😲 reviews at ATC 😲
* Katie Ulrich reviews Alyssa Battistoni's Free Gifts www.at-commons.com/pub/sf5j1t4z...
* David Sutton (with Peter Wogan) reviews the film Parthenope for its commentary on anthropology www.at-commons.com/pub/lfn84w3z...
📢 new on ATC 📢
Julia Eckert writes on the need to contend with the joys of fascism
www.at-commons.com/pub/mg782jp2...
check out Charles Dolph's "The new coin clippers: on the hoardlessness of cryptocurrency and the US dollar." Dolph makes sense of crypto for us and then uses it to understand trends in contemporary capitalism. All in under 3,000 words! You're welcome.
www.at-commons.com/pub/mujnbk8r...
Matan Kaminer provides a personal review of Balthasar's "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left," a book that feels particularly vital given the "genocide in Palestine... and supercharged McCarthyism in the US."
www.at-commons.com/pub/c058ru1q...
Yet paying attention to how Palestinians navigate the assaults on their world, which are meant to punish, degrade, and dehumanize them, lets us all see the captive dead body as a site of refusal and anticolonial resistance. Alongside the horrors of death, we have witnessed the haunting images of children collecting and carrying the body parts of their parents in plastic bags, Palestinians reburying the bodies of the dead according to tradition, and writing names on body bags so that they may be identified. These moments of endurance should not be celebrated as resiliency—doing so entails accepting the crazed, colonial-manufactured conditions that Palestinians were miraculously able to survive. Rather, these moments of witnessing the living lend a form of dignity to the dead in its revocation should be understood as a rejection of Israel’s sovereignty and colonization. The dead body becomes a site of anticolonial resistance for the living, an example of Palestinian refusals to relinquish autonomy over death, and a form of self-determination and agency that is necessary to imagine and achieve liberation for both land and its peoples.
Amid genocidal violence in Gaza, "the dead body becomes a site of anticolonial resistance for the living, an example of Palestinian refusals to relinquish autonomy over death, and a form of self-determination and agency that is necessary to imagine and achieve liberation."
From the archive. An anthropologist reports on the impediments to labor organizing—and why it’s still worth trying. Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/amaz...
Submit your book nominations to the Sutlive Book Prize!
It goes to the best book published in prior year, in any discipline, that makes use of anthropological perspectives in order to examine historical contexts and/or the role of the past in the present.
www.wm.edu/as/anthropol...
In ATC, Adrienne Cohen considers how conceptions of inalienability - what parts of you can you never lose, can you never give away? - are fundamental for understanding various human conceptions of personhood.
www.at-commons.com/pub/8wem4ske...
New in ATC: Anna Willow argues that, given war and climate change, anthropology should embrace a postapocalyptic turn:
www.at-commons.com/pub/6kdi8mfu...
rounding out Ghostly Lessons are two reflective pieces:
* Emma Kowal considers how an anthropologist can haunt www.at-commons.com/pub/givlpi3v...
* Warwick Anderson comments on the series, theorizing ghosts act as of noise in a system www.at-commons.com/pub/3ngd8x6m...
today in Ghostly Lessons we have two contributions considering the treatment of human remains:
* Thiago Barbosa and Amanda Domingues on human remains identification methods www.at-commons.com/pub/x2v2mu1j...
* Trevor Engel on how museums hold bodies www.at-commons.com/pub/bi2wxnk4...
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two more in Ghostly Lessons!
* Ricardo Roque considers the ghostly dynamic of the historical archive www.at-commons.com/pub/u9q4ocbz...
* Lisette Jong asks if orangutans can speak and whether they conjure ghosts of human evolution science www.at-commons.com/pub/pneeteps...
continuing our roll out of Ghostly Lessons:
*Vivette García-Deister on forensic scientists' attempts to identify deceased migrants: www.at-commons.com/pub/dbu8b0wc...
* Lydia Gibson on mediums, refractions, and the inner lives of ghosts www.at-commons.com/pub/ybaqzlrr...
* Mara Dicenta on terraforming beavers and those who would exterminate them, all occurring in the penumbra of settler colonialism and indigenous erasure www.at-commons.com/pub/inj74h5t...
* Michelle Bootcov on the strange travels of the Hep-B virus, and on the haunting nature of viruses generally. www.at-commons.com/pub/wyvbup7c...
Two more in our Ghostly Lessons series:
we are thrilled to announce Ghostly Lessons, a new special Theory Forum at ATC, edited by Emma Kowal and Amanda Domingues. Their intro is here www.at-commons.com/pub/k3r17d8f... and keep checking our @ as the entire Forum will be rolled out in the next two weeks here: www.at-commons.com/ghosts
see Public Anthro's important Special Issue "On Speaking Out: Refusing Complicity with Genocide" brill.com/view/journal...
can we interest any anthropologists (of security, capitalism, logistics, war, their intersections) in reviewing the new Mezz and Neil @versobooks.bsky.social? Those two are always a good time
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
anyone want to review, in an anthropological theoretical vein, this new one on late Marx? So much to sink teeth into, given anthro's recent and longstanding concerns with colonialism, gender, and communism (indigenous and otherwise).
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
check out Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS) Magazine's new issue: ‘Excess’
fittingly, there's too much good stuff in there:
www.cusas.socanth.cam.ac.uk/magazine-hom...
AT author Cheryl Mattingly reflects on how she does theory
www.at-commons.com/pub/pcmcrp4w..., examining how anthro takes on phenomenology can assist in grasping how we think about stigma and disability. Her interview continues our series with AT authors, see here: www.at-commons.com/interviews
Hurray - „Leaking panic as policy“, now published! Thanks so much @anthrotheory.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
we are soliciting anthropologists to review books of theory for how they apply to anthro (see here www.at-commons.com/reviews). Pitch us, and we'll get you a book for your trouble (press willing)
feeling like we are in weeks where decades happen? want to theorize it, anthropologically? see www.at-commons.com and submit something.
📰new article📰 by Sarah Haggar tackles Victor Turner's concept of communitas, arguing for a more nuanced understanding of the underdeveloped concept journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
any economic anthros (or adjacent) interested in reviewing Immanent Externalities for ATC? www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2403-i...
🚀 New Website! 🚀
#BlueAnthro - we at Anthro Theory Commons are pleased to announce that our new website at-commons.com is up!
This website can mint DOIs, which, when combined with our peer review process, makes your short-form theory more recognizable as scholarly text.
