Middle Ground
[no caption] Clelia Michelini/Getty Images “Middle Ground” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection h…
Tag: Memory
They’ll Steal Your Eyes, They’ll Steal Your Teeth
[no-caption] Attila Haag/EyeEm/Getty Images “They’ll Steal Your Eyes, They’ll Steal Your Teeth” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the…
How Will We Remember Coal?
Aging coal mine equipment sits on display in Gillette, Wyoming. Jessica M. Smith This article was originally published at Platypus, the blog of the Committee for the Anthropology…
Introduction to Book Forum on Clara Han’s Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War by Andrew Brandel
Clara Han’s Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War (Fordham University Press, 2021) describes war’s dispersal into everyday life, intimacy and the domestic. Departing from genres of…
Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora
“Lead Me to Life” Carla Keaton In 2020, George Floyd’s murder by Derek Chauvin, a White police officer in Minneapolis, flared a global nerve. Black Lives Matter protestors…
Elder
[no-caption] Pixabay/Pexels “Elder” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. We don’t talk…
5 Questions About Writing the African Diaspora
In this free live event, Yoli Ngandali, SAPIENS Media & Public Outreach Fellow, asks Justin Wright five questions about Lead me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora, a…
Coal, Care, and Climate change: When Things Remember What People Forget
As the US moves toward greener energy futures, how we remember coal – or do not – has significant implications for how we create more just energy transitions.…
When Asked if the World Would End They Answer No
A sign marks the Kodiak Baptist Orphanage site on Woody Island, Alaska. Abigail Chabitnoy If you missed the introduction to “When Asked if the World Would End They…
Matrilines
If you missed the introduction to “Matrilines,” you can find it here. Where are the women in this story, Emaq? Only birds lacking fur. [aside,] Grounded birds lack…
Dressing Fish
[no-caption] Abigail Chabitnoy As an Indigenous poet with background studies in anthropology, the more I have reconnected with my culture through poetics, the more I have questioned acade…
Ethiopia
[no-caption] Jenn/Flickr In the poem of the same name, Ethiopia’s special place among African groups is put in high relief. Ethiopia symbolized hope of independence for Nigerian nationali…
How Migrant Filmmakers Practice Archival Activism
Participants of FunKino, a collaborative filmmaking laboratory in Italy, discuss ideas for storyboarding in 2019. FunKino—Cinema for Inclusion project promoted by Zabbara In the first sce…
Writing Life No. 12: An interview with Sienna Craig by Yana Stainova
Image 1. Photo of Rauner Special Collections library at Dartmouth College, taken from the perspective of Sienna’s favorite table. Photo by Eli Burakian, 2014. Sienna Craig is a writer…
Horizon No Less Curved
Toutswemogala Hill in Botswana. Thato Moahi/Department of National Museum and Monuments, Botswana My poem “Horizon No Less Curved” grew from insights about humanity and history, timelessn…
Arrival Waters
[no-caption] Traumlichtfabrik/Getty Images I am about 70 years away from the experience that led to this poem and about 50 years away from anthropology. Some 20 years ago…
Kate Eichhorn on her book, The End of Forgetting
Interview by Shuting Li https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976696 Shuting Li: In this book, you follow image-making technology’s trajectory, from Kodak film camera, h…
Preserving the Voices of the Antioch Colony
[no-caption] Maria Franklin The chronicles of ordinary Black Americans who lived and labored in Texas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are largely unheralded. That’s especially…
Prof. Dr. Ulla Johansen passed away
On 14th of February 2021 in her 94th year of life a great person, colleague in Arctic Anthropology and professor emerita of ethnology, Ulla Johansen passed away. Born…
Writing Life No. 4: An interview with Tom Rice by Carla Greubel
Figure 1: One of Tom’s writing space, Exeter, UK “An acoustemologist, that’s probably the best professional description for me” – Tom Rice is a Senior Lecturer at the…
Tasting Independence
Maggi instant noodles are a treasured favorite among India’s young people. Their banning in 2015 conjured youthful memories of rebellion and revealed the uncertainties of our global food…
The Networked Animita: Transgender Remembrance on Social Media
Tomorrow, November 20th, the world will commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to collectively mourn and remember those who have died as a result of transphobia. Started…
Spelling a Nation’s Name
Ruined buildings serve as reminders of the lives lost and displaced by the Kosovo War more than two decades ago. Erina Baci I’ve been rewriting a grant application…