PAPER
ByAlice Riddell, Chloe Dominique, Emilie Glazer, Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou, and Victoria TeccaPhD Anthropology Introducing PAPER, Power and Politics of/in Ethnographic Research; a timely and i…
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Nai Barghouti – “About a human” by Mahmoud Darwish
A beautiful song by Mahmoud Darwish, sung by the Palestinian Nai Barghouti.
New podcast: Emilka Skrzypek on the Frieda Mine in Papua New Guinea
I’m excited to announce the my interview with Emilka Skrzypek is now available over at New Books Network. Emilka is a third- (or maybe fourth-?) generation scholar in…
Check out this excellent infograph resource from HCWhosted. Please share widely.
Now That You’re Vaccinated
Check out this excellent infograph resource from HCWhosted. Please share widely.
Now That You’re Vaccinated
Stories by Samer El-Kanshawi
check out Samer’s Arabic stories here…
Of mice and manuscripts
For anyone who works on Arabic manuscripts or would like to know how that is done, this new website at Leiden University is a welcome introduction. Check it…
Tabsir is back
In September 2005 I started the blog Tabsir (“Insight”) with several other colleagues to provide information on the Middle East as a supplement to the news and to…
Covid-19, Fatness, and Risk: Medico-Media Discourses and Stigma
European Network for Workplace Health Promotion Contemporary English speaking media and popular medical discourses on Covid-19 have been notable in their stigmatization of fatness by implicitly and ex…
Go read my interview with Martha Macintyre!
I’m very proud to announce that my interview with Martha Macintyre is now available, open access, from ANU Press. It is a chapter in the wonderful new volume…
The Witches Invade Washington
They should have asked an anthropologist. The political and military professionals ignored the warnings presaging last week’s Capitol invasion. But many who conduct research in rural Africa,…
Firsting in Research
Declaring that a research project is the “first” to discover something is not only rarely correct, given the myriad local knowledges operating since time immemorial, but is also…
Troubled Togetherness: Visually Impaired People’s Unsettling and Tiresome Journey towards Community Belonging
ANNAMARIA DALL’ANESE The word ‘community’ has heart-warming connotations of mutual support and reciprocal understanding. The sense of belonging that stems from being integrated into a social world…
Vale Jaimie Pearl Bloom
I wanted to let you know that my obituary of Jaimie Bloom is now available from American Anthropologist: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.13525 Jaimie’…
Long Past Time for the 25th Amendment*
There will be plenty of time for Biden to use his extraordinary faith and energy and creativity to think about how this divided nation might be healed. For…
Elizabeth and Stephen Ferry on Gold Mining in Latin America
I’m happy to announce a new podcast episode over at New Books Network. In this episode I interview brother and sister teams Elizabeth and Stephen Ferry. Elizabeth is…
End of Year Thoughts about Legitimacy in the Culture of Speed
A popular 2020 American meme reminds of us of the 1985 Robert Zemeckis science fiction film Back to the Future. In it Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) is…
New “New Books Network ” Author Page
Aloha all. Some quick final links to keep up to date on what I’ve been doing since September. This site has gone on for far too long without…
End of 2020: A Message From TFS
The Familiar Strange · End of 2020: A Message From TFS The end of 2020 is in sight! What a year it has been for all of us.…
David Graeber (1961-2020)
David Graeber died unexpectedly from a massive haemorrhage of the pancreas in Venice on September 2nd of this year. Obituaries summarize the life of someone who is no…
David Graeber (1961-2020)
David Graeber died unexpectedly from a massive haemorrhage of the pancreas in Venice on September 2nd of this year. Obituaries summarize the life of someone who is no…
Heeding anthropological mottos in the study of law
Abstract Even though I have been based in a school of law for thirty years, my scholarly contributions do not come across as legally conventional. This is no…
The Silence before the Silent Spring: Narratives of Modernity and the Silences around the Toxicity of Pesticide Use
Pesticide-use and the control of pest populations with synthetic chemicals are a subset of the history of the “modernization” of agricultural practices. This narrative positions pesticides as an…
Call for Pitches: PEDAGOGY
Image description: Eight apples are lined up in two rows of four on a light green background. The apples alternate in color between red and green. iStock Class…