Natalia Buier: What sample, whose voice, which Europe?
The EASA membership survey and the associated ‘precarity’ report (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) are an important and timely contribution. Surely these are findings we must build on…
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Medical anthropology applied to education in socio-health professions: From the enchantment of technology to the enchantment of the encounter by Viviana L. Toro Matuk
“If you want to understand what a science is, you should look for the first instance not at its theories and its findings, and certainly not at what…
Don Kalb: Anthropological Lives Matter, Except They Don’t
The PrecAnthro Collective within EASA has shown staying power and bite. That is what the EASA precarity survey demonstrates (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020). Mariya Ivancheva has turned…
Library Research: A Lament but not an Obituary
I arrived a little early to the Great Mosque of San‘a’ in Yemen to continue my research in the small upstairs room which was the “Western Library.” I…
Shaligram Interpretive Practice (Chakra)
I’ve intentionally saved chakra for last. The reasons for this are really two-fold. One, chakras (the name given to the ammonite shell-spiral) are probably the most iconic characteristic…
Introduction: Stefan Voicu: EASA’s ‘Precarity Report’: Reflections, Critiques, Extensions
Every day across Europe hundreds of social anthropologists wake up knowing that their precarious employment conditions may one day force them to leave the discipline. Still, they keep…
“Actually it’s pretty chill”: taking and giving online education
by Anne and Freek Colombijn The Corona lockdown has forced schools and universities to switch to online teaching. While we recognize the often justified complaints voiced by many…
Unexpected happiness in virtual spaces.
This piece was co-authored and experienced by the following (in alphabetical order): Zoe Crossland, Celine Gillot, Praveena Gullapalli, Sven Haakanson, Christina Halperin, Sarah Jackson, George Lau, U…
Nobody is normal: “The line between healthy and not healthy is drawn more by culture than by nature”
Who is crazy? Who is normal? Describing somebody as “not normal” has serious implications for this person, can destroy her life. From an anthropological perspective, there is nothing…
The Dawn of CRISPR Mutants
The China National GeneBank in Shenzhen opened in 2016 with the goal of storing and researching millions of genetic samples from humans, animals, plants, and microbes. Eben Kirksey…
Nobody is normal: "The line between healthy and not healthy is drawn more by culture than by nature”
Who is crazy? Who is normal? Describing somebody as "not normal" has serious implications for this person, can destroy her life. From an anthropological perspective, there is nothing…
Paul Maxwell, “New Calvinism, Religious Abuse, and the Experience of God” (Lexington/Fortress, 2020)
What happens to a trauma survivor who negatively internalizes the doctrines of Reformed theology? What are the paths forward toward psychological and spiritual healing? In a tour de…
Saiba Varma, “The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir” (Duke UP, 2020)
In The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir (Duke UP, 2020), Saiba Varma explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in India… Visit New Books…
Reading/Translating Capital Yet Again
Historical Materialists presents a webinar on: “Reading/Translating Capital Yet Again” Speaker: John Hutnyk Faculty, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam Moderator: Abhijit RoyFaculty, Jadavp…
Tabsir is back
In September 2005 I started the blog Tabsir (“Insight”) with several other colleagues to provide information on the Middle East as a supplement to the news and to…
DNA Testing of Immigrants Is Unethical
The collection of genetic biodata for the reunification of families must safeguard individuals’ agency, provide meaningful informed consent, and protect privacy. DNA testing has been used for nearly…
Fugitive Archaeological Spaces
Over the past year, we have seen renewed organizing amongst Black and Indigenous heritage professionals as well as the emergence of new collectives globally. These efforts have led…
Free fireside chat with Benjamin Lorr, author of “The Secret Life of Groceries”
Grocery store in California, photo by Wendy Yared Join food anthropologist Wendy Yared from Evolve.ag on February 1st at 7pm Eastern for a free, online chat with Benjamin…
Fields of Vision: On Biodynamic Farming, Ecological Entanglement, and the Nature of Knowledge
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2020 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline…
Time to Rethink Teeth
Tooth enamel growth starts before birth and continues until adult teeth are fully formed. Ksenia Chernaya/Pexels Four years ago, I found myself cataloguing some dusty containers of about…
A Shifting Hospital and Shifting Dependencies in Jammu and Kashmir by Sugandh Gupta
Design by okb-buro.com Arun Bhaiya[1] –Ramesh, I am giving you these medicines. Count them and tell me how many tablets do you have? Arun Bhaiya throws the seven…
Tulasi Srinivas, “The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder” (Duke UP, 2018)
In The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder (Duke UP, 2018), Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present…
Xenia Zeiler, “Digital Hinduism” (Routledge, 2019)
Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief. Xenia…
Covid-19, Fatness, and Risk: Medico-Media Discourses and Stigma
European Network for Workplace Health Promotion Contemporary English speaking media and popular medical discourses on Covid-19 have been notable in their stigmatization of fatness by implicitly and ex…