May Your Classroom Be a Sea Change: Further Thoughts on Teaching about Palestine
Maura Finkelstein I am still haunted by the stolen homes I encountered in East Jerusalem in June of 2018. I was in Palestine for two weeks, traveling through the region with 12 other American academics, all interested in learning about the occupation through a settler colonial framework. One day, we wandered through the labyrinthine of […]
Ghost Dogs and Their Unwitting Accomplices
Stanley Gehrt Foreword, by Rylan Higgins Stan Gehrt and I “met” for the first time via Zoom in May of 2021. We talked for about an hour, and at some point, we learned that we grew up within about 45 minutes of each other in southeast Kansas. As an anthropologist, I have always found that […]
Overlaps, Disjunctures and Possibilities: Evolutionary Anthropology and Medical Practice in Conversa
Agustín Fuentes & Eleanor Lisa Lavadie-Gómez In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the complexity of human health in the 21st century is anything but straightforward. We know human beings evolve and integrate with and in their surroundings via a complex suite of physiological, behavioral and cultural patterns,1 but that is not how “health” is […]
When Animals Talk Back
Don Kulick On a beautiful autumn day in 2019, I found myself in southern England, sitting in a straight-backed chair, in a light, high-ceilinged hall that looked as if it normally is used as an exhibition space. In my lap, I was holding an 8×10 glossy photo- graph of Buddy, an adorable brown cockapoo: a […]