Hate in cyberspace
A case study on how hate messages circulate in cyberspace (Twitter) around a Colombian politician.By Marcela Navia, Martha Botero and Andrea Forero “Hate speeches are discursive articulations aiming…
Category: English
In the Journals, September 2020, Part 1 by Livia Garofalo
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry The Affective Creativity of a Couple in Dementia Care Jong-min Jeong The capacity to feel and express themselves in response to worldly surroundings i…
Watch “Serampore & Denmark – A Living History by the Ganges” on YouTube
The bit where haunted buildings are mentioned strangely has the sound drop out, but there are some great things to explore still… and the drone and inserts could…
Author Interview: Q and A with Dr Aliya Hamid Rao on Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment
We speak to Dr Aliya Hamid Rao about her new book Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, which draws on interviews with college-educated unemployed individuals and their…
What I’m Reading – Oct 2020
This article is cross-posted from the ZS intranet (which we call ZSpace), where I write episodically about issues of interest to the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. It’s…
How to Write an Essay: A Guide for Anthropologists
[no-caption] FilippoBacci/GettyImages For academics used to the idea of “publish or perish,” writing may seem to be a well-practiced and even perfected skill. But trying out a new…
Book Review: Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism by Mareile Pfannebecker and J.A. Smith
In Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism, Mareile Pfannebecker and J.A. Smith address the problems in the prevailing discourse on work and outline…
#Corona: Distributing Anthropological Films During the Pandemic
During the COVID-19 lockdowns in the spring of 2020, when cinema theatres and university buildings closed, many film festivals decided to move their activities online. This moment of…
I’ve Never Met Anyone Like Me, But Anthropologists (Not Me) Study People Like Me, Or: What if we trans/non-binary people weren’t just your objects of study?
cw: transphobia, mention of suicide and murder Willow, our cat. I started writing this piece in June. It was during Pride month, amidst JK Rowling’s ongoing public transphobia,…
CfP: Rhythm, sight and sound: work in times of uncertainty, RAI conference, March 25-28, 2021
We invite paper proposals for our panel *Rhythm, sight and sound: work in times of uncertainty* (P22) at the RAI Film Festival virtual conference. March 25–28, 2021,…
Wednesday Round Up #18
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic There are COVID-19 incidents in which a single person likely infected 80 percent or more of the people in…
Heath Cabot: The Magic of Bureaucracy in Athens’ Social Solidarity Clinics and Pharmacies
https://aoe.fi/api/download/heathcabotmagicofbureaucracy-1602057556715.mp3 Heath Cabot (University of Pennsylvania) gave a talk titled “The Magic of Bureaucracy …
John W. Traphagan, “Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan” (Cambria Press, 2020)
John W. Traphagan’s Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan (Cambria Press, 2020) presents a series of deeply contextualized ethnographies of… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
David Barash, “Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents” (Oxford UP, 2020)
What are the similar ways in which animals and people try to intimidate others? In his new book, Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents (Oxford UP, 2020), David Barash…
General Wool in California
The following is a series of statements by General John E. Wool and his underlings in the 1850s, from their administrative moorings in Benecia, California, the offices of…
Collaborative Ecologies: Anthropologies of (and for) Survival in the More-Than-Human City
A vacant house in Wilkinsburg, PA, is reclaimed by vines and artists. Photo by Noah Theriault, 2017. Anthro{dendum} welcomes guest contributors Noah Theriault and Alex Nading. Noah is…
What White Power Supporters Hear Trump Saying
President Trump frequently uses language that White power extremists understand as expressing support for their views. Angus Greig Donald Trump’s path to the U.S. presidency in 2016 was…
#Open Call: Allegra Lab / EASA LawNet webinar series in honour of Sally Engle Merry
This series of online, public seminars features presentations that examine the current state of legal anthropology. We welcome contributions from anthropologists working on ‘the law’ in the broad…
“Un-fixing” hormones: searching for the multiple in hormonal selves
What are hormones? While biomedical notions of hormones focus on their biological functions in bodies, hormones are also cultural artifacts, shaping understandings of health, normalcy, and what it…
#Book Symposium: Landscapes of Power
The cover of Dana Powell’s book, Landscapes of Power, taken from a painting by Diné teacher and muralist James B. Joe titled Bleeding Sky, is our first glimpse…
#Book Symposium: Landscapes of Power
In her monograph Landscapes of Power, Powell takes the proposed – at the time of her initial fieldwork – development project of the coal plant Desert Rock on…
#Book Symposium: Landscapes of Power
In Landscapes of Power, Dana Powell maps a failure: the proposed Desert Rock power plant which never came into being beyond paper thin promises made via PowerPoint presentations.…
Jennifer J. Carroll, “Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Against the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine (Cornell UP, 2019) considers whether… Visit…
The Government of Beans – [book review]
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger, V.M. Roberts, a PhD student at York University. He studies industrialization, agriculture, and the experience of machine operation from an interdisciplinary perspe…