Avatar 2 indulgences
Avatar 2 seems like its channeling every Hollywood Vietnam War fantasy ever – what is up with that? Western cowboy military in the delta and includes an apocalypse…
Tag: anthropology
Dissertation Manuscript Outline: Human-Javelina Relations in Texas
Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of…
Paleoanthropology: The Ancestor Worshipping Death Cult
Firstly, this is satire. I love all of my paleoanthropologist friends. Paleoanthropology is a scientific discipline dedicated to illuminating our evolutionary history. However, it is also a low-k…
Austerity: An Economy of Words? Pt. 2
Written by Keith Hart The originality of Keynes Commerce waxed and waned throughout the agrarian era, until the market became …
Review: Black Food Matters
Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, eds. Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice. University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis. 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0814-0. pp. 302.…
Transpositioning, a Hypertext-ethnography
This is a work of hypertext-ethnography. It is based on my research of a small genetics laboratory in Tokyo, Japan where I am studying the impact of the…
Winners of SAFN’s 3rd 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…
CFP AAA/CASCA: Alternative Food Movements & Threat of Cooption
Scholars working in various communities that are advocating in favor of alternatives to the mainstream food system encounter groups with various ways that they frame their alternatives. We…
CFP AAA/CASCA: Multispecies Labor in Emerging Agricultural Practices
Paolina Lu Call for participation in a panel for AAA/CASCA 2023: Multispecies Labor in Emerging Agricultural Practices. In recent years, ethnographers have looked to agricultural settings, i…
Pnina Werbner: an Obituary
Claudia Liebelt, Free University of Berlin Professor Pnina Werbner, 3 December 1944 – 17 January 2023 Pnina Werbner was a British social anthropologist, a brilliant thinker and engaged…
Submit to SAFN’s column in Anthropology News!
“Throw us what you’ve got!” Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Call for Pitches – SAFN’s Anthropology News Online Articles As the new Section Editor for SAFN, I…
Ep#103 Handwraps & Hijabs: Dr Jasmijn Rana on Kickboxing & Piety in the Netherlands
Welcome back to the Familiar Strange. We’re kicking off 2023 with an interview with Dr Jasmijn Rana from Leiden University. Dr Jasmijn’s research interests include, gender, race-ethnicity, relig…
SAFN AAA Networking!
This just in from the SAFN program committee. Please read the previous posting with the full call for panels and papers for the annual AAA/CASCA meeting in Toronto.…
Dissertation Update: “On Anthropomorphism”
I’ve sent off the first section of my dissertation to my advisor. This section is going in the introduction around the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study.Next…
El curso de antropología del sonido 2023 en la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la UADY
Este semestre he estado enseñando un curso de antropología del sonido como curso optativo en la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. En otros…
Austerity: An Economy of Words? – Pt. 1
By Keith Hart This essay starts with a personal account of the near starvation of Europe after the Second World …
How to approach a research proposal: The Literature Review
This is a follow-up to my earlier post “How to approach a research proposal: Writing Questions.” In that entry, I laid out a dynamic hierarchy of questions—conceptual questions,…
Pirate Reboot – Occupy Madagascar
Graeber, David. 2023. Pirate Enlightenment, Or the real Libertalia. London: Allen Lane. In this entertaining book, the world of early eighteenth century Madagascar piracy, and the women they…
Call for Papers – AAA/CASCA 2023
CFP SAFN image: SAFN & C&A Joint Reception at the 2018 AAA meeting in San Jose, CA ATTN SAFN MEMBERS: Plan and submit your sessions for the joint…
Why I Study Human-Animal Relations as an Anthropologist
Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” I consider it to be…
Museum Anthropology Review
“But at the laste, as every thing hath ende…” Today I published my final editorial as founding editor of Museum Anthropology Review. It may be that Museum Anthropology…
Soup for Breakfast: Cambodia
Scott Alves BartonUniversity of Notre Dame The city was humid by midmorning. We were sweaty. The streets fragrant, alternately perfumed with lemongrass, turmeric, galangal or ginger. Often there…
Review: Extreme Weight Loss
Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich. Extreme Weight Loss: Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery. New York University Press. New York. 2021. ISBN: 9781479803958. pp.213 …
How to approach a research proposal
No matter where I have taught, one job that often challenges graduate students is the writing of a research proposal. When first encountered, it is a peculiar piece…