Revisiting Geno-colonization: Senator Warren and “Native DNA”
I woke up this morning to the news that Senator Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA test “providing strong evidence” that she …
White Patriarchy Gets a Pacifier
In the era of #MeToo, we need collective liberation, not the tears and tantrums of white male entitlement. In less than the …
E-Seminar: The digital turn: New directions in media anthropology
Udupa, S., Costa, E., & Budka, P. (2018) The digital turn: New directions in media anthropology. Discussion Paper for the Follow-Up E-Seminar …
Hallie Wells comments on p. 99 of her dissertation
My dissertation examines how slam poets in Madagascar have forged a novel form of public discourse that emphasizes both freedom of speech …
Cris Shore: “Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse”: Metricised Management, Peformativity and Perverse Incentives
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1122/Cris%20Shore.mp3 Cris Shore (University of Auckland and Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research) gave …
David C. Posthumus, “All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
In All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual (University of Nebraska Press, 2018), David C. Posthumus, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Native American …
Thesis Review and Interview: Deorukhe Women’s Agency in the Making of Bodies, Cuisine, and Culture in Maharashtra, India
Photograph: Gauri A. Pitale – Waterlogged rice fields of rural Konkan, Maharashtra Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent …
Alien Encounters
by Matthias Teeuwen I had read “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang (1998) and I wanted to write a blog about …
The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in …
Prof. Dr. Thomas Faist über Trends und Herausforderungen der Migrationssoziologie
In unserem Gespräch auf dem 39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie zum Thema Komplexe Dynamiken Globaler und Lokaler Entwicklungen sprach unser …
A Rise in Vulnerability? Academic Studies, Paid Work and Mental Health
**This is the second of three posts on student experience, debt and austerity in higher education; see the other posts published on October …
The Impact of Politics on Workplace Productivity
The always-on media cycle means political news is at our fingertips. What does this mean for employers? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
gratitude and magic
The job of a blogger is to keep blogging. And in the last few months, I’ve really struggled with coming up with …
William Slacum’s Chart of the Columbia River 1837
As a spy in the Oregon Territory, and a Navy man, William A. Slacum was tasked with documenting the possessions of the …
Ep. #24 Learning in disaster: Kim Fortun talks STS, knowledge politics & anthropology’s role in a crisis
“We need to be experimental because we’re not up to the task at hand; there’s a real practical and ethical call to …
Web Roundup: Annals of Politics and Psychopathology by Talia Gordon
For those of us in the U.S. who read the Liberal News Media, September began with a bang that reverberated loudly, if …
Anthropology in Norway – a potted history
Taking a few steps back, I used the invitation to write an essay about anthropology in Norway as a pretext for delving …
Patchwork as Synthetic Reason
There’s been a recent discussion on blogs and facebook about modeling and the idea that “the map is not the territory.” Xenogothic …
Patient Zero and the Making of a Myth: History as an Archaeology of the Present by Ketil Slagstad
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic Richard A. McKay University of Chicago Press, 2017, 400 pages “An innocent …
Raising Health Expectations for Schizophrenia Patients
People living with chronic illness and medication also manage their health in experimental and often quite ordinary ways. Blood tests, echocardiograms, waist …
Thomas Strong: Dispossession as historical allegory: Observing Dublin’s housing crisis
In Dublin today, an intensifying housing crisis is provoking a dramatic public response. Activists, spearheaded by groups like Dublin Central Housing Action, …
Sokal Squared as Satire
It is a joke. I agree that the Sokal Squared project is ambitious in its scope to the point of being mean-spirited. …
FOIA Document: 1980 CIA Recruitment Pitch Claims No Ethical Issues for CIA Anthropologists
While working through document collections in dozens of university and governmental archives, online FOIA document repositories, and through Freedom of Information Act …
Re-framing Crime, Violence, and Poverty: new cinematic narratives of Black criminality in Imperial Dreams
Introduction: reframings Redmond (2017) has noted that, in order to garner support for the punitive policies of the War on Drugs, Americans …