Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change
A new book edited by Jessica Barnes and Michael R. Dove, Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change, explores the role of the imagination [...]
The Art of Memoir — a review by Camilla Gibb
Canadian writer and anthropologist by training, Camilla Gibb, reviews Mary Karr's The Art of Memoir in today's edition of The Globe and Mail. Gibb [...]
Studying Flip-Flops
“For seven years, sociologist Caroline Knowles has been following a pair of flip-flops around the world. From its birth in Kuwait oil, the flip-flops [...]
Of Winter Moons By Lisa Stevenson
Lisa Stevenson on ethnography, philosophy, poverty and religion. Excerpt: "Wallace Stevens, in his poem “The Snow Man” [...]
Book Review: "Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty"
Affliction: Health, Disease, PovertyBy Veena Das Book Review: "Listening with Veena Das to Ordinary Ethics"By Michael M.J. Fischer Read it here
Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage and the Art of Blending In
By Laura Levin "What stands out when we blend in? Performing Ground is the first book to explore camouflage as a performance practice, arguing [...]
Performing Objects and Theatrical Things
Edited by Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Zerdy"Performing Objects and Theatrical Things rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events from the perspective of [...]
Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented 'Terrorism'
A book by Lisa Stampnitzky "Lisa Stampnitzky traces the political and academic struggles through which experts made terrorism, and terrorism made experts. She argues [...]
The Collapse of Western Civilization
Historians of science, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, have experimented with science fiction in their recent publication on climate change. This short fictional book [...]
Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art
Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art by Steven Loft and Kerry Swanson. A fabulous collection of essays bridging art, indigenous studies, [...]