#DakarFutures 2016
In June 2016 academics, professionals, practitioners and students gathered in Dakar for a conference on “Innovation, Transformation and Sustainable Futures in Africa.” For nearly two decades, there ha…
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Does Brexit Really Matter? Yes, As the End of the UK
Credit: 0x010C. By Keith HartThe secession of Britain from Europe by means of referendum has caused a big shock, not least in Britain itself. Various notables claim that…
Does Brexit Really Matter? Yes, As the End of the UK
Credit: 0x010C. By Keith HartThe secession of Britain from Europe by means of referendum has caused a big shock, not least in Britain itself. Various notables claim that…
Does Brexit Really Matter? Yes, As the End of the UK
Credit: 0x010C. By Keith HartThe secession of Britain from Europe by means of referendum has caused a big shock, not least in Britain itself. Various notables claim that…
Mark R. E. Meulenbeld, “Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)
Mark R. E. Meulenbeld’s new book looks closely at the relationship between vernacular novels and vernacular rituals in Ming China. Focusing on a particular novel called Canonization of…
Anthro in the news 7/25/16
Mass killings are local and global Source: Creative Commons Nancy Scheper-Hughes, professor of medical anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, published an article in Counterpunch (U.S….
Lost or Found? A Stick Chart From the Marshall Islands
In a recent blog post, I focused on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and mused on how we ever got along without high-tech navigational aids. GPS units became…
A Question of Politics, not Agency
My as work has an anthropologist in Brazil has drawn me into an historically layered matrix of racial, class-based, and gendered violence that I did not sufficiently understand…
Does Brexit Really Matter? Yes, As the End of the UK
Credit: 0x010C. By Keith HartThe secession of Britain from Europe by means of referendum has caused a big shock, not least in Britain itself. Various notables claim that…
Alessandro Zagato: Teachers struggles and low intensity warfare in the south of Mexico
The teachers’ campaign in defense of public education and against the neoliberal reforms being introduced by the Mexican government has ignited a new cycle of social struggles and…
Fractal Kinship: Europe 2016
Political conflict can create deep turmoil within families. Marina lost her only son to fighting in eastern Ukraine. He died while fighting in a Ukrainian airborne division that…
Teaching Decolonizing Methodologies
This entry is part 11 of 11 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Paige West For about a decade I have been teaching a graduate seminar in anthropology…
Feminist Futures in Africa?
“Je suis feministe!” (I am feminist!) declared renowned Senegalese sociologist Fatou Sow (Université Cheikh Anta Diop) to a packed, energized room at the ASA/AAA Dakar Conference. “I am…
Reflecting on Métis identity
This post comes from the âpihtawikosisân blog. The author, Chelsea Vowel, describes herself as “Métis from the Plains Cree speaking community of Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta. She currently lives…
Messianic Medicine: Treating Disease in the Time that is Left by Janina Kehr
In “The Time that Is Left”, Giorgio Agamben sketches the problem of messianic time. He writes that the messianic is “not the end of time, but the time…
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, …
Weapons of the Syrian War
For an animated video of the weapons used by all sides in Syria, click here. by Ben Watson, Defense One, July 19, 2016 From chlorine gas to Kalashnikovs,…
New Food Studies MS Program
We recently received the following announcement of a new Master of Science degree in Culinary Arts and Science from Professor Jonathan Deutsch at Drexel University, which may be of…
Charting Charcoal in Haiti
Estimating and Understanding Annual Charcoal Production and Consumption at the National level in Haiti Anthropologists engage subjects at various scales through a plethora of methods. We may solicit…
Annual Meeting Executive Sessions
From a total of 40 proposed sessions, the Executive Program Committee selected 24 discrete panels and roundtables as Executive Sessions for the 115th Annual Meeting, to be held in Minneapolis,…
Searching for the Origins of the First Americans
Since the 1920s, scientists have debated whether the first Americans arrived from Asia—or somewhere else—some 11,000 years ago, or millennia before. Artifacts such as this Clovis spear point…
How is Pokemon Go Changing Our Relationship with People and Places?
By Nick Mizer and Jared Miracle Pokemon Go, the blockbuster new augmented reality game developed by Niantic, hit the US on July 6. By July 13, estimates of…