Noisy Neighbors
So I went to see Neighbors. The premise of film plays upon a fundamental fear of middle class social life in America–the
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Noisy Neighbors
So I went to see Neighbors. The premise of film plays upon a fundamental fear of middle class social life in America–the
Reproducing Rights and Wrongs: Personhood, Religious and Reproductive Freedoms, Gender, and SCOTUS – This Anthro Life
Episode 32, Season 3 Special Episode on the Supreme Court’s rulings over religious freedom and freedom of speech. On this week’s episode we take on 5 recent and…
Article: Social media in remote First Nation communities
Molyneaux, H., O’Donnell, S., Kakekaspan, C., Walmark, B., Budka, P., Gibson, K. 2014. Social media in remote First Nation communities. Canadian Journal of Communication, 39(2): 275-288. Abstract Comm…
Guest post: Are China’s NGOs entering Africa?
In April this year, two groups of Chinese journalists visited East Africa on a reporting trip. This post is translated from an unpublished article written by one of…
The field and The Field – Adventures in Multi-sited Ethnography
“Fieldwork is not what it used to be”, to quote the title of Faubion and Marcus’ 2009 edited volume on the changing nature of social/cultural anthropology in the…
Benjamin Lieberman, “Remaking Identities: God, Nation and Race in World History”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Genocide Studies] What do you say to someone who suggests that genocide is not just destructive, but constructive? This is the basic theme of Benjamin…
William Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon, “The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of “Religion””
[Cross-posted from New Books in Religion] What brings us together as scholars in Religious Studies? Are the various social phenomena commonly grouped together as religion really that similar? The Sacr… Visit…
Benjamin Lieberman, “Remaking Identities: God, Nation and Race in World History” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
What do you say to someone who suggests that genocide is not just destructive, but constructive? This is the basic theme of Benjamin Lieberman‘s excellent new book Remaking Identities:…
William Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon, “The Sacred Is the Profane: The Political Nature of Religion” (Oxford UP, 2013)
What brings us together as scholars in Religious Studies? Are the various social phenomena commonly grouped together as religion really that similar? The Sacred Is the Profane: The…
Foreign Girl Forever – Einat Fishbain
Einat Fishbain Lily Oudraogo was born in Tel Aviv, and that’s where she lived and died. Twenty-five difficult and insulting years on the margins of society, and beyond,…
The Beautiful Game: World Cup 2014 – This Anthro Life
Episode 31, Season 3, Aired 6/24/14 Gooooooooooolllllll!!!!! Today we turn our anthropological lens towards the most popular sport in the world and perhaps the most global sporting competition…
"There will be blood"
[edit 2017: download and read the final, officially published version of this essay here: http://www.samuli-schielke.de/schielke_there_will_be_blood__middle_east_critique_2017_final.pdf] I stopped upda…
"There will be blood"
[edit 2017: download and read the final, officially published version of this essay here: http://www.samuli-schielke.de/schielke_there_will_be_blood__middle_east_critique_2017_final.pdf] I stopped upda…
Anthropology Blogs Update – June 2014
It’s been too long since the last entry, and I’ve been notified of some new anthropology blogs–or ones I had not known about. Thank you for the update–the…
News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News Since October, more than 47,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended on the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly in Arizona and regions of South Texas that have not seen such high…
The Meaning of Death
“An Ode to the Beauty of Existential Angst” by Vasilios Markou Vasili is one of 11 students from Digital Ethnography 2014 who moved into the Meadowlark Hills retirement…
Nhulunbuy and the future of a remote township: an open letter to State Capitalism
Dear State Capitalism, You are sneaky and very shit. I knew this already, of course, but have recently learned it anew in my concern for the…
Will There be a Sunni-Shi’a War in the Middle East? Not Likely–William O. Beeman, New America Media
Will There be a Sunni-Shi’a War in the Middle East? Not Likely New America Media, News Analysis, …