Call for research: How does digital surveillance change society?
Not only when we are reading the news, but also when we are on Zoom-conferences, sending messages with Whatsapp, playing silly games on our mobile or when we…
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Hunger, Religion, and Public Anthropology
Betsy Taylor Is feeding the hungry, a key moral value in religious teachings across cultures? I was recently asked this by a pediatrician concerned about child hunger in…
Corona-Anthropology: We feel safe with “people we know”, for the danger always comes from “the others”
Do you wear a mask when you meet your friends? Do you? Recently I often had to think of an observation of a Twitter user in Germany: She…
A Hospital Without People in a Timor-Leste Community by Laura Burke
‘If you are bleeding a lot…go to hospital’. Cristiano, a community health volunteer gave a health seminar to 12 community members inside a dark concrete house, in a…
Corona-Anthropology: We feel safe with "people we know", for the danger always comes from "the others"
Do you wear a mask when you meet your friends? Do you? Recently I often had to think of an observation of a Twitter user in Germany: She…
David C. Lane, “Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change Among Tattoo Workers” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
In The Other End of the Needle (Rutgers University Press, 2020), David C. Lane, Ph.D. investigates the intricacies of the tattoo industry. Particularly, Lane found that tattooing is more comp… Visit New…
Brad Vermurlen, “Reformed Resurgence: The New Calvinist Movement and the Battle Over American Evangelicalism” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Since the turn of the millennium, American Evangelical Protestantism has seen a swell of interest in Calvinist theology. Variously described as the New Calvinism or Neo-Reformed Christianity,… Visit…
The Spectrum of Research and Practice in Guatemalan Science Studies
On November 21, 2020, protestors flooded the historic and political center of Guatemala City over the congressional approval of a budget bill of nearly twelve billion dollars (or ninety-nine billion…
Action Button reviews Tokimeki Memorial
Tim Rogers has a six-hour-long Youtube review of the 1990s dating simulation game Tokimeki Memorial. Tokimeki Memorial is cyberpunk. Tokimeki Memorial is more cyberpunk than Cyberpunk 2077 can…
Review: The Labor of Lunch
Gaddis, Jennifer E. (2019). The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. ISBN #…
Rachel Plotnick on her book, Power Button
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/power-button Kevin Laddapong: In Power Button, you bring readers back to the early days of buttons and encourage readers to think…
Firsting in Research
Declaring that a research is the “first” to discover, do, or go somewhere is not only rarely correct, given myriad local knowledges since time immemorial, but is also…
Firsting in Research
Declaring that a research project is the “first” to discover something is not only rarely correct, given the myriad local knowledges operating since time immemorial, but is also…
Shaligram Interpretive Practice (Color)
While the classic (and most typical) color for a Shaligram is black, various Puranic and Tantric texts describe Shaligrams as being black, red, yellow (honey-colored), white/whitish, sky-colored/blue…
Decolonising protected areas: Sapelli in eastern Cameroon
In 2018, the Colombian anthropologist Arturo Escobar remarked: We are facing modern problems for which there are no longer modern solutions What he’s referring to is that the…
Where Have All the Children Gone? Against Children’s Invisibility in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Julie Spray & Jean Hunleth To cite this article: Julie Spray & Jean Hunleth (2020) Where Have All the Children Gon…
What to Do with Surveillance Capitalism?
To cite this article: Jenny Huberman (2020) What to Do with Surveillance Capitalism?, Anthropology Now, 12:2, 94-100, DOI: …
War Through the Looking Glass: Portraits of Former FARC Guerrillas in the “Truck Camera”
To cite this article: Alexander L. Fattal & Julián Mejía Villa (2020) War Through the Looking Glass: Portraits of Forme…
The Habitus of Agglomeration: Crowding and (Non) Compliance in an Indian City
Karen Coelho & Mathangi Krishnamurthy Introduction: Crowds and the City Distancing, isolation and the thinning out of…
Lesley Gill: Can the Left Revive the ‘Pink Tide’ amid a Global Pandemic?
As Covid-19 has washed over Latin America like a tsunami and the pillars of shaky economies have shuddered under lockdowns, the priority of profits over public welfare stands…
Future of Tourism Video Podcast: An Anthropological Perspective on Tourism
originally published January 13, 2021 at Future Tourism Group Meagan McGuire is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Seattle’s Southside Tourism Authority. She has a maste…
Future of Tourism Video Podcast: An Anthropological Perspective on Tourism
originally published January 13, 2021 at Future Tourism Group Meagan McGuire is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Seattle’s Southside Tourism Authority. She has a maste…
Organizational Transformation
Research as a Vehicle for Organizational Transformation A week or so ago I had the opportunity to speak with Lou Rosenfeld about my career, and our second Advancing…