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…
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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…
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…
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’…