Listening to Your Gut
By Senske de Vries Before the thesis-period actually started I was somewhat hesitant about how this would be. I had heard from others that they hated working on…
Tag: anthropology
Gypsy Economy: the Promise and Limitations of Ethnography
By Keith Hart The Promise and Limits of Ethnography I am usually rather concerned when I observe how unreflectingly my … More
Optimism Day! Getting to Fully Vaccinated Against Covid-19 (a tweeted photo essay of jab2).
June 14 2021: ANTICIPATION…. I’m at the @GoAHealth immunization clinic at 12:35, for a 13:10 appointment. Parking lot full. Queue around the building. I join the queue, take the fresh…
Optimism Day! Getting to Fully Vaccinated Against Covid-19 (a tweeted photo essay of jab2).
June 14 2021: ANTICIPATION…. I’m at the @GoAHealth immunization clinic at 12:35, for a 13:10 appointment. Parking lot full. Queue around the building. I join the queue, take the fresh…
Season Break: A Message from TFS
The Familiar Strange · Season Break: A Message from TFS The team at TFS would like to say thank you to all our listeners this season and to…
Archaeology and Place at Chaco Canyon
Photograph of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, courtesy of Robert Adams. Archaeology and Place Archaeologists have been paying attent…
On The Culture of Harassment in Archaeology: An interview with Barbara L. Voss
[Content advisory: This article discusses harassment and discrimination in archaeology, including discussion of sexual assault.] On the morning of March 30, 2021, three articles on the culture of…
Myanmar anthropologists dismissed
By Maaike Matelski – In this picture, anthropology students from Yangon University show the ‘three fingers salute’ for democracy. Students and university staff across Myanmar have been protesti…
SAR Press Top Reads: Place, Environment, and Change
When life seems to be changing day by day, if not hour by hour, we look to sources of information that we have come to know and trust.…
Just Food: Because It Is Never Just Food
David Beriss Today was day one of this year’s best little food conference. Organized by the Association for the Study of Food and Society, the Agriculture, Food and…
ECOLOGICAL TERRORIST – AFFORESTATION AND EUCALYPTUS
“Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.” — Renè Dubos My first venture into the rural outskirts…
Qualifying Exams Reading List: Javelinas and Texas through Space and Time
Altrichter, Mariana. “The sustainability of subsistence hunting of peccaries in the Argentine Chaco.” Biological Conservation 126, no. 3 (2005): 351-362. Bement, Leland C.&nb…
Qualifying Exams Reading List: Power and Politics Within and Beyond the Human
Adamson, Joni. “Indigenous Literatures, Multinaturalism, and Avatar: The emergence of Indigenous cosmopolitics.” American Literary History 24, no. 1 (2012): 143-162. Agamben,…
Qualifying Exams Reading List: Multispecies Connections
Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World. Vintage, 2012. Archambault, Julie Soleil. “Taking love seriously in human-plant relations in…
Making a Multispecies Community: A Personal Journey
Since the start of the pandemic, my partner and I have worked to transform our San Antonio, TX backyard to a wildlife-friendly space. It began with a small…
How Political Corruption Impacts Culture
How Political Corruption Impacts Culture From a traditional perspective, when people think of South America, many think of a group … More
ARCHAEOASTRONOMY – THE COSMIC LANDSCAPE
“We are a way for the universe to know itself. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we…
Special ANSA Collaboration: Hanne Worsoe & Romy Listo on Fieldwork Trauma in & Outsider Witnessing
The Familiar Strange · Special ANSA Collaboration: Hanne Worsoe and Romy Listo on Fieldwork Trauma and Outsider Witnessing This week we bring you a special collaboration between The…
‘Race,’ ‘Diversity,’ and the University
If this was a good time for Canadian academia, you would not be able to tell from the blanket of almost absolute silence that has been pulled over…
Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Senses of Place
In 1996 SAR Press published Senses of Place, an edited volume that originated as an SAR Advanced Seminar co-chaired by Steven Feld and Keit…
The forest spirits who hunt honey
As unbelievable as it seems to me, I’m now in the final 4 weeks of my PhD fieldwork. Technically, anthropology fieldwork is supposed to be around 1 year…
Designs and Anthropologies: Frictions and Affinities
Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESApplied Anthropology »Cultural Anthropolo…
After a Year of Being Locked Down
Nobody (as far as I know) has commented on how hard this year of lockdowns has been on university professors. That’s good: nobody should. Many millions of workers…
Ep #75 The Anthropologists Perspective on Nomadland & Commodified Mothers: This Month of TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #75 The Anthropologists Perspective on Nomadland & Commodified Mothers: This Month of TFS This month familiar stranger Tim kicks us off by pondering…