Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, part VII
Articles and interviews from the last week: Globe and Mail: At long last, a forum where Trump cannot escape the truth (3/21/17) World Policy Journal: From Andijon to Bowling Green:…
Articles and interviews from the last week: Globe and Mail: At long last, a forum where Trump cannot escape the truth (3/21/17) World Policy Journal: From Andijon to Bowling Green:…
Recently, white supremacists attempted to defame Boasian Anthropology and its historic role in challenging scientific racism. This article proposes some concrete steps by which to challenge whiteness …
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). In…
There have been a number of interesting posts lately about the ‘unsavory’ history of some everyday words and phrases in a growing discourse which argues that the use…
There have been a number of interesting posts lately about the ‘unsavory’ history of some everyday words and phrases in a growing discourse which argues that the use…
Han F. Vermeulen. Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment. 746pp., illus., notes, refs. cited, index. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press,…
A walk down this little street in Peru’s capital provides a glimpse into an understated network that quietly plays a critical role in reducing the environmental impacts of…
In his new book Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method (University of Toronto Press, 2016) Andrew Causey argues that social science practitioners can cultivate new ways…
Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah (Wayne State University Press, 2017) opens new vistas not only on the history of the practice of magic throughout Jewish history,…
Thoughtful piece on becoming a public anthropologist in Aotearoa New Zealand by my colleague Catherine Trundle vicanthropology Academics are increasingly called upon to apply their skills and knowled…
This was meant to be a book review. Instead, it’s an essay about the power—and importance—of complaining.[1] The book under consideration here is Sarah Kendzior’s The View from…
Ayahuasca Healings Last week (March 18, 2017), I received an email that read, in toto: Just like I promised: Get the free eBook here (right click, “Save Link…
Humans seem to have both a strong anxiety and fascination with death, having a profound awareness of our own mortality from a young age. We seem…
Yesterday, I spent the afternoon in Rotterdam with a friend, local, and part-time Detroiter, and I learned a lot about housing policy and the long, complex history of…
Statues from Freedman’s Cemetery Memorial in Dallas, Texas. This cemetery is one of the African American cemeteries that was often robbed. Image courtesy of Maribel Rubio Grave robbing…
New Orleans is well known for its spectacle and pageantry of civic ritual, represented in festivals like Mardi Gras. The spectacle display is also seen in their funeral…
In The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia (Central European University Press, 2014), Melissa Chakars reveals not only how Soviet policies disrupted traditional Buryat ways…
A heritage food in France, and a high-priced obscurity in the United States. But in both countries, foie gras, the specially fattened liver of a duck or goose,…
I just came across Pierre Bourdieu’s curious comment on American universities and their set-apartness from society: American universities, especially the most prestigious and the most exclusive,…
Hi all, Long week, but lots to read for you over the weekend ;)! Development news: US peacekeeping cuts; celebrities helping Somalia; celebrities (different ones…) romanticizing poverty; localizing…
Hi all, Long week, but lots to read for you over the weekend ;)! Development news: US peacekeeping cuts; celebrities helping Somalia; celebrities (different ones…) romanticizing poverty; localizing…
Cotard’s syndrome (also known as Cotard’s delusion) is an extremely rare condition in which patients believe that they—or parts of their body—are dead. In 1788, the earliest recorded…
This special issue aims to provide a state-of-the-art overview of business in society research on waste, from the micro-practices of individual waste producers or waste managers to the…