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That’s right, after six and a half years of toil (and fun) spread between a rainforest in Cameroon and a library and office in London, the thing is…
That’s right, after six and a half years of toil (and fun) spread between a rainforest in Cameroon and a library and office in London, the thing is…
Fuchsia Dunlop. 2023. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food New York:: Norton, ISBN: 978-0-393-86713-8 466 pp. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State University) Best dish to start…
Diane Lenney. 2020. Coffee. Object Lessons Series. New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN # 9781501344367. Xiv + 167 pp. David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) “Coffee is about so much more…
With the ubiquity of the Internet and the overwhelming number of screens that mediate our daily practices, the predominance of the image in daily life is indisputable. The…
Last week Jogai Bhatt from RNZ approached me to do an interview about Generation X for a mini-series they are airing in the lead up to Generation X:…
Anthropologists have often explained human behaviour as though people predictably act in their own interests. But in Against Better Judgment, Patrick McKearney and Nicholas H. A. Evans compile researc…
In this episode Familiar Stranger sat down with Fijian author and political analyst Edward Narain and Associate Professor Tarryn Philips from La Trobe University. Together Edward and Tarryn…
The Revolutionary StructureDownload
Written by Keith Hart Saul Wainwright commented on the previous post in this series, CLR Jamesand the idea of an …
By Ekaterina Thor – The Russian border. Since most countries decided to close their borders and most airlines chose to pull out their offers, going to Russia and…
Written by Jehron Muhammad After slavery, African descendants were forced into sharecropping. Small country merchants took the place of plantation …
In The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, Angela Saini explores the origins of patriarchy, debunking biological determinism and highlighting the role of nation building, social norms, and…
The Culture Trap by Derron Wallace compares the academic experiences of second-generation Black Caribbean youth in New York City and London, arguing that “ethnic expectations” shape studen…
It’s 2025. You and your spouse are sitting down to some serious education. You ask, “So what do you feel like?” Your spouse says “how about Bernie and…
During a semester (and a year, and a period) filled with woe, my graduate course was one of the most meaningful and rich educational experiences of my career.…
Written by Keith Hart 4. Sex divisions in the Caribbean and West Africa I spent two years of fieldwork in …
Noting these to read later thanks Rani Djandam: Achmad Fedyani Saifuddin Here and here Heddy Shri Ahimsa-Putra Here and here Please recommend more…
In The Front Room, Michael McMillan examines the significance of domestic spaces in creating a sense of belonging for Caribbean migrants in the UK. Delving into themes of resistance…
Together with my colleagues Thijl Sunier and Jamal Ahajjaj, I have written a chapter “Activating Muslims: Citizenship in Dutch Islamic Schools” in the volume Difference and Sameness in…
On April 30, 2019, a shooter entered my classroom on my last day of teaching at UNC-Charlotte. I was preparing to move to Texas to begin a doctoral…
Foto by Carrie Borden on Unsplash The Digital Ethnography Initiative (DEI) is delighted to invite you to a talk by Dr. John Postill (RMIT), one of the key…
We are happy to announce the 3rd place winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photography contest. You can see the overall winner’s work here and the second…
Yesterday we announced the winner of the annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photography contest and posted the photographs they submitted. You can see them here. We are now happy…
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…