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Wednesday Round Up #51

Neuroanthropology

“The Descent of Man,” 150 years on “The Descent of Man” is one of the most influential books in the history of human evolutionary science. We can acknowledge…

  • Post date 29th May 2021
  • Post author By dlende
  • Post categories In English

How Early Humans Shaped the World With Fire

SAPIENS

Ancient humans used fire for warmth and food preparation, but also as a tool to shape the physical environment. Jessica Thompson This article was originally published at The…

  • Post date 28th May 2021
  • Post author By Jessica Thompson, David K. Wright, and Sarah Ivory
  • Post categories In English

Links & Contents I Liked 408

Aidnography

Hi all, Our teaching term is slowly coming to an end and I feel a little bit like this melon vendor in Afghanistan surrounded by student essays &…

  • Post date 28th May 2021
  • Post author By Tobias Denskus
  • Post categories In English

Hannah Hoechner, “Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty” (U Cambridge Press, 2018)

New Books in Anthropology

In a global context of widespread fears over Islamic radicalization and militancy, poor Muslim youth, especially those socialized in religious seminaries, have attracted overwhelmingly negati… Visit New Books…

  • Post date 28th May 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

Konsten att överleva sommaren med släkten

Kulturanalyser

Snart är sommaren här. De som längtat till sommarstugan kan nu se fram emot en skön sommarstugetillvaro enligt egna önskemål, vare sig det handlar om att fiska, hugga…

  • Post date 28th May 2021
  • Post author By Kulturanalyser
  • Post categories In Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Rethinking National Parks

School for Advanced Research

Post by SAR president, Michael F. Brown Anthropologist, novelist, and SAR’s Katrin H. Lamon resident scholar of 2015–1…

  • Post date 28th May 2021
  • Post author By Meredith Davidson
  • Post categories In English

La expulsión de la historia de los centros históricos

EL COR DE LES APARENCES

Centro histórico de Quito. La foto es de Matthew Gelentere Primeras palabras de la conferencia “La memoria insolente. Las luchas sociales como patrimonio”, pronunciada en el Foro Habitar…

  • Post date 28th May 2021
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado
  • Post categories In Spanish

The Good American (book review)

Aidnography

Imagine if I told you a story about a high school drop-out without any formal credentials who moved into a career with more humanitarian front line work and…

  • Post date 27th May 2021
  • Post author By Tobias Denskus
  • Post categories In English

Writing Life No. 12: An interview with Sienna Craig by Yana Stainova

Somatosphere

Image 1. Photo of Rauner Special Collections library at Dartmouth College, taken from the perspective of Sienna’s favorite table. Photo by Eli Burakian, 2014. Sienna Craig is a writer…

  • Post date 27th May 2021
  • Post author By Yana Stainova
  • Post categories In English

Click&Collect Regional: „More Bauer to The People!“

alltagswelten

5 Gründe, weshalb es nachhaltig ist, online regional zu kaufen: Ergebnisse eines Lehrforschungsprojektes. Derzeit zeigt sich im medial-öffentlichen Diskurs hier und dort das Phänomen des Click&…

  • Post date 27th May 2021
  • Post author By Tamara Krabes
  • Post categories In German

No-Till: A Win-Win for Soil Conservation?

Nicholas C. Kawa

No-till is a soil conservation practice that has been widely adopted by Midwestern farmers. Many have described it as a “win-win” for soil conservation because it offers benefits…

  • Post date 27th May 2021
  • Post author By nckawa
  • Post categories In English

Water, Oceans and Climate Change: Legal challenges, local perspectives and important examples to learn from

OceanStates – The Blog

Dr Joanna Siekiera was recently invited to speak at a Special Lecture titled Climate Change and its Impact on Small Islands Developing States: The Example of the Pacific…

  • Post date 27th May 2021
  • Post author By MLadstein
  • Post categories In English

How to Survive Climate Change in the India-Bangladesh Borderlands

SAPIENS

Homes along a river in the Sundarbans face a concrete embankment that protects land on the opposite side from rising waters. Megnaa Mehtta The Sundarbans is a region…

  • Post date 27th May 2021
  • Post author By Yasaswini Sampathkumar
  • Post categories In English

Zev Eleff, “Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life” (Wayne State UP, 2020)

New Books in Anthropology

Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life (Wayne State University Press, 2020), by Zev Eleff, challenges the current historical paradigm in the study of Orthodox Judais… Visit New…

  • Post date 27th May 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

Anthropology and the Twitter Challenge

All Tomorrow's Cultures

For many of us in anthropology, the advent of “big data” represents a threat.  Why, after all, spend months developing rapport and interviewing 100 people when you can…

  • Post date 26th May 2021
  • Post author By Samuel Gerald Collins
  • Post categories In English

Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Senses of Place

School for Advanced Research

In 1996 SAR Press published Senses of Place, an edited volume that originated as an SAR Advanced Seminar co-chaired by Steven Feld and Keit…

  • Post date 26th May 2021
  • Post author By Sarah Soliz
  • Post categories In English

Abram Lutes: Anatomy of an Autogolpe: On the consolidation of Nayib Bukele’s power in El Salvador

FocaalBlog

For the first time since El Salvador’s mid-20th century military dictatorship, a single political party dominates both the legislative and executive branches of the government, and by all…

  • Post date 26th May 2021
  • Post author By focaal_admin
  • Post categories In English

The Logic of Contesting States During a Crisis: Revelations from Uganda’s COVID-19 Fight by Jacob Katumusiime Mwine-Kyarimpa

Somatosphere

On March 12th, 2021, students at Uganda’s Mbarara University of Science andTechnology (MUST) organised a strike. The strike, the students argued, was both a protest against online lectures…

  • Post date 26th May 2021
  • Post author By Jacob Katumusiime Mwine-Kyarimpa
  • Post categories In English

An Excavation of the COVID-19 Pandemic

SAPIENS

[no-caption] Kim Herbst With over 131 million people fully vaccinated in the U.S. and numbers of new infections dropping nationwide, some have started to declare the “end” of…

  • Post date 26th May 2021
  • Post author By Sarah Ives
  • Post categories In English

#BookReview: Me, Not You

Allegra

In Me, Not You, Alison Phipps uses the #MeToo Movement as a backdrop to her work to illustrate how privileged white women using mainstream feminism as a conduit,…

  • Post date 26th May 2021
  • Post author By One Pusumane
  • Post categories In English

Karen G. Ruffle, “Everyday Shi’ism in South Asia” (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

Karen Ruffle’s Everyday Shi’ism in South Asia (John Wiley & Sons, 2021) is an introduction to the everyday life and cultural memory of Shi’i women and men, focusing on the…

  • Post date 26th May 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

Jon Dean, “The Good Glow: Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good” (Policy Press, 2020)

New Books in Anthropology

Why do people give to charity? In The Good Glow Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good (Policy Press, 2020), Jon Dean, Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology at Sheffield Hallam…

  • Post date 26th May 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

Yinghong Cheng, “Discourses of Race and Rising China” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

New Books in Anthropology

Yinghong Cheng’s book Discourses of Race and Rising China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) is a critical study of the development of a racialised nationalism in China, exploring its unique characte… Visit…

  • Post date 26th May 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

Margaret Magat, “Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora” (Bloomsbury, 2019)

New Books in Anthropology

Balut is a fertilized chicken or duck egg that is boiled at the seventeenth day and sold as a common street snack in the Philippines. While it is…

  • Post date 26th May 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English
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