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Emalani Case, “Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki” (U Hawaii Press, 2021)

In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawai‘i to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case draws on her own life experiences to explore the politics and ethics of … Visit…

  • Post date 20th August 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe

“Stop the Shot”: Resistance through Science, Religion, and Law

On August 4, an interesting event took place: “Stop the Shot”. This was a video press conference organized by the Truth for Health Foundation in the US, which…

  • Post date 20th August 2021
  • Post author By Maximilian C. Forte

Animating Stories of Global Migration

Who gets to tell the story of human migration around the globe? And what kind of story is it? The Story of Migration, an animated short illustrated by…

  • Post date 19th August 2021
  • Post author By MIDEQ and PositiveNegatives

Book Review: The Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam and Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe by Nilüfer Göle

In The Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam and Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe, Nilüfer Göle explores the everyday experiences of Muslims in a number of European countries. While commending…

  • Post date 19th August 2021
  • Post author By Rose Deller

Å be eller to be? – språklige fallgruver

Kontrastiv lingvistikk er en del av språkvitenskapen som fokuserer på forskjeller og likheter mellom språk, for eksempel ut fra fonetikk (uttale), semantikk (betydning) og morfologi og syntaks (dvs.…

  • Post date 19th August 2021
  • Post author By sprakprat

Kristin Hanssen, “Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia: Living With Bengali Bauls” (Routledge, 2020)

Noted for their haunting melodies and enigmatic lyrics, Bauls have been portrayed as spiritually enlightened troubadours traveling around the countryside in West Bengal in India and in Bangla……

  • Post date 19th August 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe

Paul Michael Hedges, “Understanding Religion: Theories and Methods for Studying Religiously Diverse Societies” (U California Press, 2021)

This innovative coursebook introduces students to interdisciplinary theoretical tools for understanding contemporary religiously diverse societies–both Western and non-Western. Using a case-… Visit New Books in Anthropology for the…

  • Post date 19th August 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe

Spirits, Development and Chinese (Hydro)power: Ethnographic (Hi)stories from Upland Laos

In the extreme north of Laos, in Phongsali Province, lies a tiny village home to around 24 households. Until recently it was a monoethnic Khmu village. The Khmu…

  • Post date 19th August 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe

Rebecca Friedman, “Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia” (Bloomsbury, 2020)

From the nostalgic landed estate with its backward gaze to the present-focused and efficient urban apartment to the utopian communal dreams of a Soviet future, the idea of…

  • Post date 19th August 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe

Los talibán y la modernidad

Foto Saeed Achakzai/Reuters Pocos días después del atentado del 11-S en Nueva York, el 24 de septiembre de 2001, publicaba este artículo en El Mundo, sobre alguno de…

  • Post date 19th August 2021
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado

On Drones and Ectoplasms: Breath of Gaia

(Editor’s Note: This blog post is part of the Thematic Series Data Swarms Revisited) Painting form the art project On Drones and Ectoplasms: Breath of Gaia. ©Angeliki Malakasioti…

  • Post date 19th August 2021
  • Post author By Angeliki Malakasioti

Bolo Tie Highlights: An IARC Collection Reflection

Duane Maktima. Bolo tie + buckle, 1974, detail. Silver, turquoise, gold-lip mother-of-pearl, ironwood, coral, leather. SAR.1989-7-177AB. Ph…

  • Post date 18th August 2021
  • Post author By Sarah Soliz

Sobre el "satanismo" de ofitas y naasenos

Comentario para Alfred Gormariz, estudiante del Grado de Antropología Social en la Universitat de Barcelona, enviado en julio de 2019 SOBRE EL “SATANISMO” DE OFITAS Y NAASENOS Manuel…

  • Post date 18th August 2021
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado

What Indigenous Languages Reveal About Bear Genetics

[no-caption] Alh1/Flickr This article was originally published at Hakai Magazine and has been republished with permission. Along the central coast of British Columbia, grizzly bears go by…

  • Post date 18th August 2021
  • Post author By Gloria Dickie

Illustrating ASSA’s findings with comics – part 3

By Georgiana Murariu & Laura Haapio-Kirk In this blog post, we present the third comic in our ASSA comics series – this time set in Lusozi, a neighbourhood…

  • Post date 18th August 2021
  • Post author By Georgiana Murariu

Weed or Not Weed?

Weeding is an exercise in anthropology. How do we know what’s a weed? The great French anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss, organized his 80-year career around one foundational principle: &#82…

  • Post date 18th August 2021
  • Post author By Alma Gottlieb

The Ghost of Amanullah: Afghanistan Redux

The Khyber Pass in 1923 Historians generally assume that “modernity” jump-started in Afghanistan in 1919 with the crowning of Ghazi Amanullah Khan as emir and later as king…

  • Post date 17th August 2021
  • Post author By tabsir

Haunted by My Teaching Skeleton

Museum storage facilities, such as this one in Germany, often hold the remains of human beings. Jens Büttner/Picture Alliance/Getty Images There is something unsettling about being alone …

  • Post date 17th August 2021
  • Post author By Michelle A. Rodrigues

P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, “The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now” (MIT Press, 2021)

Increasingly we live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialize, and learn digitally. The shift to remote everything during the pandemic was another step in a decades-long…

  • Post date 17th August 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe

Nicola J. Smith, “Capitalism’s Sexual History” (Oxford UP, 2020)

As ongoing controversies over commercial sex attest, the relationship between capitalism and sexuality is deeply contentious. Economic and sexual practices are assumed to be not only separabl… Visit…

  • Post date 17th August 2021
  • Post author By Marshall Poe

When Cash Rules: A Local Researcher/Activist’s Fieldnotes on “Passive Locals” Living Around Mailiao’s Petrochemical Complex

Yunlin is a coastal county in Western Taiwan famous for its agricultural produce, also known as “the barn of Taiwan.” However, the exchange value of agricultural produce has…

  • Post date 17th August 2021
  • Post author By Lin Hung-Yang

En un presente remoto

La foto es de Marcel·li Saenz Reseña de Alberto Cardín. Lo próximo y lo ajeno. Icaria, Barcelona, 1990, publicado en Babelia, suplemento literario de El País, el 20 de mayo…

  • Post date 17th August 2021
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado

SAR Welcomes New Board Members

SAR Welcomes New Board Members …

  • Post date 16th August 2021
  • Post author By Meredith Davidson

Barney Bate’s book, Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33334 Hannah Carlan interviews E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, and Constantine V. Nakassis Hannah Carlan: Bernard Bate’s posthumous book Protestant Textu…

  • Post date 16th August 2021
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