Anthro in the news 4/4/16
Take that trash and… Liberty Landfill. Source: Ian Burt, Flickr The Atlantic interviewed cultural anthropologist Joshua Reno, assistant professor at Binghamton University about his research on …
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AAA Members and the Membership Survey
My background is in sociocultural and applied linguistics, and I first joined AAA as a fifth-year doctoral student. It took me a while to learn to feel comfortable…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork is such an important – and mysterious – rite of passage in Anthropology. When y…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
Anthropology at the Crossroads
This vote is more than a referendum on a contentious political issue. It is a vote that defines our scholarship. In many
Anthropology at the Crossroads
This vote is more than a referendum on a contentious political issue. It is a vote that defines our scholarship. In many
Crossing the border, blurring the boundaries: alternative views on human smuggling from the Horn of Africa to Europe
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa have systematically crossed international borders throughout Africa into Europe in the last decade. Among them were over 150,000…
Prevalence of self-harm reflects our social isolation by Chris Millard
Since the late 1980s growing numbers of mental health professionals and media commentators in Britain and the USA have been concerned with a behaviour labelled as ‘self-harm’, ‘deliberate…
Winter/Spring Journal Round-Up
American Anthropologist Interspecies Semiotics and the Specter of Taboo: The Perception and Interpretation of Dogs and Rabies in Bali,Indonesia Yancey Orr The anthropological fields of ethnobiology and…
Bibliography on Action-Based Research Methods
As researchers, we often want to make material and social changes through our work. Regardless of our institutional affiliations and disciplines, there are concrete ways to achieve this,…
Migrant deaths: explaining variations over time and across smuggling routes
Large amounts of economic, political and communication resources are being invested (how effectively is another matter) in trying to deal with the refugee crisis. The same can hardly…
What FoodAnthro Is Reading Now: April 3 Edition
April 3, 2016: Hello FoodAnthro readers, the past week has been overflowing with food news. If you have something you’d like to contribute for future weeks, please email…
Heather Kopelson, “Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic” (NYU Press, 2014)
Heather Miyano Kopelson explores how religion, primarily expressed through bodily action, contributed to colonial notions of difference in her recent book Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race… Visit…
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