Corbyn has no choice but to sack the Blairites
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn could soon sack major figures of the shadow cabinet that are opposed to his agenda, especially the principled anti-war stance on the Syrian…
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“Free Basics” – does it really matter to the poor in Panchagrami?
Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons: Facebook The launch of Facebook’s ‘Free Basics’, a rebranding of internet.org, has been a hot topic in India for the past few months as Facebook tries to…
Varoufakis announces pan-European movement to “democratise the EU”
In a recent interview for the Italian magazine L’Espresso, former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis announces the formation of a new Pan-European movement in February 2016, with…
The closing of Öresund – On borders, trains and state power
With the so-called “refugee crisis” and the terrorist attacks in Paris in Europe, several European countries have either reinstated border controls to their neighbors or are planning to…
The closing of Öresund – On borders, trains and state power
With the so-called “refugee crisis” and the terrorist attacks in Paris in Europe, several European countries have either reinstated border controls to their neighbors or are planning to…
Food Studies Post-Doctoral Position – NYU
The Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at NYU invites applications from outstanding candidates for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. The position is within the Food…
REDUX: Responsibility and Scholarship in the Current Political Moment – Graduate Conference | 25-26 September 2015
Anthropology today is in a moment of creative rupture, redefinition, and profound possibility. Our collective intellectual energy is directed toward contemporary social and political issues with a new…
Bagram Santa
Easily lending themselves to multiple forms of misunderstanding, the Pentagon nevertheless regularly produces images of military personnel dressed as Santa Claus. This too is a pattern, minor in…
Romanian shepherds at the baracades
Shepherds protesting in Bucharest. Photo EPA. Everyone once in a while I read a news headline that makes me do a double take: “Romanian riot police fire tear…
Writing with Community
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Sara Gonzalez as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Sara is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington,…
Geopolitics in the Middle East: A new century dawns
Faisal party at Versailles Conference. Left to right: Rustum Haidar, Nuri as-Said, Prince Faisal (front), Captain Pisani (rear), T. E. Lawrence, Faisal’s attendant (name unknown), Captain Hassan Kha…
#Report: Fabulous Facial Hair History
On Saturday 28 November Alun Withey and I hosted Framing the Face: New Perspectives of the History of Facial Hair, a one day conference funded by the University…
The Babysitter
Big Chief, Big Daddy, Big Babysitter to the World If “winning hearts and minds” is at the top of your global campaign agenda for strategic communication, then you…
Themes on Territory, Justice, and Rivers: a collection
Territory and Justice: a research network Foreword by Cara Nine Papers delivered by participants at the ?Themes on Territory, Justice, and Rivers? Workshop (4-5 June 2015, UCC) Paulina…
Dustin Garrick on Water Security
From the recent conference in Oxford:
Best of 2015: AnthroSource
Here are the 10 most-downloaded articles from AnthroSource, AAA’s digital database for content from our publications. AAA members get free, unlimited access to AnthroSource. Just login with your…
Elissa Helms: Men at the borders: Gender, victimhood, and war in Europe’s refugee crisis
This post is part of a series on migration and the refugee crisis moderated and edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University). Even for the kind of conservative…
More Anthropology Bullshit
Anthropology is beyond parody these days. I don’t know if young anthropologists realise how silly they look – I assume they don’t, or they’d stop doing what…
Pert Yaptik’s speech in the 54th reindeer herders’ day in Yar-Sale.The Yamal peninsula
Dear people, my Yamal Nenets people! Dear reindeer herders! Listen, what I am going to say. Mostly I am speaking to you, young people who are living now…
More Anthropology Bullshit
Anthropology is beyond parody these days. I don’t know if young anthropologists realise how silly they look – I assume they don’t, or they’d stop doing what…
More Anthropology Bullshit
Anthropology is beyond parody these days. I don’t know if young anthropologists realise how silly they look – I assume they don’t, or they’d stop doing what…