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. …
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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…
Go read my new encyclopedia article on mining!
I’m very happy to announce that my new entry on ‘mining’ is now available on the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. I worked pretty hard on this piece so……
Ep. #47: Meaningful Declutter, Local Activism, Managing Fire & Writing Up: This month on TFS
Firstly, we’d like to introduce you all to Alex D’Aloia, who is managing our Facebook group TFS Chats – you might remember the blog post that he wrote…
Tribal? Not so much…
Tribal? “Tribalism” as the term is frequently used by evolutionary biologists, means a human tendency to form groups larger than the personal network. What they are actually groping…
Agenda 2030 in Mali
Eine Spurensuche in der ländlichen Gemeinde von Dioro Djouroukoro Diallo Verkehr in Bamako | Bild: flickr/ LenDog64 Wieder einmal bin ich in Bamako, der Hauptstadt Malis. Genau vor…
Agenda 2030 in Mali
Eine Spurensuche in der ländlichen Gemeinde von Dioro Djouroukoro Diallo Verkehr in Bamako | Bild: flickr/ LenDog64 Wieder einmal bin ich in Bamako, der Hauptstadt Malis. Genau vor…
Amazing triple set of resources on Indigenous waters: from Standing Rock to Australia (book + 2 special issues)
There are three recent (and really good) resources that have come out on Indigenous waters in the past several weeks: a book and two special issues, each below…
Where Have All the Comparisons Gone?
Reflections by Rob Borofsky, Laura Nader, Matt Candea, and Jonathan Friedman This blog was originally published in the field sights section of the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s…
Special Issue: “Religious Dynamics in Post-Revolutionary Egypt”
The social science journal Social Compass released a special issue in French and English on “Religious dynamics in post-revolutionary Egypt” (or “Dynamiques religieuses dans l’Égypte…
The Sargassum Question
Close-up of sargasso, Puerto Morelos, 2019. Photo by the author. Sitting in her office, I could smell the sharp scent of hydrogen sulfide coming from the beach. She…
Biophilia is real and may have saved our species
“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.…
Mangan
Auf dem Balkon in einem Hotel in der Minenstadt Chiatura. Es ist Frühstückszeit und ich zähle die Laster mit dem Mangan. Schwarzes Gestein, das aussieht wie nasse Holzkohle.…
Negotiating Ethical Technology Use: Trust and Care in End-of-Life Conversations
The video-screen carrying robot used by doctors to converse with patients. The headline on the local news station’s website was sensational: “Bereaved Family Upset Kaiser Used Robot…
Redskins Etc. as Racial Stereotypes
Native peoples of the America were thought of in early philosophy as being Red Indians, fitting perfectly into a color wheel of peoples of the earth, White people…