Mario Rutten passed away
By Robert Pool, chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam. It is with sadness we wish to inform you of the death of our colleague, Mario Rutten, Professor…
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Mayanthi Fernando, “The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism”
Mayanthi Fernando View on Amazon Mayanthi Fernando‘s The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (Duke University Press, 2014) is an important and provocative book. Drawin……
Carla Freeman, “Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class”
Carla Freeman View on Amazon This marvelous ethnography traces one of the surprising outcomes of shifting neoliberal regimes in Barbados. As women find themselves leading entrepreneurial lives, they…
Joe Trapido: Epochs and continents: Potlatch, articulation, and violence in the Congo
This post is part of the Modes of Production feature moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling and Joe Trapido. From the sixteenth century onward, European trading networks grew…
Carla Freeman, “Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class” (Duke University Press, 2014)
This marvelous ethnography traces one of the surprising outcomes of shifting neoliberal regimes in Barbados. As women find themselves leading entrepreneurial lives, they also find themselves engaging ……
Moralising misfortune: The morality of life insurance
Personal encounters with financial globalisation Good news. For the research project 'Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance to examine the morality of life …
Refugees on the other side
Recently there has been a lot of talk in Europe about refugees, sometimes designated as ”migrants”, always pronounced with a moralising overtone in order to emphasise that the…
The ‘Maya Temples’ of Highland Park
The excellent Telling the Stories of Detroit’s Parks blog recently posted a piece about a Modernist adventure playground in Highland Park, a city within the city of Detroit. It…
2016 – Writing
So it’s now 2016 and all that, and apparently that means you’ve got to wrap up the previous year and make a change and so on. A…
Traveling within the Case by Atsuro Morita
On a boat sailing through the still waters of the Noi River, a tributary of the Chao Phraya River in Thailand, Miura-san, a senior male engineer from a…
African Youth and Social Innovation
The light peering through the door from the adjacent room was dim. It was hard for me to read the notes I was trying to take. But I…
anthro in the news 1/4/16
Sidney Mintz: Founder of the anthropology of food Cultural anthropologist Sarah Hill, associate professor at Western Michigan University, published an article in the Boston Review detailing the work…
2016 – Writing
So it’s now 2016 and all that, and apparently that means you’ve got to wrap up the previous year and make a change and so on. A…
2016 – Writing
So it’s now 2016 and all that, and apparently that means you’ve got to wrap up the previous year and make a change and so on. A…
Remembering Sidney Mintz
Ellen Messer Tufts University Sid Mintz was the greatest food anthropologist of all time. A dedicated social-justice scholar-activist, he produced path-breaking studies of Caribbean sugar-cane worke…
AN Call for Proposals
Anthropology News invites contributions for two series that explore anthropological research and perspectives related to key topical events in 2016. The short calls below are intended to spark…
CfP: “Media anthropology’s legacies and concerns”
The EASA Media Anthropology Network is organizing a panel entitled “Media anthropology’s legacies and concerns” at the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) conf…
Trading on distortion
The lead researcher on a seminal work mapping the international traffic of e-waste responds to criticism of his research on material flows.
Will the Next Margaret Mead Please Stand Up? The SAPIENS-Allegra Competition to Discover New Public Anthropologists
The anthropologist is a peculiar creature. We study the world, yet too often do not share our insights with the world. Our work explores some of the most…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now: January 3rd Edition
January 3rd, 2016: Happy New Year, FoodAnthropology readers! Like every December and January, the internet is ringing in the year with lists–lists of old things, lists of new…
Anthropologist in the Cane
A great of Caribbean anthropology, Professor Sidney Mintz has passed away… Last week one of the greats of North American anthropology, Prof Sidney Mintz, passed away. Mintz was…
Anthropologist in the Cane
A great of Caribbean anthropology, Professor Sidney Mintz has passed away… Last week one of the greats of North American anthropology, Prof Sidney Mintz, passed away. Mintz was…