So What Exactly is ANTHROPOLOGY?
I had no idea what anthropology was when I began college, I just knew I loved the course titles. “Language and Culture”. “Gender, Sex, and Sexuality”. “Religion and…
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Asking Gramsci’s question #crisis
Some object to the word ‘crisis’. However, it is useful for describing the sense that what seemed to be an understandable present and a plausible future have become…
Xenophobia and Nativism
New paper published! Xenophobia and Nativism Hervik, Peter. 2015. ”Xenophobia and Nativism. In “International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Wright, James D. (editor-in-ch…
Ny artikel: “Race, ”race”, racialisering, racisme og nyracisme”
Studiet af racisme og racialisering i Danmark er komplekst og behæftet med stærke moralske og politiske interesser og følelser. Ofte omtales racisme og race uden reference til den…
Toward Living with (not Under) Anthropology, Pt. 1
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Takami Delisle. Tak currently works as a medical interpreter for Japanese patients and helps run an organization for anthropology students of color. You…
Last day in Paris (2011)
I’m not sure whether this little descriptive passage from my fieldnotes will ever have much use in academic discourse, but it does remind me quite vividly of urban space in my fieldsite.…
New book – After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene by Jedediah Purdy
Interesting new title from Harvard University Press can be found here: After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world…
#Crisis on the opposite shore – Notes from the field on #crisis, revolution, and the possible
This piece is a from-the-field reflection on the ways in which grand events and processes such as global financial crises and revolutionary upheavals come to intersect – often…
Disability and Health Disparities: Some Quick Facts
lizlewisanthro: Refreshing my memory in preparation for Friday’s talk on race, disability, and health. Originally posted on Disability Fieldnotes: The CDC defines health disparities as: A type o…
22. Notes on the second digital ethnography reading session
This is the twenty-second post in the Freedom technologists series. by Victor Lasa PhD candidate RMIT University, Melbourne In this second session of the monthly Digital Ethnography Reading…
Dying For The Revolution: Special Journal Issue
“Death lies at the beginning of the Arab uprisings and continues to haunt them.” So writes Amira Mittermeier in the introduction to a special collection of articles in…
In the Journals – August 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a round-up of recent journal publications on security, crime, law enforcement and the state. After a brief hiatus over the summer, we’re…
A day in the life of St. Louis’s most dangerous neighborhood
Last week my colleague Umar Lee and I spent some time in College Hill, known as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in St. Louis, and talked to…
Ethnographic Field Data 1: Should I Share my Fieldnotes?
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Celia Emmelhainz.] “This will be your office,” Dr. Bernson* says, unlocking the storage room near her office. Tall wooden shelves frame rows of ethnography,…
Stefan Ecks, “Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India”
Drugs exist that are meant to help people feel better. The doctors who prescribe them might believe that they work, while their patients do not. In explaining the…
Paul A. Christensen, “Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo”
Paul A. Christensen‘s new book is a thoughtful ethnography of drinking, drunkenness, and male sociability in modern urban Japan. Focusing on two major alcohol sobriety support groups in…
Paul A. Christensen, “Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo” (Lexington Books, 2014)
Paul A. Christensen‘s new book is a thoughtful ethnography of drinking, drunkenness, and male sociability in modern urban Japan. Focusing on two major alcohol sobriety support groups in…
Uarctic Extractive Industries PhD programme course, Fairbanks, 24-30 September 2015
The next course in our PhD programme with a focus on the social sciences of Arctic The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), (Florian Stammler) extractive industrial development will…
Resource wars and Public Anthropology
The annual conference of the Dutch Anthropological Society (Antropologen Beroepsvereniging, ABv) took place on May 29, in the recently inaugurated Research Center for Material Culture in Leiden. The…
#Crisis, Gender, Time
Economic crises are especially hard on women (Bettio et al. 2013, Manganara 2014, Seguino 2009, UNICRI 2014, Walby 2009) and the Greek crisis is no exception (Athanasiou 2011,…
anthro in the news 8/18/15
“Blood coming out of her wherever” National Public Radio (U.S.) carried a piece about cross-cultural attitudes toward menstruation, noting that while negative attitudes about menstruating women ar…