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…
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…
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…
[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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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” 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 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,”…
Professor Marjorie Faulstich Orellana of UCLA suggested that there is a “‘Love’ Revolution” underway in education as reaction against the punitive and judgment-drenc…
Anthropologists studying outer space might sound like fringe science, like something from “The X-Files” or some “ancient aliens” TV show, but we have been studying outer space as…
Christiane Falge Ausstellungseröffnung am 19.01.2016 | Sinan Yaman, 2016 Die Ausstellung KontaktkulturEN wurde von Prof. Christiane Falge initiiert und entstand in Kooperation mit Prof. Christian…
Join TAL as they explore the meaning and movements behind the buzz words that shape anthropology when it reaches beyond the classroom. Applied, Public, Design, and Open Anthropology.…
We will examine the limits of knowledge in a disposable world and how that shapes us as graduate students and people.
On January 19 we posted on our website this petition as a form of support to Turkish academics. We have then asked a Turkish scholar – who prefers…
