The Impossible Wait.
On Unsustainable Refugee Livelihoods and the Politics of Time in Humanitarian Governance. Estella Carpi with Amina al-Halabi[1] In this short article, in an attempt to question the politics…
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Giorgos Poulimenakos & Dimitris Dalakoglou: Disaster Infrastructures and the Inverted Shock Doctrine in Greece
On March 1st 2023, an impromptu protest rally took place outside the headquarters of Greece’s only railway company, Hellenic Trains (HT). HT is the passenger carrier of the…
Paleoanthropology: The Ancestor Worshipping Death Cult
Firstly, this is satire. I love all of my paleoanthropologist friends. Paleoanthropology is a scientific discipline dedicated to illuminating our evolutionary history. However, it is also a low-k…
The mental tangles of classification
Citational politics often means citing a diverse group of authors, but often that will bring up the political and practical problems of categorization.
First SAR Centennial Medal Presented to N. Scott Momaday
On February 25, SAR President Michael F. Brown, Ph.D., presented SAR’s first ever Centennial Medal to author N. Scott Momaday for distinguished service to SAR and the world.…
Tomaso Ferrando: Beyond Speculation
On May 21, 2022 the cover of The Economist left no space to the imagination: a set of skulls replaced the grains of a wheat straw, and the…
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) in time of crisis. Observations from ethnographic fieldwork on board LNG carriers
Introduction November 2022, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. I am sipping evening tea with Dario, an electrician from Ukraine, one of the 25 seafarers working…
Citing toward Community, Citing against Harm
Here I want to think through the politics and ethics of citing against harm in academia.
Newfoundland and Labrador food pricing report launched!
CLEAR is excited to share the results of the 2020-2021 Newfoundland and Labrador Food Pricing Project!
Book launch and cooperation agreement in El Alto
On 2 March 2023, Juliane Müller presented her book “El comercio popular globalizado. Mercado, reciprocidad …
Hugh Raffles Named 2023 Winner of J.I. Staley Prize
SAR is pleased to announce that Hugh Raffles, Professor and Anthropology Department Chair at the New School for Social Research, has been named winner of the 2023 J.…
Gavin Smith: Peru: the Uncertain State
Zavaleta: “[Apparent states] appear to be Western… in all respects but somehow they are not. What misfires here is a structural concept of sovereignty that is ultimately incompatible…
How to approach a research proposal: The Literature Review
This is a follow-up to my earlier post “How to approach a research proposal: Writing Questions.” In that entry, I laid out a dynamic hierarchy of questions—conceptual questions,…
Post-doctoral position in justice-oriented plastic pollution research and management
2-year position from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025$50,00/year, including benefitsLocation: CLEAR Lab, Geography Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, Canada …
Teaching from the Textbooks: An Archaeology of the Current Historical Moment
On the last day of class, my advanced theory students would break up into small groups and each have the option of choosing one such old anthropology textbook…
Why I Study Human-Animal Relations as an Anthropologist
Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” I consider it to be…
Job posting: FT lab manager
CLEAR lab at Memorial University is seeking a full-time (35 hrs/week) lab manager. Closing date: June 2, 2023
How to approach a research proposal
No matter where I have taught, one job that often challenges graduate students is the writing of a research proposal. When first encountered, it is a peculiar piece…
Mihai Varga: Crisis-tested, yet forgotten: Family farms in wartime Ukraine
It was often said, in the course of the transition from communism to capitalism in the 1990s and 2000s, that Eastern Europeans are good at surviving. The IMF…
Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class
Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction …
Sina Ma Tinirau wins Best Animation Short
A true story: Eight women from Santa Rosa wanted to see a movie set on their home island of Rotuma. And so they got in their cars…
Alasita: La feria aymara
Enero es un mes de intensa actividad en los talleres artesanales de las ciudades de El Alto y La Paz…
Master’s positions (MA & MSc) in plastics and justice-based research methods
CLEAR has four Master’s positions (MA or MSc) for September 2023
Welcome back to in-person teaching – or is it?
Sherry Fukuzawa, University of Toronto Mississauga, Toronto Canada My post-COVID in-person lectures seem to have significantly less attendance than my pre-pandemic courses and I am wondering if thi…