Myanmar’s civil society in turbulent times: outside-in and inside-out
Ten years ago I published an article on my research with civil society actors from Myanmar, in which I described the sudden changes in ideological and physical positioning…
Tag: anthropology
SAFN Awards: Undergrad and Grad Award Deadline March 31, 2024!
Texas State Fair Awards. Photo: David Beriss Amanda Green, SAFN President Welcome to the new year SAFN members! We want to draw your attention to SAFN’s Awards, which…
Annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
The Pies are Back, New Orleans. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day (February 15). If you have food anthropology…
Our Edited Volume is Out:
Nurturing Alternative Futures: Living with Diversity in a More-than-Human World I am pleased to announce that Nurturing Alternative Futures: Living with Diversity in a More-than-Human World is cur…
「Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body 」There’s nothing like holding the real book for the first time…
Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body Editors: Kaori Fushiki, Ryoko Sakurada (2023) Book information: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5724-8 See also: h…
Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage – review
In Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage, Michael Herzfeld considers how marginalised groups use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state a…
Review: The Globalization of Wine
David Inglis and Anna-Mari Almila eds. 2019. The Globalization of Wine London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN: 978-1-4742-6499-0. pp. 232. Yingkun Hou (South East Missouri State University) Befo…
Black Japanese: the African Diaspora in Japan
Written by Neil Turner Almost three decades ago, while at graduate school in California studying anthropology, I had a colleague …
CELEBRATING TRANSGRESSION
Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of CulturesA book in Honour of Klaus Peter Koepping Edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk 2005 rao_15hutnykDownload
2023 in Review
Image from https://stock.adobe.com/. Welcome to CASTAC 2023 in review! In this post you will read about the wonderful work that our CASTAC team and community has put together.…
Teaching ‘how to anthropology’ alongside ‘how to university’ in an introductory cultural anthropology class
I have taught our large introductory cultural anthropology course (ANTH 101) on and off since 2014, and every couple of years I redesign it based on conversations with…
New Book Announcement: A LONG time in the making! “Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body”
Finally! The new book edited by Kaori Fushiki and Ryoko Sakurada has been published! The origins of this book go back to May, 2014 and the panel “Anthropology…
Learning needs not be fun
by Tamara Soukotta “This will be fun.” Perhaps you have heard a similar promise made at the beginning of a course or a workshop. I certainly did hear…
Job! PhD Candidate: Migrant Muslim Foodways – The intersections of food, migration, and religion
Are you eager to study the intersections of food, migration, and religion? Do you seek to develop an innovative research project that furthers academic debates in these fields?…
2023 Christine Wilson Graduate Award Winner!
Amanda Kaminsky SAFN is pleased to announce that Amanda Kaminsky is the winner of the 2023 Christine Wilson Graduate paper award! Kaminsky, a PhD student at the University…
2023 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award Winner!
We are happy to announce that the 2023 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Erica Zurawski (University of California Santa Cruz), with her project titled “Spatial F…
SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
Photo credit: Samantha Brown The 2023 SAFN Student Research Award goes to Samantha Brown for her project entitled, “Fermented Futures: The Place of Iginneq in Danish Fine Dining.”…
Money as a Form of Religious Life
by Keith Hart Religion belongs to a set of terms that also includes art and science. The last, whichbegan as …
Review: National Dish
Anya von Bremzen. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home. New York: Penguin Press. 2023. ISBN: 9780735223165. pp. 340. Rich…
A Walla Walla Band Visits the Oregon Institute: A Battle Creek Story
Recently, I was made aware of another alternative story of the Battle of Battle Creek. Previously, I published an essay about stories of Klamath and
Let’s Agree . . .
That the deaths of civilians killed by the IDF targeting Hamas leaders, command centers, and weapons caches are tragedies. That the continuing occupation of the West Bank and…
Episode 9: The humanness of humanity has a history
In the 9th episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews anthropologist Mark Goodale on the history of human rights. The humaneness of humanity has a history. And…
American Anthropological Association 2023 Talk: Making Pigs Dirty: Conflicting Perspectives on Javelinas and Hogs in Texas
I co-chaired a panel at the 2023 meeting of the American Anthropological Association titled “The America Animal.” Abstract: Other-than-human animals comprise a large part of the so…
Dealing with the Dutch Elections
by Freek Colombijn – Few people will have missed the fact that the PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid, Party for Freedom) has been the big winner of the…