A close-up look at Chinese social media platforms
Tom McDonald and Xinyuan Wang introduce China’s social media platforms Chinese social media is remarkable because despite extensive media coverage and academic research, these platforms remain s…
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The Half of the World That Doesn’t Make Out
When the South African Thonga peoples first saw Europeans kissing in 1890, their reaction was disgust at such gross behavior. The same thing happened 100 years later for…
Walter Benjamin in Palestine
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to offer this reflection on a Walter Benjamin conference in Palestine by David Lloyd, ally of anthropology and…
Care Comes Home
Hydrangeas flourishing in my grandmother’s garden. Photo courtesy of Alison Witchard I have spent most of the past year thinking about and engaging with anthropological literature on care…
Article Alert! Elevent recent publications in discard studies
The following ten articles and one book are recent publications from diverse disciplines, but they all relate to the study of waste, pollution, and externalities. Cooper, D. R.,…
REDUX: The Neoliberal Race to the Bottom Affects Us All!* #UniversityCrisis
Over the last years academics from different disciplines have become increasingly visible on popular and social media, narrating personal stories and reflecting on the growing casualization of academi…
Feelings into words: Harvest Festival Part 2
Describing, in words, what it’s like to be at a rave is one of the most difficult things I’ve had to do for my research. How can one…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: February 9th Edition
February 9, 2016: Hi FoodAnthropology readers, We have a reader contribution to kick us off this week: Food, Art, and History at the Getty Center: If anyone is…
Smoke + Mirrors: Marie Henein’s lawyerly tactics in defense of Ghomeshi
[Feb 9, 2016. Some thoughts on the Ghomeshi trial, as the third complainant’s testimony and examination is completed, and as we wait for Judge Horkins to rule on…
Does Early Intervention Promote Recovery?
Director of NIMH Leaves for Google to Develop New Technologies There is a growing trend among large companies in the private sector to join in health promotion efforts,…
“Throw Me Something, Mister!”
The parade crowds were already forming as I held on to my oversized cowboy hat and made my way to the krewe’s meeting spot. I could see our…
anthro in the news 2/8/16
On eliminating Valentine’s Day in U.S. public schools According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, many schools in the Minneapolis area will not be marking Valentine’s Day or many…
New Developments in Drone Proliferation: How Africa was Deployed to Rescue Drones, by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Debates on global drone proliferation tend to assume that adoption and adaptation of drones follow a universal logic and that the drone industry is a singular thing, geographically…
REDUX: Bourgeois Knowledge #UniversityCrisis
Young man: Hey, what’s he talking about? Old man: The professor is discussing ideas of justice and humanity in the philosophy of Plato. Young man: Plato? Old man:…
anthro in the news 2/8/16
On eliminating Valentine’s Day in U.S. public schools According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, many schools in the Minneapolis area will not be marking Valentine’s Day or many…
Maha Kumbh Journal during the making of “Kalkimanthankatha – Part 2.
Still from Kalkimanthankatha. Saturday, Feb 2, 2013 I think Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” works very well in Kumbh. A post-modern text located in a pre-modern universe. The…
anthro in the news 2/8/2016
On eliminating Valentine’s Day in U.S. public schools According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, many schools in the Minneapolis area will not be marking Valentine’s Day or many…
Dear President Obama: Protect Bears Ears
My first backpacking trip in south-central Utah at age 14 was a defining moment. Some earth science teachers took my classmates and me to San Rafael Swell for…
“Bioculturalism” — An interview with Jason DeCaro by Jason DeCaro
“Bioculturalism” resumes this week with the first of three new interviews with self-professed biocultural anthropologists. This series aims to get anthropologists and closely-related othe…
In the Journals, January 2016 by Aaron Seaman
In addition to our regular roundup of journal offerings, the current issue of Medical Anthropology is a special issue, entitled “Diversions of Biomedical Technologies in a Globalized World,”…