Women of Iran’s Past
The women of Iran – 120 years ago Antoin Sevruguin, the father of Iranian society photography, captured portraits of Iranian women in the early 20th century, from well-known…
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Sonic Sensations of Industry and Fandom at VidCon 2015
As a sociologist of work, my main research focuses on workplace experiences and labor/management relations in media industries. This includes service workers and engineers in the music industry…
The Global Social Media Impact Study goes Open Access
As an undergraduate, I was deeply impressed with Daniel Miller’s Material Culture and Mass Consumption — in fact, in one of my first published articles I used Miller’s concept of …
Public Anthropology
To mark the publication of Public Anthropology: Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World, the author, Edward J. Hedican, provides us with a few thoughts on the impetus…
Surprise! Semen Is Required
Reproduction seems so obvious to us now. Even if we don’t know the details, we know about the birds and the bees. For humans and an overwhelming number…
Krista A. Thompson, “Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice” (Duke UP, 2015)
Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Duke University Press, 2015) is a gorgeous book. It’s about light and the practices of self representation…
Who is Going to Fix the Road to Europe?
Road M15 near Reni, Ukraine in October, 2013. Photo courtesy Simon Schlegel When protests erupted in Ukraine in late November 2013, I was conducting fieldwork in southern Bessarabia,…
Neely Laurenzo Myers’ Recovery’s Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency by Ellen Rubinstein
Recovery’s Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency by Neely Laurenzo Myers Vanderbilt University Press, 2015, 192 pages “RECOVERY! GET IT, GET OVER IT, OR…
Lived Theories: Hayek’s Neoliberalism and #Pragmatism
One way of characterizing Amy Levine’s rich ethnographic inquiry into pragmatism is to posit South Korean Civil Movement Organisations as a satisfyingly thorough answer to the question: “how…
Reading as caching
When you spend a few years writing code, the principles of programming can start to spill over into other parts of your life. Programming has so many of…
Inclusive recycling Workshop (April 2016, Amsterdam)
What policies and technologies make waste systems friendly or unfriendly towards informal recycling? Join us on the 22nd of April at the Design & The City Conference in…
Poetry in the Anthropocene
By Autumn Sharp, University of Kent § I’ll only ask questions I don’t want to know the answers to “Jupiter’s gravity slings long-period comets out of harm’s way, while…
Post Doc ad, Rovaniemi, Arctic Indigenous Anthropology?
Dear friends, The unversty of Lapland advertises a 2 year postdoc in Arctic Indigenous studies. It would be great to get as many as possible good applications from…
Meat Culture
You might have heard: The Obama administration released its new Dietary Guidelines for Americans in January to an outcry. While the new rules tell us to limit our…
Antropologisch portret van de Egyptische Revolutie
Filmposter ‘Ik ben het volk’ Door Ellen van de Bovenkamp Egypte 2011: net als documentairemaakster Anna Roussillon terug is in Frankrijk breekt de revolutie uit. Ze baalt verschrikkelijk…
#Pragmatism & the Magic Book for Nuclear Power
This is a brightly colored South Korean pro-nuclear children’s book adorned with friendly animals dancing around a light bulb in front of a nuclear power plant. The title…
CFP: Ethics and Transboundary Waste Movements (3/20/16)
This session invites papers exploring ethical considerations of transboundary waste movement.
An Anthropologist among Future Seekers
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Deepa S. Reddy] For a few years now, I’ve been working in the space of future imagining—seeking out trends and rationales by which…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: March 2 Edition
Hello FoodAnthropology readers, we have a short round-up this week, featuring a lively internet debate about the nature of American millenials. As always, please send any links you’d…
CFP: Conference on Democratizing Food Governance
Call for papers for a conference that may be of interest to FoodAnthropology readers: CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on Democratizing Food Governance, Rome, 14 October 2016 Sponsored by…
The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…