Rafael Sánchez Cacheiro
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by Sean Mallin
5d ago
1950–2024 Rafael Sánchez Cacheiro, retired senior lecturer at the Geneva Graduate Institute, passed away on February 22, 2024, in Geneva, after a valiant battle with cancer. Born in Havana, Cuba, Sánchez lived briefly in Miami before his family migrated first to Spain and then to Venezuela. He obtained his formal education in Caracas, and then California, before moving to the University of Chicago to further his studies in anthropology, ultimately obtaining his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. Before joining the Geneva Graduate Institute, he taught at several institutions, including t ..read more
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Karen Donne (Kaddee) Vitelli
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by Sean Mallin
1w ago
1944–2023 Karen Donne (Kaddee) Vitelli died on September 12, 2013, at the age of 79 in the town of Dresden, Maine, where she had been living since her retirement from Indiana University in 2006. Kaddee attended the College of Wooster in Ohio and spent her junior year at the study abroad program, College Year in Athens, where she would get firsthand experience in the classics and archaeology. After graduating from Wooster, Kaddee enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania. Initially attracted to underwater archaeology at Penn, Kaddee had to settle for land archaeology, as ..read more
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Digital Water Flows to Everyone
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by Sean Mallin
2w ago
This piece was selected as a winner of the AAA’s AnthroDay Student Unessay Competition in the high school division. This year’s unessay competition focused on the topic of Technology and how it has impacted human life or society. Students were encouraged to think creatively about the topic and respond to the prompt in a format they see fit. Acknowledgements to the committee: Carla Guerron Montero (University of Delaware) and Andrea Kim Neighbors (Blue Star Families). The post Digital Water Flows to Everyone appeared first on Anthropology News ..read more
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From Darkness to Infinite
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by Sean Mallin
2w ago
This piece was selected as a runner-up of the AAA’s AnthroDay Student Unessay Competition in the high school division. This year’s unessay competition focused on the topic of Technology and how it has impacted human life or society. Students were encouraged to think creatively about the topic and respond to the prompt in a format they see fit. Acknowledgements to the committee: Carla Guerron Montero (University of Delaware) and Andrea Kim Neighbors (Blue Star Families). Let me know next steps. Meanwhile, for my next trick, I’ll figure out what to use instead of bookshop.org for awar ..read more
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Choices
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by Sean Mallin
2w ago
This piece was selected as a winner of the AAA’s AnthroDay Student Unessay Competition in the middle school division. This year’s unessay competition focused on the topic of Technology and how it has impacted human life or society. Students were encouraged to think creatively about the topic and respond to the prompt in a format they see fit. Acknowledgements to the committee: Carla Guerron Montero (University of Delaware) and Andrea Kim Neighbors (Blue Star Families). The post Choices appeared first on Anthropology News ..read more
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Being Global and Chinese on WeChat
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by Sean Mallin
1M ago
Does using WeChat qualify someone to be “Chinese”? “So, you are not like a real Chinese . . . I mean, you are just someone who has Chinese heritage, right?” This was what one of my interlocutors, Fangyi, said to me in the middle of our in-person interview after I told her that I do not use WeChat, except for research purposes, as none of my friends or families were on the app. Currently holding a permanent residence visa (永住者) in Japan, Fangyi came to the country six years ago from her hometown, Shanghai, initially as a student. Upon finishing her higher education, she began to work as a medic ..read more
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Once and Future Worlds in Fukushima Japan: Postdisaster as Emptiness and Remainder
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by Sean Mallin
1M ago
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake off the coast of Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture generated a tsunami that washed away whole neighborhoods and led to a series of nuclear meltdowns in the nearby Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. As a result of the ensuing nuclear contamination, towns near the power plant were evacuated and closed to residents. In some cases, as in the town of Futaba, this state of evacuation emergency lasted for over a decade, as tens of thousands of workers, including large numbers of migrants and unhoused individuals, collected and bagged contaminated topsoil and ..read more
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Of Children and Big Trucks
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by Sean Mallin
1M ago
Photograph of a downtown Ottawa street with trucks blocking traffic during the Freedom Convoy. At the front of the vehicles are placards protesting vaccine mandates, wishing freedom for children, and thanking the truckers. There are also Canadian flags and people, and in the background are traffic lights and buildings. Credit: Martin Alarie, Agence QMI, Journal de Montréal, 2022-02-13 A blocked downtown Ottawa street during the Freedom Convoy. A First Image: Love and Freedom One spring morning, in a clinician’s office in Québec, a mother and child talk passionately about the good times th ..read more
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¡Dispara las chelas!
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by Sean Mallin
1M ago
Note: this piece contains strong language and sexual content. “Cruising” for Chacales in La Cantina “They are, but are not. There are many, but not so many,” Enrique explains to me after I ask him, “Are chacales gay?” We are drinking over fresh chicharrones with two other queer individuals in La Cantina Tobahalá—or just La Cantina—in Oaxaca City, Mexico. Fellow patrons are drinking and singing while giving each other subtle “looks.” Although the chelas (beers) are icy, they only provide temporary relief from the insistent humidity outside. Even if the beers pair well with the chicharrones, I w ..read more
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Battling against Air-e
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by Sean Mallin
1M ago
“Could you imagine heat like this without a fan?,” people in San Juan del Cesar ask rhetorically, while sweating. As a municipality in the southern part of La Guajira, Colombia, San Juan del Cesar is one of the sunniest and hottest places in the tropical country, with temperatures that exceed 30°C (86°F) every day of the year. The sky in San Juan del Cesar is clear during most of the daylight hours, so objects seem to melt in the constant light; fresh air from a sporadic breeze always feels like a blessing. Between San Juan del Cesar’s leaden sun and hot Caribbean air, electricity is paramount ..read more
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