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Blue background that reads "check out:" next to an image of the front cover of the journal "Practicing Anthropology" over text that links users to Dada Docot's Photo Essay at https://doi.org/10.1080/08884552.2025.2497233

Check out Docot's "Photos from the Migrant Archive" in the latest #PracticingAnthropology at www.tandfonline.com/... #Anthropology #SfAA

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Come check out our session at #SfAA2025 next week. We're celebrating 60 years of Applied Anthropology at the University of South Florida.

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Our Theory Sale is live 👀

Are you interested in serving the Society for Applied Anthropology (@appliedanthro.bsky.social) in a leadership capacity? Curious to learn what that entails and how that works? Come join the members of the board in Portland for an informal chat.

It’s so great to be back 🤩 Thank you @jcgaillard.bsky.social & @ajfaas.bsky.social for opening Season 10 with us today 🤓
And for those of you who missed the livestream, you can catch up on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/yVLOccX...

Excited to join this conversation with brilliant colleagues, JC Gaillard @jcgaillard.bsky.social, Jason von Meding @vonmeding.bsky.social, and Ksenia Chmutina @kschmutina.bsky.social. We'll be talking philosophy, nature, and disasters, and heaven knows what else will come up with such great company.

Job Opportunity!

University of California Berkeley

Oral Historian of Recent US History Oral History Center, Bancroft Library

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Cover of The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader. Edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Rana

The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader—edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Rana—is an anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of #anthropology.

Out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

This is 100% true, but it's also much funnier now that I'd practically forgotten this conversation!

I've chosen to publish in @jds-disasters.bsky.social because that's where some of the most critical conversations in disaster studies are taking place. What was my first clue? @kschmutina.bsky.social told me so!

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An image metaphorically depicting political attacks on academic freedom by showing a man's mouth taped shut with blue and red tape.

My comments about Diamond/Hancock also reminded me...Remember, attacks against scholarship are coming!

Step 1: Find some super-niche research.

Step 2: Strip it of all context.

Step 3: Ridicule the scholar. Then, denounce the field.

Step 4: Call for federal funding cuts and bans.

The deadline for the Bronislaw #Malinowski Award is Dec. 15. #SfAA presents the Award to a social scientist who has demonstrated a commitment to understanding & addressing the needs of global societies. www.appliedanthro.org/about/awards...
#socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology #SfAA2025

Any reading recommendations for first generation professionals? As a first gen student myself, I've learned to be an effective mentor. But I speak with former students who are now professionals and struggle with socially integrating into those spaces, with cultivating professional habitus

Join the Risk & Disaster TIG for a workshop on online harassment of applied scholars on Nov 25, Noon ET. It is open to all - academics, practitioners, & government employees at all career stages. Please register at bit.ly/RDTIGWebinar
#SfAA #socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology

Deeply probing, stimulating, and wonderfully well crafted essays by my old friend, apparently not yet on bsky. But do yourselves a favor

If you're at #AAA2024 in Tampa, come join my friends and I this Friday afternoon as we share work on ruination, praxis, resistance, and worlding alternatives. @sbalkan5.bsky.social @dominicboyer.bsky.social

My copy just arrived today. Looking forward to reading

Are you an anthropologist working in Latin American or the Caribbean? Or maybe you just want to know more about the region? Here's a starter pack of some of the members of SLACA (The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology): go.bsky.app/LGV4jHn

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:

Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47

Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429

Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3

Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2

Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0

Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0

"Atmospheric Violence" by Omer Aijazi

"Atmospheric Violence" by Omer Aijazi

If you're looking for options, try the NEW open access Journal of Disaster Studies. Abstracts in English, Korean, and Spanish. Please spread the word! And please contact me if you have an idea to pitch. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53160

San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor, Applied-Biological Anthropology

My department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology. Apply now tinyurl.com/mt56h2ct

Cool to find in "In the Shadow of Tungurahua" displayed alongside
Joe Feldman's excellent "Memories before the State" at the Rutgers University Press table in Toronto.

I'm thrilled about this wonderful review of "In the Shadow of Tungurahua" in the journal Exertions: tinyurl.com/ExerTung
Have you had a chance to read it yet? I welcome all sorts of notes and feedback.

I'm incredibly appreciative of this excellent review of "In the Shadow of Tungurahua" by @kschmutina.bsky.social and Jason von Meding in their special issue of Disaster Prevention and Management. tinyurl.com/ISoTungRev