Weekend Movie: From Womb to Womb
Biological Anthropologist Julienne Rutherford has a fascinating talk available online that is a short but nice overview of the effect of epigenetics from womb to womb. Essentially she discusses…
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Island Southeast Asian Geology & Volcanic Explosions
I've been trying to read as much as I can about the geological history of Southeast Asia for the book I'm working on. It's a fascinating topic: island…
Weekend Movie: From Womb to Womb
Biological Anthropologist Julienne Rutherford has a fascinating talk available online that is a short but nice overview of the effect of epigenetics from womb to womb. Essentially she discusses…
Rita Denny and Patricia Sunderland, “Handbook of Anthropology in Business”
Rita Denny and Patricia Sunderland‘s book Handbook of Anthropology in Business (Left Coast Press, 2014) is a groundbreaking collection of essays all related to Business Anthropology. As with all inter……
Recalled to Life: On the Meaning and Power of a Die-In
Die-in at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Photo credit: Aries Dela Cruz I have never died before. In the beginning of December, at the…
Steven Shaviro, “The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism”
[Cross-posted from the New Books Network Seminar] Steven Shaviro’s new book is a wonderfully engaging study of speculative realism, new materialism, and the ways in which those fields can…
Steven Shaviro, “The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Steven Shaviro‘s new book is a wonderfully engaging study of speculative realism, new materialism, and the ways in which those fields can speak to and be informed by…
Charlie Hebdo
Let’s say some guy in a bar starts mouthing off against another patron’s mother. He says she’s a fat moose with a ginger beard, and it’s funny…
The lady, the fox and the ram
At the Zumbagua parish fiesta, July 5, 2014, the members of the tourist trade association of Quilotoa accompanied a lady, a fox, a ram and a four man…
S. Lochlann Jain, “Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Medicine] Cancer pervades American bodies—and also habits of mind. Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013) is a sharp, adventurous book … Visit New Books…
S. Lochlann Jain, “Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us” (U of California Press, 2013)
Cancer pervades American bodies–and also habits of mind. Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013) is a sharp, adventurous book by the established legal anthropolog… Visit…
Sarah Besky, “The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Plantations in India”
[Cross-posted from New Books in South Asian Studies] In this wonderful ethnography of Darjeeling tea, Sarah Besky explores different attempts at bringing justice to plantation life in north east India… Visit…
Ebola in Guinea: Zustandsanalyse eines erkrankten Staatskörpers
Anita Schroven Nach einem Jahrzehnt medialer Abwesenheit sind Guinea, Sierra Leone und Liberia wieder mit besorgniserregenden Nachrichten und dramatischen Bildern in der internationalen Presse vertret…
David E. Sutton, “Secrets from the Greek Kitchen: Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Food] David E. Sutton’s book beguiles. Secrets From the Greek Kitchen: Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island (University of California Press, 2014) seem… Visit…
Gandhi as a Global Thinker: Legacies of the Anti-Colonial Revolution
Faculty of Social Sciences at South Asian University, New DelhiPresents Contributions to Contemporary Knowledge – 2015 Gandhi as a Global Thinker:Legacies of the Anti-Colonial Revolution&nbs…
About Lice and International Studies
Today’s interview-partner for the series “Why Anthropology Today?!” is Isabelle Kues, a student of Anthropology and Political Science. Find out below why she associates anthropology …
Medical anthropology, relatedness, and analytical cannibalism
Despite Hiedegger’s revolutionary claim that it is not possible to escape existence and find a view of the world from nowhere,we continue to divide anthropology into neat subfields— defined typi…
Is Sex at the Margins (going to be) a classic?
I nearly didn’t bother to publish Sex at the Margins. In 1998 Zed Books wanted to publish a thesis I’d written for a Master’s degree in Education, but…
The Libyan Disaster: This Time Imperialism Pretends Anti-Interventionism
When it was still called the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Al-Jamahiriya al-arabiya al-Libiya al-sha’abiya al-ishtirakiya), and Col. Muammar Gaddafi was still the de facto head of state,…
Is Western civilization a bubble? What can we learn from the collapse of ancient societies?
Arthur Demarest, professor of archaeology at Vanderbilt and a student of the collapse of civilizations, says that in looking at our own society: “we are in trouble.” Arthur…
Is Western civilization a bubble? What can we learn from the collapse of ancient societies?
Arthur Demarest, professor of archaeology at Vanderbilt and a student of the collapse of civilizations, says that in looking at our own society: “we are in trouble.” Arthur…
Is Western civilization a bubble? What can we learn from the collapse of ancient societies?
Arthur Demarest, professor of archaeology at Vanderbilt and a student of the collapse of civilizations, says that in looking at our own society: “we are in trouble.” Arthur…
Is Western civilization a bubble? What can we learn from the collapse of ancient societies?
Arthur Demarest, professor of archaeology at Vanderbilt and a student of the collapse of civilizations, says that in looking at our own society: “we are in trouble.” Arthur…
Keystoning the Culture of Extraction
Just as the capture of three terrorist gunmen in France will not alter the balance of power in the world, so the presence or absence of the Keystone…