Three Things Thursday: Reading Edition

Some summers, I find myself reading far more than I expected to read. Others, not so much. It’s been not so much this summer for whatever reason, but I do continue to chip away at books on my summer reading list and tell myself regularly that I should be reading. This is the context for today’s three things Thursday. Thing the First I enjoyed Catherine Frieman Leila H. Araar, Nika Shilobod, Aris Politopoulos, and James L. Flexner’s recent article in the Annual Review of Anthropology, “Anarchist Theory and Inequality in Archaeology” (2026). It is a nice survey of anarchist and anarchist adjacent work and thought in archaeology. In particular, it draws a useful “distinction between anarchy, the lived experience of a social practice without leaders or hierarchy, and anarchism, an ideology that goes against any form of authority, rules, hierarchy, and inequality, and strives for social and human relationships of freedom, equality, and solidarity.” Their article seeks to connect anarchism…