A Healed Greenwood: Lessons in Restorative Justice Archaeology from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray Intern 2020-2021 We began the class …
Summer Scholar Colloquium: Nicholas Barron Brings the History of Anthropology into the Present
In November 1981, anthropologists and tribal representatives gathered on the Pascua Pueblo Yaqui Reservation in southern Arizona for the 89…
Making Meat in the Time of COVID-19
Donald D. Stull To cite this article: Donald D. Stull (2020) Making Meat in the Time of COVID-19, Anthropology Now, 12:2, …
Vale Jaimie Pearl Bloom
I wanted to let you know that my obituary of Jaimie Bloom is now available from American Anthropologist: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.13525 Jaimie’…
Airways
Mary Louise Pratt To cite this article: Mary Louise Pratt (2020) Airways, Anthropology Now, 12:2, 1-4, DOI: 10.1080/194282…
Charlie Living: Vom Durchatmen der Concierge im Herzen Berlins
Audrey Penven kommt aus San Francisco und zog nach Berlin, weil die US-Stadt „eine Katastrophe ungleich verteilten Reichtums und eine Tech-Startup-Monokultur“ geworden sei. Die Mieten stiegen unko…
Quaran-Teens Class of 2021: Covid’s Impact on Social Relations
[The following students are high school seniors Class of 20201 at “KTH School.” As part of their International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology class, they conducted a collaborative…
Catarsis para sanar: de púlsares, latidos y humus.
“La medicina y el arte parten del mismo tronco”. “Ambos tiene origen en la magia, sistema basado en la omnipotencia de la palabra. El arte de la palabra,…
Ari Y. Kelman, “Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America” (NYU Press, 2018)
How do songwriters, worship leaders, and music industry professionals collaborate to make music that can become prayer? Ari Y. Kelman explores this question in his excellent study, Shout to…
Gracia Liu-Farrer, “Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society” (Cornell UP, 2020)
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020), milli… Visit New Books in…
Ari Y. Kelman, “Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America” (NYU Press, 2018)
How do songwriters, worship leaders, and music industry professionals collaborate to make music that can become prayer? Ari Y. Kelman explores this question in his excellent study, Shout to…
Gracia Liu-Farrer, “Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society” (Cornell UP, 2020)
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020), millio… Visit New Books in…
Heroines
Consider 2 movies and a TV show; ‘Hercules’, ‘Enola Holmes’ and ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’. Random collection or the sum of my November TV experience? For arguments sake let’s…
Long Past Time for the 25th Amendment*
There will be plenty of time for Biden to use his extraordinary faith and energy and creativity to think about how this divided nation might be healed. For…
New anthropology show in Arabic: "Anthropology helps us to understand who exploits us – and who we exploit"
Mai Amer: “I really hope the show encourages viewers to reflecting on and critique certain things they think”. Screenshot from her Facebook page How can we better understand…
La verdad americana. El cine según Claude Lévi-Strauss
Del artículo “La sustancia de los sueños. El cine según Claude Lévi-Strauss”, en Historia, antropología y fuentes orales, 30 (2010). LA VERDAD AMERICANA Manuel Delgado Lévi-Strauss tiene con…
The Thinness of Care: The Promise of Medical Anthropology in MD/PhD Training by Joshua Franklin
In the mid-twentieth century, recognizing the growing need for innovations born of clinical experience, pathways for training MD-PhD physician-scientists emerged in the hopes that this hybrid trainin…
Finding Calm—and Connection—in Coffee Rituals
When I arrived from the Philippines to the airport in the city of Gondar in northern Ethiopia early last year—before the pandemic started—I was greeted with an intensely…
Ein Schädel in Seronera. Myles Turner und das kolonialmilitärische Erbe des Naturschutzes in Ostafrika
Was lässt sich gegen Tier- und Naturschutz in Afrika einwenden? Und müssen nicht die letzten ihrer Art, etwa Nashörner, mit allen Mitteln gegen Wilderer verteidigt werden? Die Militanz…
Architektur und Alltag 15
Eine typische Villa im lombardischen (also italienischen) Teil der Alpen: Wir sehen einen simplen Kasten am Hang (den späteren Anbau im Garten lassen wir außer Acht), einen fast…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2021
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won (or been commended) by the prize juries over…
Partnering with Nonhumans for Climate Action
Arctic sea ice is breaking up and melting as the world’s atmosphere and waters warm. Julianne Yip Arctic sea ice is dying: Its extent, volume, and thickness have…
Brandon Andrew Robinson, “Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness” (U California Press, 2020)
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson ex… Visit New…
Brandon Andrew Robinson, “Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness” (U California Press, 2020)
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinso… Visit New Books…