Terugblik op de Bijeenkomst: ‘Jemen, een Vergeten Oorlog – #WatKanIkDoen?’
Graffiti in Jemen Door Handenur Taspinar Maandagavond 14 november is er in samenwerking met het Grote Midden-Oosten Platform en de afdeling Sociale en Culturele Antropologie…
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Paid graduate positions in discard studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland
The following paid graduate positions are available in discard studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland: • Place-based knowledge (natural and/or social sciences) (PhD) • Social Licence and Commu…
Teaching Food with Photos: High Point Food Anthropology
After a long hiatus, we return with the next installment in our Food Pedagogy Interview Series. We hear from Dr. Chelsea Wentworth, Associate Professor of Anthropology at High…
The social role of anthropology’s racist uncle
There’s a certain trope that has been going around for years, and it has hit a peak these days as many people express their collective shock and surprise…
Carol Upadhya, “Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy” (Oxford UP, 2016)
How is India’s burgeoning IT industry reshaping the country? What types of capital is IT attracting and what formations does it take? How are software engineers managed? What…
Have Anthropology Museums Become History Museums? A Visit to Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg, Germany
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, German universities inspired the reformation of higher learning institutions throughout Europe and the United States (Barth et. al. 2005). Early museum…
Don’t Panic! The Neuroscience behind falling into Balance w/ Vivek Pandey Vimal
Are balance and movement something that can be culturally shaped? Why aren’t female rats being used in drug studies? In this episode of This Anthropological Life we team…
The Long Count
Time. Astronomers, philosophers, physicists, anthropologists, politicians, geographers, and theologians have all pondered the nature and meaning of time. Is it linear or cyclical? Is it reversible? (P…
Going Native
Bernard C Perley is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he teaches classes in Linguistic Anthropology, American Indian Studies, and Global Studies. H…
Creating Participatory Democracy (Or Trying, Anyway)
In hindsight, the biggest problem with the extraordinary protests in Tahrir Square was the lack of a coherent plan for creating democracy once Mubarak stepped down. I hear that…
Archaeology in Times of Trump
Archaeologists Against Trump is the name of a Facebook group. It can also be applied to the writings and actions by a large number of archaeologists concerned with…
More thoughts from the Archaeology Division of the AAA- Publications, Blogging, and Making Conversations Count
This post is the latest in the November guest blog series by the Archaeology Division of the AAA. This post is by Lynne Goldstein. Lynne Goldstein is a…
Black Lives Matter and Reflections from a Civil War
The Black Lives Matter movement is seeking to put an end to the inequities faced by blacks in the United States. In Sri Lanka, the failure to redress…
#AMANTH2016 WRAP-UP
The American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting is over, and, with it, the brief spurt of Twitter traffic that marks the event. Here’s a graph of Twitter traffic over…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 11: Jaime Alves “On the right and duty to change the world”
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
“Pass the stuffing, hold the -isms please”: Engaging Mixed Philosophies and Difficult Conversations at the Dinner Table
By: Caitlyn Brandt, Allison Dudley, Will Lammons, and Aaron Trumbo The holidays are upon us once again, and soon many of us will engage in those family dynamics…
Notes from the Forest: Engaging with a hunter’s world of materials
Thorsten Gieser, Lecturer in Anthropology, Department of Kulturwissenschaft, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany A winter’s day, in a forest in central Germany. At dusk, more than fifty hunte…
Prison Abolition Syllabus
(This very impressive reading list from the USA compounds). ((Such scholarship needs to be replicated for other places. And start with the prison support stuff)) http://www.aaihs.org/prison-abolition-…
Selective access or how states make #remoteness
What makes a place remote? Is remoteness that which is geographically distant from the centre of administrative, political and economic activities? Or is remoteness a construct of connectivity?…
Papers on French philosophy, precarity and protest
It’s been a fun year for me (leaving aside here, you know, many disturbing political events, trends, pomps and circumstances, because this isn’t that kind of blog) because some…
Postmortem and Possibilities: Reflections on AAA 2016
After the results of the election, there was a new kind of energy at the AAA’s, a nervousness and a palpable anticipation. There was a sense that this…
Wisnu Genu, Senayan City, Jakarta Fashion Week
I have been, I admit, kinda reluctant to post to the blog lately. After several weeks in “the field” (i.e., Singapore, Bandung, and Jakarta), shooting pictures, taking field…
Wisnu Genu, Senayan City, Jakarta Fashion Week
I have been, I admit, kinda reluctant to post to the blog lately. After several weeks in “the field” (i.e., Singapore, Bandung, and Jakarta), shooting pictures, taking field…
anthro in the news 11/21/16
two views on the Trump win: class or region? An article in The Minneapolis Star Tribune included commentary from two social anthropologists at the annual conference of the…