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Announcement and Preview: “What the Future of Anthropological Research Should Look/Sound/Feel Like: A Visual Ethnography of a Standing Drink Bar in Japan”
SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies University of Central Arkansas, USA Session 7.1 (Virtual) October 8, 2022 9:30-10:45 AM (Central Daylight Time) 11:30 PM-12:45 AM (Japan Standard Time) Abstract:…
Cultural Contexts of COVID-19: Improving Pandemic Responses
Cultural context of health is critical in responding to pandemics, new research shows: While populations’ access to health care is crucial to combating the spread of COVID-19, a…
Cultures of Health and Sickness in the COVID Era – Le Monde Diplomatique
Cultures of health and sickness A. David Napier and Edward F Fischer July 7, 2020 – Le Monde diplomatique https://mondediplo.com/2020/07/04uganda A group of researchers, led by…
WHO project on cultural contexts of health and well-being adopted in U.S.
03-04-2020 WHO/Europe is pleased to announce that the cultural contexts of health and well-being (CCH) project, which it pioneered and established, will now also be rolled out in…
Creating Value Worlds with Third Wave Coffee
Interview with Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: https://sase.org/uncategorized/quality-and-inequality-creating-value-worlds-with-third-wave-coffee/
‘Now is the Time of Monsters’: The Painful Birth of a New World Order
President Trump calls the WTO a “disas…
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022 on how to find their passions in life
"Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-End Coffee"
Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-end Coffee
Beyond Nutrition: Eating, Innovation, and Cultures of Possibility
Beyond Nutrition: Eating Innovation, and Cultures of Possibility from Sight and Life (2017)
Economy, Happiness, and the Good Life: An Interview with Edward F. Fischer
GB. England. New Brighton. From ‘The Last Resort,’ 1983-85, Martin Parr. In the second interview for the series ‘The Good Life,’ Jonas Tinius and Johannes Lenhard invited anthropologi…
Inequality, Conservative Christianity and Implicit Racism in the US
In the United States, like many countries, income inequality has been reaching staggering proportions. In 1980, the average pre-tax income of the top 1% was 27 times the…
Towards a Heterodox and Reflexive Economics
After the 2008 financial crisis, the call for a more heterogeneous approach to studying and teaching economics intensified. But how can heterodoxy take up a more prominent place…
Preface to the Coming World Crisis
By Keith Hart There is a growing sense among the radical left in Europe and the United States which has crystallized after Brexit and Trump’s election. It is…
Will Trump Lead the World to Catastrophe?
By Keith Hart You will learn more about Trump in coming months. He isn’t the Mussolini (but with frightening power) that he threatened to be in trying to…
Eating Identity: Nourishment and the Cultural Contexts of Food
from Exeter/WHO Centre for Culture and Health: We eat for nourishment, but food is about much more than nutrition. What we eat is meaningful, and food is an…
Zambia’s Peaceful Reputation Undermined by Political Violence
Campaign truck for President Lungu and the ruling party, PF. Credit: Patience Mususa Part 1 of 2 – The unusual silence on a minibus in Lusaka By Patience…
Third Wave Coffee and the Formation of Taste (and Value)
–> “Orange blossom, white tea, syrupy” “Grapefruit, spicy pepper, olive oil” “Chocolate, red berries, roasted barley” The language used to talk about new high-end coffee comes straight out…
Broccoli, Anthropology, and the Humanities
Broccoli, Anthropology, and the Humanities: Caitlin Patton discusses how the work of Ted Fischer, an anthropologist focused on food culture, specifi…
Guinea’s Anti-Government Rally: Half a Million People and a Stray Bullet
Credit: AFP By Joschka Philipps Thierno Hamidou Diallo, may he rest in peace, was fatally shot on August 16th, 2016. He is the sad victim of the anti-government…
Imagining the Future & Economic Fictions
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…