We are pleased to announce that the Department of Anthropology will be hosting an online workshop on Materiality, Evidence and Archive on October 1st & 2nd, 2021. The workshop seeks to challenge and unsettle the established archival and evidentiary forms and practices concerning materiality, and to share new ways of thinking ethnographically about the relationship between permanence, […]
Our Full-time Faculty member, Dr. Albert Schrauwers has completed his new book-length publication. In the nineteenth century, the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java were the sites of dramatically increased industrialization. Led by a group of “merchant kings” who exemplified gentlemanly capitalism, this ambitious trading project transformed the small, economically moribund Netherlands into a […]
Our former Undergraduate Program Director & Chair for the Department of Anthropology and current Full-time Faculty member, Dr. Shubhra Gururani has recently co-edited a special issue for the Urbanisation journal anchored by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS). You can read the journal and her article on open access until September 30th, 2021. This […]
Our Contract Faculty member, Dr. Arne Steinforth has completed his new book-length publication which will be arriving at all bookstores in Fall 2021. When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In their empirical experience, fact – knowledge […]
The Undergraduate Program Director & Chair for the Department of Anthropology has recently co-edited a special issue for the South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ). You can read the journal and her article online.
From YouTube-hosted lectures to gamifying the classroom, The Learning Curve is a series showcasing how course instructors in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies are embracing the online learning environment with creative approaches to teaching remotely. In our latest instalment, Ryan James, a contract faculty member teaching in the Department of Anthropology and […]
Prof. Ken Little 2020On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize {“type”:”block”,”srcIndex”:0,”srcClientId”:”71a30b0d-4139-4964-bcd1-06c729be0387″,”srcRootClientId”:””}
Department of Anthropology Annual Lecture 2020 What a Difference Filmmaking MakesAutoethnography, Multimodalityand the Future of Scholarship John L . Jackson, Jr. Richard Perry University ProfessorWalter H. Annenberg DeanAnnenberg School for CommunicationUniversity of Pennsylvania Using my own journey as an ethnographic filmmaker to help ground its claims, this talk seeks to articulate the epistemological and ethical […]
Hustak and Myers (2020) Le Ravissement de Darwin: Le Langage des Plantes, translated by Philipe Pignarre, preface by Vinciane Despret and Maylis de Kerangal, Éditions la Découverte: Paris.
