tips på hur du får din kärleksrelation att hålla länge
(Innehållsvarning: Texten kan innehålla spår av ironi) Vid ämnet folkloristik vid Åbo Akademi skickade vi i samarbete med SLS arkiv ut en frågelista om Kärlek, sex och relationer…
Stellenbörse für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW13
Bild: mcbruin (pixabay) Für eine vollständige Liste abonniert einfach unseren Newsletter. Diese Woche gibt es besonders viele Anzeigen in der Kategorie ‘Während des Studiums’, darun…
Heroes of Our Economy
A social economy approach therefore asks why people are engaged in specific enterprises. Are they simply out to make the most money they can? Many people do. Or…
Berliner Antisemitismusstreit 2.0? Cancel und Context auf Straßen und Plätzen
In Berlin wird die Umbenennung von Straßennamen diskutiert. Dabei geht es um altbekannte Antisemiten wie Martin Luther und Richard Wagner, aber auch um Denker wie Karl Marx. Wie…
Anna Korteweg on the politics of integration, gender and race in relation to people labelled immigrants
Anna Korteweg is a professor of sociology and head of Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Anna Korteweg works on gender, Islam and immigrant integration in…
Taking Action on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine at the UBC-V Senate
Russia invaded the sovereign territory of Ukraine in between the February and March meetings of the UBC-V Senate. Given the urgency of the situation and the lack of…