“The book’s surface realism—that great boon to writers—is abundant and busy and life-sown: muri wallas, pillow-fillers, guava sellers, a man who grinds tobacco in his palm, not to mention theatrical […]
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Covid-19 and Student Focused Concerns: Threats and Possiblities
Veena Das and Naveeda Khan have recently put together an essay collection titled “Covid-19 and Student Focused Concerns: Threats and Possibilities” available at the American Ethnological Society website.
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JHU Anthropology Spring 2020 Colloquium Series
Feb 5 Charles King, Georgetown University, “Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the 20th Century” Feb 18 […]
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Mintz Student Fellowship call for Proposals 2020
We are very pleased to announce the fourth annual Sidney Mintz Student Fellowships for Field Research. Professor Mintz inaugurated the fund in the fall of 2015, by re-assigning funds from […]
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Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data Presents
The Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data presents ” The Data Environment and the New University” February 24, 12 pm to 3 pm Mergenthaler 426
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Anthropology Spring Seminar presents Charles Hallisey, Harvard University
Please join us for the Anthropology Department’s Spring 2020 Colloquium series as we present Charles Hallisey, Harvard University, and his talk, “Encountering the Contours of the Moral Person: Insights on […]
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Anthropology Spring Seminar presents Charles King, Georgetown University
Please join us on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., for the first of the JHU Anthropology Spring 2020 Colloquium Series, presenting Charles King, Georgetown University Mergenthaler 426 Dinner […]
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Graduate Student Arpan Roy Publishes Article in Anthropological Theory
Graduate Student Arpan Roy has a new article in Anthropological Theory on the relationship between kinship theory in anthropology and the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy.
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Prof. Veena Das Blog Post on Anthropological Theory Commons
In this blog post on Anthropological Theory Commons, Veena Das argues for the importance of vernacular intellectuals to help us understand how torture has become a routine tool of national […]
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Prof. Anand Pandian Awarded Infosys Prize 2019 in Social Sciences
“The Infosys Prize 2019 in Social Sciences is awarded to Prof. Anand Pandian for his brilliantly imaginative work on ethics, selfhood and the creative process. Pandian’s research is notable for […]