Beards and holy sites: Competing over True Islam in Kyrgyzstan
It has been 15 years since I last set foot in Kazïbek, the last village before the Chinese border in Kyrgyzstan. As I walk towards the house where…
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Aspiring Politician? Try Facebook to build your personal brand.
Image Courtesy: @mkstalin and image shared on Saravanan’s Facebook profile Personal brand building through social media requires a strategically planned presentation of oneself to a general audi…
Around the Web Digest: Week of August 30
Send along anything interesting to rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com! The BBC reports that Chimpanzees and Monkeys Have Entered the Stone Age (by using relatively sophisticated stone tools). More intere…
Embracing Impostor Syndrome
image source It seems a fair amount of academics, especially women, suffer from impostor syndrome, “a constant fear of being discovered to be a fraud and a charlatan.”…
anthro in the news 9/7/15
Chagos update The Financial Times reported on continuing efforts in the U.K. and elsewhere by displaced Chagos Islanders to return home and receive compensation for their forced…
23. Freedom technologists bibliography
Freedom Technologists: Digital Activism and Political Change in the 21st Century (working title), Chapter 2, Freedom Technologists Annotated bibliography (see Doc version here) In this working biblio…
"Fire of Globalisation Disrupts Human and Planetary Health"
Does health constitute another major crisis of globalisation? How does food relate to health, well-being, and social change? Wim Van Daele has talked with healers a…
"Fire of Globalisation Disrupts Human and Planetary Health"
Does health constitute another major crisis of globalisation? How does food relate to health, well-being, and social change? Wim Van Daele has talked with healers a…
"Fire of Globalisation Disrupts Human and Planetary Health"
Does health constitute another major crisis of globalisation? How does food relate to health, well-being, and social change? Wim Van Daele has talked with healers and doctors …
Free Love is a Battlefield
About ten years ago, the Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center began construction of an outdoor music venue at Woodstock. The project design took advantage of the natural amphi…
"Fire of Globalisation Disrupts Human and Planetary Health"
Does health constitute another major crisis of globalisation? How does food relate to health, well-being, and social change? Wim Van Daele has talked with healers a…
"Fire of Globalisation Disrupts Human and Planetary Health"
Does health constitute another major crisis of globalisation? How does food relate to health, well-being, and social change? Wim Van Daele has talked with healers a…
Anthropology beyond dichotomies? Thoughts after beyond perception 2015
The Symposium “Beyond perception 15” was organised in Aberdeen by the department postgraduate researchers and postgraduate students to celebrate the work of Tim Ingold. The aim was to…
Links & Contents I Liked 155
Hi all, The first week of term was quite overwhelming-so the latest link review is a bit delayed. But this also means that plenty of interesting readings will…
Reading fiction as therapy
Recently I found a website that offers fiction as therapy. You have a consultation of sorts and they send you away with a list of novels to read…
Salman Fishing In Washington
This blog post is also available in Swedish…
Anthropologies #21: Is There Hope for an Anthropocene Anthropology?
Up next for this issue we have Todd Sanders and Elizabeth Hall. Sanders is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively…
Health, Culture, and Wellbeing: Beyond Seeing Culture as Obstacle
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” And yet,…
Health, Culture, and Wellbeing: Beyond Seeing Culture as Obstacle
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” And yet,…
Health, Culture, and Wellbeing: Beyond Seeing Culture as Obstacle
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” And yet,…
Curated Ruins and Un-Memorials: The Afterlife of Detroit’s Michigan Theater
I came across Gabriel Moshenska’s Curated Ruins and the Endurance of Conflict Heritage (2015) via Twitter last week, which happily coincided with my first visit to Detroit’s former Michiga…
Health, Culture, and Wellbeing: Beyond Seeing Culture as Obstacle
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” And yet,…
Book Forum — Christian McMillen’s “Discovering Tuberculosis” by Todd Meyers
Christian McMillen’s Discovering Tuberculosis is many things, but mostly it is an account of failure. The book is a story of disease control in the twentieth century…
FocaalBlog Event: CUNY Panel Discussion on Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis
On Tuesday, September 8, the City University of New York (CUNY) Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies is hosting a free panel discussion and presentation based…