Findings presents short reviews of scholarly articles that highlight emerging anthropological research. Findings is written by a student collective from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Street scene in Beirut. Asef Bayat. 2012. “Politics in the City-Inside-Out” City and Society 24, 2:110–128. In cities such as Beirut and Cairo, the quiet everyday ways that poor people reappropriate space from the rich in…
To what extent do college anthropology departments unknowingly reproduce academic spaces in which being white is the norm? Critically taking on race, racism, and racial practices within anthropology, Brodkin, Morgen, and Hutchinson argue…
Surrealist painter René Magritte’s famous painting “The Treachery of Images” displays a drawing of a pipe with the caption “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (this is not a pipe). The painting points out a…
Anthropology courses often teach us to recognize the humanity in others. Introductory textbooks reveal the logic behind social practices of native peoples, inviting the reader to identify with foreign cultures. At the same time, the desire…
Frantz Fanon’s powerful and enduring legacy has deeply inspired contemporary social movements organized by the poor in post-Apartheid South Africa. Fanon summed his relentless criticism of hierarchies, even within anticolonial…
Trauma site museums are dedicated to historic events of mass suffering, such as genocide or war, and are often built at the site of such events. How can these museums themselves act as living records of violence and trauma? What role do…
The Nimiipuu people of the Pacific Northwest (more commonly known as the Nez Perce Indians) have a close, interdependent relationship with salmon. This fish has long been central to their diet, rituals, stories, and understanding of the environment,…
On September 22, 2010, Tyler Clementi, a gay freshman at Rutgers University, committed suicide. Many held his roommate responsible for the tragedy: Dharun Ravi had spied on Clementi’s rendezvous with a male friend and tweeted about…
CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Akissi Britton, Risa Cromer, Chris Grove, Carwil James, Martha Lincoln, Michael Polson, Sophie Statzel, John Warner This column, a new regular contribution to Anthropology Now, will highlight emerging…
CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Akissi Britton, Risa Cromer, Chris Grove, Carwil James, Martha Lincoln, Michael Polson, Sophie Statzel, John Warner This column, a new regular contribution to Anthropology Now, will highlight emerging…