“Anthropology for peace”
In the Communications Unit at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) where I work, there are posters from an old engagement campaign that read “_____ for peace.” The…
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Distance learning opportunity in cultural anthropology research methods from the University of Florida
Registration: Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology Registration for courses in the Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology program at the University of Florida is open. Four courses (listed be…
Celebrating Allies – ALL WEEK! Glimpses from behind the scenes!
Over the past few weeks, Allegra has been deeply engaged with a theme that is both topical and urgent: human smuggling. Close observers may have noticed that with…
Anthro in the news 4/11/16
Sex trafficking and tea CNN carried an article following up on a series of videos it did last month about how girls growing up on tea plantations in…
The Brussels attack and liberal Islamophobia
“WICHITA, KS – MARCH 5: A group of Muslim students take selfies before Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made a speech at a campaign rally on March 5,…
Abortion and Human Rights in Mexico
Feminist Approaches within and Around the Law At a recent Mexico City training session in her organization’s model of abortion accompaniment (the provision of emotional and logistical support…
Nutrient Rifts
The nineteenth-century critique of the emerging “metabolic rift” between city sewers and country farms lamented that with the rise of the sanitary metropolis and the emergence of input-intensive…
Introduction: The First Thousand Days of Life by Michelle Pentecost
(On behalf of the First Thousand Days Research Group (University of Cape Town)) “Good nutrition in the first 1000 days between a woman’s pregnancy and her child’s second…
A different kind of pilgrimage
Photograph by Neil Rickards By Dimetri Whitfield The most surprising thing for me about conducting fieldwork is that you encounter all these interesting people that ultimately do…
The anthropologist as a curious subaltern? Thoughts on precarity and publics
The title of this post is meant to provoke. Or so I hoped, when I first thought of it one night as I was cooking (a very thought-inspiring…
Making Anthropology Public… Again
8 Awesome Anthropologists Advancing Public Outreach (2016, Forbes) What’s not to love about this headline?! Kristina Killgrove lists off 8 awesome (women) anthropologists whose blogs and work (ran…
Flora of Qatar
For anyone interested in photographs of the flora of Qatar, there is a fine website produced by Dr. Alexey Sergeev. You can even search by species. Overall the…
废俗 | Junklore
“Redundant information, calculated as, say, the number of stickers in corners, on walls, on lampposts that it takes to build cognizance of this information in one subject, may…
Zika’s Frightening Stranglehold
Some of the earliest vampire stories were about demons or shape-shifters who spent their nights robbing pregnant women of their unborn fetuses, silently killing infants in their sleep,…
SfAA Report: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Food Insecurity
Colin Thor West UNC Chapel Hill Anthropologists from around the world gathered last week at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C. Dr. Colin…
Links & Contents I Liked 178
Hi all, Time for some fresh reading recommendations for the upcoming weekend! Development news on exploitative immersive experiences; why you should be smarter than becoming a volountourist in…
Emma Jackson, “Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility” (Routledge, 2015)
What is the experience of young homeless people? What does this experience tell us about space, place and society? In Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility…
Debate forum: BDS and the American Anthropological Association by Editorial Collaborative
Starting April 15, members of the American Anthropological Association will be able to vote on a resolution which proposes a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. In this “debate…
Anthropology Blogging 101: PopAnth
This post is part of the Anthropology Blogging 101 series. In this edition of Anthropology Blogging, we welcome Erin Taylor, Managing Editor at PopAnth. Could you tell us a…
If we question the figure of the ‘smuggler’ and the ‘trafficker’, we should also raise questions about the state
When we raise questions about the assumed figures of the ‘smuggler’ and ‘trafficker’, we must also in parallel raise questions about agencies, officers, policies, and discourses of the…