Disability as Diversity: A New Biopolitics by Michele Friedner
We’re a medical anthropologist and a literary critic, and while our research interests seemingly have little overlap, we found ourselves engaged in a series of conversations about how…
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Anthro in the news 5/23/16
The kindness of Kenyans Source: Siegfried Modola/IRIN All Africa published an op-ed by Rahul Oka, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He comments…
On Decolonising Anthropology
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Zodwa Radebe Decolonisation can be understood as the process that decolonises what was colonised; not what…
What would your university look like if you could just say, “no?”
This is the Fourth post in a sequence called Strange Rumblings in the Meritocracy. Sometime towards the end of graduate school, I got it into my head that…
Austerity Bites: Food Stories from Lewisham
Via Gabriela Nicolescu, Goldsmiths Exhibition organised by the Goldsmith’sDepartment of Anthropology Venue: Weston Atrium, Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths Private View: 24th May, 17.30 Dates: …
The Anti-Politics of World Heritage
Mt. Kenya: A place of nature In September 2010, I embarked on a PhD project that examined the World Heritage listing of Mt.Kenya, an alpine area located in…
Breaking “Cave-o-nomics”
Myth: Modern capitalism evolved from barter It is quite common the assumption that modern capitalism evolved from barter. But this is but a myth. There doesn’t seem to…
Breaking “Cave-o-nomics”
Myth: Modern capitalism evolved from barter It is quite common the assumption that modern capitalism evolved from barter. But this is but a myth. There doesn’t seem to…
Breaking “Cave-o-nomics”
Myth: Modern capitalism evolved from barter It is quite common the assumption that modern capitalism evolved from barter. But this is but a myth. There doesn’t seem to…
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You know us well! We, at Allegra, are always on the look out for exciting anthropological events from around the world. Which is why we have cooked you…
Media, The Myth of Trump and What Really Matters
Circus-like media attention is good for ratings, for advertising revenues, for circulation and for Mr. Trump. It enables Mr. Trump to spin–with ever-increasing brilliance–the myth of his invin…
Media, The Myth of Trump and What Really Matters
Circus-like media attention is good for ratings, for advertising revenues, for circulation and for Mr. Trump. It enables Mr. Trump to spin–with ever-increasing brilliance–the myth of his invin…
Media, The Myth of Trump and What Really Matters
Circus-like media attention is good for ratings, for advertising revenues, for circulation and for Mr. Trump. It enables Mr. Trump to spin–with ever-increasing brilliance–the myth of his invin…
Media, The Myth of Trump and What Really Matters
Circus-like media attention is good for ratings, for advertising revenues, for circulation and for Mr. Trump. It enables Mr. Trump to spin–with ever-increasing brilliance–the myth of his invin…
Media, The Myth of Trump and What Really Matters
Manchester, UK. Amid the swirl of Trump politics it is easy to lose sight of what is important in social life. There is no shortage of media coverage…
Media, The Myth of Trump and What Really Matters
Circus-like media attention is good for ratings, for advertising revenues, for circulation and for Mr. Trump. It enables Mr. Trump to spin–with ever-increasing brilliance–the myth of his invincible…
Media, The Myth of Trump and What Really Matters
Circus-like media attention is good for ratings, for advertising revenues, for circulation and for Mr. Trump. It enables Mr. Trump to spin–with ever-increasing brilliance–the myth of his invincible…
Media, The Myth of Trump and What Really Matters
Circus-like media attention is good for ratings, for advertising revenues, for circulation and for Mr. Trump. It enables Mr. Trump to spin–with ever-increasing brilliance–the myth of his invin…
Media, The Myth of Trump and What Really Matters
Circus-like media attention is good for ratings, for advertising revenues, for circulation and for Mr. Trump. It enables Mr. Trump to spin–with ever-increasing brilliance–the myth of his invin…
Abyssinian fundamentalism and cyberwar in Eritrea
Here is the eighth (8th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Islam, broadcast media, and the remaking of religious experience in Mali
See below a seventh (7th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
The role of race in the Democratic race
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about fractures in the Democratic Party and a disturbing racial divide in the Sanders-Clinton race: Mr. Sanders did not create the…
How new voter ID laws might sway the election
For Quartz, I wrote about restrictive new voter ID laws that may disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of non-white voters in swing states, potentially handing a victory to Donald…