Honey and Poi featured in USCJ’s “Journeys”
Honey and Poi is a history of my synagogue in Hawai‘i. I helped research it and Matt, my collaborator and friend, wrote it. In a short column for…
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HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is available for pre-order now!
My new book, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, comes out April 7! You can preorder it now: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years…
Society for American Archaeology writes a letter to President Donald Trump protesting threat of destruction of Iranian cultural sites
On January 6th, 2020, Joe E. Watkins, president of the Society for American Archaeology, wrote to U.S. President Donald Trump to protest the latter’s threat of military action…
Our special series, ‘Postindustrial landscapes, communities, and heritages’ has been published!
Read the editorial here.
Clara Han: Echoes of Death and the Life Story. Keynote at Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South
Our special series has been published!
Our special series in the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage has been published! Read our guest editorial here.
Some Media Sources for the History of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures (1)
August 11, 1963 [Indiana University News Bureau Press Release Launching the Indiana University Museum of History, Anthropology, and Folklore] [PDF: IU Museum of History Anthropology and Folklore Origi…
Settler Geology: Earth’s deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta
Those who follow debates around the Anthropocene will be familiar with a very prominent premise: that the scale of the Anthropocene is incommensurate with human time. Or, in…
All I want for Christmas is an ocean-climate nexus: Reflections from COP25 in Madrid
Written by Dr. Camilla Borrevik. Hopes were high ahead of the UN climate talks at the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) in Madrid. Albeit some rocky weeks…
Nationalism as a Necessary Evil
Signe Askersjö: In a modest room within the Govanhill recreational centre, on the other side of the wall from a children’s karate lesson, advocates for Scottish independence had…
Back to the Anthropological Future: Reflections on the Annual Meetings in Vancouver
Many decades ago, I traveled to the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in San Francisco. Still a graduate student, I accompanied three fellow anthropologists-in-traini…
Addendum to Gardening in Eden
”Archaic” Homo sapiens subspecies were widespread across Africa and Eurasia. Not all looked like Neanderthals – many were clearly much more like anatomically modern Homo sapiens sapiens. …
ON SPIRITS AND GHOSTS:
While I was in the Kalahari with a group of hunter-gatherers called the Kua, a woman died. I did not witness this, I arrived at the camp after…
Leanne Simpson: As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
A great talk by the formidable Leanne Simpson; the talk has the same title as her excellent book that is available with the University of Minnesota Press here.
New home on thisanthrolife.org
Hey TAL fans and friends! We’re in the process of moving domains (so sorry if you’ve had trouble accessing the site) over to be hosted by our friends…
«Habt Mut…» – Die Geisteswissenschaften kommunizieren!
Philipp Burkard (Leiter Science et Cité, Gastautor) [1] Sokrates auf der Agora. Quelle: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Wir können nicht davon ausgehen, dass sich ein breites Publikum…
«Habt Mut…» – Die Geisteswissenschaften kommunizieren!
Philipp Burkard (Leiter Science et Cité, Gastautor) [1] Sokrates auf der Agora. Quelle: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Wir können nicht davon ausgehen, dass sich ein breites Publikum…
Ignoring Tribal History in a Contemporary Exhibit
On 10/26, 2019 I visited the Open house at the Oregon State Archives, Salem, OR, and was supremely disappointed at their new exhibit Rust Rot Ruin. which documents…
Organic Waste and the Looming Putrecene
As an urban compost coordinator I have supervised efforts to increase compost collection both commercially and residentially in New York City over the past five years. The job…
Two new podcasts: Charles King and Don Kulick
It’s been a very busy time of year for me and so I’ve done a bad job publicising my podcasts for New Books Network, and this despite my…
Clive Spash on the Lies they Tell: The pitiful state of environmentalism and its neoliberalization
Clive Spash, never one to leave you wondering what he thinks, on how environmentalism has been captured by new forms of economic reasoning. Always worth revisiting his critique…