From Edgware Road to Brixton on 7/7
This piece was first presented as an academic paper at the 9th EASA Biennial Conference: Bristol, UK. September 18th – 21st, 2006. Introduction This paper focuses on observations…
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On real problems
I came across a confrontational moment in one of my interview transcripts. We had been talking about philosophers’ metanarratives about “truth.” But my interlocutor found my question…
NEW!—Theodoros Rakopoulos: Of direct and default democracy: The debt referendum in Greece
Thessaloniki, 4–5 July 2015 Default has a twofold meaning: it means both “taken for granted,” or the known path, and an economic halt on someone’s debts. Greece has…
Kocku von Stuckrad, “The Scientification of Religion: An Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800-2000”
Science and religion are often paired as diametric opposites. However, the boundaries of these two fields were not always as clear as they seem to be today. In…
Around the Web Digest: Week of June 28
Savage Minders, was your Sunday ruined by the absence of the Around the Web Digest? I’ll have to cast the blame on my intermittent Internet access here in…
The US Army’s Human Terrain System Bites the Dust
….some argue that HTS was a good idea that was badly mismanaged. It would be more accurate to say that HTS was a bad idea that was badly…
Links & Contents I Liked 149
Hi all, Who do anthropologists think they are?! was my question last week. This week we have new links on the humanitarian economy, a growing number of children…
Children’s Ebola Recovery Assessment: Sierra Leone
Nearly half the population of Sierra Leone is under the age of 18 years and the impact of the Ebola crisis on their lives now and on their…
Africa APPG inquiry: Community led health systems & the Ebola outbreak
The Ebola crisis of 2014-15 has brought questions around the roles of communities and health systems into sharp relief – both in relation to crisis response, and to…
“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.”
“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.” – Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)
Encased: Plotting Attentions through Distraction by Melissa Biggs
Cases set boundaries; cases draw you in. Often imagined as they appear in traditional museums – archipelagos of order in ordered spaces with carefully placed markers for larger…
Disability: A Sister’s Ambivalence
I have a confession: there are many days when I wish I was anything but a disability researcher. I think wistfully to my high school aspirations of becoming…
Cultivating Childhood #EmergingDigitalPractices
Samira and Amna visit me in the afternoon after finishing Quran school (madrasa). After they have taken off their buibuis (long black overdress) and head scarves Samira continues…
Antropologie: een kansloze discipline? (2)
Griekse burgers in discussie met elkaar. Door Herbert Ploegman. Meer dan drie jaar geleden schreef ik een blog op Standplaats Wereld met bovenstaande titel. Ik was net afgestudeerd, en…
anthro in the news 7/6/15
Blaming the victim An article in the Guardian on Greece’s financial situation mentions the anthropologist of debt, professor David Graeber of the London School of Economics. While the…
What Will Happen if Greeks Vote ‘No’ to Austerity?
By Vito Laterza Originally published by Canadian alternative media platform Ricochet on 3 July 2015. It has been a hot week for Greece, driven by uncertainty ahead of…
What Will Happen if Greeks Vote ‘No’ to Austerity?
By Vito Laterza Originally published by Canadian alternative media platform Ricochet on 3 July 2015. It has been a hot week for Greece, driven by uncertainty ahead of…
What Will Happen if Greeks Vote ‘No’ to Austerity?
By Vito Laterza Originally published by Canadian alternative media platform Ricochet on 3 July 2015. It has been a hot week for Greece, driven by uncertainty ahead of…
New Zealand forest birds
“New Zealand’s forests were once filled with birds and their clamour: melodious songs, squawks, whirrs, squeaks, buzzing and chattering. These are the sounds of birds finding food, defending…
International Sociology Of The Arab Uprisings
The latest issue of the journal International Sociology features three articles on the Egyptian revolution, as well as a couple of other articles on the Arab uprisings generally.…
Bin Laden’s Bookshelf
In case you were wondering what kinds of books Bin Laden was reading, at least in his Pakistan compound before his demise, the U.S. Government has provided a…
In the Journals, June 2015 — Part II by Aaron Seaman
Starting off the second half of June’s journal roundup, we have some special issues. Two have been highlighted on Somatosphere: BioSocieties, “Alimentary Uncertainties: From Contested Evid…
Early morning Yirralka-ŋura
Bukmak Yolŋu’yulŋu baḏak ŋorra yukurra, Everyone is still asleep, wäwa walala, all [our] brothers waku walala, all [our] children gutharra walala, gaminyarr walala,…