For-Against Translation
Against/For Translation. For all the ink splattered here to make the words appear, I am flummoxed and frustrated that there is never any excuse for translation. I am…
Against/For Translation. For all the ink splattered here to make the words appear, I am flummoxed and frustrated that there is never any excuse for translation. I am…
Hasn’t the sheer abundance of chit-chat made criticism, and even journalism you pay for, obsolete? Articles that would bug most people aren’t even read because something else more…
Playing this game in class was the highlight of my 2025 teaching year.
November 9th, 2016 found me as shocked and depressed as any Hilary Clinton supporter — and not only because the xenophobic, racist, sexist, and generally despicable Donald Trump…
This is almost live (well, the pdf of the main is live – check it out) …an amazing collection of 45 papers for the fourth International Conference on…
TGA Managing Editor Emma Backe interviewed Dr. Andrew Alan Johnson, an anthropologist who also serves as the Senior Historian for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII. They talk about working…
painting by Rene Magritte. xx Excellent questions from my anth class today: “…a question related to Social Anthropology: how do we truly understand another person when we may…
8 September 2026 Sarbani Chakraborty Hoofbeats Tugbug, tugbug, tugbug… The deliberate percussion of hooves travels through a tree-lined residential colony in South Delhi. For a mo…
Reminded of this from late last year and wonder if the algorithm throws up skynet referenced in late August because anniversaries still matter? Still? OK, happy 29th. Just…
This text is well worth your time… (I have, for this blogsnip, retitled it from a phrase in one of the early paragraphs, apologies, but some of this…
17 August 2026 Afsheen Rizvi While some university students were busy eating their lunch at Jamia Women’s Canteen, we sat with Sughra trying to understand her food habits,…
The anthropological project, tired and exhausted after years searching for ‘methodological absolution’, remains mired in a spiral of self-doubt and self-indulgent ‘crisis’. Anthropological teachi…
Anthropologists, somewhat unconsciously, remained for a long time in the position of conservative culture camp commandants—overseers of a pickled-in-aspic view of ‘the native’ that was no…
a pop up from some old search topic reports JF saying the following: “In his conference presentation John Hutnyk (see this volume) indicated that even to discuss music…
This is the (overdue!) second part of a series reflecting on changes I made to my undergraduate course Anthropology for Liberation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington…
there are many instances of sentences written to specific people – love you all – that are also just thinking out loud, so this here below is one…
‘In Paul Rabinow’s monograph Symbolic Domination (1975) the anthropologist examines the history of a Moroccan village and its dominant lineage descended from a seventeenth century saint S…
Chapter 15 of “Celebrating Transgression Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Culture: A book in Honour of Klaus Peter Köpping” Edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk…
By Nancy Hakizimana – The first man in recorded history did not pursue the first woman. He did not write her a letter, he did not rehearse a…
“Johnno” (1975) was an important first book. I will reread it a third (or fourth time) because it is two decades since the last time, and it was…
Twenty years is incomprehensible. Recycling this now extraordinarily old post below (its not her birthday today, but 20 years since we lost Imogen Bunting). Double Injustice: Media Ra…
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27 March 2026 Priyanjali Mitra I initially intended to study the working lives of migrant workers in a city I grew up in and thought I knew. What…
From Volume 2, number 1 – 1989. Customs Review of Public CultureDownload