Native People Live in the Post Apocalypse
I have felt this for years now, that we native people are living in the post-apocalypse. Ever since a student spoke up near the end of the term…
Year in the Rearview Mirror
A year ago today things already felt unsettled. News of COVID-19 was spreading. The early January news feed about outbreaks in China had now been surpassed by the…
More Maps of the Middle East
More and more maps of Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula are appearing in digital resources on the Internet. One of these is the David Rumsey Map Collection, housed…
Join us for ‘Laboratory Life’ film launches
The Lab Life series investigates what seem like mundane lab practices, but are critical to scientific humility, accountability and equity.
Aliki Angelidou: “It is not the police that enters the universities, but democracy”: Greek universities as spearhead of an authoritarian turn
On February 22nd police forces entered the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, heavily beating many students, arresting 31 of them, and teargasing all those present, including…
Assembling an Actor-Network Theory Archaoelogy
Elevated view of a Medieval Water Reservoir located within an inselberg. When I first thought of putting Science and Technology Studies (STS) and archaeology in conversation, several aspects…
Becoming Intergenerational in Birth Cohorts: kinship and the remaking of participation by Sahra Gibbon
In recent years birth cohorts have become an invaluable context, resource, tool and ‘technology’ of an emerging terrain of biosocial science, given the unique opportunity they provide to…
Class – and critique – in Bad Marxism, poking fun.
I was looking something up and stumbled upon a quote of me that I did not recognise – that class ‘does not make much sense’. I am pretty…
Arrival Waters
[no-caption] Traumlichtfabrik/Getty Images I am about 70 years away from the experience that led to this poem and about 50 years away from anthropology. Some 20 years ago…
Seas quien seas desciendes de Mahoma
Creo que la genealogía debe ser considerada a todas luces una ciencia exacta: después de todo, rastrear los antepasados, aunque puedan cometerse errores al hacerlo, persigue el examen…
David G. White Jr., “Disrupting Corporate Culture” (Routledge, 2020)
Today I talked to David G. White, Jr. about his book Disrupting Corporate Culture: How Cognitive Science Alters Accepted Beliefs About Culture and Culture Change and Its Impact on…
Neriko Musha Doerr, “The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices” (Routledge, 2020)
The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices (Routledge, 2020) volume investigates the “global education effect”–the impact of global educatio… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
#Review: Whose Life Is Worth More?
During the Second World War, the British government, with the invaluable assistance of Alan Turing, deciphered Enigma (the Nazi code war machine) and thus gained access to key…
Debating the Origins of the Anthropocene (on NPR)
This morning, National Public Radio aired a short segment on scientific investigation and debate surrounding the origins of the Anthropocene. The story considers the mid-20th century date proposed…
Michael Marker – Indigenous Scholar
Oct 20, 1951 – Jan 15, 2021. Last time I met Michael he was scootering down Main Mall through the athletics’ fields. Over the course of the pandemic…
Contested Truths over COVID-19 in Africa: Introduction by Jia Hui Lee
One of the most significant challenges to confronting and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic concerns the manufacturing, circulation, and interpretation of what we call “contested truths.” By this term…
Im Feld mit…Studierenden: Trauergespräch mit Maske und Gesundheitsfragebogen bei der Beerdigung – Trauer um Verstorbene und trauerbegleitende Angebote während der „Corona-Krise“
Henriette Glatter, Domenic Häde, Alea Metschkoll Immer wieder hört und liest man die aktuellsten Zahlen der am Corona-Virus neuerkrankten und verstorbenen Menschen. Wegen des potentiell tödlichen …
Im Feld mit… Studierenden: Normalität in Zeiten von Corona
Lea Cara Schöche und Henriette Werling Woher kommt er, der Wunsch nach Normalität? Seit fast einem Jahr herrscht eine andere Normalität. Sie besteht aus Alltagsmasken, Abstandsregeln, Reiseein…
Im Feld mit…Studierenden: Auswirkungen der Covid19-Pandemie auf den Aktivismus und die Organisation von „Fridays for Future“ in Halle und Leipzig
M. Fuchs; S. Haase; J. Hofmann; M. Osmann; R. Thiel; R. Vinci Einleitung Die Auswirkungen von Covid19 auf das gesellschaftliche Zusammenleben scheinen allgegenwärtig. Auch die Aktivitäten polit…
Wednesday Round Up #41
Ta-Nehisi Coates on words that don’t belong to everyone Interview between Ian Tyndell and Kevin Mitchell Fascinating and wide-ranging interview on psychology, behavioural genetics, & neuros…
China: The Unpopular Winner of the Year in Pandemic Times. Resilience in China under COVID-19 (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Mengyi Zhang Figure 1: Photo taken by the author’s parents (age 48 and 49) when they got their vaccines in a community…
Obekväma diskussioner
I januari 2019 avslöjades en härva med sexualbrott mot barn i Uleåborg. Tio män var misstänkta, av dessa var samtliga asylsökande eller kvotflyktingar. Brotten fick mycket uppmärksamhet i…
Rebecca Hope Dirksen, “After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti” (Oxford UP, 2020)
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordin……
Police Reform in Argentina: A Discussion with Leslie MacColman
This episode of Ethnographic Marginalia features Dr. Leslie MacColman, a Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology at The Ohio State University who studies crime and policing in Latin America. Leslie……