New Book: Andreas Malm’s, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Latest from Andreas Malm moves from his initial work in history (Fossil Capital), to the polemical conceptual book (Progress of this Storm) to a call for civil disobedience.…
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Go read my chapter on ‘Leviathans’
My chapter on ‘Leviathans’ is now available in the new volume Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon from the awesome open access publisher Punctum Books. I’ve long been a fan…
Go read my review of Varel’s “The Lost Black Scholar”
After quite some time — and without a chance for me to review the final edits (!) — History of Anthropology Review has published my review of David…
The discovery that all human hunter-gatherers, throughout the at least the last 80,000 years, did ecological engineering, means that “wilderness” does not really exist.
THIS is what transformed humanity between 300,000 and 100,000 years ago – the development of a cultural system of environmental management that made the ecosystems of the world…
Material Culture Studies among the Baiku Yao of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region at #AFSAM18
I am here using a blog post not to share current news, but to get an older document online and linkable. What follows is the short (public) and…
Tribal Territorial Acknowledgements
Territorial acknowledgments have now become commonplace at most university functions at OSU. I have heard from many that the practice now is in nearly all universities in the…
New Book: Simon Dalby’s Anthropocene Geopolitics
A great looking new title from Simon Dalby from the University of Ottawa Press. Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability We now find ourselves in a new geological age:…
Bad Faith In Our Times
On Friday January 31, 2020 the Republican-controlled US Senate chose to vote on the guilt or innocence of one Donald J Trump without the introduction of vital and…
Writing about Coffee
Despite being a lifelong non-coffee-drinker, I somehow found myself reading two fantastic books about coffee recently. The first, Miriam Sagan’s A Hundred Cups of Coffee, hijacked me from…
Där olivträden dansar – ett avhandlingsprojekt och en livsdröm
Elin Linder: Marken är fortfarande fuktig från nattens regn och den ljumna brisen doftar vår, grönskande och levande. Den fuktiga växtlighet som så här i december täcker mestadels…
Website Refreshenating
I’ve done some refreshing of this website, adding a new background (a cc’d image of a William Morris floral textile print, iirc), updating my about page, and, most…
This morning Twitter Kissed Culture Hard on the Mouth
Originally published on Medium, January 21, 2020 Recently the marketing team at Twitter put culture at the heart of what they do, in that most precious territory, the…
The history of semiotics in anthropology
Someone in one of the my email lists was asking about the history of semiotics in anthropology, and that made me realise that I didn’t know very much…
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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…
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…