Sufi Performance as Political Intervention
Rafique Wassan Feminist activist artist Sheema Kermani performing in the Sufi shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sindh, Pakistan, 2019 Sufism, the mystical, spiritual tradition of Islam has…
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Sufi Performance as Political Intervention
Rafique Wassan Feminist activist artist Sheema Kermani performing in the Sufi shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sindh, Pakistan, 2019 Sufism, the mystical, spiritual tradition of Islam has…
Indigenous peoples and scientists urge Europe to commit to real sustainable trade with Brazil
Carolina Schneider Comandulli Extreme Citizen Science Research Group Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability Indigenous and environmental rights are under threat in Brazil from Jair Bolso…
My latest paper – The Moral Geography of the Earth System
My latest paper is now out entitled, The Moral Geography of the Earth System. It is currently free access here (thanks Wiley!). And it is permanently open-access here,…
Why massacres happen and how to stop them
[written as an anthropological response to the New Zealand massacre of March 2019. I was in the field, doing ethnographies.] I’ve spent the last month out of the…
New Book from Ingrid Stefanovic – The Wonder of Water: Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice
This is a great looking new title edited by Ingrid Stefanovic here with the University of Toronto Press. Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly…
Meet nitrous oxide: the fun drug that, because of prohibition, is terrible for the environment
The War on Drugs is an expensive, harmful disaster. It’s the most destructive and racist set of policies that exist in the modern era. But! Did you know that…
CFP: Quilt and Textile Studies for Uncoverings 2020
Mathers Museum of World Cultures Research Associate Janice Frisch, who is editor of Uncoverings, shares the following call for papers. Call for Papers Quilt and Textile Studies Uncoverings…
The Surveillance Cyborg
Editor’s Note: This post is part of our ongoing series, “Queering Surveillance,” and was co-written with Alexander Wolff. Surveillance is an embodied experience, both being watched a…
Our ‘Fashion Fast’: Week 4
We have entered the 5th week of our ‘6 items challenge.’ As eight Anthropology / International Development / International Relations / Geography undergraduates and one lecturer at the…
DATT/S is on Patreon!
Greetings everyone! I wanted to notify my readers & those who regularly use my content both on DATT & DATS that I will be producing content at. patreon.com/Hood_Biologist.…
The Nature of the Copy
From the dead center of an all-white eye, a lone sapling rose two feet tall. Cyclical ridges and valleys, etched in bioplastic by an unseen watchmaker, encircled the…
Acknowledgement is Long Past Due for Attempts to Exterminate the Tribes of Oregon
Presently, there is an apology bill being considered in the Oregon State Senate for the Modoc Indian War of 1872-1873. This apology is long past due to the…
Dumbwaiters and Smartphones: The Responsibility of Intelligence
“I don’t have to drink alone,” she paused for comedic effect, “now that I have Alexa.” Thus was the punchline of a story told by a widowed octogenarian…
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Ethnography as Gift Exchange
A critical workshop recapitulation Zainabu Jallo Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper’s view on gift exchange. Episode “The Big Bang Theory, Episode “The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis” (2008) …
Ethnography as Gift Exchange
A critical workshop recapitulation Zainabu Jallo Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper’s view on gift exchange. Episode “The Big Bang Theory, Episode “The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis” (2008) She…
Out-of-Body Workspaces: Andy Serkis and Motion Capture Technologies
Upper image, production shot of live action actor James Franco (Left) and Andy Serkis, with digital character superimposed (Right). Lower image, the finished shot of live action and…
Barn + akademin = möjligt?
Rasmus Rodineliussen: Som småbarnsförälder har jag under mina år som student och nu som doktorand ofta fått frågan hur jag får tiden att räcka till. Hur är det…
Exhibitions Week: Quilting Art and Tradition—People, Handcrafts, and Community Life (a.k.a. Quilts of Southwest China)
The MMWC has a huge amount of exhibition related news. This week I devote a series of posts to highlighting some of these developments. Huang Biyu introduces her…
Being At Home in a Hateful World
In the age of social media it has not only become more normal to demonize people who are “different,” but to cage and kill them as well. Through…
Great new book from Karine Gagné: Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
This is a great looking new title from Karine Gagné at the University of Guelph. Available here from University of Washington Press, where the blurb below is also…
Description/Classification/Threshold: Experiments with Renewable Energy Taxonomy
This is not renewable energy: Nor is this some clever, Magritte-esque meta-commentary on how it is impossible represent or think about renewable energy separate from the technologies…