Back cover copy for the 25th-anniversary edition of Rumour of Calcutta?
Highly unlikely, but if there were to be a collection of quotes for such an edition, this fine example would do very well as a back cover quote…
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Recent stuff to read
Co research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom with Do Thi Xuan Huong, In Education Philosophy and Theory, 2020, with supplement rept_a_1752187_sm3452 The Pecuniary Animus of the University in …
Art, anthropology and authority
by Freek Colombijn “Most anthropologists are failed novelists.” I have forgotten where I heard this quote for the first time or who said so, but it is correct…
Robinsonades: we are all a bit Robbo now.
Several Robinsinades are coming soon. But folks seem a bit confused about which Daniel Defoe to get into right now. As the world splutters towards total collapse, I…
Why Poetry + Anthropology?
[no-caption] Kim Herbst When a barbed-wire de facto border lights up but throbs with blood, when a lynching memorial veins into memories and questions of the soul, when…
Centrifugal Citation Conformity Machine
I was recently in an information briefing (which was very useful) about Web of Science and citations/searches. Here are some thoughts on how the system at present breeds…
Isabel Laack on her book, Aztec Religion and Art of Writing
https://brill.com/view/title/54201 Interview by Patawee Promsen Patawee Promsen: Can you share more about how you have come to be interested in this research topic, especially Nahua pictorial writing…
What did you do in the war Pop?
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…
Critique of Anthropology
This journal deserves your support – it has always been the go-to place for anthropology as it is now. Owes much to John Gledhil and the much-missed Steve…
downloads
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…
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…