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Doing Archaeology in “Meatspace” and “Metaspace”
Get PDFThis review critiques Andrew Reinhard's Archaeogaming. Reinhard presents a compelling introduction to archaeogaming, the archeaology in and of video games. Through an examination of several different themes, Reinhard creates an accessible book of theory and method, as well as opens multiple pathways for future research
Overheating, or “what happens when we rub our hands without a built-in thermostat”
Get PDFThomas Hylland Eriksen's book is an "outline and an overview" of an anthropology of accelerated change. Through analysing the various runaway processes that underlie crises of globalisation he defines the current interconnected world as a system of clashing scales that needs to be approached anthropologically through adding fresh and more encompassing methods
Living: On Silence, Speech and Witness after Hiroshima
Get PDFThis submission is a review of the ethnographic film, The Day the Sun Fell, by Aya Domenig (director and author). The review explores both the substance and the ethnographic narrative strategy of this film. The work is addressed as an intimate ethnography of survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, as explored by the director/author whose late grandfather was a survivor, conducted with the close cooperation and involvement of her grandmother. The work presents an interactive exploration of historic film footage of the bombing and its aftermath together with commentary and recollection by survivors. During the course of the filming, the Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred and the frame of the film was expanded to address nuclear radiation more widely. This review engages the film’s themes of living with, speaking of and witnessing nuclear bombing/disaster as a challenge in thinking about how to live in the present
Urban Archaeology and Foodways in South Carolina
Get PDFBook review of Charleston: An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community, by Martha Zierden and Elizabeth J. Reitz
How to Become Part of Anthropology
Get PDFUsing Anthropology in the World: A Guide to Becoming an Anthropologist Practitioner by Riall W. Nolan (2017) offers aspiring anthropologists a thorough look at the discipline as well as essential core competencies. Unlike some career-oriented books, Nolan’s work does not end with the reader having successfully finished graduate school. He walks future anthropologists not only through getting their first job, but also the nuances of building a long-term career
Book review for Reading the Bones, Activity, Biology and Culture by Elizabeth Weiss (2017)
No full textReviewer: Diane Martin-Moya, Ph.D candidate in Bioarcheology (Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal)The book Reading the Bones, Activity, Biology and Culture considers the study of bones’ features as an essential question when observing osteological variation – Is the environment a suitable explanation over genetic selection and as a bioarcheologist is it possible to study specific markers to reconstruct past population activity pattern?. The approach to this question is original and is supported by a large and varied selection of studies in addition to an exhaustive glossary. This book considers issues encountered in bioarcheological studies (human and animal) and offer an overview of the methodologies that have been used on specific aspect of the bone. Through modern clinical and genetic studies, the author compared or correlated archaeological studies ranging from general analysis to specific material culture elements. This book includes a wide variety of examples from the late prehistoric to nowadays, while also covering a large territory and chronology and a corresponding relevant literature. These elements make the book of interest to a large audience among bioarcheologists
The Socialization of the Financial Instruments
Get PDFAccording to Edward LiPuma, a dominant name in anthropology of finance, we now live in a new and transformative phase of capitalism in which the proportion of wealth “held in financial as opposed to physical assets” is constantly increasing. This monetary capitalism is growingly marked by financialization, speculation, risks, creation of derivative instruments, and circulation rather than production. To comprehend the economy of present and its politics, LiPuma argues, we need an adequate theorization of the social life of the new financial instruments such as the derivatives (p. 2). His project, thus, aims to offer an articulate social theory of the derivative, its markets, and the agency of those who drive. He investigates the interrelated dynamics between the social, the culture and the subjectivity that engender the derivative and simultaneously are transformed by it. Institutions of knowledge and finance are central to this dynamic whose main function is reproducing the derivative-driven capitalism