First in Masks? How Czechs Wore Face Masks When There Weren’t Any Available by Susanna Trnka
On March 18, 2020, the Czech Republic became the first country in Europe to legislate mandatory coverage of the mouth and nose in all public areas in an…
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Stuart Dunmore on his book, Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland
Interview by Christian Puma-Ninacuri https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-language-revitalisation-in-gaelic-scotland.html Christian Puma-Ninacuri: Gaelic-medium education (GME) has been develope…
Will Rollason, “Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets” (Lexington Books, 2020)
Will Rollason is senior lecturer of anthropology at Brunel University London. He’s written a fascinating book titled Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets (Lexington Books, 2020).…
The Search for a Good Online Journal Platform
There’s an old saying, probably from a management textbook somewhere, that I see pop up on the software developer side of the internet from time to time. Everyone…
Creating Value Worlds with Third Wave Coffee
Interview with Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: https://sase.org/uncategorized/quality-and-inequality-creating-value-worlds-with-third-wave-coffee/
#Reviews: Fires of Gold
As of 2019, Ghana is the country with the largest gold-mining industry in Africa, overtaking South Africa, after two South African gold mining companies shifted focus on the…
#Review: Meat Planet
If the proponents of cultured meat are to be believed we might be soon headed towards a future in which bioreactors replace, or at least exist alongside, industrial…
Sarah Winkler-Reid: Higher Education-Led Urban Development in Newcastle and the North East of England, and its abrupt Covid-19 interruption
Between 2017 and 2020 Universities in the UK were on a building spree, in this period two billion pounds of construction contracts were agreed or enacted between universities…
Who Gets to Study Whom?
[no-caption] recep-bg/Getty Images About a decade ago, Chisomo Kalinga was in a bind. The medical humanities scholar, then a graduate student at King’s College London, was looking for…
Cyberpsychology: How Life Online Shapes our Minds and What We Can Do About It w Julie Ancis
It’s no surprise that many of us find ourselves increasingly on mobile devices or the internet. We shop online with ease, connect with friends and family on social…
Mark Anderson, “From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Mark Anderson’s From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology (Stanford University Press) is at once a story about US anthropology and US liberalism from the…
L. L. Wynn, “Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability” (U Texas Press, 2018)
L. L. Wynn’s book Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability (University of Texas Press, 2018) is an interrogation of urban life and…
#PostCoronaUniversity: an opportunity for Argentine and Brazilian social sciences?
Nowadays, most people are asking themselves what will happen in the coming months. In this time of COVID-19, it is not just the present that is under threat…
Combating Anti-Black Racism in Brazil and Beyond
Protests against police violence in Brazil, like this march commemorating the life of a Black youth killed in his home, help speak to the transnational nature of anti-Blackness…
Review: Religion in the Kitchen
Pérez , Elizabeth. (2016). Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions. New York University Press. 320 pp. ISBN #9781479839551 Kristina Wirtz (Western…
Anthropology students’ achievement at the municipality of Amsterdam
By Puck de Boer What greater thing could happen to students in their Bachelor than doing a research that actually has impact in real life? Exactly this happened…
The Political Lives of Masks: Citizenship, civility and covering up during the COVID-19 pandemic
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the science of masks has become hotly debated by epidemiologists, public health officials, and the public at large. The possible positive effects of…
Author Interview: Q and A with Dr Simidele Dosekun on Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture
In this author interview, we speak to Dr Simidele Dosekun about her new book, Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture, which reflects on ideas about postfeminist self…
Research in Virtual Lab Worlds during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Heading into Steve’s[1] university laboratory for the first time, I anxiously waited to begin observing the lab members’ work with computational protein structure prediction and design. This lab…
Wednesday Round Up #6
USA’s flag-bearer Simone Biles holds her country’s national flag during the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on…
The Chilean Estallido, Plebiscite 2020, and Legacies of Truth-Telling
On November 25, 2019, Chilean feminist collective, Las Tesis, gathered in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas. Against a backdrop of anti-Piñera graffiti painted on government buildings, museums, and Catholic…
Articulating Anthropology’s Value to Business
Businesses want and need anthropologists. It’s time we claimed our skills and told industry leaders what our training and expertise can do for them. Anthropological concepts, methods, and…
Guest Post: Teaching Self-Representation through Collaborative Visual Ethnography [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Mafazy…
Guest Post: Teaching Self-Representation through Collaborative Visual Ethnography [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Mafazy’s research over the past thirty years…