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I’m not as well-read on parenting books as I would like and unfort very few of them actually talk about science bc they think it doesn’t sell. However, I give these 2 as baby shower gifts. They don’t give advice; rather, they contextualize all the advice you will get within evolution and culture.
New post up on my website (almagottlieb.com) and on The Medium: "Election Guide for Immigrants: Cape Verde Edition"--about a 20-p. election guide (bilingual in English & Portuguese) that I helped create for Cape Verdeans in RI. DM me if you'd like to see the whole guide. medium.com/@ajgottli/el...
Election Guide for Immigrants: Cape Verde Edition
Only 40–50% of adult U.S. citizens vote in the midterms (U.S. Census Bureau). Perhaps the other 50–60% wonder: Midway between what?
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Join us at 7:30pm CEST tomorrow, October 14th, for the live premier of the KDE documentary. Thanks to @kde.org for making this film possible! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyz...
KDE: The Documentary — The Story of Free Software Underdogs
YouTube video by CultRepo
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New interview up on my blog with fellow anthropologist, Anand Pandian, about his brilliant new book, "Something between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and how to Take Them down." The book is a must-read for every American. almagottlieb.com/.../courageo...
Courageous Ethnography
A conversation between cultural anthropologists Alma Gottlieb, Claudia Strauss, & Anand Pandian about Pandian's new book, "Something between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take The...
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I'll be attending a protest this Sat., July 11, from 10 am to 11:30 am, in front of the Citizens Bank on Broad St. in Pawtuxet Village/Cranston, RI--to protest Citizens Bank's continuing funding of ICE prisons. Neighbors: you can sign up at the link below to join me! www.mobilize.us/deicecitizen...
De-ICE Citizens Bank, Pawtuxet Village, Cranston, RI - Coordinated Action · De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition
Join De-ICE CB RI/Cranston Forward Immigrant Justice Comm. and thousands of people across the country to send Citizens Bank a clear message: financing private prison and immigration detention facility...
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I'll be attending a protest this Sat., July 11, from 10 am to 11:30 am, in front of the Citizens Bank on Broad St. in Pawtuxet Village/Cranston -- to protest Citizens Bank's continuing funding of ICE prisons. Neighbors: you can sign up at the link below to join me! www.mobilize.us/deicecitizen...
De-ICE Citizens Bank, Pawtuxet Village, Cranston, RI - Coordinated Action · De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition
Join De-ICE CB RI/Cranston Forward Immigrant Justice Comm. and thousands of people across the country to send Citizens Bank a clear message: financing private prison and immigration detention facility...
mobilize.us
I'm attending De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition's event, “De-ICE Citizens Bank Cranston, RI - National Day of Action” this Saturday at 10 am. Sign up now to join me — or at one of 122 other locales across the Northeast! www.mobilize.us/deicecitizen...
De-ICE Citizens Bank Cranston, RI - National Day of Action · De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition
Join RI De-ICE Citizens Bank and thousands of people across the country on Saturday, June 6th to send Citizens Bank a clear message: financing private prison and immigration detention facility operato...
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IT'S HERE! Our 2026 Summer Reading Sale begins today and runs through June 12. Save 40% on available books from pennpress.org with code PENN-SUMMER26 and save 25% on individual journal subscriptions with code SUMMERJOURNAL26 in our journals cart! https://www.pennpress.org/2026-summer-reading-sale/
2026 Summer Reading Sale - University of Pennsylvania Press
Announcing Penn Press’s 2026 Summer Reading Sale! Through Friday, June 12, receive 40% off available books on pennpress.org with promo code PENN-SUMMER26 at checkout. Orders of $40 or more include... ...
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Honored by FeedSpot Reader I'm touched to learn that this blog has just been listed in a roundup of the 60 Best Anthropology Blogs to Follow in 2026 (listed at #25). Thank you to FeedSpot Reader for this honor. I will try hard to continue to earn it.
Honored by FeedSpot Reader
I'm touched to learn that this blog has just been listed in a roundup of the 60 Best Anthropology Blogs to Follow in 2026 (listed at #25). Thank you to FeedSpot Reader for this honor. I will try hard to continue to earn it.
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Indivisible RI to rally on Tuesday to demand Reed and Whitehouse oppose ICE funding open.substack.com/pub/steveahl...
Indivisible RI to rally on Tuesday to demand Reed and Whitehouse oppose ICE funding
"Rhode Island’s senators, Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, have not yet announced their commitment to joining with their colleagues to stand up to ICE."
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A Desperately-Needed Anthropological Perspective on Refugees: A Conversation with Sophia Balakian about Her Brilliant New Book, “Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship” A conversation with Sophia Balakian about her brilliant new book, "Unsettled Families:…
A Desperately-Needed Anthropological Perspective on Refugees: A Conversation with Sophia Balakian about Her Brilliant New Book, “Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship”
A conversation with Sophia Balakian about her brilliant new book, "Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship." Sophia concludes our conversation with this timely assertion: "The normalization of dehumanizing rhetoric and violence against immigrant communities, people who are undocumented, and those who support them has to be continually unsettled and undermined using whatever tools we have."
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Tracing Racial Histories: An Anthropologist Amuk in the Archives (also, Venezuela) In this conversation, I catch up with Robert ("Bob") Vernon, a friend who's had a few lifetimes' worth of fascinating and non-linear careers both before and after our time together in grad school at the University…
Tracing Racial Histories: An Anthropologist Amuk in the Archives (also, Venezuela)
In this conversation, I catch up with Robert ("Bob") Vernon, a friend who's had a few lifetimes' worth of fascinating and non-linear careers both before and after our time together in grad school at the University of Virginia, back in the '70s. His latest scholarly venture takes him far from his more recent jobs, returning him to earlier passions — but enriched by decades of skills. Last summer, Bob published an essay in a book exploring the sorrows, sufferings, and successes of free Black residents of rural Virginia long before the Civil War.
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For his 8th book, What the Dead Can Say, Philip Graham limited it to a print run of 1000 and distribution was entirely through stashing them in Little Free Libraries around the entire country. [themillions.com]
A Mystery in the Shape of a Book
On a gravel road outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming, I stood before a Little Free Library painted the colors of the Pride flag. How had it…
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Nice shout-out about WHAT THE DEAD CAN SAY from the awesome @kottke.org!
kottke.org@kottke.org · 2y agoFor his 8th book, What the Dead Can Say, Philip Graham limited it to a print run of 1000 and distribution was entirely through stashing them in Little Free Libraries around the entire country. [themillions.com]
A lovely post! It may be anecdotal, but it absolutely echoes my own anecdotal experience of traveling 10,000 miles around the country and visiting nearly a thousand Little Free Libraries: www.persuasion.community/p/the-joy-of...
The Joy of Forgotten Books
An antidote to the sorry state of American publishing.
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@meghankallman.bsky.social Thank you for joining the IndivisibleRI call last night. Your energy and vision are providing hope to many!
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
I've just published some thoughts on an extraordinary conversation between an aging Holocaust survivor and a former Hitler Youth Leader who, against all odds, she invited into her home. Find it on Medium, linked below. medium.com/@ajgottli_29...
An Unlikely but Necessary Conversation: When Enemies Meet
It’s so easy to see our enemies as — well, enemies. What does it take to re-see them as human?
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