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WordPress started counting text downloads of articles in July this year. Interesting stat. So the books get quite a few 56 for Rumour of Calcutta 1996 26 for…
Tag: writing
Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition.
via Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition. Available from Aakar Books Here. Rest of the world here (bloomsbury paperback in November) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-8949 Just becaus…
Homage to Those Who Hollered before Me/Meditations on Inheritances and Lineages, Anthropological and Otherwise
Homage to Those Who Hollered before Me Silence chose me I didn’t choose silence silence immobilized me I could not breathe in my own skin without breaking the…
A Fieldpoem for World Poetry Day
How we practice and write ethnography matters. Poetry is one way to understand what it feels like to be human at a particular time and place. The difference…
Word Shell by Janelle Taylor
I have never lost my childhood habit of beachcombing for special rocks and shells, and I think of ethnography as involving a similar process of collecting bits of…
Schzmexit
More notes for the novel… Brexit schzmexit we need much more to fix it so that neither Tories or Labour can govern. While a Party of the New…
Rosa now more than ever
Rosa now more than ever Or why Rosa is someone who should be read at this point in time. To be a student of Rosa Luxemburg today is assisted hugely by the…
‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ in “Marx at the Movies”, 2014
‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ – Hutnyk This chapter addresses the question of how, today, to start reading that rich book that is Marx’s Capital — of which an immense, even monstrous, accumula…
An Uneasy Truce
Over the past few decades, much has been written about the ways in which project teams bring technologies to market. In this context, social scientists typically partner with…
Innovations… Conference 4-5 October 2019, TDTU, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities 4th and 5th of October 2019. Ho Chi Minh City, Socialist republic of Vietnam Welcome to the website for the conference Innovations in…
Writing a tailor-made thesis
by Suzanne Jansen A finished thesis is a tailor-made product: it has that perfect mixture of scientific knowledge embedded in lively ethnographic tales of the field. In my…
Articles to download
Downloads: Not sure if you need to make an account to get these, but it works for me.: Contexts for Distraction Henri, Tom, Hutnyk, John See details & download (PDF) 144…
Marx’s Library
From Old Beardo’s library (as listed in the MEGA), the following books related to India or the East India Company have underlining or marginalia by Marx, in blue…
Handy hints on cracking up
F.Scott-Fitzgerald’s ‘crack-up’ as a model for going on with when needs must and all around have been ripping each other to shreds in a mass fraternal suicide: ‘I…
Buy Books Not Bombs
Buy books at your local bookshop (UK) Ask for Pantomime Terror by John Hutnyk. Zero Books, 2014 ISBN-10: 1782792090 Ask for The Rumour of Calcutta by John Hutnyk. Zed books/Uni Chicago Press, 1996 ISB…
Ep. #14 Thesis writing, picturing cults, Muslims with caste, & fieldwork boredom: this month on TFS
Ian (1:25) starts us off by asking, just how well-written does a thesis need to be? “As anthropologists, basically what we do is write… whether it’s writing your field notes,…
Rosa on Lenin p298 Mimi’s Critique
Laugh out loud passage in Rosa Luxemburg’s letter of April 2 2011 to Kostya Zetkin (Clara’s son) about Lenin’s visits and the sharp dialectical criticism of Lenin by…
Reading Not to Perish
The “publish or perish” imperative in academia is periodically debated in the newspapers. I think some distance should be taken from the arguments developed in such articles. Even…
Helena Wulff on her new book, Rhythms of Writing
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rhythms-of-writing-9781474244152/ Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: When you are at a book event for an Irish author, how do you explain what an anthropologist b…
CfP – Speaking more broadly: Adapting anthropological concepts for a broader audience
Following up on our previous post, AAA in San Jose – Anthropological Concepts for Non-Anthropologists, Jennifer and I would like to take this opportunity to circulate a call for…
CfP – Speaking more broadly: Adapting anthropological concepts for a broader audience
Following up on our previous post, AAA in San Jose – Anthropological Concepts for Non-Anthropologists, Jennifer and I would like to take this opportunity to circulate a call for…
AAA in San Jose – Anthropological Concepts for Non-Anthropologists
As blogger Rhiannon and I slog through the end of the semester, we’re striving to post at least 1 blog post per week. Despite our want to continue…
AAA in San Jose – Anthropological Concepts for Non-Anthropologists
As blogger Rhiannon and I slog through the end of the semester, we’re striving to post at least 1 blog post per week. Despite our want to continue…