Hope or Resignation: the Future of Anthropology
By Matthias Teeuwen Standing at the end of my Master’s, the topic of this year’s anthropology day particularly spoke to me: Futures. …
Joseph Hill, “Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal” (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Joseph Hill‘s new book Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal (University of Toronto Press, 2018), is …
Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Access to Urban Greenspace
by Zoe Parker **This piece is a shorter version of Zoe Parker’s essay, which won the 2019 Greene Prize for Environmental Writing …
2019 American Anthropology Master’s Career Survey
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> Tell us your story! Graduate anthropology students want to know what they can …
Joel Palmer Returning Indians and Feeding Natives, Siletz 1871
Joel Palmer was the Indian Agent at the Siletz Agency in 1871 and had responsibilities, as emphasized in his 1871 journal, over …
Trauma and Resilience in Ethnographic Fieldwork
Anthrodendum welcomes guest editors Beatriz Reyes-Foster and Rebecca J. Lester. Beatriz Reyes-Foster (Twitter @BeatriAnthro) is associate professor of anthropology at the University …
Happy Pride Month!
A proposed redesign of the original pride flag, centering the inclusion of marginalized communities within the queer community. Design by Daniel Quasar. …
Melanie A. Madeiros, “Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo–interviews Dr. Melanie Madeiros (she/hers)–Asst. Prof. of Cultural Anthropology at …
Joel Palmer’s Defiant Cattle Drive Through Grand Ronde, 1874
In 1874, Joel Palmer was again an independent contractor for the Indian service, after having completed a two-year stint as the Indian …
Black goes pop – transkulturelle Aneignungsprozesse im subkulturellen Milieu?
Eine kleine, alltagskulturelle, dichte Beschreibung aus Teilnehmender Beobachtung Die so genannte „Schwarze Szene“ (Eigenbezeichnung) scheint bunter als angenommen. Schon die breite Auffächerung …
“Zero infections. Zero deaths. Zero stigma.” by Ryan Whitacre
The UNAIDS mission of “Getting to Zero” is supported by three key goals: “Zero infections. Zero deaths. Zero stigma.” By taking up …
„Die wissenschaftliche Gemeinschaft muss aktiv bleiben und Regierungen und die UNO weiter mit Ideen versorgen.“
Als Reaktion auf die Fluchtbewegungen nach Europa wurden seit 2015 mehrere wichtige internationale Abkommen zu Flucht und Migration geschlossen: Die New Yorker …
Eating Iran: From the delicious to the inedible
I was having second thoughts, but pressed on safe in the knowledge that I was performing an act that would raise my …
Wenn jemand seine Meinung ändert – eine aktivistische Perspektive auf das Kurzzeitgedächtnis des Humboldt-Forums
von Tahir Della und Mareike Heller Es ist unübersehbar, dass sich in der Diskussion um das Humboldt-Forum über die letzten Jahre einiges, …
Mit der Seilbahn geht es weiter
Eigentlich sollte es im letzten Jahr vorbei sein. Wir waren in Swanetien, gewissermaßen auf dem Dach Georgiens angekommen. Wir führten unser studentisches …
Women Speak
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> Open Anthropology on Gender, Language, & Power Following the March 2019 Open Anthropology …
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Hi all, We are half-way through our MA thesis presentation seminar and my head is spinning (in a good way!) from all …
PJ Capelotti, “Adventures in Archaeology: The Wreck of the Orca II and Other Explorations” (U Florida Press, 2018)
Anthropologist PJ Capelotti discusses the role of exploration archaeology in understanding the Pacific voyage of Kon-Tiki, the Arctic airship expeditions of Walter …
181 – Nigel Clark
Cymene and Dominic discuss a strange effort to police sugar packet play on this week’s podcast. Then (15:52) we are delighted to …
The Truth About “Sustainable” Palm Oil
A group of Marind gather near a forested area that has been demarcated as a conservation zone. Sophie Chao In May 2016, …
The Neanderthal Throat—Did Neanderthals Speak?
The first two pages of Claire Cameron’s novel The Last Neanderthal contain a glossary—a handful of words used by the family of …
The perfect place for comparative border studies?
Being here in Blagoveshensk (for a conference on a different topic), I realise how cool this place is for border studies. On …