UnBreaking Birth
I recently watched this video “UnBreaking Birth” – a lecture by Ryan McAllister. It is basically a version of the lecture I have given a couple of times…
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UnBreaking Birth
I recently watched this video “UnBreaking Birth” – a lecture by Ryan McAllister. It is basically a version of the lecture I have given a couple of times…
UnBreaking Birth
I recently watched this video “UnBreaking Birth” – a lecture by Ryan McAllister. It is basically a version of the lecture I have given a couple of times…
UnBreaking Birth
I recently watched this video “UnBreaking Birth” – a lecture by Ryan McAllister. It is basically a version of the lecture I have given a couple of times…
“Turn Down for What?”
A Brazilian Remix One of the first things I noticed about Kendrick Lamar’s recent performance at the 2016 Grammys was the noise. Fans and critics have written about…
Wake up, Freak Out – Then Get Over It
A short animated clip that, if doesn’t embed properly below, is available here.
Virtual Roundtable: Luigi Achilli’s Response #PoliticalAgency
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? “Political agency?! What is political agency?” When I first spoke about “political agency”…
#PoliticalAgency – A Virtual Roundtable
Last May, an international workshop entitled Rethinking political agency in the Middle East: Engaging political anthropology took place in Fiesole at the European University Institute. We published b…
More than Scenery: National Parks Preserve Our History and Culture
Antoinette Jackson talks with former president Jimmy Carter about the nearly vanished town of Archery, which occupied part of Carter’s boyhood farm. Photo courtesy of the USF Heritage…
Save the Date!
Received from our friends at the Association for the Study of Food and Society, a heads up for next year’s big Food Studies conference: Save the date for…
Will GMOs Put an End to Hunger? Ask the Hungry
When it comes to food, few topics are as contentious and polarizing as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Hyperbole is rampant in this debate. GMOs are everything we…
Soccer as Ethnography
Some student soccer players challenge a team of Kurdish asylum seekers to a game. How can cultural identities be studied ethnographically through playing soccer? In the summer of 2014…
„Eine Ästhetik für das Miteinanderleben“: Elisabeth Hsu über Chinesische Medizin, akademische Lernkulturen und die Rolle der (Medizin-)Ethnologie im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Transformationen
Zur Ästhetik des Miteinander-Lebens (im muslimischen Indischen Ozean) (rechts: E. Hsu) | Elisabeth Hsu Frau Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Hsu ist Professorin am Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology…
Lisa Bjorkman, “Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai” (Duke UP, 2015)
Mumbai is in many ways the paradigmatic city of India’s celebrated economic upturn, but the city’s transformation went hand-in-hand with increasing water woes. In Pipe Politics, Contested ……
Peter Wade, et. al. “Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America (Duke UP, 2014)
Over the past quarter-century, scientists have been mapping and exploring the human genome to locate the genetic basis of disease and track the histories of populations across time…
Top of the Heap: Zoë H. Wool by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Zoë H. Wool, who is a medical anthropologist and assistant professor at Rice University in…
Imagining the Future & Economic Fictions
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
Imagining the Future & Economic Fictions
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
Imagining the Future & Economic Fictions
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
Imagining the Future & Economic Fictions
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
Journey between Two Languages
By Asmeret Ghebreigziabiher Mehari As a non-native learner and speaker of Amharic, English, and Swahili, I have taken several journeys between these languages and my mother tongue, Tigrinya.…
‘The Ethnographic Experiment’ edited by Hviding and Berg
Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg (Editors). The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908. 320 pp., illus., bibl., index, apps. New York and Oxford:…
Ramadan Diaries: Week Three
[Note: Ramadan is long over, but due to some technical difficulties, our weekly entries were interrupted. With this entry on not fasting during Ramadan, we pick up where…