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…
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…
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…
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:…
The last time I went: http://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2022/12/recent-hisashiburi-yaki-niku-in.html
Ich hatte eine lange Wartezeit auf dem Flughafen in Delhi. Und bin da natürlich auch auf Toilette gegangen. Mit meiner Mütze auf dem Kopf und der Maske davor…
Ich hatte eine lange Wartezeit auf dem Flughafen in Delhi. Und bin da natürlich auch auf Toilette gegangen. Mit meiner Mütze auf dem Kopf und der Maske davor…
Last spring, I began work with the open access advocacy group, Libraria, as a Community Convener to help organize a mutual aid network amongst a group of open…
Today I talked to Holly Walters about her new book Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas (Amsterdam UP, 2020). For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called…
In The Dancer’s Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke UP, 2022) Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood.…
Written by Paul Ryer, Scholar Programs Director With the end of Robert Weiner’s compelling presentation about the roads of Chaco Canyon on December 14, we successfully concluded SAR’s…
On November 3, 2022, SAR President Michael F. Brown presented the 2022 J.I. Staley Prize to J. Lorand Matory, Duke University, at an event in Durham, North Carolina,…
Vid en kaffepaus diskuterade vi nyligen traditioner och begreppet tradition. Ann-Helen Sund kommenterade att hon nyligen läst en artikel som handlade om skapandet av julstämning. Jag sökte fram…
Qatar, an ambitious country in the Arabian Gulf, grabbed headlines as the first Middle Eastern nation selected to host the FIFA World Cup. As the wealthiest country in…
Authentic New York style pizza in Japan?
GdG geht in die Winterpause: Zum Jahresende legen auch wir die Füße hoch. Wir verabschieden uns mit Lektüretipps. Für den Fall, dass Ihnen bis zum 8. Januar der…
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective. Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology…
Can the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion, especially work in “theory and method,” is preoccupied with matters of research procedure and thus inarticulate about the…
Pollution is Colonialism book cover Pollution is Colonialism (Liboiron 2021) uses plastics to trace pollution in fish stomachs in Newfoundland while showing how this pollution is embedded in…
Keith Hart. Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022. 314 pp., appendix, bibliography, index. Editor’s note: This response to Keith Hart’s new book was…
El Faro Restaurant, https://ny.eater.com/2012/10/4/6539001/old-timer-el-faro-closed-until-owner-can-raise-80000 David Sutton It was a small, unassuming entrance, hidden away on the corner of Gre…
Ich habe mir kürzlich eine schön knallig orange Kurta gekauft. Als ich damit im Büro auftauchte, kommentierten zwei indische Kolleginnen die Farbe der Kurta. Erst ganz unauffällig,…
Ich habe mir kürzlich eine schön knallig orange Kurta gekauft. Als ich damit im Büro auftauchte, kommentierten zwei indische Kolleginnen die Farbe der Kurta. Erst ganz unauffällig,…