Images of Loss: Mapping the Future Coast
By Sheehan Moore, CUNY § Ten miles south of New Orleans, on the West Bank of the Mississippi, the trees flanking both sides of Highway 3134 stop abruptly. A…
Amy C. Sullivan, “Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State” (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Amy C. Sullivan explores the complexity of America’s opioid epidemic through firsthand accounts of people grappling with the reverberating effects of stigma, treatment, and recovery. Taking a… Visit…
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism” (Duke UP, 2021)
In Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism (Duke UP, 2021), Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes the climatic, environmental, viral, an… Visit New Books…
Què és un barri?
Foto de David Suñol Consideracions per a Isabel Gutiérrez, estudiant del Grau d’Antropologia Social preparant el seu treball final sobre el naixement d’un barri a Barcelona. Enviat l’abril…
In the Journals, December 2021, part 2 by Arbel Griner
American Anthropologist Discrimination as a Moderator of the Effects of Acculturation and Cultural Values on Mental Health Among Pregnant and Postpartum Latina Women Molly Fox It is important…
SAR Remembers Ronald N. Dubin
The Dubin Studio under construction in 1997 (left) and after its completion (right). …
What a Shipwreck’s Tree Rings Reveal
Tree rings in a cross section of an oak hull plank from the ship Batavia, which sank in 1629, hold clues to the 17th-century timber trade in Europe.…
In the Journals, December 2021, Part 1 by Hayley Ip
Medical Humanities Before compassion: sympathy, tact and the history of the ideal nurse (open access) Sarah Chaney The word ‘compassion’ is ubiquitous in modern healthcare. Yet few writers…
Persistence of Genocide Upon the Chetco People
The Chetco Indians, perhaps more than nearly any other tribe on the Oregon coast, were repeatedly attacked by racist white settlers before their removal. In a previous set…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2022
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won (or been commended) by the prize juries over…
9/11 and Beyond: Our World of Toxic Exposure/COVID-19 Syndemics by Merrill Singer
For the last 25 years, in my work as an applied medical anthropologist, I have called attention to and explored syndemics, the biosocial adverse interaction of two or…
Michael Muhammad Knight, “Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community” (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)
The Ansaru Allah Community, also known as the Nubian Islamic Hebrews (AAC/NIH) and later the Nuwaubians, is a deeply significant and controversial African American Muslim movement. Founded in……
کندوکاوی در کیفیت زندگی با تحلیل حق زنان به زندگی شهری
چکیده پژوهشگران جنسیت چنین میانگارند که ایدۀ «حق به شهر» باید درباره زندگی شهری زنانه بازتعریف شود، زیرا علیرغم تأکید بر حق همه ساکنان، تفاوتهای میان آنها من…
چهل و هشت دقیقه ابتدای مستند «سرگذشت انسان»
فصل هفده از جلد اول کتاب سینما وتاریخ معاصر ایران همانطور که در نوشته های سینمایی، سال ها عنایتی بر۲۴ دقیقه ابتدای فیلم علف نمی شد[۱]، در مورد…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۲۶)
فصل سوم: امتزاج افقها (برای روز چهارشنبه) ۳. نیچه و متفکران خلاق یونان باستان (ادامه از قبل) باری، آنکس که در برابر «شدنِ» هراکلیتوس میایستد، پارمنیدسِ متأخر است.…
Near Extinction of the Grave Creek Band
The experiences of the Grave Creek Indians of southwestern Oregon mirror those of the other tribes in the region. They however hardly survived the 1850s as most of…
More Cleaver on Students
There is room for more here, but quoting George Caffentzis helps: ‘Once you recognize the piecework character of the work of professors in universities, it is easy to…
The Last Wild Lions of Europe
In this ornament found in Mycenae, Greece, lions leap upon their prey. Nancy Thomas Once upon a time, people near the valley of Nemea in southern Greece lived…
Predator journals target ISSH2021 – be warned.
So, a process warning to those not used to getting chatty friendly emails from parasite journals that will charge you to publish. The ISSH2021 conference gets hit by…
Opium and Political Economy in Bengal
On why I think Marx’s writing style is misrepresented by the all-too-dour and serious commentators on Capital – you know, the famous ones published by big presses or…
Korea und der Rest der Welt
Das Fach Koreastudien gehört zu den sogenannten „Kleinen Fächern“. Doch das Interesse an dem Fach nimmt seit Jahren rasant zu. Ein Grund: Die Popularität der koreanischen Film- und…
For those about to be assessed, Harry Cleaver helps cut throught he must…
To those doing assignments, be it single or collective projects, here’s a reminder to resist the stress and do it for your own reasons. This is another condensed…
Stan BH Tan-Tangbau and Quyền Văn Minh, “Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội” (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Quyền Văn Minh (b. 1954) is not only a jazz saxophonist and lecturer at the prestigious Vietnam National Academy of Music, but he is also one of the…
Caterina Guenzi, “Words of Destiny: Practicing Astrology in North India” (SUNY Press, 2021)
Astrologers play an important role in Indian society, but there are very few studies on their social identity and professional practices. Based on extensive fieldwork carried out in…