Cultural anthropologist Barbara Miller offers updates about people, cultures, rights, and change, around the world. A critical but wishfully hopeful view.
Washington, D.C.
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Feed your brain with some knowledge, entirely for free!
Very very proud of the release of this book created entirely by the ECRs of @Animal_Feeding. Every single chapter is worth a read so dig in :)
Big thanks @UCLpress for the smooth collaboration!
Congratulations to @AniMullan, Riley Smallman, @HerreBondt, & @EttieWaterman! Their #OpenAccess book The Hand that Feeds published today. Contributors include: @ArbitrioHumano & @ThatItchyGirl Read & download free at: bit.ly/4ir9KyZ #ZooArchaeology @Animal_Feeding
ALT Book cover titled 'The Hand that Feeds: The complex relations of human-animal feeding '. The cover features flora and fauna. The design is bordered by pine needles, fir cones, fruit and vegetables. A cat, stag and cow are positioned focally above the subtitle: The complex relations of human-animal feeding. underneath birds, a fox and tiger. Below is the text: edited by Alexander Mullan, Riley Smallman, Herre de Bondt, and Juliette Waterman. UCL Press logo at bottom.
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#PhD researcher in the FNS funded project “Digital Humanitarianism: Governing Vulnerable Populations in an Age of Technological innovation”
📍 @GVAGrad, Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism
⏳ Deadline: 2 Jun, 2025
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As half a million Palestinians in Gaza face “catastrophic” levels of hunger, I can’t help but think of James Daschuk’s seminal work on how the Canadian government used starvation as a tool to ethnically cleanse the prairies of Indigenous populations.
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Loved reading this. It's yet another reminder of how dangerous curriculum-based propaganda can be.
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📢 Call for Nominations!
@enpanthro prize for a remarkable published paper
✅ Published in 2024
✅ Any area of psychological #anthropology
📆 Deadline: 22 May 2025
📆 Winner will be announced at #ENPA2025 (Münster, 11–13 June)
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Journal of Legal Anthropology Vol. 8, Issue 2 is out now from @BerghahnAnthro
✨ This special issue is entitled "Trust in the state: Negotiating legal and bureaucratic encounters."
📖 Guest edited by @SophieAndreetta & @flavioeiro
Available #OpenAccess: conta.cc/4dlfNno
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Culture Heritage of Indigenous People of the Rio Negro
5th May 2025
@renato_athias, Anna Bottesi²
¹ NEPE / UFPE
² Università di Torino
Study on reconnecting Rio Negro Indigenous artifacts in museums with their communities. #Repatriation #IndigenousHeritage
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Anthropology Prof Francis B. Nyamnjoh, who has Chaired @huma_africa Advisory Board, will be delivering the International Africa Institute’ IAI Biennial Lecture at the European Conference on #AfricanStudies (#ECAS2025) in Prague 25-28 June 2025 🎊
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They are opening their eyes to human trafficking by the Trump administration.
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For sure. Which by implication suggests a clear route for creating a “new humanity.” Only possible if the purveyors of that myth disappear.
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"Why #anthropology matters" is a statement from the EASA Executive Committee, which explains what is unique about anthropological knowledge and why anthropologists can be key players in handling the global crises humanity is confronting.
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For centuries Sarna Adivasis in eastern India have worshipped and preserved their richly biodiverse sacred groves. But with the onset of urbanisation these groves are the first to be encroached upon. In saving them, some fear that the very nature of these groves is changing.
ALT Group of Adivasi women at their sacred grove in Pokhar Toli, Ranchi
ALT Local leaders in front of their sacred grove in Purani Ranchi
ALT Sacred grove at Siram Toli, Ranchi
ALT Red and white striped flag representing the Sarna Adivasi community in front of the upcoming flyover at Siram toli
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#CFP: Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs 2025, to be hosted by Ohio State in Columbus, October 10-12. Submit paper and panel proposals by May 31 for consideration.
easc.osu.edu/mcaaconference
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@AmericanAnthro is seeking a dynamic #EditorInChief for its flagship journal, #AmericanAnthropologist, who is passionate about the future of #Anthropology & has a vision for advancing scholarly discourse.
Learn more & apply by 4.21.2025: careercenter.americananthro.…
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New MIH Issue: How does Durkheim’s thought relate to colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonial theory? George Steinmetz examines the ways Durkheim’s thinking pushed beyond existing French understandings of empire and criticisms of colonialism bit.ly/3PSFH6W
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Important piece of public visual anthropology:
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📚 From our book series with Berghahn Books HEADLINES OF NATION, SUBTEXTS OF CLASS: Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe
⌲ Edited by Don Kalb and Gábor Halmai buff.ly/Mp8i3ny
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Book Review Forum — Brett Christophers’ “The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet” antipodeonline.org/2025/04/1… @VersoBooks
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Want to know more about the awesome research we published last month that uses cut marked fossil animal bones to push back the date of hominin presence in Europe to around 2 million years ago? Read this just-published piece we wrote in @ConversationUS! theconversation.com/tiny-cut…
