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…
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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,…
Taxpayer’s Playlist
Filing personal tax returns, with the power of Spotify Matti Eräsaari, University of Helsinki Anna-Riikka Kauppinen, University of Cambridge In May 2020, ahead of the deadline for filing…
Archaeology in the Ashes of Notre Dame
The Notre Dame fire was devastating but has opened the door to research on building materials now available for study. Aurélia Azéma/Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques The…
De la idealización del pasado como constructo social
Al albor de muchas ideologías (y qué decir de los distintos nacionalismos) se alude a determinado momento histórico como justificante romántico de determinadas reivindicaciones. Digo momento histórico…
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are” (HarperCollins, 2017)
Economist, data journalist, and best-selling author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz uses data from the internet to gain new insights into the human psyche. In his new book Everybody Lies: Big Data, … Visit New…
Can We Fix Social Media?: A Discussion with Christopher A. Bail
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media…
3500 year-old honeypot: oldest direct evidence for honey collecting in Africa
Before sugar cane and sugar beets conquered the world, honey was the worldwide most important natural product for sweetening. Archaeologists at Goethe University in cooperation with chemists at…
What Do You Mean by Abolition?
Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary social and racial justice movements in various global contexts, for example, appearing in debates in…
Espacio público: idealismo y verdad
La foto procede de flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/ Final de la intervención en el Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura y Diseño Arquine, México DF, 11-12 de marzo de 2013, al que acudí invitado…
Special Focus: Engaging ‘The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology’
Why have Black ancestors been largely excluded from anthropology’s intellectual history and canon? In this series of pieces, Tracie Canada engages the authors of the 2018 volume The…