PhD position in Indigenous Quantitative Methods
New position for a PhD student on a project about Indigenous Quantitative Methods based in the Geography Department at Memorial University
Grief is a thing to be sung: solace from Shi’a lamentation
By Aleeha Zahra Ali A year and a half ago, I learnt what grief was. Before that I had known waves of sadness, despair, depression, heartbreak and anger.…
Eleanor Knott, “Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022)
In Moldova, the number of dual citizens has risen exponentially in the last decades. Before annexation, many saw Russia as granting citizenship to-or passportizing-large numbers in Crimea. Both…
Michael Herzfeld, “Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage (Duke UP, 2022), Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist…
The Family Lives of the Last Neanderthals
Two anthropologists explain a novel genetic analysis of ancient DNA and artifacts that suggests Neanderthals in Siberia lived in close-knit communities. This article was originally published at The C…
#Resilienz. Leitkonzept in der Vielfachkrise?
Mit Resilienz ist die Fähigkeit gemeint, schwierige Situationen unbeschadet zu überstehen. Der Begriff ist nicht neu, gewinnt aber in Zeiten von Krieg, Klimawandel und Pandemie neue Aktualität. Grund…
Indigenize #afsam22: Ten Facebook Posts Gathered
While every year should be Native American heritage year, November is Native American Heritage Month and thus a good time to reflect on the ways that the recent…
Alive in the Flapping of Infinite Orange Wings
Monarch butterflies’ epic annual migration from North America to Mexico inspires an anthropologist to reflect on this insect’s precarious life cycles through the lens of “multispecies ethnography.” …
Boklansering: Ulvebarna – Omsorgens naturhistorie
I en tid der vi trenger å tenke nytt om vårt forhold til jordens mange skapninger, har Lars Risan skrevet en tverrfaglig bok om hvordan gjensidig avhengighet, samarbeid…
Gegen Missionare
Ich forsche über die Anwerbung von Krankenschwestern aus dem südindischen Kerala in die BRD in den 1960ern. Ein wichtiger Anwerber war der Stettfelder Pfarrer Debatin. Gerade habe ich…
Gegen Missionare
Ich forsche über die Anwerbung von Krankenschwestern aus dem südindischen Kerala in die BRD in den 1960ern. Ein wichtiger Anwerber war der Stettfelder Pfarrer Debatin. Gerade habe ich…
La tentación
La foto es de Robert Frank Apuntes para el espacio “El rincón y la esquina”, del “Hoy por hoy” de la Cadena SER, para el 28 de septiembre…
Mike Owen Benediktsson, “In the Midst of Things: The Social Lives of Objects in the Public Spaces of New York City” (Princeton UP, 2022)
How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social change Assumptions about human behavior lie hidden in plain sight all around us, programmed into the…
David Morgan, “The Thing about Religion: An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions” (UNC Press, 2021)
Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has broadened that framework radically to encompass the…
Chris Salter, “Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life” (MIT Press, 2022)
Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, count our steps, change the…
Brazil’s Pendulum of Politics
“There’s a struggle that repeats itself throughouthistory, over and over again – the oppressorsagainst the oppressed.”—Simon Bolívar Interestingly, when Simon …
Purple in Cycles
A poet-anthropologist speaks to the labyrinthine experiences of domestic violence—the entrapment, the hope for freedom. ✽ During the final week of domestic violence awareness month in October, I…
Seeking Election to UBC’s Board of Governors
My paperwork has now been accepted and I am officially a candidate. I seek your support for election to UBC’s Board of Governors. I last served as an…
Alessandro Duranti on his edited volume, Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson
Interview with Q https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rethinking-politeness-with-henri-bergson-9780197637869 The following dialogue is a transcript of an interview by a member of our sta…
Book Review: Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis
In Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa, Jovan Scott Lewis explores the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in the city’s Greenwood neighbourhood (known colloquially as ‘Black…
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Ich mag Festpreise. Da weiss ich, wo ich dran bin. Damit kann ich umgehen. Trinkgelder überfordern mich immer wieder, weil ich nicht weiss, wann was angebracht ist. Irgendwie…
Preise verhandeln
Ich mag Festpreise. Da weiss ich, wo ich dran bin. Damit kann ich umgehen. Trinkgelder überfordern mich immer wieder, weil ich nicht weiss, wann was angebracht ist. Irgendwie…
‘A Social History of Anthropology in the United States’ (revised and updated ) by Thomas C. Patterson
Thomas C. Patterson. A Social History of Anthropology in the United States. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2021. 240 pp., bibl., index. Twenty years after its first release, Thomas Patterson,…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…