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…
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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…
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! appeared first on Johnpostill.com.
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…
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…