#AmAnth2021: Anthropological Engagements with Optimism?
This year’s American Anthropological Association meeting is likely to be one of the weirder ones in recent memory. The general feeling is that: 1) the conference costs far…
Repatriation Has Transformed, Not Ended, Research
“Wheel,” by the Cheyenne-Arapaho artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds is situated outside the Denver Art Museum. The artwork evokes Indigenous peoples’ efforts to counter…
Understated, not overlooked by Anthony Stavrianakis
A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments Talia Dan-Cohen Cornell University Press, 2021. 174 pages. First, take a self-consciously self-aggrandizing area of bioengineering,…
Pasqual Maragall y el modelo Porcioles
Comentario para los colegas del Observatori d’Antropologia del Conflicte Urbà enviado el 16 de octubre de 2016 PASQUAL MARAGALL Y EL MODELO PORCIOLES Manuel Delgado Es interesante…
30 Minute Methods – TDTU, Vietnam – Professor Paolo Favero
Prof Paolo Favero, Uni Antwerp, Belgium: ‘Expanded Ethnography: technologies and the senses’ and coming up next: at TDTU: 2. Tues November 23, 2021, at 4pm HCMC….
TGA Seeking Editors!
The Geek Anthropologist is seeking qualified individuals to join our Editorial Board. As an Editor at TGA, responsibilities include: recruiting new contributors and content for the blog and…
Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding, “Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from Earth” (Zone Book, 2021)
In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space, and it remains the only human-made object to have left the solar system. The Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecrafts…
In ajíp an chemélon: la fiesta de los muertos
Read Time:11 Minute, 6 Second El 7 de noviembre de 2003 la UNESCO declara el Día de Muertos en México como patrimonio inmaterial de…
Evolution In Human-Computer Interaction
Dr. Suninder Kaur Consultant Anthropologist suninderk@hotmail.com Communication has been a powerful mechanism throughout evolutionary history in connecting people. The spoken word has influenced social…
Afghanistan’s Global Entanglements
by Magnus Marsden For many viewers in the West, the horrific scenes at Kabul airport in August 2021 appeared to suggest that after a brief period of international…
Rethinking Egyptian Cosmology and the Grand Canyon
Desert View of the Grand Canyon (©el-Sayed el-Aswad, October, 2021) This article relates to a previous paper entitled “Egyptian Cosmology and the Grand Canyon” published by Tabsir on…
Impressions from the Master Class “Participatory Digital Ethnography”
It was our pleasure to organize the Master Class Participatory Digital Ethnography together with the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab and the Visual Studies Platform (CEU). The public co-lecture…
Die fünfte Wand
Navina Sundaram war eine der ersten nicht-weißen Journalist_innen des bundesdeutschen Fernsehens. Eine Journalistin, die aus Indien stammte und in Hamburg sesshaft wurde. Die über Indien, p…
Die fünfte Wand
Navina Sundaram war eine der ersten nicht-weißen Journalist_innen des bundesdeutschen Fernsehens. Eine Journalistin, die aus Indien stammte und in Hamburg sesshaft wurde. Die über Indien, p…
Hannah Carlan takes the page 99 test for her dissertation
As it so happens, page 99 of my dissertation is the conclusion of my first body chapter following the introduction. My dissertation, “Producing Prosperity: Language and the Labor…
پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ، جلسۀ بیستم: رابطۀ زبان و هویت در جامعۀ امروز ایران
مؤسسۀ انسانشناسی و فرهنگ بیستمین جلسه از پنجشنبههای پرسش و پاسخ را با حضور سیما ذوالفقاری (محقق، دکتر زبانشناسی از دانشگاه لیدن هلند) با موضوع «رابطۀ زبان و…
Podcasting and the Other Side of Storytelling – Reflecting on TAL’s 8th Birthday
This Anthro Life turned 8 years old in October 2021. That’s a long time for a podcast. When recently invited to share what I’ve been working on for…
Sorting It Out: Sustainability in Higher Education
by Kathy Zhang In May of 2021, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a combined degree in Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Art. I…
Alice Beban, “Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia” (Cornell UP, 2021)
Why do so many Cambodian small landholders live in fear? How did the issuance of official land titles contribute to growing indebtedness in rural areas? Why did the government…
Suchitra Samanta, “Kali in Bengali Lives: Narratives of Religious Experience” (Lexington Books, 2021)
In Kali in Bengali Lives: Narratives of Religious Experience (Lexington Books, 2021), Suchitra Samanta examines Bengalis’ personal narratives of Kali devotion in the Bhakti tradition. These p… Visit New Books…
Robert Brooks, “Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers” (Columbia UP, 2021)
What happens when the human brain, which evolved over eons, collides with twenty-first-century technology? Machines can now push psychological buttons, stimulating and sometimes exploiting th… Visit New Books…
April Sizemore-Barber, “Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation” (U Michigan Press, 2020)
At his 1994 inauguration, South African president Nelson Mandela announced the “Rainbow Nation, at peace with itself and the world.” This national rainbow notably extended beyond the bounds…
Beyond the data: Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on BAME groups
PETER BICCAREGUI Calling for a follow up report. On the 5th April 2020, almost a year ago to the day I’m writing this letter, Belly Mujinga died at only 47…
Sorting It Out: Sustainability in Higher Education
by Kathy Zhang In May of 2021, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a combined degree in Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Art. I…