GAA 2021 Conference Diary: Atmospheric Discussions?
In collaboration with the conference organisers, Allegra had reached out to a number of colleagues to submit some impressions in the form …
Ways of Looking: Alternative Encounters with Art and Artifacts
“When we encounter something beautiful, we usually experience two kinds of reactions. One may be moved by learning the background of the …
Anchoring our days through the senses during South Africa’s lockdown
IWe had been in lockdown since 18th March 2020 when J.’s daycare closed for a break. A few days later, on 23rd …
Wording sociality and health: COVID-19’s lexicon revisited
Anthr{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Elena Burgos Martinez. It is all a matter of words. The recent emergence of a wealth of COVID-19-related …
#Afterlives: A Trajectory and the Curatorial Turn
Where did afterlives fever come from? These reflections suggest a trajectory. Today, amid a lively eruption of usages, afterlife has moved away …
David Parisi on his new book, Archaeologies of Touch
Archaeologies of Touch (US & Canada: use promo code MN82600 for 30% off): https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/archaeologies-of-touch Archaeologies of Touch (EU: use promo code …
Coming to Our Senses
In this Conversations episode of This Anthro Life, Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins explore the subject of sensory ethnography – a focus …
Creative Tastebuds Symposium
Rethinking taste. By confronting natural and human sciences this symposium raises new questions about taste. We invite the audience to wonder with …
Audiovisual research practice in the global era
Time has shortened, space has shrunk, social relations have stretched and information keeps coming as intensive flows. This article explores the role …
Fighting a wildfire on a gun range, or, the sensuous memories of #fieldwork
Introduction I fought 32 wildfires over fifteen months as part of my ethnographic research. I fought them with men who are currently …
From the Archives: Asifa Majid on language and olfaction
When I first ran across Asifa Majid’s article with Ewelina Wnuk in Cognition, about how speakers of Maniq, a language indigenous to …