Winners of SAFN’s 2nd Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
David Beriss We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The weighty decision was reached by a panel made up of…
Slavery, Sustenance, and Resistance
Archaeology helps re-imagine a fuller range of experiences, including how people ate, innovated, and rebelled. In this episode, “slave cuisine” opens a window to honor the legacy of…
Hiring: Inuit Research Assistants (remote work)
We are looking to hire several Inuit Research Assistants to help us conduct a systematic literature review to look at the role of Nunavut Arctic College in research,…
Andrew Orta: The MBA won’t die. But it is trying to disappear
Responding to a question about future of the MBA (Master of Business Administration) in the wake of the pandemic, the Dean of a top program recently suggested that…
Natali Valdez, “Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era” (U California Press, 2022)
In Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era (University of California Press, 2022), Natali Valdez examines research trials that enroll pregnant people in the United…
Michael Spitzer, “The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to this music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who…
Nitasha Tamar Sharma, “Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific” (Duke UP, 2021)
Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke UP, 2021) maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges…
Vorstellung: Martina März, Mentorin für berufliche Orientierung
Netzwerken ist das Thema der nächsten Karrierewerkstatt, und über ein Netzwerk, nämlich das BNI, habe ich Martina März kennengelernt. Ich möchte sie Euch in diesem Beitrag vorstellen, denn…
Umweltschutz der 99%: Wenn Welten aufeinandertreffen
Die ökologische Frage schafft keine politische Einigkeit. Das politische Projekt eines Umweltschutzes der 99% denkt den dringend nötigen Systemwandel deshalb als Zusammenspiel politischer und sozialer…
Traveling but Not Arriving: Hieroglyphics of Caste in Computing
Listen to an audio recording of this post read by P V This browser does not support HTML5 audio When I landed in Bangalore in early 2020, it…
Voices of Pain
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE my head is split there is a stone in my stomach I am worried my neck hurts my back hurts heat moves up in my body I…
The flea, the canyon, and racism: Reflections on outrage
By Benjamin Koponen On January 22nd, 2022, an elderly white woman punched me in the arm while I, a black man, was biking to help a friend paint…
Transracial Adoption and the Limits of Love
A photo installation by artist Glenn Morey explores how Korean adoptees in the U.S. grapple with questions related to belonging, identity, and family. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images On a…
Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik, “Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis” (Duke UP, 2021)
Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke University Press, 2021) collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors —who come from a variety…
Sophie Chao, “In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua” (Duke UP, 2022)
This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). Her new book examines the lives of Marind…
“This Sweet Potato is Beautiful.” From Ethnoagronomy to Ethnogastronomy in the work of Virginia Nazarea
Lima, 2015. At the Mistura, an annual food festival in Peru wherein people from the desert, the Andes, and the coast bring their produce and artisanal products to…
Aurora Donzelli on her book, One or Two Words
Interview by Nicco La Mattina https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo68162961.html Nicco La Mattina: A principle theme running throughout One or Two Words is th…
Don Nonini: Scoring the U.S. Working Class: Expropriation and Digitalization
Introduction Working-class people in the United States are now at a turning point – whether to compliantly return to the pre-Covid conditions capital set for them, or to…
5 Questions About War Virtually
Join us for a free 25-minute live Q&A between former SAPIENS Media and Public Outreach Fellow Yoli Ngandali and anthropologist Roberto J. González about his new book, War…
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The Dirt
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Building Aidland: Aid Workers and the Creation of a Global Aid Industry in the 1970s
This webinar series explores the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism. Anthropologists and historians have defined humanitarianism as concern and action assisting a distant Other. Hav…