Fear of Falling
By Sean Carey Remember when your mother or other responsible adult told you as a small child to tie your shoelaces so you would not trip and fall?…
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Be still my beating NYC HeART
I lived in New York City for a few short-but-long-enough years in the “early 2000s”. My renovated-but-still-affordable apartment was on (as we told my girlfriend’s conservative subu…
Ropa americana online: the local market for used clothing
A Facebook announcement from an online shop in northern Chile announces “Jackets, Vests, and Sweatshirts” Ebay, Etsy, Alibaba, and Taobao have changed the way many people around the…
Article Alert! Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime
“”During the first hour spent in houses with suspected indoor air-quality issues, I would slowly develop an ache in the back of my eyes, which would with time…
Image as Method: Conversations on Anthropology through the Image by Andrés Romero
What follows is a series of conversations conducted after the recent Image as Method symposium, which took place on May 4th and 5th, 2015, at Columbia University’s Heyman…
It Belongs In A Museum: Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology Review
By Emma Louise Backe Although Indiana Jones is a beloved cinematic figure—the consummate swashbuckling archaeologist—his representation of archaeological theories and methodologies has been a point of…
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Hi all,Another week is coming to its end and you are looking for Friday afternoon and weekend reading recommendations!Development news features inherent contradictions of the SDGs in a…
The Workshop
The traffic was unusually terrible making my arrival at work 40 minutes later than anticipated. On my mind were familial concerns as they always are when you leave…
Summer reading lists vs. What Actually Happened
Ah, summer reading lists: Elaborate plans for personal enrichment and literary sophistication made in the spring and carried out… when? It’s easy to find tons of summer reading…
Community Led Ebola Management and Eradication (CLEME)
The CLEME (Community Led Ebola Man- agement and Eradication) programme aims at triggering the behavioural change needed by the communities to strengthen community resilience to the outbreak and …
Community Led Ebola Management and Eradication (CLEME)
The CLEME (Community Led Ebola Man- agement and Eradication) programme aims at triggering the behavioural change needed by the communities to strengthen community resilience to the outbreak and preven…
Community Led Ebola Management and Eradication (CLEME)
The CLEME (Community Led Ebola Man- agement and Eradication) programme aims at triggering the behavioural change needed by the communities to strengthen community resilience to the outbreak and preven…
Trust lies at the heart of making economic recovery more equitable for Sierra Leone after ebola
As the number of new ebola cases decreases in Sierra Leone, the west African country can now start looking to the future. The ebola crisis, which started in…
Trust lies at the heart of making economic recovery more equitable for Sierra Leone after ebola
As the number of new ebola cases decreases in Sierra Leone, the west African country can now start looking to the future. The ebola crisis, which started in…
Trust lies at the heart of making economic recovery more equitable for Sierra Leone after ebola
As the number of new ebola cases decreases in Sierra Leone, the west African country can now start looking to the future. The ebola crisis, which started in…
Community Led Ebola Management and Eradication (CLEME)
The CLEME (Community Led Ebola Man- agement and Eradication) programme aims at triggering the behavioural change needed by the communities to strengthen community resilience to the outbreak and preven…
Getting to Know Gratiot
Gratiot Avenue is one of Detroit’s 5 original main avenues (along with Woodward, Michigan, Jefferson, and Grand River) that branch out from downtown like the spokes of a…
Trust lies at the heart of making economic recovery more equitable for Sierra Leone after ebola
As the number of new ebola cases decreases in Sierra Leone, the west African country can now start looking to the future. The ebola crisis, which started in…
Trust lies at the heart of making economic recovery more equitable for Sierra Leone after ebola
As the number of new ebola cases decreases in Sierra Leone, the west African country can now start looking to the future. The ebola crisis, which started in…
CFP: Media, culture and change across the Pacific
by Raul Castro, via the EASA Media Anthropology Network mailing list Call for Papers Media, culture and change across the Pacific: perspectives from Asia, Oceania and the Americas…
Dis-orientalizing & Ethnographic Journeys #Fieldnotes
I conduct fieldwork among young Hindus in Amsterdam, the city where I have lived for nearly six years. Amsterdam lends itself to compartmentalisation as it is neatly divided…
anthro in the news 8/10/15
Politics and dirty water: A recipe for poor health An article in the Mail and Guardian (South Africa) describes the role of politics in the mishandling of water…
Teaching Feminism to Teenage Boys
I have had a desire bubbling inside me for some time now to sit my male teenage relatives down and give them a crash course on feminism and…