Now I am 22

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As of 1 January, my blog will be 22 years old. I have achieved this significant landmark by continuing to pay my hosting fees and then not blogging.

Seriously, though, earlier this year I tried to restart blogging by a series of weekly roundups of what I did. In the end, life proved too full for me to keep up even at that rate. I am glad that I have so much going on, but also want to resolve to record more of it here.

A number of things happened to me in 2022. I also happened to a number of things.

I resolved to read a book a week and was successful. You can see my 2022 list over Storygraph, the reading tracker app which is not owned by a large corporation. Here is what I read:

  • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  • Can a Liberal Be a Chief? Can a Chief Be a Liberal?: Some Thoughts on an Unfinished Business of Colonialism by Olúfémi Táíwò
  • Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin
  • Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa by Holger Droessler
  • Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment by Hiʻilei Julia HobartCooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment
  • Cooperation Without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation–US Engagements by Justin B. Richland
  • Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul – Australia’s Worst Military Disaster of World War II by Bruce Gamble
  • Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist by Regna Darnell
  • Falcon by Helen Macdonald
  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
  • Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations by Patrick L. SchmidtHarvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations
  • How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex by Samantha Cole
  • How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua by Sophie Chao
  • Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  • King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone by David Carey, John Edward Morris
  • Laura Nader: Letters to and from an Anthropologist by Laura NaderLaura Nader: Letters to and from an Anthropologist
  • Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History by John P. Rosa
  • Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
  • Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli During the Renaissance by Edward Muir
  • Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
  • Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World by Quito Swan
  • Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot by Julian Dibbell
  • Polynesia, 900-1600 by Madi Williams
  • Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco by Savannah Shange
  • Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
  • Reminiscences of a Life in the Islands by Helen Kapililani Sanborn Davis
  • Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis
  • Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power by Anna Merlan
  • Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity by Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J.
  • Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness by Anthony Chaney
  • Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder by Robert Launay
  • Servant Mage by Kate Elliott
  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
  • Something and Tonic: A History of the World’s Most Iconic Mixer by Nick Kokonas
  • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World by Daniel Gross, Daniel Gross, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen
  • Talmudic Images by Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
  • The Lost History of Western Civilization by Stanley KurtzThe Lost History of Western Civilization
  • The Mailbox Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Greatest Corruption Case in Hawaii History by Alexander Silvert
  • The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity by Marshall Sahlins
  • The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Carlo Ginzburg
  • The Old-Fashioned: The Story of the World’s First Classic Cocktail, with Recipes and Lore by Robert Simonson
  • The Pearl and the Flame: A Journey Into Jewish Wisdom and Ecological Thinking by Natan Margalit
  • The Promise of Progress: The Life and Work of Lewis Henry Morgan by Daniel Noah Moses
  • The Properties of Perpetual Light by Julian Aguon
  • The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor by Arthur Kleinman
  • Torah and Taro: Jewish Contributions to Hawaii by Mathew R. Sgan
  • Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 98, Part 2 by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
  • Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever by Robin Wigglesworth
  • True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge
  • William Jones, Indian, cowboy, American scholar, and anthropologist in the field. By: Henry Milner Rideout by Henry Milner Rideout

Other things happened to me in the past year other than books. I interviewed people for the occasional podcasts I do over at New Books Network. I also really developed my history of anthropology site, Highly Accurate Pictures of Anthropologists. Tumblr is not a natural fit for me, but it is part of the non-evil Internet which has been around some time and which people are now becoming more interested in. Speaking of which, after a couple of attempts to try to engage Twitter, I’ve decided to throw my weight (and my content!) behind Mastodon, where you can find me posting relatively regularly. I also re-engaged Facebook, but that was mostly to keep my social networks charged for an upcoming project I’m working on.

More to say but rl is calling again. More soon….?

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Alex Golub is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is a political anthropologist who studies kinship, customary land tenure, and the mining and petroleum industry in Papua New Guinea. He also studies the video game World of Warcraft, and is an advocate for open access scholarly communications. His book "Leviathans at the Gold Mine" was published by Duke University Press.