CFP: Best Annual Food Studies Conference!
Here is the call for papers for the best annual food studies conference in North America with the most confusing name. This is the annual joint meeting of…
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A Sixteen Year Old finds Encouragement and Inspiration at AAA 2015
Chandler Zausner, one of AAA’s youngest members, submitted the following post about his experience at the AAA Annual Meeting and how he caught the anthropology bug. My name…
Ralph Fitch on Malays
Ralph Fitch was one of the first English people to visit Melaka in the late sixteenth century. His plan had been to voyage further east by sea,…
Ralph Fitch on Malays
Ralph Fitch was one of the first English people to visit Melaka in the late sixteenth century. His plan had been to voyage further east by sea,…
Ralph Fitch on Malays
Ralph Fitch was one of the first English people to visit Melaka in the late sixteenth century. His plan had been to voyage further east by sea,…
Links & Contents I Liked 165
Hi all, A short break and long book review later, a new link review arrives for week-end reading pleasure! How can IATI & OGP initiatives move from window-dressing…
Why the world needs anthropology
Standplaats Wereld has just published a nice report by Giulia Sinatti from the recent symposium, “Why the World Needs Anthropologists – Burning Issues of Our Hot Planet” in…
Revisiting a Writing Process: Ode to Academic Freedom #humanrights
This week we have dedicated an unusual amount to one single publication. This has in part been because of the unabashed claim – from one of Allegra’s founders…
Sounding Board– A Collective Exhibition
If you happen to be in Austin, make sure to visit the exciting–and first ever–Sounding Board collective installation curated by Leonardo Cardoso. The exhibition is the first of…
Anthropologist? You’re hired!
By Giulia Sinatti The stereotypical image of anthropologists as weird people studying local customs in odd corners of the globe could not be less accurate, according to speakers…
In the Journals – November 2015 Part I by Michelle Pentecost
Here’s comes the first round of what you’ll find ‘In the Journals’ from November. Apart from the listings below, also see the Somatosphere post on a Special Issue…
Carlos E. Chardón: Masking Puerto Rican state failure
With the recent default on debt payment (see Franqui Rivera and Colón-Garcia 2015), Puerto Rico became a failed state. State failure is the inability or incapacity of a…
A Burkina Faso where “nothing should be as before”: presidential and legislative elections in perspective By Sten Hagberg
On Sunday 29 November, Burkina Faso organized successful presidential and legislative elections. They marked the end of a one-year-political transition and a step in consolidating the country’s democr…
Book Launch: Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
The cozy University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights, edited by Pamela Slotte…
Un-doing Design Anthropology: Uber-versities and not belonging
Title slide of my final lecture at Swinburne Elizabeth Tunstall, CC BY-NC If you have been following the media, American universities are under pressure to make their campuses…
Un-doing Design Anthropology: Uber-versities and not belonging
Title slide of my final lecture at Swinburne Elizabeth Tunstall, CC BY-NC If you have been following the media, American universities are under pressure to make their campuses…
Bianca Brijnath’s “Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India” by Tanja Ahlin
Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India by Bianca Brijnath Berghahn Books, 2014, 240 pages Bianca Brijnath’s book, Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia…
SAFN at the 2015 AAA Meeting in Denver
Rachel Black SAFN President Connecticut College It was a busy and productive AAA Meeting for the Society for the the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Our section sponsored…
The Shock of the Anthropocene: the Earth, history, and us
This is an interesting looking book, from Verso. “Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply an environmental…
On the Margins of Anthropology
Things are usually more creative on the margins, a notion that became evident during the recently concluded meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Denver. The proposed…
On the Margins of Anthropology
Things are usually more creative on the margins, a notion that became evident during the recently concluded meetings of the