Ursula Probst Sexarbeiter*innen und Unterstützer*innen demonstrieren im Oktober 2015 in Berlin gegen das geplante Prostituiertenschutzgesetz | 01.10. 2015 | Credits: h3xtacy https://www.flickr.co…
Where does the history of human rights begin: centuries, even millennia earlier, or a mere few decades ago? What constitutes this history and what can we really learn from…
Bounded categories and category-bounded spaces are always of interest. This month, there were salient discussions of two such spaces: the (gendered) public bathroom and the brain. Bathrooms Public…
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Perpetual War Text by Katherine T. McCaffrey. Photos by Bonnie Donohue. Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, is home to 107 abandoned military bunkers, a legacy of the U.S. naval…
AAA member Ralph Bolton shared the following story on his Facebook page: “One evening in Denver at the American Anthropological Association meeting a few days ago, I went out…
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Bhrigupati Singh as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Bhrigupati is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.…
Youth gang recruits in Guatemala and elsewhere in Central America are at risk at home, during migration, and even once they reach the U.S. Photo courtesy of USAID.…
The Association for the Study of Food and Society has annual student paper awards. Details for this year’s awards are below. Note that the deadline is February 1,…
A conversation with Mario Biagioli. Mario Biagioli is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Science and Technology Studies, as well as Director of the Center for Science and…
ISIS recruits through friends and social media An article in the New York Times on ISIS recruitment provides extensive commentary from cultural anthropologist Scott Atran, co-founder of the…
Already more than two years ago the Amsterdam court ruled that renting for short stay is a change in the use of the property (commercial exploitation) and is,…
Already more than two years ago the Amsterdam court ruled that renting for short stay is a change in the use of the property (commercial exploitation) and is,…
by Scheherazade Bloul, Morocco World News, Monday 30 November 2015 Rabat – One of Morocco’s most celebrated feminist writers and sociologists passed away aged 75, on Monday. Born…
Edouard Morena CNRS/LADYSS In this thematic Notes From The Field, Edouard Morena of CNRS/LADYSS describes a collaborative ethnographic project centring around the COP21 climate talks in Paris, Decembe…
A whole day of screenings and discussions with anthropologists and film-makers organised by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Vrije Univer…
This Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human rights. Furthermore, this thematic week will be arranged…
The 2015 annual conference of the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) will be hosted by the Anthropology Programme at the University of Melbourne from 1-4 December. This year’s conference…
Happy Sunday, readers. Don’t forget to send me links to content I should mention here, at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. It’s a linguistic link! HuffPost Women characterizes a controvers…
The Sierra Leonean diaspora was active in responding to the Ebola outbreak that hit Sierra Leone in March 2014, both by providing financial and material support, and through…
On Monday 30 November, around 150 heads of state are expected to meet in Paris for twelve days for the 2015 climate change conference, also known as COP21.…
November 29, 2015: Once again, there were more great food reads this week than could be included in one post. Here were some of my favorites. If you…
In 1511, a Portuguese force under Afonso de Albuquerque successfully invaded the city-state of Melaka on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. At the time, Melaka…
In 1511, a Portuguese force under Afonso de Albuquerque successfully invaded the city-state of Melaka on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. At the time, Melaka…