131 – Waterworld
On this week’s podcast, in honor of the summer solstice we bring to you another edition of Soylent Rainbow, our occasional special …
The Sounds of STS: In conversation with Prof. Stefan Helmreich
I was first introduced to the work Stefan Helmreich, an anthropologist of science at MIT, as a first year PhD student. As …
Will I continue doing this work — in Black breastfeeding?
It has taken me at least the past several months to muster up the courage to write this post. I’ve gone back …
Why Envy Might Be Good for Us
Nyae-Nyae in northern Namibia is the last place in the country where Ju/‘hoansi are free to hunt in the traditional way. James …
Revisiting a ‘Lost’ Field
For the ethnographer, an ongoing relationship with her field can be bitter-sweet and difficult to sustain in the long term. Rarely does …
What is Neo-Taylorism?
Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood, in their book “Creating a New Public University,” put a lot of emphasis on what they call …
Anthropological tools in stakeholder management
In the corporate environment, stakeholders have the strongest presence in the context of investor relations or CSR activities. Dealing with them is …
Daisy Deomampo, “Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India” (NYU Press, 2016)
In Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India (NYU Press, 2016), Daisy Deomampo explores relationships between Indian surrogates, their families, aspiring parents fro…
Book Review: Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India by Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey
In Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India, authors Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey offer a compendious account of waste in …
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Ausgrenzung Geflüchteter
Untersuchung am Beispiel Bautzen Autor: Dr. Sebastian Kurtenbach Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wie einzelne Kommunen zu Orten der Ausgrenzung für …
#PrecAnthro. Let’s talk about unionisation. #hautalk
The HAU controversy is both a disappointment and an opportunity. It is a disappointment because it reflects the troubled condition in which …
Lessons from the Indian Internment at Indian Reservations and Boarding Schools
From the 1830’s (Indian Removal Act) to 1900 most of the Tribal Reservations were established in the United States holding a population …
A Gallery Talk at Sam Noble Museum in Conjunction with the Putting Baskets to Work in Southwest China Exhibition
I will be doing a gallery talk at the Sam Noble Museum on Sunday, June 24 at 2:00 pm in the Higginbotham …
Upcoming July Conferences
Eighth Conference of The International Society For Gesture Studies: Gesture and Diversity July 4-8, 2018 Cape Town, South Africa The first conference …
Another Life
As anthropologist Kirin Narayan put to readers of her book Alive in the Writing, the creative process of ethnographic writing can grow …
Omar Dewachi’s Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq by Anna Zogas
Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq Omar Dewachi Stanford University Press, 2017. 239 pp. Every year, tens of thousands …
Why the Present Matters: The Importance of Community Outreach and Public Engagement in Archaeology
The authors with [Reef Radio TV Productions] host, Eiden Salazar and Camera Tech, Kainie Manuel, after being interviewed on the Good Morning …
That Most Dangerous, Sacred American Space, the Bathroom
Binary clarity at an Interstate comfort station. “Ladies” to the left, “Gentlemen” to the right. Courtesy Robert Myers. uncommon sense Spoiler alert: …
Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften / Frischer Wind in der Afrikanistik
Zwei neue Professuren treiben die Neuaufstellung der afrikanischen Sprachwissenschaften voran. Hausa, Swahili, Lucazi, alles exotische Sprachen, mit denen man hierzulande nichts anfangen …
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Rat für Migration verurteilt die Kriminalisierung von Flüchtlingshilfe in Ungarn
Stellungnahme vom 20. Juni 2018 Wer Schutzsuchende unterstützt, muss in Ungarn zukünftig mit hohen Strafen rechnen. Ein entsprechendes Gesetz soll heute voraussichtlich …
Charles Dolph: The second time as farce? The IMF returns to Argentina
Argentina’s Mauricio Macri administration unexpectedly announced recently that it had opened negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a Stand-By Arrangement …
Guest Post: Is your department’s website #anthrosowhite?
[Footnotes is proud to present the work of Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins and Hannah Gould. Goodwin-Hawkins is deep hanging out in a geography department, as a …
The Problem with Assholes
Anthropology has an asshole problem. If the recent revelations about misconduct at the journal HAU have made one thing clear, it’s that …