Anthropology for Liberation readings 3.0
2021 marks the fourth year I have taught Anthropology for Liberation, an undergraduate course in the Cultural Anthropology Programme at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. The course…
What is ‘Indian’ Anthropology?
NK Vaid, Academic Nomad AC – 177B, Shalimar Bagh Delhi – 110088 Ph.: 91-9311337737 E-mail: nareshkrvaid@gmail.com I Despite being a serious student of Anthropology for almost 50 years,…
April, 2021
Volume 13 | Number 1 | April, 2021 FEATURES Where Do We Go From Here?Lucas Bessire Notes from a Fever DreamAmy Moran-Thomas Situating Conspiracy TheorySusan Lepselter Trump Time,…
Trump Time, Prophetic Time and the Time of the Lost Cause
To cite this article: Susan Harding & Emily Martin (2021) Trump Time, Prophetic Time and the Time of the Lost C…
Where Do We Go From Here?
To cite this article: Lucas Bessire (2021) Where Do We Go From Here?, Anthropology Now, 13:1, 1-10, DOI: 10.1080/19…
Call for Films: Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film
Dear Filmmakers, The Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen invites film submissions to be screened at the 10th edition of the Bremen Days…
Confronting Anti-Blackness in “Colorblind” Cuba
A man holds his grandson inside the doorway of a fruit and vegetable shop in Havana, Cuba. Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images I sat waiting for Yudell* to finish his shift…
Nicole Karapanagiotis, “Branding Bhakti: Krishna Consciousness and the Makeover of a Movement” (Indiana UP, 2021)
How do religious groups reinvent themselves in order to attract new audiences? How do they rebrand their messages and recast their rituals in order to make their followers…
Sahlins memorial piece in the JSO
I have a piece in memory of Marshall Sahlins in the latest issue of the Journal de la Société des Océanistes . This is a more personal piece…
NBN Podcast on Emalani Case’s Everything Ancient Once Was New
My August 2021 podcast at NBN was with Emalani Case on her book Everything Ancient Once Was New. Go check it out! credit: UH Press twitter
NBN podcast with Anthony Hazard on “Boasians at War”
My July podcast over at NBN was with Tony Hazard about his book Boasians at War. Have a listen.
Seeing the Same Fire
Adriana Petryn An almost vertical line showing an increase of atmospheric CO2 emissions captures the urgency of …
Notes from a Fever Dream
Amy Moran-Thomas I spent much of last May watching my husband try to breathe. Sitting up on the living room floo…
Homeland, Far-Right Nationalism, and Environmentalism beyond Trump
Nitzan Shoshan As the lights dim on another chapter of White nationalism, authoritarian- ism and climate change denialism with the indecorous departure of Donald J. Trump from the…
Genres of Justice: A Conversation with Laurence Ralph
Laurence Ralph This article comprises excerpts from a conversation between Lucas Bessire and Laurence Ralph about the state of anthropology and the world now. Our discussion was wide…
Poetry and the Poet
by George Nicolas El-Hage, Ph.D. Poetry is the language of prophecy spoken by the angels and gods when they populated this earth before the fall. Hence, the poet…
The Shifting Meanings of “(Il)Legality”: Indonesian Migrant Workers in the Netherlands
How do migrants become ‘illegal’? How does their ‘illegality’ affect their position in the receiving countries? Ratna Saptari discusses the experiences of Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands and…
Did Dads Evolve?
[no-caption] Vincent van Gogh/Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. Lee Gettler is hard to get on t…
Gypsy Economy: The Promise and Limitations of Ethnography – Part 3
by Keith Hart Why Study Gypsy Economy? Looking at the contributions to this volume, I would pick out four themes: … More
Roy Richard Grinker, “Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness” (Norton, 2021)
Stigma about mental illness makes life doubly hard for people suffering from mental or emotional distress. In addition to dealing with their conditions, they must also contend with…
Tanya Jakimow, “Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Tanya Jakimow’s book Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia (Oxford UP, 2020) offers a novel approach to understanding power in development t… Visit New Books…
جنون، صدا، تصویر
درباره «جام حسنلو»ی اصلانی آفرینش: بوم سپید،جام زرین ژیل دلوز در گفتمان خود درباره نقاشی و با تاکید بر کار «ژرار فرومانژه» ، سپیدی ِ بوم ِ سپید…
اینستاگرام بهمثابه آشوبگاه عشق
با ظهور رسانهها و شبکههای اجتماعی امکان خلق و بازنمایی سبک زندگی، کنشها و روابط مطلوب و دلخواه بهآسانی برای همگان مهیا شده است. گویی زندگی به اثری…
صفههای مقدس(۱۳)
بردِ نشانده و مسجد سلیمان ایران جنوب غربی از قرن هشتم قبل از میلاد تا قرن پنجم بعد از میلاد رومن گیرشمن ترجمه اصغر کریمی فصل سیزدهم شعاع…