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Your article, What did you do in the war? Revisiting the WW2 memoirs of Stoker Thomas Mouat Tate, published in History and Anthropology, Volume 30 Issue 5, is now available…
Your article, What did you do in the war? Revisiting the WW2 memoirs of Stoker Thomas Mouat Tate, published in History and Anthropology, Volume 30 Issue 5, is now available…
[no-caption] Complot/Shutterstock This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. In a manifesto posted online shortly before he…
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers University of Chicago Press, 2018. 416 pages. 1.…
Interview by Winifred Tate https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo29202793.html Winifred Tate: The title, Guerrilla Marketing, evokes advertising, and in fact Amazon lists a number…
Just out in History and Anthropology. Not my usual kind of thing, but experiments that might lead to a new thing… The first fifty 35 people to email me can…
[no-caption] Archivio J. Lange /Getty Images This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Two trophy skulls, recently discove…
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…
Reinhard Bernbeck presents the entrance of a shelter at an archaeological site on the premises of a former concentration camp and forced-labor camp in Berlin, Germany. Stephanie Pilick/Getty…
Protestors in Tokyo voice their concerns about Prime Minister Abe’s militarization drive in 2017. Donald C. Wood The thunderous pounding of a military helicopter from the nearby Ground…
[no-caption] Robin Albarano On November 28, 2016, Mile Milošević, president of the Serbian War Veterans’ Association, traveled to Sarajevo, where he met with Enver Krluć, president of the…
Among Acholis, ideals of home and a good life are resilient even if everyday realities increasingly diverge from such aspirations. There is a tendency to think about love…
zeph’s pop culture quiz #61 A warplane in camouflage flies over snowy mountains. But who is inside? What I am asking for are the names of the two…
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS How does an immigrant become an “American”? How does any newcomer join any group? SAPIENS host Esteban Gómez shares the story of Morwari Zafar, an…
A Somali father and his daughter waited to register at the Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya in 2011, when drought and discord forced some 130,000 people to flee…
“‘There is no document of civilization that is not simultaneously a document of barbarism‘” (Walter Benjamin Illuminations) William Burroughs’ annotated Boy…
Jonathan Bethard’s life is anything but dull. He analyzes human remains to determine people’s identities, understand their lifeways, and figure out how they died. And while his work…
Este contenido está disponible en español aquí. Stories of war and violence have permeated the daily life of Colombians for more than half a century. However, in the…
There is near silence about the war on Yemen led by KSA and UAE and supported by US, UK and France indicating the success of public relations bought…
By Helen Lackner. The Geneva ‘consultations’ on 6 September between the two Yemeni warring parties failed to happen. According to the media, it was because the Huthis failed…
I am on (of course) various lists like that of the Posadaists, so this is interesting because to my shame my best efforts to keep up have not…
Food in Zones of Conflict: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth. Berghahn Books. 2014. 252 pp. ISBN 978-1-78238-403-8 Jacquelyn Heuer (University of South Flor…
From Palma Africana (2018) “irradiation of the negative sublime”… “With this admittedly top-heavy phrase I am referring to the death pall cast by the (X)paras and palm plantati…
Comrade Saleh Memon asks to repost this: A WORLD OF PAIN, SUFFERING AND DISPOSSESSION – REMEMBERING SRI LANKAN TAMIL ETHNIC CLEANSING AND GENOCIDE JULY 31, 2018 SALEH MAMON LEAVE…
By Marina de Regt. “Hodeidah is empty, Marina, there is no one there anymore”, says Noura to me this morning, in a short telephone conversation that is repeatedly…