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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The Straight Dope on Regulating Fair Play in Sport
Why do so many athletes seem to be cheating? Kathryn Henne delves into the rules surrounding doping and gender in sport. Maria Sharapova, pictured here at the…
Anthrax outbreak on Yamal PENINSULA, not Tarko Sale PUROVSKI Yamal Okrug!
The Siberian Times and other english language sites report about the recent anthrax outbreak among reindeer in West Siberia in a slight geographical confusion . Ignore the maps…
As the Rio 2016 Olympic Games kick off-12 suggestions for stereotypical global media stories
As the Olympic Games in Rio are about to kick off, global media will once again have an opportunity to combine fairly apolitical reporting with some of the…
Bracketing time: nourishment beyond ‘the first thousand days’ by Carina Truyts
[1000 days] of focus and intense care in order to ‘secure’ infants’ future health, [6 months] of exclusive breastfeeding. These brackets of time demarcate periods of intense focus…
Summer #EVENTS list
Hello Allies! Once again, Aude came up with this wonderful list of events for you, to give you a foretaste of the new academic year about to start.…
Writing About Violence (Part I)
Writing is never easy. Writing ethnographically about people who perpetrate violence is exceptionally difficult. Not only does the ethnographer have to cautiously avoid slipping into what we call…
Indigenous cultural appropriation?
In June we posted an article from The Atlantic on The do’s and don’ts of Cultural Appropriation. In that post I suggested that the article, with its focus…
#Review: On the State. Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992.
As stated on its back cover, in this book the influential French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) investigates the state’s ‘extraordinary power of producing a socially ordered world without…
Conflict over Transitional Justice in Nepal
A decade after Nepal’s internal armed conflict came to an end its victims are still campaigning for redress. Krista Billingsley describes recent demonstrations in Kathmandu and charts the…
The New Victorianism, Imperialism, and Identity Politics
Victorian Parallels in the New Imperialism “The New Imperialism” is not a very efficient conceptual phrase since it requires a lot of labour to clarify what one means…
Animal Trafficking Is Big Business on Instagram
Social media platforms can be used to perpetuate the trafficking of animals and animal products such as bear bile, which is commonly harvested from Asiatic black bears. Lee…
The New Victorianism
“A man…lives not only in the spot which he personally occupies, but in every spot to which he may extend his action, or to which he may conceive…
Independence for Scotland?
The UK Brexit vote has reawakened calls for independence in Scotland. Cynthia Mahmood and Emma Simmons share their notes from the field. The Saltire or cross of St.…
Environmentality
Governmentality and environmentality can articulate how and why waste becomes a medium through which to understand power and changing human-waste interactions
Prevention and militarization in Africa’s security governance by Linnéa Gelot
The 27th African Union Summit, underway in Kigali, Rwanda, is widely expected to adopt one of Dr Donald Kaberuka’s recommendations on how to increase member state contributions…
#Podcast Interview Round Up January-April: New Books in Anthropology – REDUX
Hi there pod-pickers, here’s another earful of podcasts for you to squeeze into your drums, freshly prepared by our audiophile associates New Books in Anthropology. As ever each…
Singing Albinism in Global Tanzania: “Demanding” Inclusion through Music
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Giorgio Brocco Left: Christon Sebastian, one of Ras Six’s producers, showed me one of the soundproofed rooms where he recorded tunes such…
Expanding beyond our project – kinship in the light of social media
. @DannyAnth speaking at our #EASA2016 #SocialMedia and #kinship panel right now! @EASAinfo @UCLWhyWePost pic.twitter.com/CIpLWzSXrw — Tom McDonald (@AnthroTom) July 22, 2016 The recent meeting of t…
Call for Workshops: DGV-Tagung 2017 zum Thema „Zugehörigkeiten: Affektive, moralische und politische Praxen in einer vernetzten Welt“ (Berlin)
Call for Workshops, DGV-Tagung, 2017 (Foto: „One More“ von Jack t. T., CC BY 2.0-Lizenz, Änderungen vorgenommen) Die nächste DGV-Konferenz mit dem Thema „Zugehörigkeiten: Affektive, …
REDUX: Publishing for PhD students #Anthroadvice
Playing a bit part in organising a workshop on academic publishing for PhD students at the next annual conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies, I…
Cultivating the Nile: An Interview with Jessica Barnes
Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt By Jessica Barnes 248pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. § Colin Hoag (UC Santa Cruz and Aarhus University)…
Review: The Psychology of Overeating
Cargill, Kima. 2015. The Psychology of Overeating. Food and the Culture of Consumerism. London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic (216 pp). Julie Starr Hamilton College In The Psychology of Overeating…