Coalition of the Diverse: Racially Mixed Crowd in the November Rain
United States, November 2016. There was a lot of ugliness, not a lot of beauty. A lot of hate, not a lot of love. A lot of terrified…
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Racially Mixed Crowd in the November Rain: Coalition of the Diverse
United States, November 2016. There’s been a lot of ugliness, not a lot of beauty. A lot of hate, not a lot of love. A lot of terrified…
Coalition of the Diverse
Racially Mixed Crowd in the November Rain United States, November 2016. There was a lot of ugliness, not a lot of beauty. A lot of hate, not a…
Remembering Genocide in the Cambodian Diaspora
by Elisa Sandri ‘As the body moves where then does memory live?’ – Katharya Um For many Cambodians, the wounds of the genocide are still open and hurting.…
6 Documentaries for the 2016 US Presidential Election
This is an idiosyncratic selection of what I consider to be some of the most important reports and documentaries released during the 2016 US presidential election campaign, with…
Trumping Anti-Semitism And The Social Contract
If the anti-Semitic closing ad of the Trump campaign is indicative, a President Trump is likely to take us to a horrific place in which all forms of…
Trumping Anti-Semitism And The Social Contract
If the anti-Semitic closing ad of the Trump campaign is indicative, a President Trump is likely to take us to a horrific place in which all forms of…
Trumping Anti-Semitism And The Social Contract
If the anti-Semitic closing ad of the Trump campaign is indicative, a President Trump is likely to take us to a horrific place in which all forms of…
Mezcal: Hybrid Authentication
The third in our series of abstracts of papers submitted for SAFN’s annual Christine Wilson Award. Winners have been selected and will be recognized at the annual meeting of…
What Else Ho Reha Hai? Reflections On My Fieldwork Website
Several of us here at the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition recently had the pleasure of reviewing submissions for our annual Christine Wilson Award. Winners…
“The Arab Spring: Five Years After”
Third World Quarterly has a special collection of articles on “The Arab Spring: Five Years After.” The collection of six papers is edited by Richard Falk, of Princeton,…
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Why Do Postmortem Reviews Seem Destined to Fail?
Organizations need a mechanism to evaluate potential options for change. Is there anything salvageable from the postmortem? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
In the Journals – October 2016 by Livia Garofalo
Here is our “In the Journals” roundup for October. In addition to a rich selection of abstracts, also of interest this month are a Special Issue of Osiris on the “History of…
Why Do Postmortem Reviews Seem Destined to Fail?
Organizations need a mechanism to evaluate potential options for change. Is there anything salvageable from the postmortem? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
“Nor are we big enough to have a place for you as a cameo carver”: Kroeber on why Berkeley wasn’t good enough for Sapir
In my past few walks down the history of anthropology, I’ve tended to focus on white guys being cruel to each other. I thought I’d try to widen…
Plato and the birth of ambivalence
I’ve been teaching a class on anthropology of education this fall, and we spent the first several weeks of class reading various moments in educational theory and philosophy (Rousseau,…
“First Strike”
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state Taking an insider’s…
GRIL – Stoler “Duress”
A glitch in child sleeping patterns, and unemployment, means I’ve had a lot more time to think (and rethink) and of late get to read. So much so,…
Anthropology and Environment Society at the 2016 AAA Meeting
Anthropology and Environment Society Panels and Events at AAA 2016 INVITED SESSIONS Friday, November 18, 2016 10:15 – 12:00 pm UNCOMMON TERRITORIES OF THE ‘COMMON GOOD’ (Oral session…
Casting out Violence
In New York queer youth ask how art can combat violence. To exist is to resist. We have heard this phrase uttered by activists representing marginalized communities, from…
Chatting While Waterskiing, Part 3: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method
In this three-part blog series, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway of Oberlin College reflects on the challenges she has encountered in trying to incorporate drawing into her work as a linguistic…
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Hi all, Don’t leave the office or desk without clicking through your favorite development content summary 🙂 Development news: Chemonics discriminated against 124 African-American applicants; Bono-man,…