Introducing: “Disaster X”
Disaster X is a new publication, that is tied to this site: it is available on Substack. Here I just want to briefly introduce the material that already…
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Transformation, Hope and the Commons: A Belfast #EASA2022 conference
Fiona Murphy and Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou, Queen’s University Belfast Figure 1. EASA 2022 logo – the beacon of hope An elegant female figure, a beacon of hope, composed of…
Links & Contents I Liked 449
Hi all,This final post before the traditional summer break until early August is filled with interesting stories from around the #globaldev world again! UN whistleblowers, MSF visual communication,…
Emily Mendenhall, “Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji” (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the…
Carles Lalueza-Fox, “Inequality: A Genetic History” (MIT Press, 2022)
Inequality is an urgent global concern, with pundits, politicians, academics, and best-selling books all taking up its causes and consequences. In Inequality: A Genetic History (MIT Press, 2022), Carles Lalueza-Fox…
How Big Data is a Great Help in Cultural Anthropology
Credit/resources used in the video: Data – The Billion Prices Project Big data | Institute of Physics (iop.org) LHC restarts – YouTube Stars 101 | National Geographic –…
What Ancient Stone “Swiss Army Knives” Mean
Multipurpose ancient stone tools harbor more clues about human sociality than initially meet the eye. Paloma de la Peñ This article was originally published in The Conversation and…
What Ancient Stone “Swiss Army Knives” Mean
This article was originally published in The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Humans are the only species to live in every environmental niche in the…
Centennial of the Indian Arts Research Center Collections: Gala Dinner and Auction
Thunder and light rain did not keep 100 stalwart gala guests from descending the stone steps to enter a white-tented world where they were …
In Case You Missed It: Cultivating Connections 2022
Jennifer Jo Thompson, University of Georgia (SAFN President) After three years of planning, postponing due to COVID-19, and then planning again, “Cultivating Connections”—the 2022 joint annual mee…
Susan Hartman, “City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town” (Beacon Press, 2022)
City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town (Beacon Press, 2022) paints an intimate portrait of the newcomers revitalizing a fading industrial…
Bharat Jayram Venkat, “At the Limits of Cure” (Duke UP, 2021)
Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were…
Apocalyptic end times
I have a hunch this place won’t last the decade – some sort of global cataclysm is in the offing, you can just tell. Yet despite prognostications of…
ARHE Policy Brief Award
We are excited to announce the first annual ARHE Policy Brief Award is now open for submissions. The aim of the award is to encourage and acknowledge the contributions…
Anthropolitan | Call for Photographs 2022
Dear students and staff, We are delighted to write with news of a new departmental photography initiative. We warmly invite submissions from all members of the department—students and…
KulturTransfer – Wie fast alles, was uns vertraut ist, eigentlich einen Migrationshintergrund hat (Buchprojekt)
Michael Toggweiler Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. “…
The Allowable Limit of Disability
This browser does not support HTML5 audio The Allowable Limit of Disability read by the author, Gabrielle Hanley-Mott In February 2022 a court in Norway …
KulturTransfer – Wie fast alles, was uns vertraut ist, eigentlich einen Migrationshintergrund hat (Buchprojekt)
Michael Toggweiler Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. „…
What Klingon and Other Constructed Languages Reveal
At a Comic-Con, or comic book convention, in Los Angeles in 2010, the trolley signs were in Klingon. Doug Kline/The Pop Culture Geek Network/Flickr This article was originally…
What Klingon and Other Constructed Languages Reveal
This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished with Creative Commons. Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some…
The Noise of Russian Silence
By Ekaterina Thor, second-year Bachelor student of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Opening our daily news feed on the 24th of February, most of probably needed a second…
Resurrecting a wolf for conservation?
Many herders, especailly in the Sub-Arctic, are threatened by the increased number of wolves, eating entire reindeer herds. In Australia they go the opposite way now: they try…
Michael Heneise, “Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India: The Life and Landscapes of Dreams” (Routledge, 2018)
The Nagas of Northeast India gives great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict…
Agustín Fuentes, “Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature” (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022)
There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are wholly different in behavior, desires,…