Letters
Die Komödie des Despotismus, die mit uns aufgeführt wird … Der Staat ist ein zu ernstes Ding, um zu einer Harlekinade gemacht zu werden. Man könnte vielleicht ein…
The “macrobiotics friends association”: nurturing life amidst chronic disease in Vietnam by Le Hoang Ngoc Yen
“I will never return to that Zone of Death! You too should try to follow this diet to nurture life.” Aunt Minh[i](Fieldwork notes, February 2018) We first met…
Part 1. Marshall Sahlins, a legacy of connections
I would like to thank the AJEC blog for inviting me to remember my mentor and dissertation supervisor Marshall Sahlins, and particularly his connection to Europe. Famously, Sahlins spe…
Punctuated Lives – Staying Healthy with Lynch Syndrome by Laura Louise Heinsen
Every two years, a letter from the Gastroenterology unit drops into Maria’s mailbox. It is a call to attend her regular surveillance colonoscopy to check for potential precancerous…
The Enduring Urgency of Black Breath
Breath is a powerful material and spiritual force, a point not only of harm but also recovery. It can show us how Black people experience multiple convergences of…
The Enduring Urgency of Black Breath
Breath is a powerful material and spiritual force, a point not only of harm but also recovery. It can show us how Black people experience multiple convergences of…
The Enduring Urgency of Black Breath
Breath is a powerful material and spiritual force, a point not only of harm but also recovery. It can show us how Black people experience multiple convergences of…
Networking During the Pandemic
Virtual meetings and webinars are often touted as a way for graduate students to extend their professional connections during the pandemic. But they can be an alienating experience.…
Networking During the Pandemic
Virtual meetings and webinars are often touted as a way for graduate students to extend their professional connections during the pandemic. But they can be an alienating experience.…
Networking During the Pandemic
Virtual meetings and webinars are often touted as a way for graduate students to extend their professional connections during the pandemic. But they can often be an alienating…
Links & Contents I Liked 402
Hi all, It feels good to be back after a short break (actually, I managed to write two new posts since my last review); the decolonized, diversified &…
Abou Farman’s On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience by Purbasha Mazumdar
On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 360 pages. Max More, a trained philosopher and the present Ambassador and…
Apostasy and the Prophet
There is an excellent discussion of the origins and extent of apostasy laws in Islamic contexts by Dr. Ahmet Kuru, Porteous Professor of Political Science at San Diego…
Roll Call Votes on the UBC Senate
A motion came to UBC-V’s senate Wednesday, April 14th that would have made recording the vote of each senator for each motion a rule of senate. The advocates…
Eva Illouz, “The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the…
John Geoffrey Scott et al, “The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society” (Routledge, 2021)
Panoramic and provocative in its scope, John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov’s The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society (Routledge, 2021) is the definitive guide to con… Visit…
L’amistat antiga
Pintura mural a la catacumba de la Via Latina de Roma (segle IV), representant Alcestis –encarnació perfecte de la philia femenina– davant Hèrcules] Ressenya del llibre de Luigi…
Vale Marshall Sahlins
Marshall Sahlins and I at my wedding (While I have been active on Twitter posting links to memorials and obituaries of Marshall Sahlins, I have not written very…
Anthropology and religion at the Vrije Universiteit – a short history
By Matthias Teeuwen The Vrije Universiteit originally had a strong confessional commitment to the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and I have always wondered how anthropology meshed with…
What Do You Mean by Abolition?
A collaboration between abolitionist groups in California educates and acts for a more just future. Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary…
What Do You Mean by Abolition?
A collaboration between abolitionist groups in California educates and acts for a more just future. Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary…
What Do You Mean by Abolition?
A collaboration between abolitionist groups in California educates and acts for a more just future. Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary…
Lightning strikes, or how an object of global health is made by Megan Vaughan
When we were children my mother always told us there was nothing to fear from thunderstorms. But it was hard not to notice that she did so whilst…
Girls, Gadgets, and Gatekeepers: What is Ethical Feminist Fieldwork When Working with Children?
There is no Institutional Review Board (IRB) or equivalent body in India. The ethics of research are left to the purview of researchers, their supervisors, and departments. Therefore,…