The Desk: Work at home during the pandemic
ByRebecca EmpsonProfessor of Social Anthropology, UCL Women of all ages have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. We hear this every day in the media but what does…
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New book on, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
The Red Nation A powerful guide to Indigenous liberation and the fight to save the planet. One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, The Red Deal is a platform…
Marshall Sahlins and European anthropology
(The good folks over at the AJEC blog asked me to write a short piece on Marshall Sahlins and his relationships with European anthropologists. With their permission, I’m…
Leanne Simpson: A short history of the blockade
Lianne Simpson’s new book, A Short History of the Blockade is now out with the University of Alberta Press. She gave this talk recently on it:
Vale Marshall Sahlins
Marshall Sahlins and I at my wedding (While I have been active on Twitter posting links to memorials and obituaries of Marshall Sahlins, I have not written very…
Tropical cyclones and ocean heat energy in the Southwest Pacific
PhD candidate Ashneel Chandra offers a brief outline of his recently published paper, co-authored with his Master’s degree advisor at The University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor…
More Lithographic Animals
As a fan of 19th century lithographs and steel engravings of images about the Middle East, I have enjoyed the images in Story of the Bible Animals by…
The Daughters of Kobani
I recently finished reading a fascinating and well-informed account of the role of female Kurdish fighters during the last decade in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS)…
Call for Submissions: African Diaspora Anthropological Poetry/Prose
Our team—Christine Weeber (poetry and copy editor at SAPIENS), Justin D. Wright (poet-in-residence at SAPIENS), and Leah Zani (poetry editor at Anthropology and Humanism)—seeks poetry and experimental…
Putting anthropology to use: Insights from researching violence prevention interventions in Mumbai’s urban poor neighborhoods
Ketaki Hate and Proshant Chakraborty: …
More Maps of the Middle East
More and more maps of Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula are appearing in digital resources on the Internet. One of these is the David Rumsey Map Collection, housed…
Join us for ‘Laboratory Life’ film launches
The Lab Life series investigates what seem like mundane lab practices, but are critical to scientific humility, accountability and equity.
A humanist approach to money, markets and technology
I have opened up a new project to disseminate my work and interests. This link is to the first page. There will be pages on other themes —…
A humanist approach to money, markets and technology
I have opened up a new project to disseminate my work and interests. This link is to the first page. There will be pages on other themes —…
Anthropology for Radical Optimism
At Allegra, we strive to find alternative modes of expression, new ways of working, collaborating, knowing and inquiring. Ultimately, we seek different ways of being anthropologists: collective…
Ep # 70 Familial Ties and Family Debts: Susan Ellison on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Bolivia
The Familiar Strange · Ep# 70 Familial Ties and Family Debts: Susan Ellison on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Bolivia This week we bring you an interview with Dr…
On Cultural Appropriation
I am happy to note that my article “On Cultural Appropriation” has now been published in the Journal of Folklore Research. Right now, the article can be found…
Manure and Animal rights
We humans, the compassionate predator, entered into a contract with a large number of species in the course of the past twenty thousand years (some think longer), and…
Ep #69 An Anthropologist’s Guide to the US Elections: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #69 An Anthropologist's Guide To The US Elections: This Month on TFS Hello and Welcome back to The Familiar Strange! We are so…
Afârit on Parade
When I was young, one of the major sci-fi programs on television was Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone. It was fun because it was fiction. Now it seems that…
Two new books!
My apologies to readers. I haven’t posted in a while. But I have an excuse. Two excuses actually. I spent the first half of 2020 scrambling to finish…
Infrastructuralizing outer space, un-earthing anthropology
Chakad Ojani: On October 14, 2020, the Swedish government announced its decision to grant 90 million SEK to support the expansion of Sweden’s space center and rocket-launching site…
Moving between Anthropology, Activism and Art
Bartira Fortes: Street Art of Marielle Franco by Rodrigo Rizo Art in its broad spectrum – visual, sonorous, literary, or performative – have offered anthropological research a laboratory…
Reply to Singh
Jacqueline Solway: “… the article sensationalizes and sets up straw people at least at the outset. It is our problem, not ‘theirs’ that we see some others as…