The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
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The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
On racist racelessness in Europe
Consider these two scenes: 1) Recently talking to a graduate of a top-tier British university: I [concerned]: “This summer an Italian Senator referred to the black Minister of…
Sienna R. Craig, “Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Two main questions frame Sienna R. Craig’s beautifully written and carefully argued new book about Tibetan medical practices and cultures: How is…
Sienna R. Craig, “Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine” (University of California Press, 2012)
Two main questions frame Sienna R. Craig‘s beautifully written and carefully argued new book about Tibetan medical practices and cultures: How is efficacy determined, and what is at…
Spike fiddles
The zeze is a spike fiddle from Tanzania – and a member of a fiddle family played all over Africa and Asia. The zeze is composed of a…
Does Iran Have the Right to Enrich Uranium? The Answer is Yes–William O. Beeman
This article was printed in an abbreviated form on Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-o-beeman/does-iran-have-the-right-_b_4181347.html#es_share_ended Does Iran Have the Right to Enri…
Occupy Scholarship! Thinking from the Peripheries of World Anthropologies
Susana Narotzky Universitat de Barcelona Interaction among anthropologists from all over the world is becoming a reality facilitated by information and communication technologies and also by in…
The pols
‘Pols’ is one of the most prevalent dances in Central Norway. Like the mazurka, a pols is in 3/4 time, with a rhythmic change during the last measure…
Latin America and Caribbean Anthropology: Book Update
Book orders are due for my anthropology course titled “Peoples and Cultures of Latin America.” I checked back to the May 2013 Anthropologists Studying Immigration in the United…
Mobile Health in Context
Mobile Health in Context: How Information is Woven Into Our Lives @SusannahFox @PewResearch Susannah Fox from Pew Review Research put together an excellent presentation of the latest…
Black Europe Summer School – my experience
I am a white, adult, Western middle-class man. These identifications mark constitutive features shaping my social and political life – in other words, my subjectivity. They are the…
AAA 2013 Annual Meetings Chicago – Reader Guide #aaa2013
The 2013 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association are November 20-24 in Chicago. Whether you are going or are just interested in anthropology, take a look at…
First Food Deserts
Have you heard of Food Deserts? Food deserts are defined geographical areas in industrialized countries that lack retail stores with healthy, nutritious options. I just heard about the…
Good News Roundup
There is way too much stuff going on in my life and work these days. Most of it is really good stuff, but it is hard to keep…
A new analytical tool for looking at urban governance
I have not clearly understood yet what the difference is between self-promotion and the promotion of your own ideas and beleifs. There are a couple fixed boundary lines,…
Links of the Day #16
Today’s links span a few intriguing areas of digital culture, from comedic consumer reviews and defining geeks/nerds to the annoyances of public cell phone chatter. Then there are…