The Dangers of Birth in Tanzania
Women in sub-Saharan Africa have a 1 in 36 lifetime chance of dying from pregnancy-related causes. That’s down 45 percent since 1990, due largely to advocacy campaigns and…
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FreeThink #2 – Moving Beyond the Mic: On Collaborations and Working Across Disciplines
Join Aneil, Adam and Ryan for the second FreeThink episode, where they talk unscripted about upcoming projects and potential interdisciplinary collaborations beyond the mic. FreeThink is a new…
Slam that #ethnography! – Breaking boundaries
Welcome to part two of this week’s ethnography slam, this time with contributions by Josien de Klerk, Annelieke Driessen, Susanne van den Buuse, and Sarita Fae Jarmack. Missed…
Uncommon Sense: Terreur, Terroir, Terrace
Terreur, Terroir, Terrace Vectors of Police and Public in France after Charlie Hebdo and La Bataclan Figure 1. Jean-François Gornet, “Street Memorials to the November 2015 Paris Attacks.”…
Eating Identity: Nourishment and the Cultural Contexts of Food
post from the Exeter WHO Collaborating Centre for Culture and Health We eat for nourishment, but food is about much more than nutrition. What we eat is meaningful,…
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…
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…
Eating Identity: Nourishment and the Cultural Contexts of Food
post from the Exeter WHO Collaborating Centre for Culture and Health We eat for nourishment, but food is about much more than nutrition. What we eat is meaningful,…
Stephen Dupont, “Piksa Niugini” (Peabody Press/Radius Books, 2013)
Piksa Niugini by Stephen Dupont, with forward by Robert Gardner and essay by Bob Connolly, is published by the Peabody Press and Radius Books, (2013). Volume 1: 144…
What Happens When We Flush?
Coming soon in the print journal of Anthropology Now: What Happens When We Flush? by Nicholas C. Kawa In this riveting article on the disposal of human waste,…
The Taste of Nostalgia: Vanishing Flavors from the Ancestral Japanese Village
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Next in line for the Anthropologies #22 Food Issue, we have this essay by Christopher Laurent.…
Song as Boundary Work: On Dylan and the Nobel Prize
This post was submitted by Robert Skoro. A musician-turned-anthropologist, Robert works in private industry as a strategist and researcher. Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,…
Evolutionary Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion
Historically, evolutionary anthropologists have allocated the majority of our attention to topics like subsistence strategies, parental investment, warfare, etc. One topic that has been given only min…
The (il)logic of tipping
If I’m being honest, there are various occasions when I have not tipped. One time, after receiving appallingly bad service, I wrote on the receipt “please turn over…
The (il)logic of tipping
If I’m being honest, there are various occasions when I have not tipped. One time, after receiving appallingly bad service, I wrote on the receipt “please turn over…
Notes on the 14th digital ethnography reading (Haynes 2016)
See other posts under Digital ethnography reading group Haynes, N. (2016). Social Media in Northern Chile. London: UCL Press. Summary of Chapter 3, “Virtual posting: the aesthetics of…
The (il)logic of tipping
If I’m being honest, there are various occasions when I have not tipped. One time, after receiving appallingly bad service, I wrote on the receipt “please turn over…
The (il)logic of tipping
If I’m being honest, there are various occasions when I have not tipped. One time, after receiving appallingly bad service, I wrote on the receipt “please turn over…