Thank You, Dan, For All The Keys
Below find the eighth in a series of guest posts offered in celebration on the occasion of our colleague and friend Daniel C. Swan’s retirement from the University…
Working Definitions: Making and Unmaking “Medical Anthropology” around the World by Paschal Kum Awah
Somatosphere Special Series – Call for Contributions Editors: Professor Paschal Kum Awah (Chair, Anthropology, University of Yaoundé I) and Elizabeth Durham (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Pri…
The Photo Album
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE I I am looking through a series of matt photos that are organised in an album. They have each been carefully placed behind individual plastic sheets that…
In the Journals, May 2020, Part 2 by Arbel Griner
Health, Risk & Society Risk and preventing perinatal HIV transmission: uncovering the social organisation of prenatal care for women living with HIV in Ontario, Canada Allyson Ion , Saara Gree…
Feminise the pandemic: Covid-19 and gender inequality in South Africa
Like all countries around the world, South Africa is now dealing with the uncertainty of navigating in uncharted waters, as it moves from full lockdown to a gradual…
The metropolis and mental life in the age of COVID-19: Delaying descent into the blasé attitude by Rafael Wainer
The COVID city: Class, physical isolation, and virtual connection At the time of writing this we are all experiencing what the classical sociologist Émile Durkheim would call a…
DEI Website Launched!
Our new website is now online. In the blog, we will be presenting and discussing various research activities, projects and events in relation to “the digital” at the…
What Parsnips Taught Me About Nature
Growing and harvesting this food helped the author connect with nature. Stuart Lang As the rain fell on my hands, washing away the soil, I threw the last…
Call for abstracts: Storbykonferansen 2020
Er det noe 2020 har lært oss, er det hvor raskt og drastisk byene våre kan endres. Da covid-19-pandemien kom til Norge opplevde vi en nedstenging av byene…
Oded Y. Steinberg, “Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era” (U Penn Press, 2019)
Oded Y. Steinberg (DPhil Oxford) is a fellow at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Next year (2020-21), Steinberg will…
Pehr Granqvist, “Attachment in Religion and Spirituality: A Wider View” (Guilford Press, 2020)
Attachment theory is a popular lens through which psychologists have examined human development and interpersonal dynamics. In Attachment in Religion and Spirituality: A Wider View (Guilford … Visit…
Towards anthropological self-de-confinement #PostCoronaUniversity
While we now seem to be approaching post-confinement, and after the closure of campuses and improvised conversion to online teaching, there has been much discussion regarding the long-term…
#Review: Animal Ethos
Ethics, or moral philosophy, work with general principles of right and wrong, of just and unjust, of appropriate and inappropriate, which usually lean towards obscuring what may crop…
Open Letter to U.S. Senators Ron Wyden & Jeff Merkley by Jena Thoma
Author’s Note: Now, more than ever, we need to reach out to our political representatives in order to enact changes to our healthcare system, employment protections, and federally…
Open Letter to Senator Jack Reed by Argenis Hurtado Moreno
Argenis Hurtado MorenoProvidence, RI 02912June 22, 2020 Jack ReedSenator of Rhode Island728 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Reed, Thursday was an important and n…
Cosmic Interbeing
Summer, Eastern Oregon Do you think about space as someplace out there? As something in the future, somewhere you will never go? One of the most amazing things about…
Advocacy Letters: An Invitation by Emily Yates-Doerr
Somatosphere is launching a new series to share political and social advocacy letters. Please submit your open letters to emilyjf@gmail.com Dear Reader, We are launching this series to…
Guest Post: Feeling like “Colored Me” and the Inequities in the Intellectual Formation of Anthropologists [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Louis Philippe Römer. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Louis Philippe Römer is a Visiting Assistant…
Guest Series: Embodying Reciprocity: Relationality and Redistribution in the Practice of Anthropology
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest series edited by Schuyler Marquez, who has also authored this introduction. Schuyler Marquez’s work focuses on bringing classical anthropological questions on…
Wednesday Round Up #3
Wednesday Round Up #3 “Decolonize Maiz” is art work by Ernesto Yerena. You can purchase it from the Saguaro Gallery. Black Lives Matter: How the movement that’s changing…
The FBI’s Repatriation of Stolen Heritage
The sewing kit above is one of multiple items from a massive private collection held in Indiana that the FBI helped repatriate. This particular item is now in…
Idealismus, Sport und ein Gast: Julian Varnholt
Lange dachte ich, der Körper sei keine relevante Dimension für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen. Der Titel dieses Blogs, Brotgelehrte, folgt ja Schillers Unterscheidung von Brotgelehrten und philosophisc…
„In Isolation“ (Mai 2020), Dokumentation über die Zeit nach dem COVID-19 Lockdown (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Anna Ixy Noever Die Idee zu dem Film „In Isolation“ ist während der Zeit nach dem Corona-Lockdown im März…
DfID-FCO Merger in the UK-a curated collection
While highly unusual for the content you expect on Aidnography, this post features quite a few men, mostly British, who have been commenting on the announced merger of…