Wednesday Round Up #51
“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…
How Early Humans Shaped the World With Fire
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…
Links & Contents I Liked 408
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 &…
Hannah Hoechner, “Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty” (U Cambridge Press, 2018)
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…
Konsten att överleva sommaren med släkten
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…
Rethinking National Parks
Post by SAR president, Michael F. Brown Anthropologist, novelist, and SAR’s Katrin H. Lamon resident scholar of 2015–1…
La expulsión de la historia de los centros históricos
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…
The Good American (book review)
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…
Writing Life No. 12: An interview with Sienna Craig by Yana Stainova
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…
Click&Collect Regional: „More Bauer to The People!“
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&…
No-Till: A Win-Win for Soil Conservation?
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…
Water, Oceans and Climate Change: Legal challenges, local perspectives and important examples to learn from
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…
How to Survive Climate Change in the India-Bangladesh Borderlands
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…
Zev Eleff, “Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life” (Wayne State UP, 2020)
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…
Anthropology and the Twitter Challenge
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…
Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Senses of Place
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…
Abram Lutes: Anatomy of an Autogolpe: On the consolidation of Nayib Bukele’s power in El Salvador
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…
The Logic of Contesting States During a Crisis: Revelations from Uganda’s COVID-19 Fight by Jacob Katumusiime Mwine-Kyarimpa
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…
An Excavation of the COVID-19 Pandemic
[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…
#BookReview: Me, Not You
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,…
Karen G. Ruffle, “Everyday Shi’ism in South Asia” (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
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…
Jon Dean, “The Good Glow: Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good” (Policy Press, 2020)
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…
Yinghong Cheng, “Discourses of Race and Rising China” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
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…
Margaret Magat, “Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora” (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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…