Illegal Immigration: a global problem
People are migrating across the globe in unprecedented numbers. More than 200 million people are residing in countries other than their home countries. Further, that number represents a…
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“Playing gives experience” – a fieldwork photo blog
by Tessa Gruijs For my Master’s research I went to Ghana. In cooperation with a local NGO I got access to a couple of primary schools. There I…
Diagnosing Failure: The Post-Hoc Report as an Administrative Epilogue by Andrew Lakoff
The World Health Organization recently released its long-awaited final report on the organization’s response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic. The report opens by explaining that, however tragic the…
Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece
Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece (via Sociological Imagination). Source: Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece
Web Roundup: Data, Safety, and Bias by Lily Shapiro
Many people probably saw the news that Facebook allegedly privileges left-leaning stories in its trending news section, a story broken by Gizmodo at the beginning of this month.…
4th Annual Yale Food Systems Symposium
Feeding a Growing World: Perspectives in 2016 Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies September 30th, 2016 Request for Proposals Half a century out from the Green…
Let’s Keep Arguing About Flags and Statues
The Confederate flag, which many people see as a symbol of America’s racist past, continues to spark debate. fauxto_digit/Flickr Last summer, the Confederate flag was finally taken down…
We’ve already got the robes: Of monks and us
This is the last post in a six part sequence called Strange Rumblings in the Meritocracy. In this series I’ve written a lot about education, its constraints, the…
Vikings, Citizen Science, and Being Wary of Media
There are only two things of archaeological interest my friend Ralph has brought up in our daily carpool commute so far this year. The first was the discovery…
Broken Stories
Adam Drazin, UCL Anthropology How, when and why do people start to see something as”broken”? Do objects around the home just have two states, broken and working, or…
Article Alert! New texts in discard studies
Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a monthly table of contents alert for articles, reports, and books in the field.…
CfP „Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin“ (17.-18.02.2017, Universität Basel)
Im Februar 2017 veranstalten MedizinethnologInnen aus der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland gemeinsam eine Tagung, die unter dem Titel „Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin“ …
Studying World Heritage in the Netherlands – Part 2
Students from our Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology as well as from a range of other departments recently went to the Dutch Wadden Island of Texel…
CfP „Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin“ (17.-18.02.2017, Universität Basel)
Im Februar 2017 veranstalten MedizinethnologInnen aus der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland gemeinsam eine Tagung, die unter dem Titel „Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin“ …
GONE FISHING! #holiday
With summer in full swing and the heat slowing down our brains we felt that creative spirits were in need of some rejuvenation, and thus went for a bit…
In the Sand: Water, Land, and Infrastructure in Informality
Angela Storey, University of Arizona § Milk crates are a common sight when walking the narrow paths of informal settlements in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town suburb where more…
A Letter to the AA Regarding its World Anthropology Section on Israel
[Savage Minds welcomes the following invited post by Matan Kaminer. Matan is a doctoral candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is working…
Held in Suspension: Reflections on “After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed”
Savage Minds is delighted to present this invited book review by Lauren Cubellis, a Ph.D. student at Washington University in St. Louis. In this engaging first book, Zoë…
Anthro in the news 5/30/16
Because he can Schema of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb blast displayed in the Peace Memorial Museum. Source: Micha Rieser, Creative Commons The Daily Mail reported on U.S. President…
In the Journals May 2016 Part II by Melanie Boeckmann
Part I can be found here. Social Science & Medicine Where the lay and the technical meet: Using an anthropology of interfaces to explain persistent reproductive health disparities…
In the Journals May 2016 Part I by Melanie Boeckmann
Following Anna’s post on current special issues, here are abstracts from this month’s journal outputs. American Ethnologist Skill and masculinity in Olympic weightlifting: Training cues an…
Technologies of Care: Administering Donated Breast Milk in a South African Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Miriam Waltz
This is the third installment of the series from the University of Cape Town’s First Thousand Day Research Group. My research traces out the pathways of donated milk…