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#REVIEW – The Reappeared: Argentine Former Political Prisoners
States resort to disappearances to remove unwanted critics or minorities from society. The act of a disappearance often follows a pattern: a group of masked armed men take…
Indispensability of medical anthropology
Medical anthropology, although considered a subcategory in anthropology, has been making contributions to medicine and public health since the development of anthropology itself. The fact that anthrop…
New research on vocationalization in international development studies education
The latest published outcome of my fruitful research and writing partnership with Daniel Esser is a new article in Learning and Teaching where we discuss Countering the risks…
The FENOR school is over – next edition to come
The “nomadic” Ph.D. Summer School “Field Experiences in Northwest Russia” (FENOR) has been a full success After two weeks of extensive travelling and working together on different aspects…
Call for two post-doctoral researchers in cultural evolution
The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena (Germany) are seeking to employ two full-time postdoctoral researchers in the field of cultural evolution. The…
End Demand: the B movie
It has all the earmarks of a tearjerker. The billboard erected in Phoenix, Arizona, by anti-prostitutionists looks like artwork for a 1940s paperback cover or poster for a…
Patience running out in Yemen
Plenty of patients but little patience as the war drags on…
Anthropology… What kind of job will you get with that? – Chats with Sam
Last week at Victoria University, we had ‘Study at Vic Day’ – an open day for prospective students. I spent some time on the Cultural Anthropology stand, talking…
Anthropology… What kind of job will you get with that? – Chats with Sam
Last week at Victoria University, we had ‘Study at Vic Day’ – an open day for prospective students. I spent some time on the Cultural Anthropology stand, talking…
Anthropology… What kind of job will you get with that? – Chats with Sam
Last week at Victoria University, we had ‘Study at Vic Day’ – an open day for prospective students. I spent some time on the Cultural Anthropology stand, talking…
Anthropology… What kind of job will you get with that? – Chats with Sam
Last week at Victoria University, we had ‘Study at Vic Day’ – an open day for prospective students. I spent some time on the Cultural Anthropology stand, talking…
An example journal article
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Mijn hart brandt
Het Holocaust Monument in Berlijn. © Ilya Boyadin, via Flickr creative commons. Saskia Jenelle is studente van de master Sociale en Culturele Antropologie aan de VU en is…
Anthropologies #21: Annual Review of Anthropology, Climate Change, Anthropocene
To kick off this issue, we begin with Sean Seary’s excellent overview of recent literature about anthropology’s engagement with climate. This review originally appeared on Anthropology Rep…
Re-Designing the Conference
View from the 2015 Cultures-Based Innovation Symposium at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. Elizabeth Tunstall I recently concluded the Ameri…
Re-Designing the Conference
View from the 2015 Cultures-Based Innovation Symposium at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. Elizabeth Tunstall I rece…
Around the Web Digest: Week of August 23
Better late than never, I always say, as the semester starts anew and we all either pack our lunchboxes to go back to school or feel that old…
Theorising Health Inequalities — A special issue of Social Theory & Health by Aaron Seaman
The current issue of Social Theory & Health is a special double issue on theorizing health inequalities. Comprising eleven articles, the issue developed out developed out of a…
How Did Anthropology Begin?
In fall 2015, I adopted the new Robert Welsch and Luis Vivanco textbook Cultural Anthropology (see previous discussion of Hartwick Anthropology Courses). It’s now time for the first…
Web Roundup: Biohacking, BioArt, and other Playful Abominations by Sara M Bergstresser
These days, it is fun to “hack” almost everything. You can hack your life, you can hack your home, and you can even hack your period. So, as…
Brian Holmes on Capital Circulation in the Anthropocene
Re-blogged from: Brian Holmes on Capital Circulation in the Anthropocene
time to csángó
Time to Csángó, a creative short documentary by Hadas Bar, Ian Cook, Anette Dujisin, explores the popularity of the táncház (dance house) movement in Budapest, Hungary, especially csángó…