Dear Anthropologists that I know.
Dear Anthropologists that I know. It is 100 years since Bronislaw Malinowski’s “Argonauts of the Western Pacific” began the terror of enforcing the participant observation fi…
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Ep # 90: The First Year Special: This Month on TFS.
The Familiar Strange · Ep # 90: The First Year Special: This Month on TFS Welcome back to the Familiar Strange. We’re back with a special panel episode…
Martin Fotta: Towards Anti-War Anthropology: On EASA, CEE and NATO
One of the casualties of Putin’s war on Ukraine will be European critical social science. While the war has instigated important discussions about ‘US-plaining’, ‘Westplaining’ and about Russian…
Sixty may be the New Fifty but is Twenty Six the New Old?
Author: Sheba Mohammid In Trinidad and Tobago, we may not have Ponce De Leon’s fountain of youth, but we do have a pool. It’s technically an offshore sandbar,…
Powerpoint Karaoke, a Ph.D. Version
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Zhou Zhou “You win the lottery! You are a millionaire! You…
South Africa’s two-tier economy (2012-2022) by Keith Hart
This analysis is based on the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report for 2011-2012. It identifies twelve “pillars” of sustainable … More
Ethno-graphic collaborations
Author: Laura Haapio-Kirk During my research in Japan, I became increasingly aware of the importance of visual communication, for example stickers and emoji, for how many of my…
Winners of SAFN’s 2nd Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
David Beriss We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The weighty decision was reached by a panel made up of…
“This Sweet Potato is Beautiful.” From Ethnoagronomy to Ethnogastronomy in the work of Virginia Nazarea
Lima, 2015. At the Mistura, an annual food festival in Peru wherein people from the desert, the Andes, and the coast bring their produce and artisanal products to…
Anna Korteweg on the politics of integration, gender and race in relation to people labelled immigrants
Anna Korteweg is a professor of sociology and head of Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Anna Korteweg works on gender, Islam and immigrant integration in…
Review: Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
David E. Sutton, Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples, Berghahn, 2021, ISBN 978-1-80073-223-0 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-80073-224-7 (ebook), 142 pages. Amy Trubek…
“What are people claiming when they say that a food is local?” An Interview With David Beriss
Local food or not? Photo by David Beriss David Sutton In this fifth installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food I talk with longtime friend…
Ep # 88: Creating Queer Space & The Lenses of War: This month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep # 88: Creating Queer Space & The Lenses of War: This month on TFS Welcome back for another Panel! This week we’re joined…
The TikTok of Anthropology
Author: Daniel Miller I want to make a slightly surprising suggestion. That my current ambition in anthropology is to become more like TikTok (or its original Chinese form…
Ep # 87: Squatters in The Stag: Adrian Watts on Activism & Squats
The Familiar Strange · Ep # 87: Squatters in The Stag: Adrian Watts on Activism & Squats Before we dive into today’s episode we’d just like to add…
SPECIAL EDITION: The Wages of War
Unlike any other war, the United States ever took part in, the Vietnam War was a major turning point. It … More
An Anthropological Approach to mHealth: Health & Care in the Smartphone Age
Author: Charlotte Hawkins As part of the ASSA project, we are currently working to publish a volume called: ‘An Anthropological Approach to mHealth: Health & Care in the…
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Book Review)
by Ellie Plumb In Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Seth M. Holmes seeks to uncover the synergistic effects that citizenship, race, ethnicity, and…
Sudan’s kleptocratic military system won’t stop the people’s movement from rising by Jehron Muhammad
Anti-military coup, pro-democracy marches occurring in Sudan with growing numbers and increasing frequency since October show there is a renewed, … More
Javelinas and Texas Ebony Trees in South Texas
Texas Ebony trees (Ebenopsis ebano) is a species of legume native to South Texas. These trees produce large bean pods (see below) that ripen and fall to the…
Review: Nomadic Food
Isabelle Bianquis and Jean-Pierre Williot, eds. Nomadic Food: Anthropological and Historical Studies Around the World. Rowman and Littlefield. London. 2019. pp.272. ISBN 978-1-5381-5. Rich…