Tension explores how rapid development in the Western Himalayas affects the minds and bodies of the Gaddi people through the multifaceted state of distress they call “tension.”
🗓️ 19th March 2026
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📍SOAS University of London
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Check out the new Special Issue of the JRAI, on Nightmare Egalitarianism: why equality is experienced very differently across contexts. With contributions by Florian Mühlfried, Sam Wilby, Greg Deshoulliere and Natalia Buitron, Sam Farrell, & Matthew Carey rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679655...
Deutschland halt
I'm giving my inaugural lecture on "Complicity and Complexity in Social Anthropology", tomorrow 6pm UK time www.lse.ac.uk/events/socia...
I'm giving a lecture on 'complexity and complicity in social anthropology', online and at LSE, on 5th March www.lse.ac.uk/events/socia...
Check out this photo from the recent seminar on Rosemary Firth’s Letters at LSE, organised by @steinmuller.bsky.social
The PB of Love, Loyalty and Deceit: Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men by Hugh Firth & Loulou Brown is 25% OFF until Friday with code FIRTH25: bit.ly/4rgxpa4
I'm giving a lecture on 'complexity and complicity in social anthropology', online and at LSE, on 5th March www.lse.ac.uk/events/socia...
New JRAI Special Issue: Nightmare Egalitarianism. On the dark sides of levelling and measurement, with articles on Amazonia, Burma, Georgia, India, Malawi, Morocco, and the Ancient Near East. All contributions are online 'early view' rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The latest OPEN ACCESS special issue of Social Analysis has been published! View the TOC and more for "Experiments in Moral Order: Doing and Undoing Authority": bit.ly/4sFoO21
Guest Edited by Anick Vollebergh and @naomivanstapele.bsky.social
Panel Discussion on Rosemary Firth's Letters, and the book Love, Loyalty, and Deceit. With Loulou Brown, Hugh Firth, Janet Carsten and Jonathan Spencer, 6th Feb 5pm, at LSE. Full description here www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology..., Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/rosemary-f...
New Special Issue out with @socialanalysis.bsky.social : Experiments in Moral Order, or Un-doing authority, guested edited by Anick Vollebergh and Naomi van Stapele, with contributions by Mohamed, Van der Veer, Hird-Younger, Kloos, and Jauregui. www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
China as Context - a volume on Anthropology, post-globalisation and the neglect of China. Now open access! www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
China as Context: Anthropology, post-globalisation and the neglect of China - ed. Wu Di, Andrea Pia and Ed Pulford, and with contributions by Alessandro Rippa, Qiu Yu, Caroline Humphrey, Tan Tongxue, Jennifer Hubert, Uradyn Bulag and Zhang Yang. Open Access: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Not sure that's helpful for the students, but I strongly recommend I love Dick by Chris Krauss, and I always thought someone should connect that with Hebdige on British subculture. Maybe someone has?
this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.
wow: algorithmic pricing means you'll be priced individually, at every instance, depending on your shopping behaviour. I wonder if that's happening in my supermarket too?
our Tuesday quote:
"For anthropology, time is not one but many." Written by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov. Found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/time
Now available as our new podcast episode: M. Krause's talk on "Model Cases" in global science.
blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks...
RIP Keith Hart, 1943-2025🙏
I'd go for number 1
Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The DFG Emmy Noether Research Group ,Situated Care: Subjectivity, Knowledge, and Labor' is looking for 3 Doctoral Students (m/f/d) for an ethnographic study of peer support work across the German speaking countries.
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I'm giving a lecture, next year 5th March www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology...
Update: 128,000.
Accept this is slightly wild now.
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Call for Special Issues at the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, deadline is 24th November 2025 www.berghahnjournals.com/fileasset/Ca...
Vacancy: Faculty position in Anthropology (Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor) at HKUST apply.interfolio.com/174839
