Degrowth: A response to Branko Milanovic
In late 2017, Branko Milanovic wrote a blog post titled “The illusion of degrowth in a poor and unequal world.” He penned it, he says, following a…
Algunos apuntes sobre el milenarismo de clase media
Consideraciones para Gonzalo Sierra, doctorando Algunos apuntes sobre el milenarismo de clase media Manuel Delgado Me interesaría contribuir a desactivar ese malentendido que suele vincular el milenarism…
معماری پس از ۱۹۴۰
معماری پس از ۱۹۴۰ ـ پست مدرنیسم؛ فهم ناـ گونی وضعیت های ضدگون[۱] نوشته: جین مـــــــــــــــرکل[۲] برگردانی از: ارش بصیرت[۳] کمی پس از پایان پر فراز ونشیب…
A Revision of Outdated Course Policies Is Long Overdue
We need to humanize our course policies and practices and eliminate those that marginalize some students while privileging others. Professors: Students are under no obligation whatsoever to disclose…
Ett virtuellt alter ego med ansiktsmask
Helt plötsligt har ansiktsmask blivit en naturlig del av vardagen. Vi sätter på oss mask för att åka buss, handla mat, låna böcker, gå på föreläsning och hämta…
Ageless: Reflections on Lawrence Cohen’s No Aging in India by Bharat Jayram Venkat
Two decades ago, Lawrence Cohen’s No Aging in India: Alzheimer’s, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things challenged the ways in which we think about aging and senility,…
When at Home, Bake as the Romans Baked
[no-caption] Angus Greig SAPIENS host Chip Colwell talks with experimental archaeologist Farrell Monaco about her work re-creating ancient Roman bread and what it means to reconnect with …
Men, Check Your Privilege.
My father is in his early 90s. That is one amazing privilege to have. He would be the first to say being old isn’t easy. But he is…
The Casual Menace of a Trump Rally
After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, supporters of president-elect Donald Trump packed the Giant Center (shown here) for a victory rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Anand Pandian Thin…
Sabidurías, Ciencia y los Mercaderes de la duda
“Nada hay más dulce que ocupar los excelsos templos serenos que la ciencia de los sabios erige en las cumbres seguras, desde donde puedas bajar la mirada hasta…
Markku Lehmuskallio in Rovaniemi – Pre-screening meeting with the film maker
for many of our readers Markku Lehmuskallio won’t need an introduction. He is a world acclaimed film maker, and a friend of our team. Some of you may…
Andrea Chiovenda, “Crafting Masculine Selves: Culture, War, and Psychodynamics in Afghanistan” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Against the backdrop of four decades of continuous conflict in Afghanistan, the Pashtun male protagonists of this book carry out their daily effort to internally negotiate, adjust (if…
Review: Thinking with Soils
Salazar, Juan Francisco, Céline Granjou, Matthew Kearnes, Anna Krzywoszynska, and Manuel Tironi, eds. Thinking With Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory Bloombury Academic. 2…
Elements of disability inclusion in Soviet disability pedagogy
For someone interested in the genealogy of disability inclusion in Russia, Soviet disability pedagogy, known at the time under the name of defektologia, may seem to be a…
And Now for the 1970s: Native North American and First Nations Folklore Studies After the Field Gets Big
Here is the next in my series on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in the work of the American Folklore Society,…
Raising Our Voices in 2020
Raising Our Voices is almost here! A very different and exciting kind of AAA meeting. AN recently talked screen-to-screen with Raising Our Voices program chair Mayanthi L. Fernando…
Elevating the Voices of Latinx Anthropologists
ALLA reflects on the current moment, Latinx anthropology, awards, mentoring, and programming for Raising Our Voices. On September 30, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus participat…
Making Our Meetings Work for Graduate Students
Our AAA Annual Meeting and section meetings should be spaces for graduate training. We must do more to include graduate students in our events and produce programming to…
Srebrenica’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary from a Distance
With the twenty-fifth anniversary of Srebrenica in the forefront of her mind, Sarah Wagner will be joining faculty and graduate students at Raising Our Voices to rethink ethnographic…
AES at Raising Our Voices
AES programming seeks to address the current moment and its challenges. A Look Back to Look Forward, by Jacqueline Solway I left the 2019 joint American Anthropological Association…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Nicholas Barron
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
The 1960s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
Here again is a post from my series considering the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies work within the intellectual life of the…
Another affirming commercial
This article is cross-posted from the ZS intranet (which we call ZSpace), where I write episodically about issues of interest to the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. It’s…
Christina Davis on her book, The Struggle for a Multilingual Future
Interview by Gaya Morris https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-struggle-for-a-multilingual-future-9780190947477 Gaya Morris: Can you tell us a bit about what led you to this project? How did yo…