More on Poland, Russia and the US
The Polish news outlet Onet did another interview with me on the US election and its potential ramifications for Poland and other Eastern European states. You can read…
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Grassroots Necro-tourism in Napoli
Guest contributor Markus Bell is a lecturer in the University of Sheffield’s School of East Asian Studies. Follow him on Twitter: @mpsbell. Italy is in trouble. Big trouble. The…
Anthro in the news 8/15/16
Anthropologist walks into the World Bank… World Bank headquarters in DC. It is a bank, after all. Source: Creative Commons What happens when an anthropologist/physician becomes president of the…
Monitoring and Assessing Diversity Initiatives
At times throughout my (short) career as an anthropologist, I’ve struggled with answering the question of how would an anthropological stance/investigation/insight influence the bottom line? This strug…
Wrestling with Uncertainty in Dakar’s Banlieue
Dakar’s aspiring wrestlers forge entrepreneurial career paths in an uncertain local economy. Children playing at wrestling at an écurie (wrestling school) in the Dakar suburb of Yeumbeul. Young…
Governing the world ‘as if’ it counts, by Morten Jerven
The most challenging notion to take on board in the governance of today’s world is that not all that counts can be counted. We increasingly rely on numbers…
Arctic Abstractive Industry
Colleague Arthur Mason sent around a link to the collection of popular short essays that many anthropologists contributed to a theme around extractive industries in the Arctic, but…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, August 15 edition
Since I spend an inordinate amount of time reading about food, I thought it would be great to share articles that I’d been reading. The only problem with this plan…
Call for #Reviews: Recent Publications on #Gender
While gender remains a mostly female domain of inquiry, our list of recent publications features not only male authors, but also discusses contemporary masculinities. In What Makes a…
CFP: Media & Culture
CALL FOR PAPERS Arab Media & Society, the biannual journal of the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in the School of Global Affairs and Public…
Beyond “Embodiment” in Sport
How weightlifting involves relations between tools and bodies. Gym in Gldani, Georgia before a youth competition in April 2012. Photograph courtesy Perry Sherouse Anthropological writing on spo…
A planet afflicted by a high fever
The world is ‘overheated’. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short,…
A planet afflicted by a high fever
The world is ‘overheated’. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short,…
A planet afflicted by a high fever
The world is ‘overheated’. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it…
Humanitarianism in the Anthropocene by Sverre Molland
The decade has been conceptually rich for anthropologists. From multi-species ethnography to the practice of care, the past several years have seen a flourish of analytical concepts and…
Review: Stirring the Pot
Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine. James C. McCann. Ohio University Press. 2009 Mary B. Sundal Washburn University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology As part…
New York City’s “First” Mosque
Muslims in the US are non-assimilationist outsiders. So goes a reigning ideology, which was galvanized after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and…
Drought and Culture: From the Yard to the Farm
By Alfred Lopez, Yeng Vang, and Chong Vang, California State University, Fresno § We hurriedly walked through a middle-class Fresno, California neighborhood. The City of Fresno and Fresno County are…
Zika at the Rio Games: Pandemic or Panic?
The World Health Organization stated that there was “no public health justification” to postpone the 2016 Rio Olympics due to the Zika virus. Is the fear of Zika…
Anthropology: Innovation by Another Name
By Astrid Countee Everyone is talking about innovation. Big business wants it, startups want it. Even my grandma wants it. But how do you do it? What is…
Post Doc: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities
Post Doc Opportunity that may interest FoodAnthropology readers: PROJECT INFORMATION Title of project: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities: mapping the factors in the social and physical food envi…
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Hi all,TGIF! Time for a fresh link review from the wonderful world of development, digital culture and higher education! Development news: The #allmalepanel gets a thorough feminist academic…