Shit’s Getting Real: A Cultural Analysis of Toilet Paper

Grant Jun Otsuki To cite this article: Grant Jun Otsuki (2020) Shit’s Getting Real: A Cultural Analysis of Toilet Paper, Anthropology Now, 12:3, 15-23, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884487 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1884487 Since its first detection in China in December 2019, COVID-19 has spread with alarming speed and lethality, thoroughly transforming daily life around the […]

The Fire this Time?

Michael L. Blakey To cite this article: Michael L. Blakey (2020) The Fire this Time?, Anthropology Now, 12:3, 39-49, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884486 Michael L. Blakey The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn? Hmm. Anthropology was burning before I began my undergraduate career at Howard University in 1975. At least that’s when I first smelled the smoke. I […]

December 2020

INTRODUCING A NEW ANTHROPOLOGY NOW TEAM MEMBER Photo Editor IntroductionSydney Silverstein ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC COVID-19 in Bulgaria: Moral Economy as Pandemic ReliefJana Tsoneva  Shit’s Getting Real: A Cultural Analysis of Toilet PaperGrant Jun Otsuki Age, Isolation and Inequality in the Time of COVID-19Elana Buch and Jessica Robbins “THE CASE FOR LETTING ANTHROPOLOGY BURN […]

Fear, Contradiction, and Coloniality in Settler Archaeology

Valerie Bondura To cite this article: Valerie Bondura (2020) Fear, Contradiction, and Coloniality in Settler Archaeology, Anthropology Now, 12:3, 146-155, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884483 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1884483 Repatriation and Erasing the Past (University Press of Florida 2020), by Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer, is a polemic against the repatriation of Indigenous heritage, including […]

April 2021

April 2021 | Volume 13 | Number 1 Introduction Introduction: Where Do We Go From Here? Lucas Bessire                                                                Features Field Notes from a Fever […]

Doni the Anthropologist’s Dog: A Scent of Ethnographic Fieldwork

George Kunnath To cite this article: George Kunnath (2020) Doni the Anthropologist’s Dog: A Scent of Ethnographic Fieldwork, Anthropology Now, 12:3, 106-121, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884482 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1884482 Doni the anthropologist’s dog—this is how he came to be known in Krantipur, a forested region in the state of Jharkhand in eastern India. Doni […]

Where Have All the Children Gone? Against Children’s Invisibility in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Julie Spray & Jean Hunleth To cite this article: Julie Spray & Jean Hunleth (2020) Where Have All the Children Gone? Against Children’s Invisibility in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Anthropology Now, 12:2, 39-52, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1824856To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1824856 Teuila, a Tongan migrant living in New Zealand, and sisters Abby and Chiko, who live in […]

What to Do with Surveillance Capitalism?

To cite this article: Jenny Huberman (2020) What to Do with Surveillance Capitalism?, Anthropology Now, 12:2, 94-100, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1824760To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2020.1824760   Jenny Huberman Shoshana Zuboff. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. London: Profile Books. 691 pages. Every now and […]

War Through the Looking Glass: Portraits of Former FARC Guerrillas in the “Truck Camera”

To cite this article: Alexander L. Fattal & Julián Mejía Villa (2020) War Through the Looking Glass: Portraits of Former FARC Guerrillas in the “Truck Camera”, Anthropology Now, 12:2, 70-79, DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1825301 Alexander L. Fattal & Julián Mejía Villa Explaining how and why I recorded life-his- tory interviews with former guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed […]

The Habitus of Agglomeration: Crowding and (Non) Compliance in an Indian City

Karen Coelho & Mathangi Krishnamurthy Introduction: Crowds and the City Distancing, isolation and the thinning out of public spaces in Indian cities have offered up new pastoral landscapes of delight for the urban dweller—clean air, summer blooms, wind- swept highways and assorted wildlife crossing streets.1 The quiet that has overtaken our cities is being celebrated as […]