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Amoxtli | OtherwiseMag ​​​​​In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca, a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors

OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! Amoxtli is OUT!

In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca – the Book of the Smoking Mirror – a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors:

Amoxtli is curated by José Sherwood González

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On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare “A book is a powerful weapon, it can defend you in your mind.” —Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin French theorist Pierre Bourdieu once described photography as the art of the middle class. The wealthy know exp…

“The present moment is stacked with countless op-eds advocating for education to be “useful” and practical and think pieces which lament the decline of student interest in reading, without an analysis into the neoliberalization of education, and who this serves”

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Contre les fascistes : résistance et solidarité, submerger nos rues L'extrême-droite appelle à une marche à Lyon samedi 21 février à 15h dans le 7e arrondissement en mémoire de leur camarade fasciste. Des appels à converger circulent à l'échelle nationale et (...)

Contre les fascistes : résistance et solidarité, submerger nos rues
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The Certainty of Legal Labor: Meliorist Legalism and Endurant Hope in Hindu Nationalist India Emergent Conversation 25 This essay is part of the series First Responders: Crises, Indeterminacies, and (Joyful) Determination in the Global South By Sandhya Fuchs Protests After Death Of Hathras …

Sandhya Fuchs, winner of the 2025 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology for Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India (Stanford University Press, 2025), contributed this open access essay to PoLAR Online. The essay is part of Sana Malik's series, First Responders: wp.me/p68wh0-539

The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is looking for a new Editorial Team. You can apply here: docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Could you please share this call? @anthroencyclo.bsky.social @aaas.org @anthrofuentes.bsky.social @appliedanthro.bsky.social @histanthro.org @polar-journal.bsky.social

When the state socialises risks through public funding, the public must share in the rewards. The task for Trump is not to abandon industrial strategy or to reactively take equity stakes but to learn what went right and wrong in Silicon Valley.

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The new issue of SAQ is out, featuring my article on Roma workers and the disciplining of labour under Czech racial capitalism:

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Our Obsession With Personal Responsibility Is Making Us Sick Poor health outcomes are often treated as an unfortunate by-product of individual bad decisions. This moralizing approach ignores the role poverty plays in determining who gets ill and who can afford ...

When the state recedes and then moralizes the space it vacates, poor health outcomes are treated as unfortunate byproduct of individual bad decisions

Training, Contingency, and Academics in Graduate Student Labor Graduate student labor confounds the assumptions of meritocratic professionalism.

"This separation has facilitated the positioning of graduate labor at the end of value-creation inside academia—that is, as a more efficient way for the university to extract teaching and research labor while pay and benefits are considerably lower."

To disrupt and organise against the genocidal war machine, it is necessary to understand the internal mechanisms of Israeli violence, which span historic Palestine, and are intertwined with the global capitalist system.

Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World This Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. ...

Cultural anthropology latest Hot Spots Series, “Where have all the workers gone?” is both "an empirical question that ethnographers often encounter in the field" and "an epistemological reflection on where anthropologists today locate labor, work(ers), and their struggles"

On Refusal and Toxic Industrialization: An Interview with Rishabh Raghavan In this interview, Rishabh Raghavan discusses his encounter with everyday life in Ennore, as residents contest authoritative discourse on polluti...

In this interview, anthropologist Rishabh Raghavan reflects on the role of refusal not only in his work theorizing labor and toxicity in southern India, but also in his interactions with his interlocutors - fishermen who refused certain lines of inquiry. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theo…

New book officially out 🚨

If you ever wanted to know what Italian philosophy has been up to in the last 10-20 years, look no further. “An introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is out today with chapters on cyberfascism, technology & work, pandemic biopolitics, and posthumanism.

Yes - I got that but thanks for the clarification!

Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

Recent polling shows the majority disapprove of how ICE operates. But to truly stop the damage requires going further: it means eradicating the security logic that ever made people think that arming a secret police on an ethnic cleansing mission could ever make safe

Use of fixed-term posts ‘stifling more critical research’ Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines

'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.'

Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3

Not All Women | Dayna Tortorici The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. An...

“Feminism is the political theory and practice that struggles to free all women. Anything less than this vision of total freedom is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement “

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by the way, ANUAC is the journal of the Italian Association of Cultural Anthropology!

Please consider sending an abstract for the ANUAC special issue “The anthropology of prediction:Knowledge, divination&algorithmic futures” edited by Maria Spagnoli and Giuseppe Tateo. Drop the editors a short abstract of 300 words by 1 February 2026.
See you published in 2026 (or perhaps perished)

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Editorial Collective invites contributions to P 159 “The work of resistance: possibilities of labour in polarizing worlds” at #EASA2026

CfP closes on 26 Jan 26

See you in Poznan!
#anthropology

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Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live US president says ‘the United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela’

The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Happy to share this open access article I co-authored with Dimitrios Theodossopolous
“On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Obituary of a Soft Porn Translator ‘Using “ostrica” for vagina sounded bad in Italian, not representative enough, so clitorises became pearls. They were gone now too. Sex had once been a jewelry store, a jewelry store built on top of a...

“Handling her Italian, imagining the language as a peach or a fig, she felt the risk of overdoing it, of spilling juice all over the place. As a translator himself, Pavese must have known this feeling”

Claudia Durastanti

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“Research had long lost its luster for me, though I appreciated the lifestyle. Research was the game I had to play to maintain this lifestyle. Exciting, it was not, but sometimes I’d enjoyed aspects of it. Now it felt insufferable.”

BD : Joe Sacco & Art Spiegelman « Never again !... and again… and again » - Regarder l’émission complète | ARTE La galerie Martel expose les planches et les dessins préparatoires de « Never Again », une bande dessinée de trois pages écrites à quatre mains par Joe Sacco et Art Spiegelman. Dans celle-ci, les deux...

Les deux maîtres de BD dialoguent dans Gaza en ruines, reviennent sur le 7 octobre 2023 et la réplique disproportionnée de Nethanyahou. Avec à l’arrivée un constat amer : peut-on encore espérer une solution juste plutôt que finale ?

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Book Review: A Thousand Tiny Cuts - Society for the Anthropology of Work A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh (2023)

Check out this book review in Exertions (SAW’s short-form web publication): Radhika Moral's review of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh. If you would like to review a book, please reach out to our editors.

Rounding out our list of most-read articles published in 2025 is Jose Leonardo Santos's "'Eliminate anthropology': Attitudes toward social science in the public discourse" #Anthropology

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And I had the immense privilege to illustrate the book cover 🍉🍉🍉

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library This article is part of the special issue “Laboring from Ex-Centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity and Work”, Anthropology of Work Review 46(1), July 2025, edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksc...

Check out @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Anthropology of Work Review's most read article of 2025: “Activism Was a Survival Strategy”: Chronic Illness & the Power of Endometriosis Activism as Work @anikakoenig.bsky.social & Caroline Meier zu Biesen anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Books Available for Review - Society for the Anthropology of Work If you would like to review any of these or other work-related books, please contact Dr. Samuel Weeks at samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu. Descriptions can be found

If you would like to review a book for Exertions, SAW’s web-based publication, here is the list of titles available for review.
Contact editors Sam Weeks (samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu) and Thea Mercer (theaproxy@gmail.com).