Weโre excited to announce the publication of three new books coming this winter!
@Ian_G_Bairdโs new book will be released in December, Michael Berkowitzโs in January, and @jessefivecoate and @andreakittaโs in January!
For more on fall/winter titles: https://t.co/XMQEYWQCCB
I passed my dissertation defense last Friday! I could not have done this without my wonderful committee and my amazing friends. Yโall are the absolute best!!!
This isnโt good. Folklore has always precariously sat in the academy but we need this program (and more). WKUโs program has trained some of the best folklorists I know and every folklorist has a stake in its continued existence.
My alma mater @WKU Folk Studies is losing support & may have to be suspended. @WKU & @WKUPcal this program is a leader in our field,& so important especially now when work to understand & support tradition & cultural expression in both public and academic settings is critical
"In the end what counts is offering one's own work as it develops over time as an example of what anthropology is or can be. Each of us, as anthropologists, develops a highly personalized vision of the discipline, and that diversity weaves the fabric of anthropology."
Concerning the Possession and Unethical Use of the Remains of the Children of MOVE and the Africa Family:
A Collective Statement from @ABA_AAA, @SbaArch and @BlackinBioAnth
You can access it at: https://t.co/eqrruMoUwI
@anarparikh This is not surprising but still disheartening. Thinking back on my undergrad and grad courses, I think the only black anthropologists that we read were in classes specially on the anthropology of race and ethnicity. Iโve also encountered similar issues in folklore.
@allergyPhD Christine J. Walleyโs Exit Zero is good. Itโs also fairly short. It diverges a bit from autoethnography as she is doing โintimate ethnographyโ, which is ethnography of family in this case.
What if we were more candid about this, that one writing movingly aims to cast a spell, that "spellbinding" is more than a metaphor meant for back-cover blurbs, that there is in fact something uncanny, possessive, even world-bending, in the power of limpid prose?