Fearless Fund ruling
Did you know that less than 1% of VC funds go to women of color? Why are we not hearing more about the Fearless Fund ruling – are…
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Carbon Capture and Storage Emerging as a Major Climate Solution at COP28
By Ajmal Khan A.T, National Law University of India and Harvard University Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is emerging as one of the major global climate solutions. Currently,…
COP and its Temporalities
By Cristóbal Emilfork, University of California, Davis Not only countries met at the COP. The venue also seemed to be a meeting point for diverse temporalities. As yet…
Evidence and Experience at the Climate-Health Nexus
By Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Harvard Medical School, United States On a sweltering afternoon in the congested Expo City of Dubai, I entered the COP28 Visitor Center to collect my…
Willamette Valley Treaty Commission Biographies
The Willamette Valley Treaty Commission is created by the Congressional act of June 5, 1850, John P, Gaines, Beverly S. Allen and Alonzo A. Skinner
Bernie and the Samurai: how to use chatGPT to make your own entertainment
It’s 2025. You and your spouse are sitting down to some serious education. You ask, “So what do you feel like?” Your spouse says “how about Bernie and…
2024 ARHE Policy Brief Award
We are excited to announce that the 2023 ARHE Policy Brief Award is now open for submissions. The aim of the award is to encourage and acknowledge the contributions…
A Synthesis of the Multimodal Workshop
Author: Carolina Némethy A Synthesis of the Multimodal Workshop 12th – 14th of March, we had the pleasure to invite several highly competent, international scholars to our multimodal…
Can you be a parent and an activist?
I am consumed by a difficult realization I’ve come to lately. The care my children need to be as protected as possible under the conditions of capitalism outstrips…
Documenting the Karbi Kecharhe Alun Oral Epic in Assam, India
Author: Carolina Némethy, reviewed by Michael Heneise Documenting the Karbi Kecharhe Alun Oral Epic in Assam, India During the Anthropology Research seminar on March 1st, Michael Heneise, …
Recipes of Resistance: Global Digital Gastrosolidarity for Palestine
Terrains of Traditions and Taste From the North in Safad (where my father is from) and Galilee to the South East in Al-Lydd (where my mother is from)…
Camas Season March 23, 2024
Some just asked me if I can see the camas tips now, to which I replied: Meaning, Yes! Camas is doing well at Minto-Brown, the
Camas Season 2024
This season looks to be a good camas season, plenty of moisture this winter should equate to fatter bulbs. We will see. But I was
Net Zero & Bullsh*t: Corporate Sustainability Metrics with Dr Matthew Archer
The Familiar Strange · Ep107# Net Zero & Bullsh*t: Corporate Sustainability Metrics with Dr Matthew Archer This week Emma Quilty sat down with Matthew Archer, Assistant Professor at…
How can we save ourselves?
I’m an anthropologist doing my PhD on activism and organizing. I’ve also been an organizer myself for over a decade, primarily focusing on drug policy, but also coalition-building…
AI + Search: A way to do literature reviews with AI that actually works
If you are a congenitally curious person like me, you have probably asked yourself questions like: “What was it like on board a Japanese passenger ship in the…
World Anthropology Day with Dr Noel Salazar
The Familiar Strange · World Anthropology Day With Dr Noel Salazar The Strangers are Back… To celebrate this world anthropology day, we’re back with a very special interview.…
Safety Dance: Covid Harm Reduction for the Rave Scene
No one wants to talk about this. We all hate it. We’re tired. Believe me, I feel that tiredness in my bones. And I know you’re busy and…
Cleopatra had a Jazz Band
There are quite a few songs from the early 20th century Vaudeville Days that feature the Middle East. Did you know that Cleopatra had a jazz band? Feel…
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Mala Beads
Author: Richard Fraser Mala Beads Of the nearly 7 million ethnic Tibetans living in China today, approximately 4 million live outside the Tibet Autonomous Region. Nearly 2 million…
My 2023 Reading List
2023 was, iirc, the second year I’ve set the goal of reading a book a week — and this year I managed to do it again! It was…
Now I am 23
I believe my first website was created in 1994 or 1995. This blog has now been running for 23 years as of 1 January 2024. One the years…
Friendship is Kinship from Another Mother
Friendship is kinship by another mother. (This was originally published on-line as a guest blog in the International Culture and Cognition Institute. ) Why is this so important…