I’m a podcast host! Go listen to David Varel on Allison Davis
I’m proud to announce that I’ve become one of the hosts for the New Book Network’s New Books in Anthropology podcast! In …
The Hidden Costs of Carbon Sequestration
by Emma Young **This piece is a shorter version of Emma Young’s essay, which received an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Greene …
Alex Fattal on his book, Guerrilla Marketing
Interview by Winifred Tate https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo29202793.html Winifred Tate: The title, Guerrilla Marketing, evokes advertising, and in fact Amazon lists a number…
Rezension zu Kirsten Achtelik: „Selbstbestimmte Norm“ (2018)
von Victoria Fischer Die Sozialwissenschaftlerin, Autorin und Journalistin Kirsten Achtelik veröffentlichte 2015 das Buch „Selbstbestimmte Norm. Feminismus, Pränataldiagnostik, Abtreibung“ als Teil ei…
The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the commons
A Twitter essay by Matto Mildenberger (@mmildenberger) Something I’ve been meaning to say about The Tragedy of the Commons. Bear with …
Susan Brownell, “The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics” (U California Press, 2018)
As my first guest, I’d would like to introduce Susan Brownell, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri – St Louis, …
Chika Watanabe, “Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar” (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Chika Watanabe’s Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar (University of Hawaii Press, 2019) is a rich …
Chief Eagle Horse Baritone Singer from Alaska
Charlie Cutter, a student of Chemawa Indian school from about 1898 to 1902 was a noted baritone singer. Cutter was born in …
A Grammar of Perseverance
Reflections on Race, Poverty and Violence in Orange, New Jersey It’s a muggy mid-June Saturday afternoon. A large inflatable moonwalk occupies the …
I did it for the data
As an ethnographer of porn, I entered the field with some hard limits and never crossed them. I never ended up doing …
Sympathie und Spott: Reaktionen auf Chinas neue Namensrichtlinie
Seit der wirtschaftlichen Öffnung des Landes war es chic, Produkten und Orten ausländisch klingende Namen zu geben. Damit soll jetzt Schluss sein, …
“Bringing home our Gods”
by Regina Höfer A version of this paper will be given at the upcoming international conference „Museum Collections in Motion. Colonial and …
Palace Museums in the Cameroon Grassfields: Sites of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Alienation
by Erica Jones A version of this paper will be given at the upcoming international conference „Museum Collections in Motion. Colonial and …
John Wacheno on Fishing Rights and Land Inheritance, 1931
In 1931, John Wacheno of Grand Ronde tesified before a subcommittee from the Committee of Indian Affairs at Chemawa Indian School in …
A Visit to the Damodar Kund
Recently, a friend and devotee I’ve been blessed to know for a while now was finally able to make his yatra (pilgrimage) …
Challenges of rewriting the Khomani San/Bushman archive at Iziko Museums of South Africa
by Paul Tichmann After many years of discussion and deliberation the controversial Ethnographic Gallery at Iziko South African Museum was finally de-installed …
The Crisis of Anthropological Museums from the Perspective of an Anthropology of Museums, and some Remarks on the Agency of Restitution Conceived as a Restitution of Agency
by Erhard Schüttpelz (University of Siegen) (July 2019) (1.) Apart from royal societies and their art, f.i. Benin Bronze sculptures, most African …
A Contamination of Provenance? The Relevance of Extended Materialities to Provenance Research and Restitution Processes: Examples from the Linden Museum Stuttgart.
by Christoph Rippe Figure 1: the whip and bible ascribed to Hendrik Witbooi once prepared for transport to Namibia (February 2019, Linden …
BENIN BRONZES: SOMETHING GRAVE HAPPENED AND IMPERIAL RULE OF LAW IS SUSTAINING IT!
by Folarin Shyllon* In 1897 a great tragedy befell the kingdom of Benin when a British punitive expedition looted the treasury of …
Religion and politics in the US: How the Christian Right moves away from Jesus
Along with an anthropology degree, I also completed a degree in philosophy with a focus on philosophy of religion. My primary interests …
When Women Take Up Space Not Built for Them
It is not enough to be intentional and intersectional in research settings. We must rework the spaces of the academy and knowledge …
Moon Monogamy 3: Participant Observation, Session 1
[This is the third installment of Moon Monogamy (And Other Things That Are Bound to Go Wrong) by Savannah Mandel. The previous installments …
From Mexico to the Moon
Five stories about Mexican entanglements with outer space. Paloma Romano Andrade, La alegoría mexicana en el cosmos. Winner of first place in …
The Moon as Metaphor in Migration Research
Chinese migrants are influential players in the Made in Italy fashion sector. They are also perceived as unfamiliar and alien, inauthentic producers …