In the Vault: Coil and Sifter Basket, Pootsaya
Story by IARC curator of education Felicia Garcia With my basket I decided to send out a message. The coil is to represent a tight foundat…
Memory / Habit / Addiction: Workshop Report by the Neuroscience and Society Network by Tara Mahfoud
INTRODUCTION The Neuroscience and Society Network, based at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (GHSM), organised a workshop titled “Memory / Habit / Addiction” on 28…
Anomalous Waste: Reckoning with Radioactivity in a Metal Scrap Market
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
As the Statues Fall: A Conversation about Monuments and the Power of Memory
In the wake of global civil unrest following the brutal killings of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Atatiana Jefferson, Aura Rosser, Elijah McClain, and countless…
Covidentities – Prizes
Our annual screening event took place on zoom this year because of the pandemic. You can see all the films and interactive websites here. You can read Felicia…
Were Women the True Artisans Behind Ancient Greek Ceramics?
This amphora comes from a period in ancient Greek history called the Early Iron Age. Zde/Wikimedia Commons Painted over the enormous midsection of the Dipylon amphora—a nearly 2,800-year-…
DGSKA-Herbstakademie „Fieldwork meets Crisis“
Aus aktuellem Anlass läd die DGSKA erstmals zu einer Herbstakademie für Doktorand_innen ein. Thema sind die besonderen Herausforderungen mit denen Nachwuchswissenschafter_innen aufgrund der aktuellen …
Book Review: The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction by Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham
In The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction, Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham unpack the ‘how’ of the gig economy through quantative datasets and ethnographic vignettes from countries includ…
Mayfair Yang, “Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Re-enchanting Modernity: Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China (Duke University Press, 2020), Mayfair Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades…
Laura S. Grillo, “An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa” (Duke UP, 2018)
What if the moral guardians of West African societies are postmenopausal women? This is the argument that Laura S. Grillo makes in her 2018 book, An Intimate Rebuke:…
Por los que vendrán
Posiblemente no hayan oído hablar nunca de la localidad de Cherrapunji, se trata de una pequeña localidad de la India en el Estado de Megalaya. Allí pueden encontrarse…
Op Eds
Dear SAFN members, Now is a good time to write op eds about the food system in the pandemic. Here is one we published in the Eugene Weekly…
Myths of the Wandering Indians
From at least the 18th century and afterward, for much of the writing about Native peoples, we are written about as being wandering peoples. Explorers, settlers, fur traders…
“Das Rad kostet 3000 €!
Ganz in unserer Nähe kommt es immer wieder zu Konflikten zwischen Radfahrenden und Zufußgehenden. Die Straße ist übles Kopfsteinpflaster. Der Fußweg ist eng. Sehr viele Rad…
“Das Rad kostet 3000 €!
Ganz in unserer Nähe kommt es immer wieder zu Konflikten zwischen Radfahrenden und Zufußgehenden. Die Straße ist übles Kopfsteinpflaster. Der Fußweg ist eng. Sehr viele Rad…
“Das Rad kostet 3000 €!
Ganz in unserer Nähe kommt es immer wieder zu Konflikten zwischen Radfahrenden und Zufußgehenden. Die Straße ist übles Kopfsteinpflaster. Der Fußweg ist eng. Sehr viele Rad…
“Das Rad kostet 3000 €!
Ganz in unserer Nähe kommt es immer wieder zu Konflikten zwischen Radfahrenden und Zufußgehenden. Die Straße ist übles Kopfsteinpflaster. Der Fußweg ist eng. Sehr viele Rad…
Guest Post: Embracing Affect in the Classroom [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Schuyler Marquez. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Schuyler Marq…
Guest Post: Embracing Affect in the Classroom [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Schuyler Marquez. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Schuyler Marquez’s work focuses on bringing classical anthropological…
Police Narratives of Feminicide Cases in Brazil
Roberta Pamplona & Jerry Flores To cite this article: Roberta Pamplona & Jerry Flores (2019) Police Narratives of Feminicide Cases in Brazil, Anthropology Now, 11:3, 21-30, DOI: 10.1080/19…
When Deafness Is Not Considered a Deficit
Music rattled the windows of the one-room schoolhouse that was now serving as a dance floor for nearly the entire village, a population of about 100 people. Masato,…
Wednesday Round Up #7
Laughter is vital Laughter, wrote Bergson, had ‘a knack of baffling every effort, of slipping away and escaping only to bob up again, a pert challenge flung at…
BILDER IM KOPF. ODER WIE UNSER GEHIRN UNS DURCH SEINE HILFSBEREITSCHAFT IN BRENZLIGE SITUATIONEN BRINGT
„Woher kommst du, Julia? Aus Russland? Na, dann komm, lass uns zusammen Wodka trinken, hehe.“ Ja, genau. Wir Russen haben … Weiter lesenBILDER IM KOPF. ODER WIE UNSER…
Jennifer Domino Rudolph, “Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity” (Ohio State UP, 2020)
In her incisive study Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity (Ohio State University Press, 2020), Jennifer Domino Rudolph analyzes major … Visit New Books in…