Category: English
The Ethnographic Vision of John L. Gwaltney: The Thrice Shy, A Forgotten Gem by Lesley A. Sharp
Gwaltney, John L. 1967. The Thrice Shy: Cultural Accommodation to Blindness and Other Disasters in a Mexican Community. New York and London: Columbia University Press. 219 pp., including…
Forgotten Gems — a new series by Janelle Taylor
What sources of creative insight and inspiration might scholars today find in the history of our field — in particular, in some of the paths not taken? What…
Playing Along: Fieldwork, Emotional Labor and Self-Care
By Emma Louise Backe For any practicing or aspiring anthropologist, fieldwork is the defining, almost qualifying practice of the discipline. As an undergraduate studying sociocultural anthropology, we…
PhD position: Turning Livelihoods to Rubbish (Aug 20 deadline)
The University of Manchester Department of Geography is pleased to announce a PhD studentship for the research grant ‘Turning livelihoods to rubbish? Assessing the impacts of formalization and…
REDUX: Russian and Polar Bears Unite! A Follow-Up.
What is 19cm high, 20cm wide, weighs only 680grams but carries a President? Right – it’s the Russian Bear! And what is flying high into the sky? Right…
Introducing AnthroSource 2.0
In honor of the launch of AnthroSource 2.0, AAA and Wiley Online Library are offering you a sneak peek at the 100 most downloaded articles of 2014. Take…
Martyrs Without A Cause? Egypt’s Revolutionary Martyrs as Empty Signifiers
What is the meaning of martyrdom? The difference between a martyr and a victim is the investment of a slain body with meaning by a public. The martyrs…
REDUX: Simulacrum Crimea (Anthropoliteia Virtual Roundtable PART 2) #UKRAINE
Today we re-post our conversation with Judith Beyer from a joint virtual roundtable with Anthropoliteia. In her commentary, Judith answers the question: “What has struck you the most,…
The new AnthroSource is fantastic! Here’s why I won’t be using it.
I haven’t yet seen any official announcement from the AAA about the change,1 but if you now click on the “Login to use AnthroSource now” link from the…
Daniel Jordan Smith’s AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria by Darja Djordjevic
AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria. University of Chicago Press, 2014, 208 pages In Daniel Jordan Smith’s AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face:…
Anthropology and the Representation of Migrations from Afghanistan
by M. Jamil Hanafi [This is a paper that was originally published under the title of “Anthropology and the Representation of Recent Migrations from Afghanistan,” as it appeared…
Ebola: demanding accountability and mobilizing societies to avoid a deadly relapse
The enduring Ebola epidemic has taught the world some hard lessons over the last 12 months, which we must take to heart. Despite early warnings, and the extraordinary…
The Art of Being IN: Road tripping, photographing and hanging out in post-soviet Russia #INTERVIEW
Yesterday we opened the AVMoFA’s first summer exhibition – Die SommerWende – and today we are very pleased to meet the artist, Axel Schön, in person and talk…
Design Ethnography in the Anthropocene
It’s the second week of winter trimester, and I’m teaching my second-year undergraduate course in Design Ethnography. The theme this year is the Anthropocene, or how design relates…
Vale Jack Goody
Keith Hart recently announced on social media that Jack Goody passed away. He was just a few days before his 96th birthday. Goody had a long and productive life and…
Interview With Reem Abou El-Fadl About “Revolutionary Egypt”
I have a chapter in this new book on the Egyptian revolution. “there is the responsibility that comes with any social science study, particularly in an area fraught…