Teaching AAA 2016: Teaching evidence in medicine
This is the fourth post in our blog series designed to help you link your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery. The series offers relevant teaching resources…
Category: English
Anthro in the news 8/1/16
Listen to the data: Police in the U.S. fatally shoot more blacks than whites Source: Creative Commons, Lorie Shaull The Chronicle of Higher Education carried an article describing…
Portrails 2016
Portrayal – a depiction of someone or something in a work of art or literature; a picture Trail – a mark or a series of signs or objects…
Who will be our ethnographic hero?
There is now only one path to the White House for Donald Trump. There has to be a Brexit-type surprise in November. This is the hope of the…
Birth of the Pharmaceutical
In his highly original work, Birth of the Clinic, Foucault focuses his attention on the human experience and the rational for its continued homogenous reality. He discusses…
Race and Cricket Narratives in the West Indies
Adnan Hossain asks who the best fast bowlers are, and why race matters in West Indies cricket. In the Caribbean, cricket is not only a sport but…
The emotional toll of masculinity
This personal essay published in the Washington Post’s Parenting section, provides a lot of insight into the powerful norms and ideals of masculinity in (North) American society. In…
Article Alerts in Discard Studies (June-July 2016)
Since discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the…
In The Journals – July Pt. II by Christine Sargent
Hello everyone! Please check out our roundup for the second half of the month. Also, the current issue of Hau has a symposium on Webb Keane’s Ethical Life: Its…
The Working Class, Identity Politics and New Victorian History
Against the Labouring Classes: Identity Politics in the New Victorian Age The New Victorianism serves to not only divert politics into issues of morality and identity, it works…
Paul Roquet, “Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
Paul Roquet’s wonderful new book begins with an offering of jellyfish and proceeds to teach us how to read the air. Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self (University…
Social Imperialism and New Victorian Identity Politics
Social Imperialism? New Victorianism’s Domestic Moral Code and the Political Economy of Identity Politics “The nation-state in its imperialist guise was the inescapable context within which all polit…
Notes on the 12th digital ethnography reading (Lane 2016)
Lane, J. (2016). The Digital Street: An Ethnographic Study of Networked Street Life in Harlem. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(1), 43-58. doi: 10.1177/0002764215601711 Notes by Jolynna Sinanan Digit…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, July 30 Edition
We have had a brief summer hiatus here in the FoodAnthropology reading and Tour de France watching department, during which we have, in fact, been doing some…
Around the Web Digest- July 24
Hi everyone, I apologize for the delay but here is this week’s readings for you! With Hamilton, the musical sensation soon traveling to different cities in the U.S., Current Affairs questions…
The Paradox of Donald Trump’s Appeal
Offensive and bombastic rhetoric is key to Donald Trump’s campaign. Why are voters drawn to this taboo-violating candidate? Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Associated Press Donald Trump is the …
We Make Plans and Babies Don’t Follow Them
That moment when you’re headed to your first doula prenatal visit with a first time mom who is 35 weeks, and she calls you and says “So, it…
We Make Plans and Babies Don’t Follow Them
That moment when you’re headed to your first doula prenatal visit with a first time mom who is 35 weeks, and she calls you and says “So, it…
We Make Plans and Babies Don’t Follow Them
That moment when you’re headed to your first doula prenatal visit with a first time mom who is 35 weeks, and she calls you and says “So, it…
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Hi all,Development news: Aid delivery & kidnapping-the complexities of the humanitarian system; Social accountability and the risk of another buzzword; the business sector will not ‘fix’ developme…