some tips for academic job interviews
The academic job market is fraught. We know this. I can only speak explicitly to the Canadian context, but we know from our own experiences, and from empirical…
Web Roundup: Measles, Vaccinations and Epidemics by Whitney Arey
This month has been filled with news stories about the growing problem of measles outbreaks in the U.S. and around the world. In the U.S. this has been…
Jessica Hardin discusses her book, Faith and the Pursuit of Health
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/faith-and-the-pursuit-of-health/9780813592923 Courtney Handman: Can you give a brief overview of the main theoretical and ethnographic issues that you discuss i…
Italia moderna – nove
Ein privates Wohnhaus aus den 1950ern oder 60ern in der Kleinstadt Noventa Vicentina irgendwo zwischen Vicenza und Modena in Norditalien. Das Haus ist ein interessantes, das sagt einem…
Blanchet’s Missions to the Clackamas, 1841-1842
The following is a Notice, Notice No. 4, part of a series of reports of the Catholic missionary Francois Norbert Blanchet from 1841 to 1842 about his missionary…
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Der Westen und die Hongkong-Proteste – Kritik aus der chinesischen Netzgemeinde
Medien und Politik im Westen haben die Demonstrationen in Hongkong von Anfang an kritisch begleitet. Die jeweiligen Standpunkte und Aktivitäten werden auch in China aufmerksam verfolgt und rufen…
Settler Geology: Earth’s deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta
Those who follow debates around the Anthropocene will be familiar with a very prominent premise: that the scale of the Anthropocene is incommensurate with human time. Or, in…
Jennifer Utrata, “Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia” (Cornell UP, 2015)
Jennifer Utrata in her book, Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia (Cornell University Press, 2015), investigates what she calls a “quiet revolution”…
Ajantha Subramanian, “The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India” (Harvard UP, 2019)
What is merit? How is it claimed? In her much-awaited book The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India (Harvard University Press, 2019), Ajantha Subramanian addresses the pertinent…
Science as an Orientalizing Field
Science is a Western form of knowledge production and can be divided into three forms: 1) science as a set of methods for investigating the world we inhabit,…
Innocent images? The ethics of sharing your children’s photos online
There are collections of embarrassing childhood photos stashed in most parents’ homes. Everyone remembers an instance when those photos unexpectedly appeared in ways that were awkward or humiliating,…
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life by Naomi Zucker
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Ruha Benjamin, Ed. Duke University Press, 2019. 416 pages. “How might we craft a just…
Best of SAPIENS 2019
[no-caption] Sara López Gilabert / SAPIENS This year SAPIENS published 109 amazing articles, thanks to anthropologists and journalists around the globe. Although the decision gets harder …
Angela Reyes and Stanton Wortham talk about their new book
https://www.routledge.com/Discourse-Analysis-beyond-the-Speech-Event-1st-Edition/Wortham-Reyes/p/book/9780415839501 Interview by Alex McGrath Alex McGrath: Your book very concisely addresses an issue…
Christmas in the unexciting brothel
Edvard Munch painted Christmas in the Brothel in 1905, and every year I feel the same fondness for it. I don’t pay much attention to the ceremonies of…
Sandra Fahy, “Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record” (Columbia UP, 2019)
“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem…
Schöne Feiertage!
Geschichte der Gegenwart geht in die Feiertagspause: Wir nutzen die kommenden zwei Wochen zum Lesen, zum Ausspannen und zum Nachdenken über neue Ideen für Texte, die Sie ab…
All I want for Christmas is an ocean-climate nexus: Reflections from COP25 in Madrid
Written by Dr. Camilla Borrevik. Hopes were high ahead of the UN climate talks at the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) in Madrid. Albeit some rocky weeks…
Top Articles of 2019
Another year almost done! Sit back, relax, and read some of the most-clicked articles on the website in 2019. With thanks to everyone involved with Anthropology News this…
2019 Year in Review of ndnhistoryresearch blog
2019 has been a year of many changes for me and the blog. I am now fully employed at OSU in Anthropology and Native studies. This has been…
Humans in 2019—From Discoveries to Disasters
This image shows various views of the pinky bone of a Denisovan-Neanderthal hybrid found in Siberia. Thomas Higham/University of Oxford Denisovan Deluge This year brought a host of…
Book Forum: Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay by Andrés Romero
Introduction Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay (2018) is a masterful undertaking on the anthropology of disaster and its everydayness. An ethnograp…