The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩. Short (link) posts are on his microblog. For his academic blogging please visit anthro{dendum}.
One of the best things I read in 2021 was the Japanese horror manga Uzumaki うずまき (Spiral). It is really like nothing else I have ever read, because
I see a lot of reviews that try to read backwards from David Graeber’s anarchist politics to the #dawnofeverything. This is a mistake. (A thread)
One of the central concepts in mobility training is expanding your “range of motion” or ROM. This is very different from traditional stretching,
Most people only do physical therapy if they are recovering from an accident or injury. In this post I’d like to suggest that every adult should be
At first I thought something was wrong with my kidney. So did my urologist. We were both convinced of it, because the symptoms sounded like it could
Why write a long narrative history of my hip pain, going back to the beginning? Because I think it is an interesting case study in how difficult it
For about a week now I’ve been able to do two things that I haven’t been able to do in a very long time: sleep through the night without
Some thoughts on the 2021 Tamil film 《Jai Bhim》- available on Amazon Prime. Link to Twitter Thread The film is based on an actual court case from
I’ve been thinking a lot about “trust.” Without trust we approach everything with cynicism. But it is not possible to have society if we approach
If you are over thirty five and spend a lot of your day sitting at a computer, it is a pretty safe bet that you are in pain. Maybe it is only when
Yesterday I wrote about my conversations with students about academic careers. Today I wanted to share some of the advice I give them in an effort
I’m regularly contacted by random young scholars who want to chat with me about pursuing graduate study related to Taiwan: either studying in