Hot Takes Purity, Danger, and Handwashing December 5, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / anthropology, Blog, COVID-19, hand washing, Hot Takes, hygiene, Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger, religion, ritual, structural-functionalism Desires in Gear: The Politics of Kinky Sexuality and Consumption in the Gear Fetish Community November 9, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / bdsm, Blog, capitalism, consumerism, Economic Anthropology, fetishism, Gearheads, Hot Takes, kinks Choosing Your Own Adventure: My Life as a Teenage Dungeon Master and How It Prepared Me to Become an Anthropologist September 12, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Dungeons & Dragons, ethnographic writing, ethnography, fantasy, Hot Takes, teaching anthropology A Memory of History or History of Memory? – A War Memorial ‘Simpson and His Donkey’ June 6, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, history, Hot Takes, identity, memorialisation, monument, social memory, symbolism, truth Living with Long COVID: A Reflection April 25, 2022 / Clair Zhang / access to care, Blog, chronic illness, Hot Takes, long-Covid, Medical Anthropology, social movements, structural inequalities, uncertainty Heroes of Our Economy March 28, 2022 / Alex D'Aloia / Blog, Economic Anthropology, economic substantivism, economics, Government, Hot Takes, policy, small business, social economy, work Slutever, Pegging the Patriarchy, and Normalising BDSM November 22, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Essay, fetish, Hot Takes, normalisation, otherness, pathologisation, power relations, representation, sexuality Bring Me the Head of Norman Vincent Peale: Self Care and the American Obsession with the Power of Positive Thinking November 8, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Corporate America, happiness, Hot Takes, Max Weber, optimism, Protestantism, toxic positivity, wellness Too Fat to Be an Anthropologist October 25, 2021 / Alex D'Aloia / Blog, ethnography, fieldwork, Hot Takes, knowability, methodology, solipsism, sugar Masks and Their Moralities August 30, 2021 / Joe Clifford / affordance, Agamben, Blog, COVID-19, Hot Takes, masks, morality, state of exception, Webb Keane Boob Boxes: Post-Mastectomy Prosthetics and the Artifice of Breast Cancer March 15, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, breast cancer, gender stereotypes, gendered illnesses, Hot Takes, identity, Medical Anthropology, precarity, womanhood Taking Stock in California: Inequity & Grief March 1, 2021 / Julia Brown / Blog, COVID-19, Current Affairs, governance, Grief, Hot Takes, inequity, racism, social change Mission By Mail: Evangelism in a Pandemic December 7, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Christianity, COVID-19, Current Affairs, evangelism, faith, Hot Takes, religion, theology, uncertainty Navigating Lockdown: What Studying Vipassana Mediation Taught Me About Surviving Melbourne’s Intense Lockdown November 23, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, COVID-19, Everyday Anthropology, Hot Takes, Liminality, lockdown, meditation, rules, Vipassana Called to the Torah: Navigating Feminism and Jewish Law in Modern Orthodox Communities September 28, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / agency, Blog, feminism, halakha, Hot Takes, identity, modern orthodox, Orthodox Judaism, religion Strange Work in Familiar Places: Inside Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Border Hotels August 17, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, borders, COVID-19, Employment, Hot Takes, public health, value, workplace restructure Blokes and their casual racism June 8, 2020 / Matthew Phung / Blog, casual racism, COVID-19, discrimination, Everyday Anthropology, Hot Takes, microaggression, racism, structural violence How COVID-19 makes us use our bodies differently May 11, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / behavior, behaviour, Blog, COVID-19, Everyday Anthropology, Hot Takes, Marcel Mauss, Pierre Bourdieu, responsibilisation, social distancing, techniques of the body The home, the office and the home-office: What makes it ‘work’? 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