Encircling Empire: Report #25 — Remembering Panama
This and previous issues have been archived on a dedicated site—please see: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE. For frequent updates, please “like” our Facebook page and/or follow on Twitter. “Operation Just…
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Still thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? This year, try focusing on the good life
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The end of the year is always a time of reflection of what we have done…
Still thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? This year, try focusing on the good life
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The end of the year is always a time of reflection of what we have done…
Transforming Refugees
Transforming Refugees: Bio-politics and medical construction of Southeast Asian Immigrant Subjects The point of this article is not to argue that bio-medicine has become a mechanism for establishing…
Still thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? This year, try focusing on the good life
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The end of the year is always a time of reflection of what we have done…
Still thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? This year, try focusing on the good life
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The end of the year is always a time of reflection of what we have done…
Our Report for 2014
This year has seen an almost frenzied escalation of US intervention around the globe, ranging from the determined provocations and threats against Russia and backing a coup in…
Whose time are we celebrating for the New Year?
Note: A version of this post appeared on Anthropology in Practice in 2010. It’s New Year’s Eve in the United States, and in New York City tourists and…
Joseph D. Hankins, “Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Joseph D. Hankins’s marvelous new ethnography of the contemporary Buraku people looks at the labor involved in “identifying, dismantling, and reprod……
Joseph D. Hankins, “Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan” (U of California Press, 2014)
Joseph D. Hankins‘s marvelous new ethnography of the contemporary Buraku people looks at the labor involved in “identifying, dismantling, and reproducing” the Buraku situation in Japan and beyon……
The Real World of Democracy (and Anthropology)
Review essay, Part 2 (see Part 1) Referring to the process by which he studied Cuban democracy, August explicitly refers to it as “ethnographic research” (p. xiii). This…
Democracy in Cuba and at Home
Review essay, Part 1 (see Part 2) Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion. By Arnold August. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing; London: Zed Books. 2013. ISBN 978-1-55266-404-9. 267 pages…
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was…
Our public affair with food porn
Do you ever feel like your social feed is overrun by pictures of food? A report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project from October 2013 found…
Gratitude and Wellbeing
I heard psychologist Dacher Keltner, a founder of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, on the radio this morning calling for more gratitude as a counterweight…
Gratitude and Wellbeing
I heard psychologist Dacher Keltner, a founder of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, on the radio this morning calling for more gratitude as a counterweight…
Gratitude and Wellbeing
I heard psychologist Dacher Keltner, a founder of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, on the radio this morning calling for more gratitude as a counterweight…
Anthropology Calling: PD Dr. Ulrich Oberdiek
PD Dr. Ulrich Oberdiek begann sein Studium der Ethnologie, Indologie und Religionswissenschaft im Jahre 1981. Am Anfang seiner mittlerweile fast 25 Jahre währenden Lehrtätigkeit, damals noch ohne fest…
hope: the first anthropological emotion
During the comments from the Anthropology and Storytelling panel at the #AAA2014 meetings: “The first anthropological emotion is hope” (Carole McGranahan). As McGranahan clarified in a fol…
Ebola, Medien und Ethnologie – Offener Brief zum SZ-Artikel „Böser Zauber Ebola“
Die aktuelle Ebola-Krise zeigt, wie wichtig eine gute Zusammenarbeit zwischen Medien und Ethnologie ist, um in der Öffentlichkeit ein differenziertes Verständnis der gesellschaftlichen Reaktionen und …