Writing Resistance In The Age Of Trump
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The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 16: Victor Kumar on James Baldwin, Margaret Mead and Ethnographic Approaches to Studying Race
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to relaunch the second semester of an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagog…
Arabian Medical Genetics: Of Rare Disorders and Decreasing Oil Rent
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Claire Beaudevin Diagram explaining the transmission of alleles between parents and children (Department of Inherited Blood Disorders (Ministry of Health) and Ministry…
The hybrid media space of nerd politics
Invited paper to the ECPR joint sessions workshop on Digital Media and the Spatial Transformation of Public Contention, Nottingham, UK, 27-30 April 2017. Abstract The rise of WikiLeaks,…
Arabian Medical Genetics: Of Rare Disorders and Decreasing Oil Rent #MedTech
Medical genetics has long gone global. From WHO recommendations and travelling bioethics experts and DNA samples, to disease-related Facebook groups and national genome projects, its circulation route…
When your Business Stalls, it’s time to Evolve: Unpacking Corporate Anthropology with Dr. Andi Simon
How can we make change easier? Do women lead differently from men? What is corporate anthropology? Ryan, Adam, and Aneil are back to answer these questions and more…
The Complexities of Using an Umbrella in New York City
Who yields to whom in the meeting of umbrellas on a city sidewalk? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Complexities of Using an Umbrella in New York City
Who yields to whom in the meeting of umbrellas on a city sidewalk? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Complexities of Using an Umbrella in New York City
Who yields to whom in the meeting of umbrellas on a city sidewalk? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Progressing the Person and Policy
The English word “person” has a long and convoluted history. Though the word itself likely derives from the Latin, persona, referring to the masks worn in theatre, its…
Around the Web Digest- January 15
I hope all of our readers are riding the waves of energy that came from all the actions and demonstrations the past week in order to fight fascism.…
History of Cannibalism and Cultural Differences
From one of our initial discussions in class, the subject of cannibalism stuck out to me because I didn’t know too much about it. Having grown up in…
CFP: Museum Anthropology Futures
On behalf of the Council for Museum Anthropology, I am happy to pass along the call for proposals for the Museum Anthropology Futures conference in Montreal this May.…
Who Cares? A Discussion on Care from Edinburgh’s Centre for Medical Anthropology by Bridget Bradley
On 11th May 2016 the Students of Medical Anthropology (SoMA) at University of Edinburgh, the student group within Edinburgh’s Centre for Medical Anthropology (EdCMA) held their inaugural event,…
Living with the Environmental and Social Legacy of U.S. Land Policy in the American West
By Julie Brugger, University of Arizona § Looking out across the arid, mesquite- and saguaro-studded landscape of the Tonto Basin District of the Tonto National Forest (TNF) in central…
Declare Yourself a Vocal Opponent of Torture Today!
Today, as citizens, patriots, and protesters descend on Washington DC, to observe, celebrate, or decry the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States, we must…
The Transformation of One of New York City’s Most Famous Squats
When the Lower East Side’s 155 Avenue C—known as C-Squat—was legalized, many of its squatters became homeowners of sorts. Konstantin Sergeyev I was surprised when I first met…
Embryos on the Move: Transnational Networks of Surrogacy
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Anika König Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) where sperm is manually injected into the egg cell. This procedure is predominantly used to overcome…
Embryos on the Move: Transnational Networks of Surrogacy #MedTech
Gestational surrogacy is a reproductive technology where embryos are produced ‘in-vitro’ in a laboratory and subsequently implanted into the uterus of a woman – the gestational surrogate or…
Year of the Mushroom
In the next week or so, many of us will celebrate the year of the rooster. The year of the monkey, which we are just saying good bye…
Fast Food Labor Secretary?
David Beriss In the weeks following his election, President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Andrew F. Puzder to lead the U.S. Department of Labor. There has been…
Language politics and the French “Master” degree
I’m planning on writing more about French higher education policy in the next few years, since even after my dissertation there’s a lot to learn. For instance, there’s…