Nichaqwali Watlala peoples at Blue Lake
The Nichaqwali people, a Cascades/Watlala Chinookan band, lived at the juncture of several cultural groups that lived in the larger region of the lower Columbia and who interacted…
Tag: anthropology
Little Free Zine Library in the Collaboratorium @ Ohio State
As students and I have been creating more zines (both through classes and research projects), we have started to build a critical mass of them. You can now…
Teaching Anthropology through Sequential Art (Part I)
By Andrew Gilbert This short two-part blog post is a set of reflections on the value of teaching with sequential art, the result of a course I recently…
What did you do in the war Pop?
Your article, What did you do in the war? Revisiting the WW2 memoirs of Stoker Thomas Mouat Tate, published in History and Anthropology, Volume 30 Issue 5, is now available…
The Collapse of Societies
By now, the entire world is aware of the historic and unprecedented events occurring in the United States. It seems trite to characterize these events as…
Review: Taste, Politics and Identities in Mexican Food
Taste, Politics, and Identities in Mexican Food, Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, ed., Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 240 pp. ISBN # 9781350066670 Emily Ramsey (University of Georgia) Is there such a thing…
Ep. #51: Newsworthy stories, Becoming projects, Ethics of danger & Balancing values: This month on TFS
Jodie [1:26] begins our panel this month with a recent incident in Canberra, Australia, where a woman was shot by a ‘random’ gunman. Luckily her wound was not…
Making #AAACASCA Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 25
It is that time of year again—November is flying by, and thousands of anthropologists are gathering to share, learn, explore, discuss, and debate important issues in their field.…
Hello from a New Editor
As the fall term draws to a close, and as many of us head to Vancouver for AAA-CASCA, I would like to take a moment to introduce myself…
“I Remember the Day I said ‘Okay, I’ve Read Everything,’” an Interview with Carole Counihan
David Sutton Here is the second in my series of video interviews with food anthropologists. This one is with Dr. Carole Counihan, who probably needs no introduction. In…
The Proust Questionnaire: Dr. Carole Counihan
The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not originally devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering…
Review: Introducing the Study of Food and Eating AND Food Studies
Murcott, Anne. Introducing the Sociology of Food and Eating. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. 223 pp. ISBN 978-1-3500-2201-0 Zhen, Willa. Food Studies:…
Critique of Anthropology
This journal deserves your support – it has always been the go-to place for anthropology as it is now. Owes much to John Gledhil and the much-missed Steve…
Jobb for jobbens skyld
Helt fra vi er små blir vi spurt om hva drømmejobben vår er. Astronaut, artist, doktor, idrettsstjerne, skuespiller er alle blant de mest populære. For mange er drømmejobben…
Review: Food Justice and Narrative Ethics
Food Justice and Narrative Ethics: Reading Stories for Ethical Awareness and Activism. Beth A. Dixon. Bloomsbury Academic. 2018 ISBN #9781350054561. 192 pp. Megan B. Hinrichsen (Monmouth College) In…
The Flygskam Scam
In reading and thinking about my eco-anxiety, I’ve recently learned of a Swedish neologism that describes a new way of thinking about air travel: flygskam: flight guilt. I…
The Flygskam Scam
In reading and thinking about my eco-anxiety, I’ve recently learned of a Swedish neologism that describes a new way of thinking about air travel: flygskam: flight guilt. I…
Ep. #50 An Anthropology of Universities: Jodie Trembath on Selling Academia
This episode, Kylie interviews a very familiar guest … Dr Jodie-Lee Trembath (aka Jodie from TFS)! Now, Jodie’s no stranger to qualifications, but this year she completed her…
Review: The Way We Eat Now
Bee Wilson The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution has Transformed our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World. Basic Books. New York. 2019. ISBN 978046509377 Richard…
Agriculture in Human Evolution – by Keith Hart
In his Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1754) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was concerned, not with individual variations in natural endowments, but with…
BONUS EPISODE: Faire une anthropologie multilingue, avec Monica Heller et Émilie Urbain: TFS in French
Monica Heller est professeure en anthropologie linguistique à l’Université de Toronto (Canada). Émilie Urbain est professeure adjointe de linguistique au département de français de l’Université Carlet…
Public lecture of Esra Özyürek ‘Rethinking empathy: Emotions triggered by the Holocaust among the Muslim-minority in Germany’
On Wednesday evening 13 November 2019 prof. dr. Esra Özyurek (London School of Economics and Political Science) will deliver a lecture: ‘Rethinking empathy: Emotions triggered by the Holocaust…
Space, Futures, Tech at “Changing Climates” — AAA/CASCA 2019
Space, Futures, Tech at “Changing Climates” — AAA/CASCA 2019 A list of space, futures, and tech related papers, panels, and roundtables, at the joint meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society…