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John Geoffrey Scott et al, “The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society” (Routledge, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

Panoramic and provocative in its scope, John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov’s The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society (Routledge, 2021) is the definitive guide to con… Visit…

  • Post date 16th April 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

L’amistat antiga

EL COR DE LES APARENCES

Pintura mural a la catacumba de la Via Latina de Roma (segle IV), representant Alcestis –encarnació perfecte de la philia femenina– davant Hèrcules] Ressenya del llibre de Luigi…

  • Post date 16th April 2021
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado
  • Post categories In Spanish

Vale Marshall Sahlins

Alex Golub

Marshall Sahlins and I at my wedding (While I have been active on Twitter posting links to memorials and obituaries of Marshall Sahlins, I have not written very…

  • Post date 16th April 2021
  • Post author By Rex
  • Post categories In English

Anthropology and religion at the Vrije Universiteit – a short history

Standplaats wereld

By Matthias Teeuwen The Vrije Universiteit originally had a strong confessional commitment to the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and I have always wondered how anthropology meshed with…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By standplaatswereld
  • Post categories In English

What Do You Mean by Abolition?

Featured Posts – Anthropology News

A collaboration between abolitionist groups in California educates and acts for a more just future. Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By Chelsea Horton
  • Post categories In English

What Do You Mean by Abolition?

Featured Posts – Anthropology News

A collaboration between abolitionist groups in California educates and acts for a more just future. Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By Chelsea Horton
  • Post categories In English

What Do You Mean by Abolition?

Featured Posts – Anthropology News

A collaboration between abolitionist groups in California educates and acts for a more just future. Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By Chelsea Horton
  • Post categories In English

Lightning strikes, or how an object of global health is made by Megan Vaughan

Somatosphere

When we were children my mother always told us there was nothing to fear from thunderstorms. But it was hard not to notice that she did so whilst…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By Megan Vaughan
  • Post categories In English

Girls, Gadgets, and Gatekeepers: What is Ethical Feminist Fieldwork When Working with Children?

Platypus

There is no Institutional Review Board (IRB) or equivalent body in India. The ethics of research are left to the purview of researchers, their supervisors, and departments. Therefore,…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By Isha Bhallamudi
  • Post categories In English

Taxpayer’s Playlist

CaMP Anthropology

Filing personal tax returns, with the power of Spotify Matti Eräsaari, University of Helsinki Anna-Riikka Kauppinen, University of Cambridge In May 2020, ahead of the deadline for filing…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By |
  • Post categories In English

Archaeology in the Ashes of Notre Dame

SAPIENS

The Notre Dame fire was devastating but has opened the door to research on building materials now available for study. Aurélia Azéma/Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques The…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By Maxime L’Héritier
  • Post categories In English

De la idealización del pasado como constructo social

anthropologies

Al albor de muchas ideologías (y qué decir de los distintos nacionalismos) se alude a determinado momento histórico como justificante romántico de determinadas reivindicaciones. Digo momento histórico…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By anthropologies
  • Post categories In Spanish

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are” (HarperCollins, 2017)

New Books in Anthropology

Economist, data journalist, and best-selling author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz uses data from the internet to gain new insights into the human psyche. In his new book Everybody Lies: Big Data, … Visit New…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

Can We Fix Social Media?: A Discussion with Christopher A. Bail

New Books in Anthropology

In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe
  • Post categories In English

3500 year-old honeypot: oldest direct evidence for honey collecting in Africa

Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften – Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Before sugar cane and sugar beets conquered the world, honey was the worldwide most important natural product for sweetening. Archaeologists at Goethe University in cooperation with chemists at…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By Jennifer Hohensteiner
  • Post categories In German

What Do You Mean by Abolition?

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary social and racial justice movements in various global contexts, for example, appearing in debates in…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By randiirwin
  • Post categories In English

Espacio público: idealismo y verdad

EL COR DE LES APARENCES

La foto procede de flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/ Final de la intervención en el Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura y Diseño Arquine, México DF, 11-12 de marzo de 2013, al que acudí invitado…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado
  • Post categories In Spanish

Special Focus: Engaging ‘The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology’

Field Notes – History of Anthropology Review

Why have Black ancestors been largely excluded from anthropology’s intellectual history and canon? In this series of pieces, Tracie Canada engages the authors of the 2018 volume The…

  • Post date 15th April 2021
  • Post author By Tracie Canada
  • Post categories In English

Reassessing AAA’s Strategic Priorities

Featured Posts – Anthropology News

Image description: A man wearing a yellow collared shirt, tie, and glasses smiles. He is visible from the shoulders up.Caption: Ed Liebow, AAA Executive Director The Association stands…

  • Post date 14th April 2021
  • Post author By Chelsea Horton
  • Post categories In English

Reassessing AAA’s Strategic Priorities

Featured Posts – Anthropology News

Image description: A man wearing a yellow collared shirt, tie, and glasses smiles. He is visible from the shoulders up.Caption: Ed Liebow, AAA Executive Director The Association stands…

  • Post date 14th April 2021
  • Post author By Chelsea Horton
  • Post categories In English

Reassessing AAA’s Strategic Priorities

Featured Posts – Anthropology News

Image description: A man wearing a yellow collared shirt, tie, and glasses smiles. He is visible from the shoulders up.Caption: Ed Liebow, AAA Executive Director The Association stands…

  • Post date 14th April 2021
  • Post author By Chelsea Horton
  • Post categories In English

Wednesday Round Up #45

Neuroanthropology

Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving Consider the Lego structure depicted in Figure 1, in which a figurine is placed under a roof supported by a…

  • Post date 14th April 2021
  • Post author By dlende
  • Post categories In English

The Struggles of a “River People” in Assam

SAPIENS

A member of the Mising, a tribal, Indigenous community in Assam, India, explains how erosion displaced people along the banks of the Brahmaputra River. Nimisha Thakur One night…

  • Post date 14th April 2021
  • Post author By Nimisha Thakur
  • Post categories In English

“Escaping from Quarantine” from Quarantined: My Ordeal in Uganda’s Covid-19 Isolation Centers by Jimmy Spire Ssentongo

Somatosphere

Few published works of creative non-fiction exist on COVID-19 in Africa. With the publication of QUARANTINED, Ugandan intellectual and philosopher, Jimmy Spire Ssentongo has painted a behind-the-scen…

  • Post date 14th April 2021
  • Post author By Jimmy Spire Ssentongo
  • Post categories In English
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