Adventures with Peccaries pt. 2
I spent time out in the Hill Country, north of San Antonio ,Texas. The clan that I worked with on this trip was made up of 8 total…
Tag: anthropology
On Gutters and Ethnography
In a departure from more conventional communication methods in academia, I’m exploring how comics–a medium I love to read and am learning to make (thank you to my…
Adventures with Peccaries: pt. 1
I am currently in the early stages of designing a multispecies project working with the Cofán, an Indigenous people of Amazonian Ecuador, and two species of peccaries (white-lipped…
Ep#63 Culture Shock, Storytelling, Pungent Masculinity & Rule Based Imaginations: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · #63 Culture Shock, Storytelling, Pungent Masculinity & Rule Based Imagination For the panel this week we welcome Luke Corbin from Myanmar Musings and Familiar…
ARHE is selected for the American Anthropological Association Presidents’ Award
From the award website: The SMA’s Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies Special Interest Group is recognized for rapidly mobilizing a wide range of valuable information resources in re…
ARHE is selected for the American Anthropological Association Presidents’ Award
From the award website: The SMA’s Anthropological Responses to Health Emergencies Special Interest Group is recognized for rapidly mobilizing a wide range of valuable information resources in re…
No Journal is an Island
Libraria is a collective of researchers based in the social sciences who seek to bring about a more open, diverse, community-controlled scholarly communication system. Since 2015, the group…
BIPOC Survival – A Conversation about the Malignant Intersection of Narcissism and Racism in Anthropology and Academia
[This article was co-authored by Anar Parikh and Chelsey Carter. Please cite accordingly.] Content Warning: The topics discussed in this piece share experiences of racism, narcissism, and abuse;…
BIPOC Survival – A Conversation about the Malignant Intersection of Narcissism and Racism in Anthropology and Academia
[This article was co-authored by Anar Parikh and Chelsey Carter. Please cite accordingly.] Content Warning: The topics discussed in this piece share experiences of racism, narcissism, and abuse;…
Anthropology in the “real world”: A Roundtable Discussion About Applied Anthropology
This week we bring you a very special episode! Last year we collaborated with the Australian Network of Student Anthropologists, or ANSA for short and recorded their roundtable…
In Memoriam: David Graeber
happy now? pic.twitter.com/fIDlp2DOIs — David Graeber (@davidgraeber) June 3, 2020 David Graeber at a protest in London, June 3rd 2020 David Graeber: Anthropologist and Revo…
Industrializing Animal Life and Death: A Conversation with Alex Blanchette
Photograph courtesy and copyright of Sean Sprague. All rights reserved. …
Native Details of the Battle of Hungry Hill
As noted by Dr. Mark Tveskov in his 2017 article “A “Most Disastrous” Affair: The Battle of Hungry Hill, Historical Memory, and the Rogue River War” (OHQ Vol.…
How the informal economy took over the world by Keith Hart
A la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time) The idea of an informal economy was born at the moment when the post-war era of developmental…
So long, Indiana Jones, or who owns “El Mirador”?
The rule of “finders, keepers” has held true for most archaeological discoveries at least since museums, as we now know them, have existed. Collectors of foreign objects have…
SAFN Awards, Impending Deadlines!
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition has three awards for student writing and research. These awards will provide you with fame and glory…and money, to…
SAR Welcomes 2020–2021 Resident Scholars
This week SAR welcomes a new cohort of resident scholars. For over forty years, SAR has awarded nine-month fellowships to a small group of …
SAR Welcomes New 2020 Board Members: Perspectives from the Arts, Law, Academics, and Business Community
SAR Welcomes New 2020 Board Members: Perspectives from the Arts, Law, Academics, and Business Community …
Ep#62 Job Fantasies, Working with Others, Extractive Calls & Reciprocity Revisited:This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · #62 Job Fantasies, Working With Others, Extractive Calls & Reciprocity Revisited This week we bring you another zoom panel! Featuring Mike Dunford who is…
A Tale of Two Snakes
Upon entering the warmest room in our house, we are greeted with the subtle smell of earth. In this room is a 36″X18″X12″ bioactive habitat with two small…
Upcoming Deadlines
Hello Food Anthropologists, The deadline to submit a presentation for the virtual AAA meetings, Raising our Voices is fast approaching – August 25th. See the email sent by…
“Islands in a sea of disbelief” – Militant activism in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany
It took us six years, but I’m very pleased to announce that, at last, our book: Islamic Militant Activism in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany – ‘Islands in…
Abolishing Immigration Detention: A Conversation with Deborah Boehm
Banner from a rally at the California State Capitol building in the fall of 2019. Photo by Deborah Boehm. …