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…
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…
Interview by Areeg Faisal https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31376 Areeg Faisal: Screen Shots is an ethnography of photography, cameras as colonial barometers, in the hands of a broad rang…
SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies University of Central Arkansas, USA Session 7.1 (Virtual) October 8, 2022 9:30-10:45 AM (Central Daylight Time) 11:30 PM-12:45 AM (Japan Standard Time) Abstract:…
This is a fabulous new book from the University of California Press discussing photographs from late 19th and early 20th century Palestine from seven notebooks by Wasif Jawhariyyeh…
I am always intrigued by old photographs of traditional ploughs in the Middle East. The picture above is from a 1925 travel book by Norma Lorimer entitled By…
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…
Check out this website for a number of photographs of Cairo in the early part of the 20th century.
The purpose of this essay is to analyze Claudia Andujar’s works, built within the struggle of the Yanomami people. This analysis will be based on the “postmodern” turn,…
There is a fascinating Facebook site on old photographs of Jerusalem. Below is one of the images. Note the Victrola.
a century old postcard of Algiers
Preparing for Ida, New Orleans, photo by David Beriss We had so much fun last year, we are once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day…
First English translation of ‘La Galilée’, an account of Pierre Loti’s travels in the Holy Land from Jerusalem to Beirut, via Damascus and many other interesting places, in…
My friend, the historian G. Rex Smith, has recently translated into English a marvelous travel diary by the French military official and traveller Pierre Loti (1850-1923). It is…
The Familiar Strange · Ep #85 Photography Through An Ethnographer’s Lens: Image Making with Jason De León This week Carolyn sits down with Jason De León, anthropologist, photographer…
interview by Camilo Ruiz Sanchez https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780873658713 Camilo Ruiz Sanchez: It shook me to learn that the archive has almost disappeared and that what w…
To access the article online, click here: https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/Time%20Travelers%20in%20Palestine%20-%20Stereoscopic%20Journey.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2…
There is a Facebook site about Egypt’s last king, Farouk, with pictures from his time in office.
The British traveler Sir Edgar Collins Boehm was one of many travelers up the Persian Gulf and elsewhere more than a century ago. His narrative is rather meager,…
Here are several early 20th century postcards showing life in and around Baghdad.
Baghdad was featured in a number of early 20th century postcards. Several of these were printed by A.a.K Naman… Here are images of two of Baghdad’s mosques.
“Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.” — Renè Dubos My first venture into the rural outskirts…
AIYS member and long-time supporter Marjorie Ransom published her beautifully illustrated and diligently researched book on Yemeni silverwork in 2014 . This is a must for anyone interested…
For an impressive website devoted to the heritage of Damascus, check out “Damascus Heritage.” There are several Youtube videos accessible from the website. I especially like the im…