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Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Eight Years Without My Mother: What I Carry, What I’m Learning, and What Still Hurts Opinion: Akida Pulat - Daughter of Uyghur Anthropologist Rahile Dawut

Eight Years Without My Mother: What I Carry, What I’m Learning, and What Still Hurts
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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.”

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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...

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Complexity and complicity in social anthropology | Hans Steinmüller 6pm Thurs 5 Mar | Hans Steinmüller | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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...

Nightmare egalitarianism: Commensuration, autonomy, and imagination Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for underst...

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...

Mokõi Guyra´i - Quemil Yambay YouTube video by Paraguayanmusic

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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...

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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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?

Context Widows or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement

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?

Time Time, from an anthropological perspective, is culturally specific and inseparable from our understanding of the world and our place in it. Anthropology charts how and to what extent time is…

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.
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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...