Tracking UBC leaderships’ statements on winter break travel.
Dr. Berman. Director of the School of Population and Public Health. January 6, 2021. Dear SPPH Community, In light of recent events and news stories this past week,…
Eat, Drink, and Stand in Japan
Japan’s standing bars offer respite from the daily grind with drinks, lively company, and a feast of small dishes. Image description: People walk down a corridor in front…
From Cocoa Farms to Candy Chutes
The Wonka-fication of chocolate in American society is multiply damaging, increasing cocoa producer vulnerability to COVID-19 and further eliding the inequalities that characterize the value chain. “W…
People of the Bean
An heirloom bean club brings culinary community and diverse foodways to its legume lovers’ doors. Alubia Blanca, Good Mother Stallard, Vaquero, Eye of the Goat. Four times a…
Killing the Workers Who Feed Us
Keeping processing lines running at workers’ expense is not only a sign of our pandemic times. The meat and poultry processing industry has long treated workers as disposable.…
The Darker the History, the Sweeter the Truth
How a white identified city struggles to commemorate the Black lives and deaths that produced its sugar and built its wealth. Sugar Land is a growing, white, politically…
Wednesday Round Up #31
5 Don’ts For Better Fat Loss (Evidence Based) Decent summary of how to start to create the long-term changes that sustain weight loss and healthy weight ‘Toxic Individualism’:…
Nicholas Bartlett, “Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China” (U California Press, 2020)
Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period became…
Niloofar Haeri, “Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer & Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2020) by Niloofar Haeri is a stunning and absorbing ethnography of the lived ritual…
Michael Fisch, “An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo’s Commuter Train Network” (U of Chicago Press, 2018)
With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo’s commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In An Anthropology of the Machine: Tok……
Michael Fisch, “An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo’s Commuter Train Network” (U of Chicago Press, 2018)
With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo’s commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In An Anthropology of the Machine: T……
Nicholas Bartlett, “Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China” (U California Press, 2020)
Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period became…
Niloofar Haeri, “Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer & Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2020) by Niloofar Haeri is a stunning and absorbing ethnography of the lived ritual…
Writing Life No. 3: An interview with Janelle Taylor by Anna Harris
Figure 1: Janelle’s chair, with writing and knitting projects underway The conversation began on a summer day in a 13th Century chateau, with a moat, on the outskirts…
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…