Reissue in India of The Rumour of Calcutta!
After 27 years… The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation. Publication Day! This is the 30 year anniversary edition (well, 27 years) finally out…
Three Ways of Looking at Pueblo Art
Installation view of “Grounded In Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery,” at the Metropolitan Museum …
SETI: Signs in space/ Enacting space
[From the SETI project, “A Sign in Space” (https://asignin.space/)] “To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow world of…
Renyi Hong, “Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life (Duke UP, 2022), Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being “passionate about your work” as an affective project that encourages people to endure…
Jamila Rodrigues, “Sufi Women, Embodiment and the ‘Self’: Gender in Islamic Ritual” (Routledge, 2023)
Jamila Rodrigues’s new book Sufi Women, Embodiment and the “Self”: Gender in Islamic Ritual (Routledge 2023) uses her dance and performance studies background to study women’s hadra or zikr experiences of a Naqshbandi Sufi…
Improving access to hospice care in the UK
RAPHAEL ARDANI The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP …
Anthropology-Psychology interface
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Antropologins naturliga plats mitt i världen
Antropologin kanske inte har alla svar, men vi är övertygade om att vi ställer några av de rätta och viktiga frågorna. Tvärvetenskap är ett steg i rätt riktning…
Sit, Siri! Designing Our Tech to Have Good Etiquette
Sometimes we need to tell our devices what to do. Illustration by the author. If you’re lucky, you awake in the morning to an overeager puppy who bounds onto…
Whisper Networks: A Discussion with Carrie Ann Johnson
What is a Whisper Network? What can you gain from being in one, and what is expected of the network members? Not everybody is invited is into a…
Ethnography and Ethnology
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Between Pain and Relief: Morphine’s Ambiguities in India
The root of the word morphine is Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. Neil Gaiman’s contemporary reimagining of the character in his magnum opus Sandman likewise thrusts upon…
Summer anthropologies #2: Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 2)
Postcard with interior view of the Colosseum by Francis Frith, circa 1870. In part one of this installment, I mentioned Leslie White’s call to expand the purview of…
Over Thirty Past SAR Artist Fellows Show Work at the 2023 Santa Fe Indian Market
Max Early at the 2019 Santa Fe Indian Market. It’s been 101 years since the …
Can Archaeology Help Restore the Oceans?
On the Channel Islands, archaeologists draw lessons in sustainability from historic Chumash fishing practices. USING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE Off the southern California coast lies a little-known…
Andrew Johnson, “If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug deep into the prisons themselves. He began by spending two…
Edyta Roszko, “Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam” (NIAS/University of Hawaii Press 2021
This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as…
An open letter to the Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza.
TARA MAYHEW Dear Dame Rachel, The Children’s Commissioner’s Big Ask Survey (2021) gave voice to children and revealed the state of their nation. Children said they want good…
50 years since the Australia army got out of Vietnam (though the rhetoric is still twisted).
“On Vietnam Veterans’ Day, 18 August 2023, a national commemorative service will be held in Canberra to recognise the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in…
Troublemakers well worth the catch up.
It was really great to catch up with a lot of people In Hsinchu last week, especially, after many years, the ever eloquent Ned Rossiter, and Brett Neilson,…
Relationships Carved From Clay Bring New Partners to Museums
Brian Vallo at SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center. Photo: Adria Malcolm for The New York Times …
Imagining Other Worlds at the India-Pakistan Border
For decades, soldiers at the border between Attari, India, and Wagah, Pakistan, have staged an elaborate ceremony for onlookers. An anthropologist reflects on the ceremony as a legacy…
Madam Cistern
The following monologue was originally written in Portuguese for the ongoing theatrical project Dramaturgias da água e da seca (Water and Drought Dramaturgies), developed by Pavilhão da Magnólia,…