SAFN Student Awards!
Rhubarb and radishes! Photo by David Beriss The deadline (June 15) for SAFN’s annual graduate and undergraduate paper awards is fast approaching. If you are a student, now…
Jaime A Alves: F*ck the Police! Murderous cops, the myth of police fragility and the case for an insurgent anthropology
‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing…
Unlikely Blessings: A poem on hope, despair and periwinkle
This poem, written fifteen years ago as my youngest son began (thankfully successful) chemotherapy for a rare immune system disease, was recently published for the first time by S…
تأملی بر مفهوم مناظر شفابخش از رهگذری انسانشناسانه
کشف یا خلق رابطه انسان و فضا از منظر سلامت، پدید آورنده دو امتداد متفاوت در مسیر رسیدن به شهر و محیط سالم بوده و در این میان…
سفرنامه جنوب هند (۲۰)
دنبال قدیمی ترین هتل این بخش می گشتم هتلی به نام De Lorient که در سال ۱۷۶۰ میلادی در دوران استعمار فرانسه بر پوندیچری ساخته شد…
Finding and Losing the World’s Oldest Art in Sulawesi
These handprints were made by blowing pigment around a hand placed against the wall in Sumpang Bita Cave, Sulawesi. Franco Viviani In 2019, I made a trip to…
New Book: Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image
The new book by Arnd Schneider argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together a range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary arts…
Special Issues: “Public Health Activism in changing times: relocating collective agency. Part 1” and “The COVID Horizon” by Emmanuelle Roth
We would like to highlight the release of two special issues this month. First, Critical Public Health’s second issue of the year is dedicated to “Public health activism…
AAA Annual Meeting Call for Submissions
Truth and Responsibility is the theme for the 2021 AAA Annual Meeting, which will be held November 17 – November 21 in Baltimore, Maryland…
In the Journals, April 2021, Part 1 by Emmanuelle Roth
Current Anthropology Of Plots and Men: The Heuristics of Conspiracy TheoriesDidier Fassin In a time when conspiracy theories seem to be flourishing, generally receiving dismissive reactio…
Data Activism and Petro-Public Knowledge “Across Borders”: The Formosa Plastics Global Archive
When our research group entered the Formosa Plastics museum in Taiwan, the first thing we noticed was a massive piece of kauri wood, sitting protected under a dome…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, April 26, 2021
Burger and fries, The Hamburger Foundation, Geneva. Photo by David Beriss. David Beriss Do you teach courses related to the anthropology of food and nutrition? From intro courses…
دموکراسی
به نظر می آید غرب با ادعای وجود دموکراسی بسیار به خود میبالد و شعار می دهد، دموکراسی همین است که ما در غرب آن را تجربه میکنیم…
Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship
Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESCultural Anthropology »General Anthropolog…
Una vida privada privada de ser vida
La foto es de Todd Hiddo, uno de los artista de la muestra Fragmento del artículo “La intimidad en crisis”, incluido en el catálogo para la exposición Miradas…
Maraqten on the Qur’an in light of Pre-Islamic Inscriptions
Dr. Muhammad Maraqten, the distinguished archaeologist and specialist on ancient pre-Islamic languages of the Arabian Peninsula, delivered a lecture almost a year ago on our knowledge of the…
Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese discuss Voices of a City Market
Interview by Amanda Kaminsky https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781788925112#:~:text=Voices%20of%20a%20City%20Market%3A%20An%20Ethnography&text=Based%20on%20four%20year…
Stellenausschreibungen 17. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
Jede Woche präsentieren wir Euch eine kleine Sammlung von Stellenausschreibungen für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen aus der Region Westfalen-Lippe. Neben universitären Stellen sind auch einige Jobs aus…
Melvin Konner, “Believers: Faith in Human Nature” (Norton, 2019)
Believers: Faith in Human Nature (Norton, 2019) is a scientist’s answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophers. It is a firm rebuke of the “Four…
Marking the Unknown: tattooing, marriage, and the story of the Ologasi among the Pantaron Manobo of the Philippines
The Pantaron Manobo tell stories of a giant called the Ologasi. Besides being a mythic figure, the Ologasi acts to mark a limit to what is known in…
Marking the Unknown: tattooing, marriage, and the story of the Ologasi among the Pantaron Manobo of the Philippines
The Pantaron Manobo tell stories of a giant called the Ologasi. Besides being a mythic figure, the Ologasi acts to mark a limit to what is known in…
#BookReview: Terraformed
Terraformed by Joy White aims at making sense and contextualising the vulnerability and inequality experienced by the Afrodiasporic population of the UK. The author describes her effort as…
Words, numbers, culture: Thinking with Sally Merry at the Universal Periodic Review
Jane K. Cowan (University of Sussex) will give a talk titled ‘Words, numbers, culture: Thinking with Sally Merry at the Universal Periodic Review’. Julie Billaud (Graduate Institute in…
ملبورن
هدف نهایی؛ مهاجرت ملبورن، نخستین فیلم بلند نیما جاویدی، روایت زوجی جوان است که برنامه مهاجرت به استرالیا را دارند و نام فیلم از شهر مقصدشان ملبورن بر…