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Hi all,It’s great to be back after wrapping up teaching for the semester & enjoying more than 20 of our MA students presenting their thesis work (some even…
Sister Parks: North American Coloniality and the Monarch Butterfly
Monarch migration and the making of North America At the end of each summer, the northern prairies and Great Lakes regions of North America host a new generation…
Radical Harm Reduction and the Responsibility of a World by Jarrett Zigon
Addiction is exceedingly moralized. Perhaps no other concept associated with the experience of addiction reveals this more than that of responsibility. Too often, addiction is understood in…
Danya Glabau, “Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care” (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy The success of food allergy activism…
Ethnography, Humility, Identity, and the Academy
In today’s episode of How To Be Wrong we welcome Dr. Khytie Brown, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.…
Edward Anthony Avery-Natale, “Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications: Punk and Anarchy in Philadelphia” (Lexington, 2016)
Edward Anthony Avery-Natale’s book Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications: Punk and Anarchy in Philadelphia (Lexington, 2016) explores the ways in which those who identify as punks and anarchists living in the…
Lin Song, “Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China” (Hong Kong UP, 2021)
China has one of the largest queer populations in the world, but what does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties,…
Moises Lino e Silva, “Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (University of Chicago Press, 2022) is a mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics…
Volodymyr Artiukh: The political logic of Russia’s imperialism
The debate around the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including the previous contributions in FocaalBlog, has shifted from the ‘either NATO or Russia’ dichotomy to a more nuanced exchange…
Volumes: The Technical Politics of Mathematical Abstractions in Contemporary Peruvian Amazonia
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2021 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
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Can Machine Learning Translate Ancient Egyptian Texts?
A new program aims to use AI to help academics and the public decipher hieroglyphs. Here’s an inside look at how—and whether—it works. ✽ I have long been…
Can Machine Learning Translate Ancient Egyptian Texts?
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs adorn the Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu near Luxor. Vyacheslav Argenberg/Wikimedia Commons I have long been intrigued by archaeogaming—an academic di…
Open Letters from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany (with a Report on the “Welcome Conference BIPoC Ukraine” organized by Peace-by-Peace in Berlin on May 16, 2022)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Ziga Podgornik Jakil Introduction With the old deadline for applying for a residence permit for war refugees from Ukraine in Germany expiring…
Trina Nileena Banerjee, “Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal” (Oxford UP, 2021)
Trina Nileena Banerjee’s book Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal (Oxford UP, 2021) addresses the absence of a sustained and critical engagement with the gender politics…
Lily Pearl Balloffet, “Argentina in the Global Middle East” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Argentina lies at the heart of the American hemisphere’s history of global migration booms of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century: by 1910, one of every three Argentine…
What Is Good, Clean, and Fair? Panel Discussion of the Choices We Make
SAFN member and food and environmental anthropologist Mark Anthony Arceño will be hosting a panel discussion next Wednesday, June 15th, from 12-1pm EST, focusing on food and food…
Emily Contois and Zenia Kish discuss their edited volume, Food Instagram
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=58mye9fd9780252044465 Until recently, if you perused the scholarship on Instagram, the app might have appeared to be a relatively benign, homogenous stepc…
When Nothing Fits
Disclaimer: All people mentioned were able to choose how they want to appear in this text. They chose to appear by their clear name and/or activist alias. They…
Tagung: Promovieren mit Behinderungen und/oder chronischen Erkrankungen
Tagung Promovieren mit Behinderungen und/oder chronischen Erkrankungen Anlässlich des Projektabschlusses des vom Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales geförderten Projektes PROMI – Promoti…
Catherine Besteman, “Militarized Global Apartheid” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Militarized Global Apartheid, Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa’s apartheid system on a worldwide scale…
Stan BH Tan-Tangbau et al., “Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations Between Worlds” (Routledge, 2022)
Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations between Worlds (Routledge, 2022) examines the germination and growth of jazz under communist rule—perceived as the “music of the enemy” and “ideologically decadent”—in the…
Peer Schouten, “Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Peer Schouten, of the Danish Institute for International Studies, has written a breathtaking book. Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa (Cambridge, 2022). Schouten mapped more than 1000…
Nicht vom Ende her denken? Die „Zeitenwende“ und die Geschichtswissenschaft
Der Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine konfrontiert die Geschichtswissenschaften damit, dass kein friedvolles ‚Ende der Geschichte‘ in Sicht ist. Wie lässt sich Geschichte verstehen, ohne von ihrer Geg…