In Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy, editors Jens Beckert and Richard Bronk bring together contributors to explore expectation formation in …
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By Alenka Mrakovčić We probably agree that language use is among the most taken-for-granted aspects of our daily lives. But what if …
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1181/VN860467.MP3 Bill Maurer (UC Irvine) gave a talk titled “The Racial Capitalism of Blockchain: Alternative M…
Almost a month after Donald Trump recognized Juán Guaidó as the “interim president” of Venezuela, and the imperial media started to label …
In this panel, we welcome Shamim to the Familiar Strange podcast. Shamim is working with Dee on a TFS video project that …
Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique Rachel Louise Moran University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 224 pages. 1. …
by Jonny Craig Last week the New England Patriots faced off against the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl 53. At this, …
We need more worlds. Better worlds. We can’t overlook the need for horrifying, ruined worlds, true, but more than anything we need …
Reworking the History of Social Theory for 21st Century Anthropology: A Syllabus Project Authors: Rebecca Renee Buell, Samuel Burns, Zhuo Chen, Lisa …
Hi all, A year after the Oxfam scandal broke & the #AidToo movement started it seems like a lot of business as …
Analyses of the lives of black women in the United States often focus on narratives of struggle and sorrow, as black women …
After considering the economic foundation of current US intervention, designed to erase Venezuela’s economic sovereignty, the purpose here is to focus more …
What’s worse than listening to lovebirds on Valentine’s Day? Surely it is listening to them wondering whether the rideshare model can be …
The New York Academy of Sciences lecture series continues on February 25th when Susana Narotzky, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of
I’d like to start this post by juxtaposing two scenes. The first one is set about two years ago, and occurred on …
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport …
Empfehlungen für eine neue Schlüsselrolle von Städten und Gemeinden Autor*innen: Petra Bendel, Hannes Schammann, Christiane Heimann und Janina Stürner Die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung stellt …
In Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, Rachel O’Neill examines the construction of intimacy under neoliberalism through an ethnographic exploration of the contemporary ‘seduction …
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The study of Islam is often focused on subjects involved in legal debates or ritual practice. But our understanding of Muslims should …
Beginning February 15th, Solar Studios, located near the corner of Alumni Drive and College Way at Rice University, will be exhibiting the …
Debating Climate Ethics, by Stephen Gardiner and David Weisbach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 272 pages. Does ethics contribute to climate policy? …
The natural body meets the body politic in the act of vaccination, where a single needle penetrates both. – Eula Biss, On Immunity …
[no-caption] Bill O’Leary/Getty Images Sitting in a packed hotel lobby café in Washington, D.C., in 2009, I leaned closer to the literary …
When one starts studying anthropology at the university, one of the first things we’re told is that it can be used in …