Love Poem for the Shape of the Field
[no-caption] Johannes Plenio/Pexels The sun opens, shutters. The social scientist wants to know where to look, keeps widening her gaze. Over here on the earth, a girl fries…
Jobseekers in Dubai in the time of COVID-19 (IV)
Part Four: “When will this Covid be over?” During the first month of T.’s search for work in Dubai, Covid-19 felt like something that had happened last spring.…
Fy fästingen! Kulturanalytisk forskning om fästingar.
Fästingforskning, vad innebär det? Forskning om fästingar, på vilket sätt? Dessa är frågor som jag som etnolog ofta ställts inför när jag berättat för människor utanför och inom…
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, “Front of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers” (NYU Press, 2020)
How can ethnographic research shine light on the reproduction of social inequality in upscale Los Angeles restaurants? In today’s episode we talk with Dr. Eli Wilson, Assistant Professor…
Dialogues on Artificial Intelligence
In December 2020, a group of social scientists gathered virtually at the LSE Department of Anthropology to discuss the relationship between data science and the social sciences. We…
Does Love Always Come Before Marriage?
Thousands of couples were wed in a mass ceremony in South Korea on February 7, 2020. Some of them had only met a few weeks earlier, after being…
Jobseekers in Dubai in the time of COVID-19 (III)
Part Three: A Travel Agent selling Freedom For the second half of my stay, I lived in a shared accommodation of mostly Egyptian men in Ajman, which is…
Teaching Digital Anthropology Through Minecraft
By David Davies Humans.Machines.Pandemic.Presence. Meeting online presents a challenge because we are synchronized in time, but not in place. While it might seem we are “together apart” like…
Pandemic Affects, Planetary Specters, and the Precarious Everyday: Encountering COVID-19 as a Nomad with (Half)Grown Roots (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Nasima Selim Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa. A specter is haunting Europe. …
Envisioning a Different Park: Border Walls, Transborder Ties, and Militarized Ecologies
When news broke out on January 20th, 2021, that newly inaugurated President Joe Biden signed a proclamation ending Trump’s Executive Order 9844, which declared a national emergency at…
“It all starts with landscape”: SAR Scholars’ Recent and Upcoming Reflections on Chaco Canyon
Chaco Canyon was the center of a thriving Pueblo society from 800 to 1250 CE, including dozens of magnificent great house structures, nume…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, February 10, 2021
Wendy Yared A woman sitting on the floor in a library with a blue book in her hand. Photo by Joshua Purnell. I’m so excited to share my first…
So prägt deine Wahrnehmung deine Kultur
“Boah, schon wieder scharfe Linsensuppe so früh am Morgen?! Können die nicht mal normales Frühstück zubereiten?!?” “Oh Gott, können die bitte aufhören, mitten in der Nacht zu hupen??…
Is Love a Biological Reality?
Helen Fisher knows more about love than most. As a biological anthropologist who studies the topic, she has been a chief scientific adviser to the internet dating site…
Wednesday Round Up #36
He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive Outstanding magazine article which uses the story of one professor – Dan-el Padilla Peralta – to examine…
La red de la vida: naturaleza es lo que queda.
“Imaginemos un tapiz tupido, que poco a poco y con el tiempo, si no se cuida y se mima, va perdiendo hilos y se va agujereando por diferentes…
Fanatismo femenino y control de los hogares
La foto es de Cristina García Rodero Final del artículo “La mujer fanática. Anticlericalismo y matrifocalidad en la España contemporánea”, sobre La familia de León Roch, de Benito…
Jobseekers in Dubai in the time of COVID-19 (II)
Part Two: New Opportunities, New Stress In the Gulf region, Dubai has been a forerunner in the transformation towards a neoliberal market of skills and hands. Gulf countries…
Lexi Eikelboom, “Rhythm: A Theological Category” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Philosophers have long approached the concept of rhythm as a significant tool for understanding the human experience, metaphysics, language, and the arts. In her new study Rhythm: A Theologic……
N. M. Leite, Q. E. Castañeda, K. Adams, “The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond” (Lexington, 2019)
Edited by Naomi M. Leite, Quetzil E. Castañeda, and Kathleen M. Adams, The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (Lexington Books, 2019) focuses on the experience-near, interpretiv… Visit New Books in…
Teren Sevea, “Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2020), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle … Visit New…
Zähne ziehen. Literatur und Legitimation
Was ist die Aufgabe der Literatur? Wie politisch darf, ja muss sie sein? Immer wieder hört man, dass Literatur, die wirksam werden will, sich über ausserliterarische Kriterien legitimieren…
Baba ‘Aris (1950)
Youtube has quite a few old Egyptian films with music, dancing, the colorful Egyptian dialect and some very strange plots. Baba ‘Aris is well worth watching… For details…
Form, Content, Data, Bodies: Jonathan Zong and Beth Semel on Biometric Sans by Jonathan Zong
The dominant discourse surrounding digital psy technologies such as MindStrong, a teletherapy app designed to detect mental health changes by monitoring changes in typing speed “down to the…