Mapping Dispossession, Mapping Affect
How Silicon Valley’s wealth produces uneven impacts throughout the region. Silicon Valley is a geographic region, shorthand for all things tech, the …
Navigating Silicon Valley’s Contradictions
Silicon Valley’s workers must maneuver their way through this place of diversity and discrimination, capitalist aims, and countercultural aspirations. You can spot …
Roxana Wales
Roxana Wales, recently retired, is a respected corporate ethnographer and research scientist. She was one of the first anthropologists to begin working …
What Our Skeletons Say About the Sex Binary
Stanislawa Walasiewicz won the gold for Poland in the women’s 100-meter dash at the 1932 Olympic Games. Upon her death, an autopsy …
Sharing Sonic Space: Music as Home, Soul and Connector
“I hope that more people will listen to more music outside of their own little comfort zone. I think that we enrich …
‘Now is the Time of Monsters’: The Painful Birth of a New World Order
President Trump calls the WTO a “disas…
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My key learnings about #globaldev 20 years after I took my first undergrad course (Links & Contents I Liked 300)
The anniversary of my 300th link review coincides with another one: Pretty much exactly 20 years ago I took my first undergrad …
Kate Parker Horigan, “Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative” (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
Kate Parker Horigan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at Western Kentucky University, and a co-editor …
Andrew L. Yarrow, “Man Out: Men on the Sidelines of American Life” (Brookings Institution Press, 2018)
In the era of #MeToo, Brett Kavanaugh, and Donald Trump, masculinity and the harmful effects that follow certain versions of masculinity have …
China’s Uyghur re-education centres in Xinjiang will not produce a loyal and obedient population
by James McMurray **Previously published on The Conversation UK.** The Chinese government’s denials of its mass interment of Xinjiang’s Uyghur citizens have …
Wer hat Angst vor einem globalen Pakt (für Migration)?!
Von Constantin Hruschka und Tim Rohmann Dem in einem zweijährigen Aushandlungsprozess erarbeiteten global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration (GCM) droht …
151 – Anne Galloway
Cymene and Dominic get their mojo back as they dip their toes into the blue wave. Then (13:12) we connect with Anne …
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022 on how to find their passions in life
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Georgien ist viel reicher
Die Buchmesse in Frankfurt ist schon ein paar Tage vorbei. Noch immer stapeln sich Bücher zu Georgien, Sachbücher und Belletristik, auf meinem …
Engaged Anthropology Grant: Melissa Burch
As a doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin, Melissa Burch received a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant to facilitate
Inter-topia: Productive tensions within the collisions of techno-utopianism and techno-dystopianism | AAA 2018 Panel
Are you going to this year’s AAA annual meeting in San Jose? Come check out this great panel and say hello! Panel: Inter-topia: …
The Dream of the Green Hog Revolution
[no-caption] Ezra Weiss This September, as Hurricane Florence bore down on the North Carolina coast, it spread a soup of stinking effluent …
Narrating MeToo by Pamela Runestad
Bill Cosby is in prison, and Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer have been fired. Donald Trump is in office despite his own …
Color is culture (disruption watch)
Watching for the future feels optional. Watching for disruption, that’s more urgent. One way to look for disruption is to watch our …
Flávio Eiró: On Bolsonaro: Brazilian democracy at risk
Picture a street handcraft market in a touristic village called Porto de Galinhas in Pernambuco, Northeast Region of Brazil. A few days …
Making #AmAnth18 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
The 2018 AAA meetings are upon us and we’re looking forward to getting out from this rainy, cold Toronto weather and into …
Framing The Revolution In Chinese
It will come as no surprise to most of us that how the Egyptian Revolution, and the Arab Spring more generally, was …
Joanna Davidson, “Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a book about change. …
Serie Seniorprofessuren / Prof. Rainer Voßen im Interview
Wer sind eigentlich die knapp 30 Seniorprofessorinnen und –professoren an der Goethe-Universität, die sich auch nach ihrer Pensionierung noch in der Lehre engagieren? …
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