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(June Fog, photo by Zoe Todd) 2 years and 11 months ago, I posted my last entry on this website: https://anthrodendum.org/2020/01/27/an-answer/ What I didn’t know then, on January…
Mário de Andrade, Modernism, and Brazilian Anthropology
Semana de Arte Moderna Poster, São Paulo, 1922 This year marks the centenary of São Paulo’s 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna (Week of Modern Art).[1]Funding for this article…
Rosa on opium
Rosa Luxemburg The Accumulation of Capital, ch 18 “Consequently, a stricter law was passed [by the Chinese] in 1833 which made every opium smoker liable to a hundred…
Trader, Hunter, Herder, Other: Types and Categories of Nomadism
This episode looks at the main types and categories of nomads, how they live, and the similarities and differences between them. Music in this episode: Desert City by…
MOVING THINGS // HELPERS CHANGING HOMES
What roles do things play in the context of forced migration? How do things become a vital source in the constitution of a sense of (new) home? Which…
Piiskan-Paavo – min farfars största rädsla som barn
Det är den 21 december, årets mörkaste dag. Tanken på att julafton bara är tre dagar borta borde göra julstämningen påtaglig. Men så är det inte för barnen…
How not to consult indigenous people
Like Canada, Brazil, the whole of Africa, and many other places in the world, Cameroon has the combination of indigenous people and a special fondness for big industry.…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Luke Munn, “Automation Is a Myth” (Stanford UP, 2022)
For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, automation, argues Munn, is ultimately…
Tero Frestadius takes the page 99 test for his dissertation
Page 99 ends my verbatim account of broken dialogue in an anti-gentrification rally in Leimert Park, LosAngeles in 2017. This third of a page consists of three references…
Ruth Tsoffar, “Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture” (Routledge, 2019)
In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture (Routledge, 2019), Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. Life in Citations provides a close…
Happy Holidays! from「VAoJ」
No product endorsements intended. Mugi-chan appears courtesy of Gonzo Anthropology Productions.
سینما در زمینه و زمانه‌ی بحران
پرسش اساسی که این یادداشت در پی پاسخ به آن است اینکه: آیا در بحران‌های اجتماعی، جنگ‌ها، شورش‌های بزرگ، آشوب‌های عمومیت‌یافته، فعالیت‌های فرهنگی و در اینجا به طور…
معرفی کتاب گفتمان‌ها و خانواده‌ی ایرانی
معرفی عمومی کتاب گفتمان‌ها و خانواده‌ی ایرانی: جامعه‌شناسی الگوهای خانواده، پس از مناقشه‌های مدرنیته در ایران نوشته‌ی «سهیلا صادقی» و «ایمان عرفانی‌منش»، توسط مؤسسه‌ی انتشارات دانشگاه تهران در…
شکوفایی پس از سوگواری
نگاهی به کتاب «شکوفایی پس از سوگواری» :ما چگونه با فقدان عزیزانمان روبرو میشویم؟ ما چگونه با فقدان عزیزانمان روبرو میشویم؟ مرگ پدر و مادر و دیگر عزیزانمان…
آرای پروفسور آن کِی‌هیل درباره‌ی فمنیست و زیبایی زنانه
در این نوشتار، به‌نحو مختصر، به ارائه آراء و اندیشه‌های خانم دکتر آن کی‌هیل، دارای درجۀ استادی کامل دانشگاه الون امریکا دربارۀ زیبایی زنانه در دو دیدگاه مختلف…
El auténtico espíritu de la Navidad
La foto es de Yanidel Artículo publicado en El País el 15 de diciembre de 2007 EL AUTÉNTICO ESPÍRITU DE LA NAVIDAD Manuel Delgado Este es un típico…
Racism in Psychiatry: A Postcolonial Aftermath?
On Proximity and Distance of Psychiatry and Anthropology Text by Saskia Sturm (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Lena Rorschach Most recently I read Marge Piercy’s Woman on the…
Accolades for the Landmark Exhibition Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery
On July 31 this year Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery opened in Santa Fe at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. The exhibition, curated…
El no-lugar como heterón o todo lo otro
La foto es de Marcus Hartel Comentario para la gente del OACU a propósito de la idea de no-lugar, enviado en enero de 2016 EL NO-LUGAR COMO HETERÓN…
Annuska Derks et al. “Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands” (NIAS Press, 2022)
Where do the spices we find in our kitchen cabinets come from? What can we learn from tracing spices and their commodities and how does their trade impact…
Edward E. Curtis IV, “Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest” (NYU Press, 2022)
The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvarying landscape fails to…
SAR Artist Alumnus Co-Curates Important Exhibition of Native American Photography
Will Wilson, William Wilson, citizen of the Navajo Nation, trans-customary Diné artist, 2012. Will Wilson, the Santa Fe-based Navajo photographer and 2013 Rollin and Mary Ella King…
FocaalBlog: Eric Wolf, Europe, Histories, Capitalism. Where are we now?
This panel was convened by Ida Susser at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2022 – Unsettling Landscapes. It builds on the workshop Vision and Method in Anthropology:…