The Boas Circle vs. White Supremacy
Charles King. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century. 448pp., notes, bibl., index. New York:…
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Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Statement on Racial Injustice
SAFN stands in support of Black Lives Matter. The global food system is replete with racial injustice and this has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The people…
Review: Burgundy: The Global Story of Terroir
Marion Demossier. Burgundy: The Global Story of Terroir. Berghahn. New York. 2018. 270 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78920-627-2 paperback. Richard Zimmer, (Sonoma State University) Marion Demossier’s engrossin…
Wording sociality and health: COVID-19’s lexicon revisited
Anthr{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Elena Burgos Martinez. It is all a matter of words. The recent emergence of a wealth of COVID-19-related material shows that we all narrate…
Can Protestors Humanize the Police?
Watch this video. In it, a group of young Black Lives Matter protestors in Charleston, South Carolina, take a knee, facing a line of police in riot gear.…
Entrepreneurship and E-Health: How Promises of Innovation are Transforming India’s Primary Care Sector by Sandra Bärnreuther
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Elizabeth Fox takes the page 99 test
I have been fascinated by Mongolia’s capital city since my first visit in 2012. Despite my familiarity with the anthropological literature, on arrival in Ulaanbaatar I was utterly…
Quaran-Teens 2020: Cultural Impact on Health
[The following students are high school seniors at “KTH School” taking International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology. After their final IB exams were cancelled, they decided they would…
Book Review: What is Digital Sociology? by Neil Selwyn
In What is Digital Sociology?, Neil Selwyn offers a new overview of digital sociology, advocating for its mainstream acceptance as a valuable expansion of sociological inquiry, while dispelling…
A call to action
The protests around the world against racism, police violence and white supremacy spark much needed conversations. This blog calls to critically look at, and change, our own practices…
My Dad’s Shoes
The following is re-posted from my personal Facebook page (June 9, 2020). It was pecked out quickly with my thumbs on my mobile phone. Many friends and colleagues…
End of Season Message: June 2020
The Familiar Strange · End of Season Message: June 2020 Just like that, we have already made it through half of what can only be described as a…
More than arm’s length: reimagining rituals in a technologically mediated pandemic-centric era
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Dr. Caitlin E. McDonald, a digital anthropologist at Leading Edge Forum, a technology industry research organization, and a trustee for Ellpha Citizen, a charity…
Home, Work, Homework, and Fieldwork
by Yukun Zeng (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) China was the first country hit by COVID-19. Due to the government-enforced Wuhan lockdown and strict self-isolation, most…
IARC Native Artist Fellow Ian Kuali’i Interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine
Freehand, ephemeral cut-paper banner hung under the Dubin Studio portal, Ian Kuali’i. Story written by SAR editorial staff. Paper. …
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Hi all, This week’s journey takes us from the places of privilege & structural inequalities within aid organizations & academia to the ‘front lines’ in Congo, Bangladesh, Lebanon/Ethiopia,…
Insa Koch: The Making of Modern Slavery in Austerity Britain
Insa Koch, London School of Economics States’ claims that they are relieving human suffering have become a central element of their ongoing liberal legitimation amid their production of…
Police Violence and the Pandemic
[no-caption] Angus Greig SAPIENS host Jen Shannon interviews Laurence Ralph, a professor of anthropology at Princeton University. Ralph is also a co-director of Princeton’s Center on Tran…
How Elders Make Us Human
[no-caption] Matthias Zomer/Pexels On March 23, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick sparked controversy and outrage by suggesting that older people in the United States might be willing to…
Lives and Deaths with Dementia During Covid-19: Our Shameful (But Hopefully Transformative) Post-Pandemic Legacy
CRISTINA DOUGLAS “How do I escape from here?” The question took me by complete surprise. “This is a care home, Muriel. Your daughter brought you here because it’s…
Remembering Dr Abhay Xaxa, 1983-2020
“So I draw my own picture, and invent my own grammar, I make my own tools to fight my own battle, For me, my people, my world, and…
Upcoming Pilot Research
As of today I have submitted all of the required paperwork (IACUC, Occupational Health, Special Use Permit Application) . I will be collecting data on behavior and the…
Relationship-Making, Scaffolding, and a Pandemic in Istanbul
This piece was going to be mainly about relation-making as a method that facilitated my fieldwork, which in turn formed the backbone of my article, “Behind the Scaffolding.”…
CFP: Special Issue “Geographies of Responsibility for Just and Sustainable Food Systems”
Here is a call for papers for a special issue of the journal Sustainability that we recently received. Note that the deadline for submissions is near! Deadline: 30th June…