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Bard Graduate Center Research Fellowships
Bard Graduate Center invites scholars from university, museum, and independent backgrounds with a PhD or equivalent professional experience to apply for funded research fellowships, to be held during…
CFP: Environmental Justice & Deep Intersectionality
To build and advance intersectionality and theories of EJ, we propose a Special Issue that examines intersectional approaches to environmental justice —that is, an issue dedicated to developing…
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (tenure-track) in Visual/Media Anthropology
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Anthropology in cultural anthropology with specialization in v…
#REVIEW: The Borderlands of Race – REDUX
Today we continue our revisitation of 2016 via a review that has – sadly – only grown more topical since it was first published in October 2016: ‘The Borderlands…
Cuban imaginations of the future
Door Caroline van Slobbe Havana is full of small businesses. The most common entrepreneurs are ladies who sell cupcakes and cookies from their front door or window,…
Trinketization gets a museum treatment…
HKW | Sharon Macdonald, Tony Bennett & Arjun Appadurai – THING http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_128503.php © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum, Martin F…
The Financialisation of Academic Knowledge Production
In this column for a series on academic freedom at sage social science space I looked at the financialisation of the academic book publishing industry and asked questions about changes…
The Financialisation of Academic Knowledge Production
In this column for a series on academic freedom at sage social science space I looked at the financialisation of the academic book publishing industry and asked questions about changes…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, October 4, 2016
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
The Murder of Darren Seals
For De Correspondent, I wrote about the murder of Darren Seals, a Ferguson activist who believed the local movement here had been coopted: September 6, 2016, Darren Seals,…
#EverythingMustFall: The Use of Social Media and Violent Protests in the Current Wave of Student Riots in South Africa
Figure 1. Rhodes must fall. Photo by Desmond Bowles, April 2016 (CC BY SA 4.0). The past year has seen violent protests at most South African universities, where…
Around the Web Digest- September 25
As anthropologists in the U.S. prepare for the barrage of racist costumes at the end of October, we here at Savage Minds offer you some readings for the week!…
The Tintometer, Anthropology and the Science of Color
Figure 1. The slide holder with a series of numbered yellow-tint slips. Courtesy Emily Martin. In 1898, physician and marine biologist A.C. Haddon set off with a group…
September 2016
Volume 8 | Issue 2 | September 2016 Features #EverythingMustFall: The Use of Social Media and Violent Protests in the Current Wave of Student Riots in South Africa…
Juxtaposition by Annemarie Mol
Editor: The following is an introduction to a new Japanese translation of The body multiple. It can be purchased through Suiseisha publishers, as part of their series on The Anthropological…
#REVIEW: Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Underlying the domain of human rights is the conception of the human on which we predicate, and advocate for, human rights’ recognition. But what are we actually lobbying…
Homa Comes Home
We at Culture & Capitalism are thrilled to report that our colleague and friend, Professor Homa Hoodfar, is safely back home in Canada having been freed from her imprisonment in Iran…
Rory Dickson, “Living Sufism in North America: Tradition and Transformation” (SUNY Press, 2015)
Rory Dickson’s Living Sufism in North America: Between Tradition and Transformation (SUNY Press, 2015) is the first monograph in English to focus on Sufism in North America. On…