No, Uzbekistan is probably not going to be invaded by terrorists
For twenty-five years, an invasion of Uzbekistan by Islamic terrorists has been predicted, and for twenty-five years, it has not happened. Instead, that fear has been used as…
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A Trump rally without Trump
What is a Trump rally like without Donald Trump present? To find out, I drove to a Harley Davidson lot in Festus, Missouri, where the local branch of…
A Dream Team for M-PAAC
It is my great pleasure to announce the presidential appointment of a dream leadership team for the newly created Members’ Programmatic, Advisory and Advocacy Committee (M-PAAC). Tricia Redeker…
Special Issue! Practical Anthropology for a Global Public Psychiatry by Anna Zogas
A very exciting special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry has just been published: Practical Anthropology for a Global Public Psychiatry: Provocations and Future Directions is edited by Neely Myers, R…
ArXiv for anthropology: @SocArXiv + #AAA2016 = Open Access Strikes Back
Cliffs Notes version of this post: @SocArXiv is a Green Open Access digital repository that is currently being developed for the social sciences. I think this is a…
Don’t Miss the Great Mathers Museum Building Debate
Built in the early 1980s, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures building is an example of Brutalist architecture, a modernist style reviled by some and revered by others.…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, September 6, 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…
Teaching Anthropology in the Sacrifice Zone
How one group of students engages with ethnography and structural inequalities in their home communities. I am driving through the mountains in pouring, relentless rain. Surrounding me is…
How John Richardson Joined the NPFL: Charles Taylor’s Confidant Speaks on Liberian Politics and American Warmongering, by Brooks Marmon
One of Charles Taylor’s best known and most eloquent defenders is John T. Richardson, a Liberian architect, who continues to speak with the former Liberian President two to…
CFP: Racism’s Toxic Entanglements in the Age of Flint and Ferguson (AAG 2017)
This AAG session seeks papers that are interested in broadening the concept of environmental justice through an analytical focus on racism, embodiment, and environment or place.
Dark days ahead for Zambian democracy
In a controversial decision that left many shocked and confused, yesterday the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judges ruled 3 to 2 that the opposition petition should be dismissed without…
Hunting in Northern Cyprus #Fieldnotes
November 2015; I proceeded ten metres behind Ertan Abi for much of the morning, a place in which I was not directly within the firing line but could…
Eating with Strangers: Bringing an Anthropological Perspective to the Table
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the Anthropologies #22 series. The anthropologies food issue continues! Up next we have an essay from cultural anthropologist Christy Shields-Argelès,…
Made in America 2016, Philadelphia
I just shot a bunch of images from Made in America for BET. Apparently, they saw my coverage of AfroPunk and were hoping I could do something similar…
Around the Web Digest- August 28
Hope readers in the U.S. are having a great Labor Day (aka your annual state-mandated day off from the crushing reality of capitalism)! Here are your readings for…
(Almost) Anthro Blogging 101: Lady Science
In this edition of Blogging 101, we’re featuring Lady Science, a blog and publication started by Anna Reser and Leila McNeill. Anthropology and geek culture also involves studies…
Anthropoliteia’s #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus
Anthropoliteia (@anthropoliteia) is another great anthropology resource publishing in blog form, offering “critical perspectives on police, security, crime, law and punishment around the world.” One of…
Top of the Heap: Matthew Kohrman by Hannah Gibson
[For this instalment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with medical anthropologist and Associate Professor Matthew Kohrman from Stanford University.] Summer has arrived in North…
Gold fever in Sakolabada, Mali
Sakolabada is a new town which completely depends on gold mining. Officially, it doesn´t exist, it doesn´t show on any official administrative map. However, in this non-existent town,…
Virtual Roundtable: ALESSANDRO MONSUTTI’S RESPONSE #PoliticalAgency
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I started my ethnographic career in the Pakistani city of Quetta in the…
Is Lapis Lazuli Fuelling Conflict in Afghanistan?
by Magnus Marsden **Republished from Hurst.** A recent Global Witness report has brought much-needed attention to the plight of Afghanistan’s lapis lazuli and tourmaline mines, located in the…
Web Roundup: Controversy and Commerce by Sara M Bergstresser
There have been many controversies about substantial and sudden jumps in pharmaceutical prices, the most memorable/infamous surrounding Martin Shkreli, the [widely despised and thoroughly unrepentant]…