Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease
From mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue to chronic bacterial infections such as yaws, Southeast Asia is home to a wide range of tropical diseases. For a…
Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani, “Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors” (PublicAffairs, 2021)
Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been…
Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill, “Confidence Culture” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Confidence Culture (Duke UP, 2022), Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather…
Radiografías del colapso: presente y prehistoria de una supervivencia (I)
Read Time:13 Minute, 46 Second Los anales de la Historia exhiben una gran cantidad de adaptación y algo peor –irracionalidad y vio…
Deconstruyendo "Lost". IV. El Humo Negro y el Segundo Círculo del Infierno
“The Lovers’ Whirlwind, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta”, William Blake (1824-1827) Tercera parte de la conferencia pronunciada en el Museo de América de Madrid, en noviembre de 2010.…
Two – allegorical
Ray’s France-Vietnam war allegory – h/t Pradip Baksi
The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESApplied Anthropology »Cultural Anthropolog…
David Graeber LSE Tribute Seminar: Myth and Imagination
Chair: Alpa Shah Discussants: Giulio Ongaro and Megan Laws & Michael Edwards In a short essay published after his death, David writes that “Good ideas rarely, if ever,…
A Hidden Figure in North American Archaeology
As a historian of science, I am interested in determining who gets credit for scientific discoveries and why. Sadly, credit often goes to the powerful and connected, not…
Guided by the Past
Hosts Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez and Yoli Ngandali share how they found their way to archaeology and what it means to be Black and Indigenous archaeologists. From defying the…
Archäologie: Schon vor 3500 Jahren kam Blattgemüse auf den Tisch
Blattgemüse gehört in Westafrika als Beilage zu vielen Gerichten wie dem gestampften Yams im Süden der Region. In Zusammenarbeit mit Chemikern der Universität Bristol ist Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wiss…
CFP: RAI: Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society
The Call for Papers is now open. It will close on 25 February 2022. The Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society conference will be held 6-11 June 2022 online.…
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, “On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border” (Harvard UP, 2021)
The border between Russia and China is one of the world’s longest, spanning thousands of miles. It’s one of the few extended land borders between two great powers,…
Radically Good. Reformulating Healing and Care Practices in Times of Crisis
Report on the international conference “Radical Health. Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good” organized by the Association for Anthropology and Medicine (AGEM), the Medical Anthr…
Nonconformity and Resistance in Mahabad with Focusing on Cultur
Nonconformity and Resistance in Mahabad with Focusing on Cultural, Social, and Gender Aspects (Culture, Protesting Views and Analysis of Youth in Iranian Kurdistan) By: Kameel Ahmady Kameel.ahmady@gm…
Lawfare: Los mismos objetivos, a través de distintos medios
Read Time:2 Minute, 16 Second En la actualidad, se acuñan términos, generalmente provenientes del idioma de Shakespeare, para deter…
The Hard Labor That Fuels the Hair Trade
The majority of hair that India exports comes from waste—such as the strands gathered in this picture of a street collector in Chennai. Emma Tarlo Every evening, for…
Julia Ticona on her book, Left to Our Own Devices
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/left-to-our-own-devices-9780190691288 Ilana Gershon: If you found yourself talking to a voice actor in a coffee shop about your book, how would you expl…
Understanding Covid Vaccine Resistance
Sheba Mohammid and Daniel Miller Right now, Trinidad and Tobago are suffering amongst the highest death rate from Covid in the world. As small islands, everyone seems to…
El perill d’un lerrouxisme "antisistema"
La foto és de Marta Jara Comentari per als i les camarades de la Cèl·lula Ramon Casanellas del Partit dels i les Comunistes de Catalunya, enviat el 7…
Book Review: Data Practices: Making Up a European People by Evelyn Ruppert and Stephan Scheel
In Data Practices: Making Up a European People – available open access – Evelyn Ruppert and Stephan Scheel explore how statisticians and policymakers use statistical methods and data practices to R…
Understanding Covid Vaccine Resistance
Authors: Sheba Mohammid and Daniel Miller Right now, Trinidad and Tobago are suffering amongst the highest death rate from Covid in the world. As small islands, everyone seems…
Luke Fitzmaurice and Maria Bargh, “Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga (Huia Publishers, 2021)
Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga (Huia Publishers, 2021) discusses the roadside checkpoints that were set up by Māori to protect communities during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.…
Colin Jerolmack, “Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell (Princeton UP, 2021) is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of what happens when one of the most momentous decisions about the…