Around the Web Digest- August 21
Hi everyone! Hope your first days of class are going well! (If your first week of class is not going as well as you hope…may I suggest becoming…
Category: English
Uzbekistan’s president may be dying. Here is all my research on Uzbekistan.
I’ve been studying Uzbekistan for over a decade. As both an MA and a PhD student, I studied the country extensively, and was the first scholar to study…
Iconic Fossil Assigned Probable Cause of Death: A Big Fall
John Kappelman, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and his colleagues conducted a paleoforensic analysis on Lucy, the celebrated 3.18-million-year-old hominin skeleto…
Mortality Among High-School Educated Whites in the U.S.: An Anthropological View
Fig. 1. All-cause mortality, ages 45–54 for US White non-Hispanics (USW), US Hispanics (USH), and six comparison countries: France (FRA), Germany (GER), the United Kingdom (UK), Canada (CAN),…
Pregnancies, high-school drop-outs and personal struggles: The joys of anthropological fieldwork
Laetitia Simorangkir. Now that I completed my thesis (on care arrangements in South African communities), I can really say that I love anthropology and do research. But there…
Fieldwork then and now: from graduate student to professor
Dr. Weaver interviews a woman whose garden is the only consistent source of fresh vegetables for purchase in the Brazilian study community. I just returned from two fieldwork…
Decolonial Atlas
This blog — The Decolonial Atlas — is a really interesting tool for discussions of representation. As the authors explain, The Decolonial Atlas, started in 2014, is an…
Everyday violence, mobility and access to antenatal care by Nicole Ferreira
I met Libby on a cold winter morning at the clinic. She was a short woman with a strong voice and slow walk. Libby was 35 years old…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, August 29 edition
This week many food scholars are meeting here in Cape Town for the World Nutrition Congress, so I thought it would be a good moment to highlight the…
Afropunk Brooklyn 2016
I’ve been meaning to shoot Afropunk for years now. The Brooklyn-based alt-culture fest has become something of a street style phenomenon. All the major fashion outlets cover it—Vogue,…
In the Journals – August 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of just a fraction of the most recent academic research on security, crime, policing, and the law. We are…
Material Vernaculars: Institutional Role, Review, Authors, and Genres
The new Material Vernaculars series is co-published by the Mathers Museum of World Cultures with a huge amount of heavy lifting from our partner, the Indiana University Press.…
New Site – Nirleka, an Indonesian history & prehistory blog
I’ve started a new blog specifically about Indonesia. It’s called Nirleka, and I’ll be migrating some of the posts from this site over there over the…
New Site – Nirleka, an Indonesian history & prehistory blog
I’ve started a new blog specifically about Indonesia. It’s called Nirleka, and I’ll be migrating some of the posts from this site over there over the…
New Site – Nirleka, an Indonesian history & prehistory blog
I’ve started a new blog specifically about Indonesia. It’s called Nirleka, and I’ll be migrating some of the posts from this site over there over the…
Plethora of Patrons and Programs Prompts Parking Progress
(Sorry about that headline. I could not control myself.) This fall there will be an extraordinary number of programs at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. We hope…
Persian Muscle Men
Following the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the sporting activities in the Zurkhaneh were declared inappropriate. Nowadays, however, they have become a symbol of Iranian national pride. Persia’s …
Creating and debating Harari identity over the internet
This is the tenth (10th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
The “Good-Enough Anthropologist” by Elizabeth Durham
“Where are all the anthropologists?” The question came from public health worker Douglas Hamilton on the first day of the Princeton-Fung Global Forum on Ebola, held in November…
AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting and Conference, June 14-17, 2017
It is time for the annual call for abstracts from the best food studies conference in North America. This year it will be hosted at Occidental College, in…
Graffiti Bombing in U.S. National Parks
Graffiti in U.S. national parks has become increasingly common. Carving into rocks or writing and painting on them leaves images and impressions that are difficult to remove—forever changing…
No One’s Laughing: The Killing Joke Still Doesn’t Do Justice to Barbara Gordon
*Trigger Warning: This piece discusses rape and sexual violence. Alan Moore’s 1988 graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke is perhaps one of the bleakest stories in the DC…
Anthropoliteia in American Anthropologist’s review of Public Anthropology
In the most recent (September) issue of American Anthropologist, Angelique Haugerud has an excellent review of “Public Anthropology in 2015” which features both our series “#Ferguson…