Founded in 1980, the Society for the Anthropology of Work seeks to advance the study of work in all its aspects by scholars from across the discipline.
Joined January 2014
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This book is hella good. Can't believe I haven't read it til now, seems like something everyone should read in college, even just to see research done so well
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🎥Severance Season 2 drops Jan 17!
Dive into SAW’s @anthrowork “Exertions” Thematic Collection for short commentaries on Season 1, exploring its themes through an anthropological lens.
👉Severance Collection: saw.americananthro.org/sever…
#Severance #Anthropology #SAWExertions
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🏆 we revamped our distinguished scholar award to a Distinguished Service Prize, to acknowledge the invisible labor that goes into creating community and institutions
and our winner is Zeina Zaatari, Director of the Arab American Cultural Center (@ArabAmCC) @thisisUIC
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This year I finally finished my book, Free Gifts, which will be out in August with @PrincetonUPress press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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@SarahBesky explores the unseen side of Indian tea plantations: labor, social reproduction, and the everyday acts that sustain these spaces. Workers' lives aren’t just about crops they're about care, community, and survival within systems of production. 🔗 bit.ly/49p69hr
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2-year postdoc available at Tufts University, as part of a @MellonFdn engaged project on environment, labor, agriculture, commons, and education. Open to all humanities and hum soc sci fields, including anthropology and geography. Applications due Feb 1.
humanities.tufts.edu/postdoc…
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In our new issue, Gregory Hallin on professional wrestling & work:
"Through consideration of a unionization drive in British pro wrestling, I explore how wrestling speaks to labor at the intersection of the precarious gig economy & post-truth politics."
journal.culanth.org/index.ph…
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I encourage everyone interested in cultural anthropology to read David C. Thompson's and Tarini Bedi's award-winning work and our accompanying jury note. Their bold and innovative insights into social life are sure to expand your thinking about our world! culanth.org/about/about-the-…
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The Life and Death of the American Worker- book review by @tomphilpott
The powerless—and courageous—immigrants fighting for dignity inside the country’s slaughterhouses.
democracyjournal.org/magazin…
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I am honored to be co-winner with @anthrodave of the 2024 Cultural Horizons Prize. Thank you @culanth for this and especially to the jury of graduate students who read the work so thoughtfully and imaginatively.
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Congrats to Naisargi N. Davé whose book "Indifference" is the winner of the 2024 Gregory Bateson Prize, given by @culanth!
dukeupress.edu/indifference
ALT Cover of Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being by Naisargi N. Davé. The cover is light gray, and features drawings of different people from the torso up, with empty thought and speech bubbles over their heads. There are several animals around the people, including a cheetah, deer, birds, a cat, and a dog. There are also multicolored circles patterned around the people.
Come to the SAW business meeting this Wednesday (the 20th) at 11:45am EST. Come find out how to get involved, and our new initiatives. ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
Last call for this wonderful proposed AWR special issue on 'Radicalization and Gig Economies.' Manuscripts due this Friday: saw.americananthro.org/pub/c…
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Proud to have edited this incredible collection of essays on Anthropology in a Time of Genocide: On Nakba and Return with Kamala Visweswaran. Part one: culanth.org/fieldsights/seri…
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My late Métis grandfather stood up for his fellow workers on dangerous road building projects he worked on as a heavy machine operator (bulldozer). Do not let anthropological imaginaries of ‘Indigenous’ life obscure many of our ancestors fought fiercely as labour activists, too.
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In our latest issue, @amrita_kurian traces connections between experts’ pedagogies & a parasite's attractive bloom, examining the affective responses surrounding experts’ day-to-day technoscientific management of environmental sustainability initiatives
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It has come to the AAUP's attention that there has been misinformation regarding the ad hoc Committee of Inquiry at @Muhlenberg College.
The Committee is proceeding with its work & will be conducting interviews from October 31 - November 2 via ZOOM.
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Bumping this up, and please circulate widely. We are still looking for mentor/mentee candidates for this exciting initiative to produce better relations and work in the publication process. Please don't be shy!
