From Bin to Bank: Recycling Household Waste in Urban Indonesia
Every Thursday at 9 o’ clock in the morning, housewives from a residential neighborhood on the outskirt of Jakarta gather at their usual spot at the “Love Earth”…
Tag: Community
An Unlikely but Necessary Conversation: When Enemies Meet
It’s so easy to see our enemies as — well, enemies. What does it take to re-see them as human? Late in life, Erika Jacoby and Ursula Martens…
The hours before I start my fieldwork
by Isa Prieto – I arrive at Chennai airport at 1 am. As soon as I step outside the airport, the humid air envelops me, and I immediately…
Refugee Voices: Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition – review
In Refugee Voices, Rob Sharp explores how refugees in the UK use creative media to express themselves and their experiences. Through detailed fieldwork in Cardiff and Tyneside, Sharp’s nuanced…
Nordic Noir Expert
Wenn man sich nur mit der Lieblingsliteratur befassen könnte und damit auch noch Geld verdiente– das wär’s, oder?Die gute Nachricht lautet: Das geht, nämlich als Expert:in für bestimmte…
Safety Dance: Covid Harm Reduction for the Rave Scene
No one wants to talk about this. We all hate it. We’re tired. Believe me, I feel that tiredness in my bones. And I know you’re busy and…
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…
Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #3: The Blogroll (plus)
As promised, here’s a list of the anthropology and archaeology blogs that are still active from Jason Antrosio’s archive from 2017. I found one site that’s actually not…
The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #2
Well, by now most of you have heard the news that this blog is closing down. That whole conversation was happening in the last couple of months, but…
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality – review
In Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality, Shenila Khoja-Moolji recounts how Ismaili women, displaced from East Pakistan and East Africa in the 1970s,…
“Esteemed, Albeit Slightly Unhinged:” the Portrayal of Anthropology Professor June Bauer in US Sitcom Community
Betty White made a cameo in the first episode of season two in the hugely popular US sitcom Community, rocking the role of anthropology Professor June Bauer. Described…
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…
Yuliya Grinberg takes the page 99 test
At one Quantified Self event, Dave offered a particularly striking comparison between automobiles and bodies, one, he says, his father, a car aficionado, failed to fully appreciate to…
Making a Multispecies Community in the Texas Hill Country: AAA2022 Talk
Below is a recording of the talk I am giving in person at the 2022 annual American Anthropological Association meeting on November 10. Video of my talk
2022 Fall Festival – I’m feeling like monochrome…
For (a lot) more information about the fall festival: 「Neighborhood Autumn Festival in Japan: A Multimodal Visual Ethnography and Performance」 https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2020/05/…
2022 Fall Festival – Day Two
See yesterday’s post for Day One Photos. Here’s Day Two… I’m already looking forward to next year! For (a lot) more information about the fall festival: 「Neighborhood Autumn…
2022 Fall Festival – Day One
After two long years of COVID-19 restrictions, we were finally able to hold our neighborhood fall festival this year. The program was cut back a bit – no…
Reducing Hypertension in Trinidad and Tobago
Author: Daniel Miller The research project Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing which is now close to completion was always intended to also develop some practical projects to…
The TikTok of Anthropology
Author: Daniel Miller I want to make a slightly surprising suggestion. That my current ambition in anthropology is to become more like TikTok (or its original Chinese form…
Ten Treasures (and a Bonus): A Selection of Anthropological Gems You Might Have Missed from the Past Few Years
I began interviewing authors of fabulous new anthropology books for this space back in 2016. While completing 11 interviews, I also amassed a backlog of more terrific books…
Positioning your position
In the picture above, you see me reading along with Hebrew psalms and prayers during a synagogue (shul) service on simchat torah. Simchat torah is a festive day…
Recognising the Spirit of Ubuntu in Khayelitsha Community Response to the Covid-19 pandemic
by Megan Anderson In the second-largest peri-urban settlement in South Africa, Khayelitsha, the coronavirus has proliferated with recorded cases over 6,500. The township has become one of the…
Woodbrook celebrates 110 years: An amazing square mile in history
A book project on Woodbrook combining residents and anthropology will be published in September 2022. Find out more below Writing about 19th-century Port of Spain, the historian Suzanne…